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March 17, 2017

Haatanen takes Q1 at EOS

Joona Haatanen has taken the opening round of qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series in Germany, the Team Associated driver putting in an impressive but more importantly a relatively clean run on the challenging Arena33 track. Third quickest in practice, the Finn went to the top of the time sheets after Bruno Coelho hit a curb, sending his Xray crashing into a roll door while holding a comfortable lead, and took the qualifier by over two and a half seconds from Lee Martin. Top seed for qualifying, Martin would make a mistake on the opening lap with the Yokomo driver never looking comfortable after that. Having impressed with a P5 in practice, Joakim Nicolaisen would back that up by completing the Top 3 in the first of the four scheduled qualifiers ahead of Coelho.

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March 17, 2017

Martin tops practice at Arena33

Lee Martin has topped 2WD for Round 4 of the Euro Offroad Series at Arena33 in Germany. The Yokomo driver topped the times in both rounds of timed practice to top the seeding from Bruno Coelho and Joona Haatanen. For championship leader Michal Orlwoski, one of the EOS’ most challenging tracks to date left the Schumacher driver 9th quickest. The Polish driver and winner of the previous two EOS encounters said he ‘just struggled with some mistakes and traffic’ but added ‘I think I am on the pace and I’m not slower that Lee & Bruno’.

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March 17, 2017

Arkadiusz Smyk doubles at PLMS Championship Rd3

Round three of the PLMS Championship was held in Płochocin near Warsaw, Poland. The schedule saw practice and four qualifiers on Saturday with a final qualifier and the finals being run on Sunday. In The Touring Pro Stock class the race for the TQ was on between Michał Wójcik and Arkadiusz Smyk. Arkadiusz won the first and fourth qualifier while Michał took the second and third round meaning the decision for the overall TQ would be made in Q5 and with both making mistakes it was ultimately Arkadiusz who obtained the pole position for the A-mains and he would also come out fastest in the Stock class.

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March 16, 2017

Orlowski targets first EOS title at Arena33

The Euro Offroad Series makes its second trip of the season to Germany this weekend (March 17-19) with the all new Arena 33 the venue for the penultimate round of the championship. With three of the expanded five round calendar to count, both Michal Orlowski and Bruno Coelho will be targeting wrapping up the Season #6 titles. Completing back to back victories in 2WD last time out at the Hudy Arena, a third consecutive win in Andernach would bring Orlowski and Schumacher their first EOS title and end Yokomo’s three year reign as champions of electric offroad’s premiere class.

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March 16, 2017

Eric Anderson takes ROAR 1/12th 13.5T title

The 2017 ROAR carpet nationals were held at 360v2 in New Rochelle, New York. The track is one of the bigger tracks in the US and it offered high bite and a fast flowing layout. In the 1/12th 13.5T class it was Xray’s Eric Anderson that took the win after the triple A-mains, courtesy of a 2nd, 1st and 4th place finish. Behind him Team Associated’s Joe Trandell would come in second with a 3rd and two 2nd place finishes while Speedmerchant’s Chris Tosilini would round out the top 3 with a win and two 3rd place finishes.

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March 16, 2017

Jacky Mouton successful at French 1/8th Classic opener

The opening round of the French 1/8th Classic on-road Championship was held in Montbonnot, Grenoble, France. A total of 94 racers signed in, divided into 70 nitro and 24 electric class entries. In the nitro class, Jacky Mouton (Forfaster/VS Engines) came out successful in the main final from Serge Christiani (Forfaster/Forfaster) in second and Stephan Nicaud (Forfaster/VS Racing) third.

Source: Victosport [victosport.com]

March 16, 2017

Kalle Lehto takes FinTrack Tour Prostock title

The indoor portion of the FinTrack Tour recently concluded in Äänekoski with the fourth and final round. In the Touring 13.5T Prostock class the race for the title was on between Kalle Lehto and 2016 Champion, Vesa Yli. Vesa had won the opening round in Lahti while Kalle stroke back in round two and three, so Vesa needed to win at the finale in order to have a shot at the title. Right from the get go Kalle had an advantage though while Vesa struggled from an understeering car. After a good start into the third and final A-main Vesa was given a stop & go penalty for a crash he didn’t commit and so he had to settle for third overall behind Teemu Saarinen while Kalle took the day’s win and with it the overall title.

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March 16, 2017

Robin Frischkopf doubles at Indoor Bike Park GP Rd4

The fourth and final round of the Swiss Indoor Bike Park GP was recently held at the Indoor Bike Park in Pfäffikon and it was Robin Frischkopf that took the TQ in the 1/8th E-Buggy and 1/10th 4WD Buggy classes. After some close battles in all A-mains, Robin would also bring home the win in both categories with Romeo Grass obtaining the runner-up spot in the 1/8th E-Buggy class in front of Kevin Zwahlen while Pascal Jutz and Daniel Caviezel rounded out the top 3 in the 4WD Buggy class.

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