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June 13, 2012

John Ermen wins Rd3 of Dutch Nationals

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Dutch 1/8 onroad nationals was held on the fast Baanbrekers track in Rucphen. Although the weather forecast predicted rain we had a beautiful day with only a few meaningless drops during the finals. After 3 very fast qualifying rounds it was Robin d’Hondt taking the pole followed by Rick Vrielijnck, Steven Cuypers and John Ermen. With the start of the final Robin had some troubles so Rick V took the lead followed by Steven and John. Sadly both Steven and Robin were taken out due a collision so Rick and John had some space to fight for the win and John was coming close to Rick. Behind them Gunther van Steay and Frank Baggen were fighting for the 3rd spot. Just near the end of the final Gunther hit problems as did Rick V bumping Frank to the 2nd spot. Despite not finishing Gunther managed to hold on to the final podium place.

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June 12, 2012

Badgerland Offroad Championship report

Last weekend marked the first annual Badgerland Offroad Championship, a 2 day event held at 2 tracks in Wisconsin. Day one at Clark RC Park had exciting racing all day long with day 2 going over to MARCCA for even more intense battles. Nitro Truggy was a battle between Serpent drivers Jeremy Whiting and Jimbo Kvidera that ended with a tie breaker. Day one was all Jeremy Whiting with Day 2 going to Jimbo taking the overall title. Brad Shearer driving a Team Associated RC8T kept it cool to take home the number 3 spot.

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June 12, 2012

Ty Tessmann wins Rd1 of ARCOR series

Pro-Line Driver Ty Tessmann attended the 1st round of the ARCOR series in Calgary, AB. TQ’ing all four rounds of Nitro Buggy Pro and 4WD Short Course, and TQ’ing three rounds of Nitro Truck Pro opting to sit out of the 4th round. Starting on the pole in the 30 minute buggy main, Ty got out to a good start and continued to hold his lead until an unusual flameout put him out of the race for 4 laps. Another flameout a bit later put him out for another 3 laps, unfortunately the time remaining in the race only allowed Ty to get back up to 2 laps down from the leader and finished 2nd.

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June 11, 2012

Ryan Maifield dominates 2012 AMS

Now in its third year, the Alabama Manufacturers Shootout has grown in popularity each year and this year was no different. With the reigning 1:8 World Champion and ROAR 1:8 National Champions all in attendance, the competition was as high as it’s ever been. With a sweep of the 2011 event, Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield was the favorite going in to the event and even with the elevated competition still looked to dominate. With his LRP-powered and JConcepts-equipped Factory Team RC8.2 buggy and Factory Team RC8T truggy, Maifield picked up where he left off in 2011 and set the fastest times in qualifying to secure the top qualifying positions in both Expert Buggy and Expert Truggy for the 2012 event.

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June 11, 2012

Surikarn to use Xceed foam tires

Xceed RC have announced that former World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya from Thailand will use the company’s foam racing tires in the 1/10 scale 200mm class. Surikarn will race the Thailand Nationals and other big races in the region as well as the 2012 IFMAR World Championships which take place in his home country in November.

Source: Xceed [xceedrc.com]

June 10, 2012

Pietsch & Wischnewski win at Hockenheimring

Pre-event favourites Robert Pietsch and Dirk Wischnewski claim victory at the European Nitro Champion in Germany but had to work hard for the success in their respective finals in which the Top 2 where separated by less then 4 seconds after 45-minutes of hard racing at the Hockenheimring track. Top Qualifier in 1:8, Pietsch took his Mugen to a 3.45-secs win over Alberto Picco with Oliver Mack third while in the 1:10 Touring Cars Wischnewski, who started second, had a 3.93-secs winning margin over Mark Green with Daniele Ielasi completing the podium.

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June 9, 2012

Dankel & Pietsch Top Qualifiers at Hockenheim

Eric Dankel and Robert Pietsch are Top Qualifiers at the second running of the annual European Nitro Challenge at the Hockenhiemring in Germany. Dankel pulled off a superb final qualifying heat to secure the Touring Car pole position on his debut for Italian manufacturer Capricorn, a result that was all the more impressive as it is the German’s first nitro outing of 2012. Securing pole in 1:8, the result is a repeat of Pietsch’s qualifying performance 12 months ago at the event which take place within the grounds of the home of the full size German F1 Grand Prix.

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June 9, 2012

Pietsch & Dankel top Q1 in Germany

In the first round of qualifying for the European Nitro Challenge at the Hockenheimring in Germany it was Mugen’s Robert Pietsch and Capricorn’s Erik Dankel who set the fastest time over the 7-minute heat to claim the provisional TQ in 1:8 and 1:10 respectively. For defending champions Michael Salven (1:8) and Patrick Schafer (1:10) it was a tough opening qualifier. Salven had a steering rod come off on his Serpent 966 while Schafer suffered a stripped first gear on his Shepherd Velox V10.

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