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October 29, 2019

Balestri tops opening seeding round

Dario Balestri has picked up from where he left in free practice yesterday to go quickest in the opening round of seeding at the 1:8 Onroad World Championships in California this morning. The Infinity driver set his fastest three laps before getting caught out by the extra high morning traction with a roll that chunked at rear tyre and ended his run a minute & a half early. Behind the reigning Champion, JJ Wang surprised even himself with the second fastest time, the Mugen driver running in the heat before that of Balestri. Making a return to World Championship action after some time out from the sport, Steven Jovanovic was another surprise at the front of the times sheets as he posted the 3rd fastest time for the first of the 4 rounds of seeding practice. Next up it was Dominic Greiner in fourth place followed by Silvio Hachler and 2011 World Champion Robert Pietsch. For 2015 World Champion Simon Kurzbuch the extra traction caused him problems and his Shepherd made contact with the Steel City RC Speedway barriers leaving him 8th fastest.

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October 29, 2019

Alain Sarafyan doubles at Turkish Off-road Nats

The Turkish National 1/8th Off-road Championship was hosted by the Luleburgaz RC Yildizlar track last weekend. The 3-day event was held in 1/8th Nitro and Electric classes and when the dust had settled it was Alain Sarafyan with the overall in Nitro Buggy as Can Soykal and Emre Bozdoğan came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Over in E-Buggy it was again Alain Sarafyan with the overall win as Bora Mumcu and Serkan Tumer completed the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 29, 2019

Czech Masters Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Czech Masters, a new electric off-road series in the Czech Republic, was held at the Sport Arena Prague last weekend. The schedule saw four rounds of qualifying followed by triple A-mains, however due to unfortunate tech issues in the morning, qualifying had to be cut short to three qualifiers. Young Max Götzl was in control of things in the 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and Stadium Truck class as he was able to top qualify all of them. In the Truck class it was Frank Hempel 2nd and Miroslav Loupy 3rd, in 2WD and 4WD Jiri Mara lined up 2nd on the grid and Michal Blahovsky was 3rd in 2WD and Dominik Vlasek 3rd in 4WD.

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October 29, 2019

Phend & Marasco sweep Masters of Dirt

Beach RC of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina hosted the Masters of Dirt race last weekend, attracting nearly 280 entries. The event was held in Modified and Stock 1/10th off-road classes and in Pro 2WD Mod Buggy it was TLR‘s Dakotah Phend with the overall TQ and also the win in the single 10-minute A-main event, leaving behind Team Associated‘s Dustin Evans in 2nd. Team Associated‘s Aydin Horne would round out the top 3 result in front of TLR‘s Aaron Kothman and Yokomo‘s Max Flurer.

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October 29, 2019

Wesley van Helmond wins at Winter is Coming Race

The Mach-One Helmond track in Helmond, The Netherlands held their 2019 Winter is Coming race last weekend in 1/8th nitro and electric off-road classes. In the Nitro Buggy category, attracting 44 drivers, it was Jarno Pijpers (SWorkz) with the overall TQ after taking two of the three qualifying rounds. Wesley van Helmond (SWorkz), who won a single qualifying round, came in 2nd. The 30-minute A-main event then saw Wesley getting past Jarno on the second lap and from there he never looked back to take the win a lap in front of Jeffrey Halsema (Team Associated) while Jarno Pijpers rounded out the top 3 results.

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October 29, 2019

Adam Drake TQs & wins at Pro-Line Nitro Explosion

The 2019 Pro-Line Nitro Explosion was held at Thunder Alley R/C Raceway in Beaumont, California last weekend, attracting over 115 entries. In Expert Nitro Buggy it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the overall TQ and he would also come out on top after the 25-minute A-main event, leaving behind TLR’s Anthony Westergaard on the 2 spot, a lap down. JQRacing’s own Joseph Quagraine came in 3rd, some six seconds behind Anthony. Tyler Brown would lead the best of the rest some 25 seconds short of JQ’s time.

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October 29, 2019

Matt Olson wins 4WD Pro Truck at West Coast Nationals

The 10th Annual 5th scale West Coast Nationals were held at Good Ol’Boyz RC Club Raceway in Bakersfield, California last weekend. The track layout was super easy but also in a way very difficult as the speeds were high and racing was so close that it became a game of tenths of a second. In 4WD Pro Truck Brian Sullivan and Matthew Olson battled it out for the overall TQ with both being tied for TQ with two qual wins a piece. For tie breaker it came down to total time and Brian edged out Matt by four hundredths of a second. The 40-minute A-main event then saw Brian, Matt and also Josh Mitchell matching lap for lap so three trucks were running for the win. With a little luck Matt had a shot at the win come the 17th lap as he was able to make a clean inside pass and from there he never looked back to take the win some six seconds in front of Brian while Jason Sheerer came in 3rd to round out the podium.

Source: MOD [modspeedshop.com]

October 29, 2019

Balestri fastest as free practice concludes at 1:8 Worlds

At the conclusion of two days of free practice at the IFMAR 1:8 World Championships in California it is reigning Champion Dario Balestri who was fastest. The Infinity driver set the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the tenth & final free practice run topping the times from a much improved Simon Kurzbuch, the two great rivals separated by just 12/100ths of a second over the best respective 3-consecutive laps. Shoki Takahata added variety to the top of the time sheets at Steel City RC Speedway taking his Mugen to the 3rd fastest time, his best laps also set in the final round of practice. Behind the top three, the margin a little bigger, Jeffrey Rietveld posted the fourth fastest time followed by Silvio Hachler and former champions Lamberto Collari & Robert Pietsch. Tomorrow drivers face four rounds of seeding practice to determine the order of the heats for qualifying which gets underway on Wednesday.

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