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November 16, 2017

Maifield tops free practice in China

Ryan Maifield has topped free practice at the 1:10 4WD Offroad World Championships in China. The newly crowned 2WD World Champion set the fastest time in the fourth & final round of free practice at Xiamen ARC International Raceway with just over a tenth of a second advantage over Bruno Coelho, the reigning 4WD Champion also registering his quickest time in FP4. Having found himself at the top of the time sheets after three rounds, Joern Neumann would end up third overall after failing to better his FP3 time. The early place setter after the first two practices, David Ronnefalk would have issues in the final practice, completing just 5-laps. Second fastest in FP3, that time would leave him 5th fastest behind Ty Tessmann and ahead of Naoto Matsukura who completed the Top 6.

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November 16, 2017

Ronnefalk sets early 4WD pace at World Championships

David Ronnefalk has set the early pace at the 1:10 Offroad World Championships in China as the 17th running of the event switches to 4WD. With a day off following the crowning of Ryan Maifield as the 2WD Champion, today’s action sees 4 rounds of free practice followed by two rounds of controlled practice in between which there will be a 2-hour break for the official opening ceremony. Having secured 5th overall in 2WD despite taking the win in A3, Ronnefalk would set the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the second of the free practices with the track now running in the opposite, clockwise direction to that used in 2WD. Behind the HB Racing driver, Xray’s Ty Tessmann was second fastest being just over 1/10th of a second slower with Maifield kicking off his 4WD campaign much stronger than 2WD with the third fastest time. TLR’s Dakotah Phend made it four different cars at the top of the times sheets with Bruno Coelho and Renaud Savoya completing the Top 6 with Ryan Cavalieri the fastest Associated driver in 7th.

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November 15, 2017

Dani Vega wins at Castilla y León champs Rd8

The eighth and final round of the regional Spanish Castilla y León Championship was held at the Pical track in Arrollo de la Encomienda. The morning was quite cold but the day brought nice weather conditions, making it a fun event for everyone. The qualifiers went to Luis Jimenez who left behind Pablo Fernandez in the tie breaker. However in the 45-minute main final it was Daniel Vega with the win from Pablo Fernandez and Davide Benito, the latter two being separated by only 0.17 seconds on the line.

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November 15, 2017

Maifield finally gets his World title

Having held a title of being one of the greatest offroad drivers to never have been crowned World Champion, Ryan Maifield today finally revoked that status when he joined R/C racing’s most elite club by becoming the 2WD World Champion in China. With form over the first day & a half of the event making the American an unlikely title challenger, that all changed in the third qualifier as together with his Yokomo team he turned things around and go on to become Top Qualifier. Taking an easy win in A1 despite a last lap tumble, A2 would see a first lap mistake set up the world famous ‘Ryan & Ryan’ show as he and Ryan Cavalieri went into battle. Having lost out to Cavalieri in the past, Maifield this time kept his composure with the mistake coming from Cavalieri. Getting stuck up in a corner pipe it handed Maifield a huge lead allowing him to cruise to the win and with it the World title. Admitting afterwards that he had begun to accept he might never be a World Champion, the meaning of finally achieving his dream was clear to see as he became overcome with emotion on the drivers stand as track announcer Scotty Ernst asked him how it feels to finally be World Champion.

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November 15, 2017

Markus Mobers wins at Masters of Foam

The recent Masters of Foam event, held at the RC Arena Limburg in Sittard, The Netherlands, saw Germany’s Markus Mobers taking the TQ and win in the 1/12th Modified division. In addition to being a competitor, Markus is instrumental in the organisation of the event and even with the extra duties and distractions, Mobers took his ride to a dominant win.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

November 15, 2017

BRCA Formula Nationals Rd1 – Report

The first round of the new revamped BRCA Formula indoor nationals took place last Saturday at the Tamworth RC Club. The new format is bringing the Formula nationals to club nights to visit different clubs and ensure more visibility of the class around the country and providing some support for the different clubs. For the first meeting 18 drivers, with some new faces, showed up. This year the championship is running round by round qualifiers. The first round was won by Luke lee (Xray) followed by Ben Cosgrove (Team Associated) and Craig Nutting (Roche). On the second one the top two guys keep the rhythm and Ollie Payne (Roche) went for third. For the last qualifier Ollie and Ben exchanged positions with Luke winning the round again.

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November 14, 2017

Ed & Michael Clark win at Australian EP On-road Nats

The West Coast Model RC track in Perth, Western Australia, played host to the 2017 Australian Electric On-road Nationals. The WCMRC track, located in the industrial suburb of Bayswater in Perth, was originally built for 235mm 2WD IC cars in the 1980’s, with the track providing a challenging mix of flowing, high speed corners with a high grip undulating surface and an exciting banked corner at the end of the main straight. In 1/12th Modified Ed Clark set a fast pace during the early rounds of qualifying but suffered some reliability issues later in the day which allowed Mark Wallin to relegate him to 2nd on the grid for the finals. Paul Simms had to work hard to hold off Warren Buttriss for the 3rd place grid spot for the finals. Simms took advantage of errors made by both Wallin and Clark to take an early lead in leg one final. However he was not able to hold off Wallin or a recovering Clark who went on to take a victory in leg one. Clark followed up his win in leg one by taking the 2nd final after a race long dual with Wallin which gave Clark the title. Wallin secured 2nd and Simms finished 3rd.

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November 14, 2017

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd1 – Report

The MCRT Aschaffenburg club played host to last weekend’s opening round of the Xray Racing Series Germany. The event started off with free practice on Saturday with Sunday being the race day. The Touring Modified class only attracted a handful of drivers with Dirk Gündra obtaining the pole position after the qualifiers and also the race win after the triple A-mains.

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