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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]

June 19, 2015

Riccardo Berton teams up with Fastrace

Fastrace have announced the signing of 2015 1/8th Buggy European “B” Champion Riccardo Berton to their team. The young gun will use Fastrace’s wide range of options while also helping with research and development of forthcoming products.

Source: Fastrace [fastraceshop.com]

June 19, 2015

Patrick Nähr scores at South German regionals Rd2

The second round of the South German Regional Championship took place at the MSC Rötz track. Under perfect weather conditions a total of 35 drivers attended the event to score points for the championship. Dominic Greiner took the TQ spot after the qualifiers in front of Patrick Nähr and Marco Kaufmann. The semifinal B was then won by Patrick in front of Dominic Schöffel while the semi A went to Dominic Greiner who had Marco Kaufmann in tow. The 30 minute main final then was a close affair between Greiner and Nähr. 2 minutes before the end Dominic suffered from a technical problem, taking away pressure from Patrick. For the final laps he just cruised around the dangerous track and crossed the finishing line 6 laps in front of Marco Kaufmann with Dominic Greiner completing the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 19, 2015

Nicholas Zachariades wins at RCE Championship Rd4

Round four of the RCE 1/8th Nitro Buggy Championship was held at the Dirt Paradise track in Nicosia, Cyprus. Hot weather conditions made for a lower number of entries than expected and in the final of the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Nicholas Zachariades took the day’s win from Rafael Panayi. Savvas Savva completed the podium in 3rd.

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