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June 23, 2015

Schäfer & Thalheimer win at Central German Champs

Round 3 of the Central German Nitro On-road Championships took place in Kirchhain with a total of 44 drivers in attendance despite the weather forecast being not very good. Luckily the main finals could be raced under dry conditions but the race time was shortened to 20 minutes as more rain was predicted. At the start of the 1/8th scale class 1 finale the track was still wet at some places so everybody was driving carefully. Patrick Schäfer had to start from 6th position as he had a technical problem in the single dry qualifier. Lap by lap he moved up the order and after the first round of pit stops he took over the lead from Peter Poldvere. Without looking back he controlled the race from the front crossing the finishing line 2 laps in front of Peter with Alex Schmitt completing the podium another lap down.

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June 23, 2015

Lars Hoppe wins at German Nitro On-road regionals

Last weekend saw the running of the 3rd round of the North German Nitro On-road regionals at the famous Munster track. After changing weather conditions on Saturday the race day would dry, making for good weather conditions. In the 1/8th class Lars Hoppe (ARC/Reds) would take the TQ, win and fastest lap to round out a perfect weekend. Starting from pole position, Lars set the pace in the final and he was followed by Lennart Skornia (Serpent/Orcan), Merlin Depta (Serpent/Picco), Andreas Giesa (Shepherd/Picco) and Timo Schröder (Shepherd/XRD). The spectators witnessed some very exciting 30 minutes with a fierce final lap battle between Marco Kruse (Mugen/RB) and Timo Schröder for the runner-up spot. At the end Marco was able to come in 2nd in front of Timo while Lars ended the final some six laps in front of the two.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]

June 22, 2015

Kristof Sielaff wins at North German regionals Rd3

Kristof Sielaf wins at North German regionals Rd3

The third round of the North German Nitro On-road Regionals was held at the Hollmoorring track of the MC Munster. In the 1/10th 200mm class Kristoph Sielaff would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he also the fastest lap of the weekend in 15.9s which is only two tenth slower than the current track record set in 2012 by Eric Dankel. The main final would see Kristof falling back to 3rd early in the race but he was able to get back into the lead, until around halfway in to the final he ran into engine troubles. With some careful driving and despite having two flameouts during pitstops Kristof was able to take the win in front of Frank Falkenberg in 2nd and Lars Hoppe in 3rd place.

Thanks to Kristof Sielaff for the report.

June 22, 2015

Ty Tessmann doubles at ROAR Nitro Offroad Nationals

The 2015 ROAR Nitro Offroad Nationals were held this past weekend at the Silver Dollar RC Raceway in Chico, CA. The qualifying was pretty much dominated by HB’s Ty Tessmann, the reigning ROAR Nitro Buggy champion, who made a clean sweep in Nitro Truggy qualifying by winning all four qualifying rounds while in the Nitro Buggy class 2014 Nitro Truggy champ Dakotah Phend denied him the same domination as the TLR driver grabbed the final qualifier. The 60 minute Buggy final then saw an early battle of Ty and Dakotah with Phend taking the the lead at one point following a mistake of Tessmann but the latter shot back into the lead to re-establish the order. Later in the race Dakotah would have to retire with a problem on his buggy which promoted Ryan Cavalieri the 2nd spot. Around mid-race it looked like Cavalieri would be able to control the gap of a couple of seconds to Tessmann only until Ty was able to further open the gap as much that he was in the position to lap Ryan in the closing stages of the final. A late error of Tessmann meant a bit of relief for Cavalieri but Ty would ultimately lap Ryan after the latter also made a mistake. So at the end Ty Tessmann (HB/O.S.) would be adding another ROAR National title to his belt. Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated/Mx) and Jared Tebo (Kyosho/Mx) would round out the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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June 22, 2015

Marco Vanni clinches a surprise win in Leno

Marco Vanni clinches a surprise win

Veteran racer Marco Vanni is living his second youth in this 2015 season, as he earned another great result in the second round of the 8th scale Italian Nationals held on the beautiful Miniautodromo di Leno after finishing second in the season opener in Bologna. An eventful race, the start of the final would see the TQ Tironi, Balestri and Picco form a train of three cars chasing each other for the first 15 minutes, until Balestri managed to get his Capricorn C802 in front of Francesco’s Velox and started stretching his lead. With all the leading drivers on the same strategy changing tires only once, a very fast pit-stop by Picco’s pit crew put round 1 winner in the lead, with Balestri right on his tail and Tironi a couple corners behind. At the 37 minutes mark the race would lose its first contender, when a broken gearbox stopped Balestri. Only two minutes after, an engine failure would force Picco into retirement, this putting Tironi back in the front with a comfortable 5 laps lead on Codazzi, Vanni and Salemi. Francesco started driving safe around the track to save tires, fuel and to stay away from trouble but this didn’t help, and with 7 minutes left in the race his engines quit at the end of the straight meaning retirement for him. The lead is inherited by Vanni, who is able to see off Codazzi’s final push to take a surprise win.

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June 21, 2015

Yuichi Kanai joins Reds Racing

Reds Racing have announced the signing of former World Champion Yuichi Kanai to their factory team. The head of 1/8th offroad development for Kyosho is currently attending the Kyosho Masters in France from where the deal was finalised. Kanai will uses the Italian made engines to power his distinctive green race cars, replacing the RB engines he ran previously.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

June 21, 2015

Tironi TQs Italian Nats Round 2

Francesco Tironi secured the overall TQ at Round 2 of the Italian Nationals on the beautiful Leno track, locking himself the no.1 spot for the start in tomorrow’s final after TQing two of the four rounds and getting second in the remaining two. It was a perfect day for the Shepherd/XRD driver as he showed both pure speed and consistency throughout the whole day. Second overall was Mazzeo, the former 200mm European Champion debuting in the season with his 8th scale Gimar powered Serpent, while third was Top Qualifier and winner of Round 1 Alberto Picco, who managed to snatch a spot on the main grid winning the Superpole with a blistering fast lap ahead of Dario Balestri.

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June 20, 2015

Riccardo Rabitti joins Fastrace

Planet Racing have announced the signing of Riccardo Rabitti to their Fastrace team. The multiple Italian National Champion, who made the semi finals at last year’s World Championships in Sicily, will use Fastrace products in his 2015 campaign.

Source: Fastrace [fastraceshop.com]