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June 21, 2014

Phend holds overnight TQ at US Nationals

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Dakotah Phend leaves the Thornhill Racing Circuit as the overnight provisional TQ holder of both Truggy and Buggy after concluding the opening day of qualifying with his first TQ run in buggy. Having topped both Truggy qualifiers, the 17-year-old would transfer that form to buggy topping the day’s final heat as he became the first driver to run a 10-lap pace in the championship premiere class. Third fastest in Q1, Phend topped the Q2 timesheets from another of the country’s young guns with Carson Wernimont taking his Mugen to the second fastest time. Having struggled in the opening qualifier, former Champion Ryan Maifield would take his Associated to the third fastest time while for defending Champion Adam Drake it was again a slow run as he posted only the 15th fastest time.

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June 21, 2014

Another TQ run for Phend

Dakotah Phend repeated his opening qualifying performance at the US National Championships making it two out of two in the truggy class as he again set the TQ pace. A slightly slower run than the morning, the second qualifier would be a repeat of the Q1 Top 3 with the Team Losi Racing driver again fastest from the HB of Ty Tessmann and the Mugen of Carson Wernimont. The biggest improvement of the round would come from Serpent’s Mike Truhe who having being 10th in Q1 would post the 4th fastest time.

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June 20, 2014

Tessmann runs out of fuel but still takes Q1

Despite running out of fuel on his final lap, Ty Tessmann took the first round of buggy qualifying at the US National Championships in Hutto, Texas. On target for the only 10 lap run of the first of the four qualifiers, the HB driver would run dry just after completing the fastest lap of the round but would still top the timesheets with a 9/6:57.187 run. Behind the 2012 Champion, Kyosho’s Jared Tebo would set the second fastest time 1.2 seconds up on last year’s overall Top Qualifier Dakotah Phend. Defending champion Adam Drake would only post the 20th fastest time, the TLR driver saying he just didn’t drive very well.

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June 20, 2014

Phend TQ’s opening Truggy qualifier

Phend TQ's opening Truggy qualifier

Dakotah Phend has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the US National Championships in Hutto, Texas. The Team Losi Racing driver took his Truggy around the large Thornhill Racing Circuit in a time of 10/7:33.918 to outpace defending champion Ty Tessmann by 1.74 seconds. Behind last year’s Top Qualifier, a further 4.86-seconds off the TQ pace, Mugen’s Carson Wernimont completed the Top 3 narrowly out pacing the Team Durango of Ryan Lutz.

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June 20, 2014

Mizan wins 200mm class at Malaysian nationals Rd3

Mizan wins 200mm class at Malaysian nationals Rd4

The 3rd round of the Malaysian nitro on-road national championship took place at the MPJBT track in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. A total of over 40 racers in the 200mm touring car class competed for championship points. Right after the start of the 45 minute final Shepherd racer Mizan, who qualified 2nd, took over the lead although he had to conserve his tyres as he did not plan to do a tyre change. His strategy paid off and he crossed the finishing line after 179 laps in first position, one lap ahead of Azri Amri with Amirul Shafiq completing the podium another 8 laps down. Thanks to the round win Mizan has now also taken over the lead in the MNC overall standings.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 20, 2014

Christophe Pethoud wins Swiss 1/8th champs Rd3

The 3rd round of the Swiss 1/8th nitro on-road championship was run at the famous Lostallo track. The qualifiers where held in sunny and hot conditions making for some tight racing. As usual on the fast track fuel consumption was critical and some drivers, like Christophe Pethoud, had to refuel in the final lap. After qualifying Remy Hasler (Mugen/Picco) took TQ followed by Claudio Pasquin (Xray/Picco) and Renato Ali (Mugen/Picco).

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June 20, 2014

Lutz No.1 for qualifying at US Nationals

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Ryan Lutz will carry the No.1 racing number in the top heat of qualifying tomorrow at the US National Championship at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas. The Team Durango driver topped today’s seeding with his 3-consecutive laps from the first of the day’s two 7-minute practice rounds with the track generally proving to be slower second time around. Team Losi Racing’s Dakotah Phend would top the evening run to end the day second fastest with Truggy top seed Ty Tessmann completing the Top 3, while defending champion Adam Drake ended the day 5th fastest.

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June 20, 2014

Tessmann top Truggy seed at US Nationals

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Ty Tessmann will be the top Truggy seed when qualifying for the US National Championships gets underway at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Texas tomorrow. The factory HB driver and defending champion ended the seeding day top of the time sheets thanks to his opening run, with the second only netting the Canadian a fourth. After a DQ in the first practice, Ryan Lutz took his Durango to the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the final practice to end the seeding second overall. Although he couldn’t improve on his morning pace having posted the second fastest time, Serpent’s Mike Truhe completed the final Top 3 of the seeding.

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