September 24, 2014

Bayer reigns in wet Q4

Martin Bayer has TQ’d a rain effected fourth round of qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Sicily. Starting off the second day of qualifying with his best run securing Xray’s first Top 10 time, the Czech driver topped the second qualifier ahead of Ryan Cavalieri and David Ronnefalk. Starting out as a dry heat with 2-minutes to go the rain that the dark clouds threatened to bring finally arrived continuing for much of the remaining four title contender loaded heat groups. Running earlier in Heat 10, the round starting with Heat 6 of 14, Jeremy Kortz would be one of the big benefactors ending up fourth ahead of other Heat 1 runners Cody King, Dakotah Phend, Christopher Svensson and Darren Bloomfield. Fastest in the opening three qualifiers but having to run on a completely wet track Ty Tessmann, who is in Heat 3, would end up 37th.

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September 24, 2014

Thilo Alexander Tödtmann wins GNS Rd6

The 6th round of the Greek Nitro Series was held at the Fanatix track in the northern suburbs of Athens. In the 200mm nitro class Germany’s Thilo Alexander Tödtmann not only took the TQ after the three 7 minute qualifiers but he also smashed the 1/10th track record on the way to the pole position. In the 45 minute final Thilo immediately opened a 5 seconds gap to 10-times Greek champion John Sotiropoulos and even with a safety pitstop for fuel Thilo grabbed the win almost 2 laps ahead with Nikos Karabelas completing the top 3 result.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

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September 24, 2014

KM Racing sign Takahata Shoki

KM announce the signing of young Takahata Shoki to their factory team. The 19 years old multiple All Japan nationals A-main finalist will run the company’s nitro on-road cars in this upcoming campaign.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

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September 24, 2014

Maifield comes close but another TQ run for Tessmann

Ryan Maifield came close to toppling Ty Tessmann’s reign over qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Sicily with the American and Canadian separated by the closest gap seen yet at the Naxos World track.  With Tessmann having stamped his authority on Day 1 of qualifying, topping Q1 by 7-seconds and ending Q2 with a 5-second advantage, in this morning’s third round the separation was just 3/10ths at the end of the 10-minutes at the end of a round which saw both drivers have issues on leaving the pits after their fuel stops.  A slower pace than yesterday, overnight hail making the track’s tiled section lose traction, Lee Martin ran the 3rd fastest time while team-mate & defending champion Robert Batlle had a tough round finishing outside the Top 16.

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September 24, 2014

MC-Best Championship Rd11 & 12 – Report

The 11th and 12th round of the MC-Best nitro on-road championship was held in Aigle, Switzerland. The 11th round started out wet on Saturday but once the sun came out the track dried quickly making for good racing conditions. In the 1/8th class Stephan Eschler took the win from Roland Schläpfer and Marc Heim. The 1/10th class had Martin Wenger ending the day in the 1st spot followed by Marcel Knutti and Monika Ackermann.

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September 24, 2014

Peter Tozser doubles at Rocky Mountain Meltdown

Team Associated driver Peter Tozser closed off the summer season in style at RC Gears track in Calgary, AB. He took his rides to TQ and win in both the 1/8 Buggy Nitro and 1/8 E-Buggy classes.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

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September 23, 2014

Vegas to host 2016 1:8 Offroad Worlds

Las Vegas has been selected to host the 2016 IFMAR 1:8th Offroad World Championships.  With three tracks making submissions to host the 16th running of the IFMAR event, the new track was selected over 2012 1:10 Offroad World Championship track Silver Dollar Raceway and 2014 1:8 ROAR Nationals track Thornhill Racing Circuit.  With Vegas’ world famous strip visible from the drivers stand and the airport located across the street, the venue is sure to be a huge hit with racers & teams but Jared Tebo believes the track will put on a very worthy event.  Visiting the venue earlier this year along with Kyosho team-mate Cody King to test for the Silver State race, Tebo was childhood friend of the track owner Chris Tocco and after 10 years of not seeing him was reunited through r/c racing, reigniting that friendship.

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September 23, 2014

Tessmann ties up first day of qualifying in Sicily

Ty Tessmann made Day 1 of qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad World Championship in Sicily his own, the Canadian backing up his Q1 run with another convincing performance in the second round.  Bettering his time by almost 2-seconds over 10-minutes the HB driver was 5-seconds clear of his nearest rival Robert Batlle, the defending champion having a much better Q2.  Again showing he is the master of run time going the full distance without a fuel stop, Adam Drake completed the Top 3 knocking close on 10-seconds off his morning time.  For qualifying top seed David Ronnefalk it was not to be a good day with Q2 proving worse for the Swede who did not even make the Top 16 this time round.

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