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February 22, 2016

Andy North to run ARC

Zen Racing have announced that the 1/8th scale racer Andy North will join the team for the 2016 season. Andy, the current British Open Champion and veteran Mugen driver, will focus on local races this year but he will very likely return to national events soon. Andy had the following to say:

I am very privileged to be asked by Paul and especially David Spashett of Zen Racing to test the ARC 8.0 chassis of which I have accepted to race in the 2016 British racing season. I firstly have to thank Mugen Seiki Europe and especially Stefan for their direct supporting after the Ted Longshaw era of which I have been racing Mugen products for the last 14 years and since the MRX3 incarnation. I am however good friends with David Spashett and Pitman Richard Sheriff on a personal level away from racing which makes this deal even more special to me and a no brainer going forward. This year will also see me become a Dad for the first time in April so my racing will be limited to local races in the short term but I expect to complete the full championship come the end of the year since nitro racing is in my blood. I am very much looking forward to working with all the Zen Racing Team and producing good results.

Source: Zen Racing [zen-racing.co.uk]

February 22, 2016

Mattia Collavo wins at Gara delle Frittelle race

Mattia Collavo wins at Gara delle Fritelle race

The Pista Verde track in Fener, Italy played host to the Gara delle Frittelle race this past Sunday. Classes run were 1/8th on-road 1/8th 2WD and 1/10th Touring and in the premier class of 1/8th Nitro On-road it was Mattia Collavo who set the pace after the qualifiers by taking the top qualifier position and he would also come out fastest in the A-main, scoring not only the win but also the fastest lap of the event.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

February 22, 2016

Lutz, Truhe & Savoya books places main DNC event

Ryan Lutz together with Mike Truhe and Renaud Savoya complete the grid for the main event at the Dirt Nitro Challenge after filling the Top 3 places in the B-Main. Starting on pole, Lutz would initially drop to 2nd behind Adam Drake after a first lap bobble before going back to the front again on lap 2. Losing the lead to Truhe, the Tekno driver would retake the lead at the first round of stops as Truhe suffered a flame during refuelling. Once back in front, the Tekno driver would take control of the race to win by a very comfortable 25-seconds margin over Truhe’s Mugen. Also surviving a flame out on his second stop, Savoya would come out on top of a frantic battle for 3rd that involved early leader Adam Drake, Austin Blair, Steven Harris and Joseph Quagraine. Running in a Top 3 place early on, Xray’s Martin Bayer would be forced to retire just before the halfway distance due to a protruding chassis screw.

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February 21, 2016

Yaniv Sivan wins Israeli League Rd7

Round 7 of the Israeli League was held at the Speed Racing track this past Friday. Yaniv Sivan took the TQ after the qualifiers, followed by Aviv Mimon and Omer Assayag. At the start of the 40 minute A-final Yaniv instantly took the lead and never looked back. Behind him, Omer Assayag, Tal Siles, Aviv Mimon , Ofer Avitan, Gil Harush, and Ido Carmon battled for the positions. Some four minutes into the race Omer Assayag had to quit with mechanical issue, promoting Aviv Mimon into second place but a flame out soon after cost him several positions. Meanwhile Ofer Avitan, with a super fast pace, took the second place followed by Tal Siles and Aviv Mimon who managed to recover from his earlier flame out. Ultimately at the end of the 40 minute encounter, Yaniv Sivan would take the win from Ofer Avitan in second and Tal Siles in third.

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February 21, 2016

Tessmann fuels his way to DNC Truggy win

Ty Tessmann has resumed his reign as Truggy Champion of the Dirt Nitro Challenge after an action filled 45-minute final in which both Ryan Maifield and Ryan Cavalieri both ran out of fuel while leading. Starting second behind Top Qualifier Maifield, the first lap was an indication of the intensity of the racing that was to come over the first half of the race, as Tessmann bumped his way passed for the lead in front of the drivers stand. Taking the lead at the 25-minute mark, 2-minutes later Cavalieri would come to a halt leaving Maifield to lead from Tessmann and a very impressive Joe Bornhorst. With Tessmann dropping back after collecting a back marker who was badly marshalled by spectators, Maifield then looked set to cruise to an easy win but with the final round of stops coming up the TLR driver would also come up short on fuel. With Tessmann now clear of Bornhorst, the Canadian would go the extra lap to claim his 5th Truggy title but the action continued to the last lap where Spencer Rivkin forced his way passed Tekno’s Ryan Lutz to snatch the final podium placing.

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February 21, 2016

Denney, Rivkin & Savoya complete DNC Truggy grid

The 15 drivers who will battle it out to become the Truggy Champion at the 17th running of the Dirt Nitro Challenge tonight is complete. With the B-Main offering the Top 3 a place on the back of the A-Main grid, it was pole sitter Tanner Denney who controlled the 30-minute encounter from start to finish, the new TLR signing winning by 6.5-seconds from former team-mate Spencer Rivkin and TLR’s other new recruit Renaud Savoya. Finishing 4th, the 2013 Top Qualifier Adam Drake will for the first time since the DNC moved to the Fear Farm not be on the grid for the main event. It was a disappointing race too for Drake’s Mugen team-mate Barry Pettit, running a competitive 3rd just after the 10-minute mark last year’s direct A-Main qualifier would suffer a plug failure.

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February 20, 2016

McBride doubles at Australian Off-road Nats Rd1

The opening round of the 1/8th Nitro Off-Road Australian National Titles was held at NWRCCC down in Tasmania, Australia. This year the nationals has turned into a three-round series – instead of one national title, the events are spread over the year and are held at the start, middle, and then the last round at the end of year to decide the overall national champion for all three rounds. At round one Kyle McBride would make a clean sweep in the Nitro Truggy qualifying and he would also win four of the five Nitro Buggy qualifiers.

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February 20, 2016

Phend to start 2nd as TLR claim Buggy 1-2 in quali

With Ryan Maifield having wrapped up the overall Buggy TQ at the Dirt Nitro Challenge in the second qualifier, the third & final round was all about determining the starting order behind the defending champion. Despite a poor concluding heat it would be Dakotah Phend who gets second on the grid for a TLR 1-2 as their rivals failed to deliver. With a P3 each, only Ty Tessmann and David Ronnefalk could demote Phend from the second he held all day behind his team-mate but needing a TQ to separate the two TLR driver at the front of the grid they could only manage 5th and 8th respectively in Q3. Maifield, showing no signs of letting up despite having bagged his third class TQ of the Fear Farm event earlier in the day, would make it a clean sweep as he again put his 8ight 4.0 at the top of the times. The slowest of Maifield’s three TQ runs in buggy, it would be the closest of the qualifiers with long standing rival Ryan Cavalieri getting to within half a second while an impressive drive from TLR’s Cole Ogden gave him a P3 for the round. Cavalieri’s P2 time would secure the Associated driver 3rd on the grid with Tessmann set to start 4th and Ronnefalk 7th in front of Ogden.

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