At the end of practice for the ROAR Nationals in Southern California it is Team Associated who controlled today’s pace as their drivers where the only ones to record 15 lap runs with Ryan Maifield topping the time sheets from Ryan Cavalieri. Winner of the Warm-up event at Thunder Alley back in April, Maifield ran a stiffer set-up on his LRP powered RC8B in the final controlled practice changing to harder springs and swaybars.
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Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake has set the pace in the second round of controlled Truggy practice for the 2011 US Nationals this morning, topping the 7-minute run from former champion Ryan Maifield and A-Main Hobbies team driver Chad Bradley. Despite running on a freshly watered track which caused a little understeer on his AKA Gridiron shod 8ight-T, Drake said his truck was really good to drive and should get better as the track gets more packed.
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A relaxed opening day to the 2011 US 1:8 Offroad Nationals at Thunder Alley saw Mugen’s Travis Amezcua and Hot Bodies Ty Tessmann top the single round of controlled practice for Buggy and Truggy respectively. Amezcua was fastest from Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri, Tessmann, Kyosho’s Mark Pavidis and the Losi of former US Champion Mike Truhe while in Truggy Tessmann set the pace over Adam Drake, Ryan Cavalieri and Chad Bradley.
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Mirko Salemi has captured the crown at the European Championship (B) 1/8 nitro on-road which took place last week at Hildesheim in the south of Hanover in Germany. Second and third spot on the podium went to Switzerland with Juerg Nydegger second and Mattia Pesenti third. Following 118 entries a total of 105 racers competed at the E.C. (B). The organising club AMC Hildesheim has been an excellent host of this six-day-event but at the end Germany carried their hospitality to excess when six German finalists cleared the way for the four foreigners to take the first four positions.
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This past weekend was the TQ East Coast Challenge hosted by Classic RC Raceways in Akron, Ohio. Saturday was the electric program indoors and Sunday was 1/8th Nitro program outdoors. Saturday for the 1/10th electric race saw a few TLR drivers in attendance that included Bill Shay, Ben Beard, and Eric Clark competing in 2 wheel mod buggy. TLR would put two TLR 22’s in the A-main final. Eric Clark would take the overall TQ and led the main from wire to wire for the A-main win. Sunday would be the start of the 1/8th nitro classes. TLR would have Shane Racer and Eric Clark in attendance for the nitro part of the event. Shane Racer would put himself in the A-main with consistent runs in qualifying and a chance at the win in the A-main. With a bad start from Shane in the A-main he would have his work cut out for him. Shane would put in a great race to take the lead at the halfway point and take the overall win. Eric Clark would end up 4th overall.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
This past weekend LCRC in Oakland Mills PA held their Memorial Day weekend race called ‘The Big One’. Despite it raining on and off all week the track held up great and ended up being a nice Blue Groove for the huge crowd of racers with 90 degree and sunny weather all weekend. With 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday and a 4th round on Sunday there was a lot of track time for all. Sunday afternoon saw the mains and it was JConcepts driver Jamie Grayek who was able to take the 1:8 Buggy and Truggy class victory. With stiff competition from Associated driver Mike Gay and Losi’s Anthony Mazzara, Jamie’s JConcepts Sevens on his Truggy and Subcultures on his Buggy helped carry him to victory.
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The first round of the Trofeo Capricorn series was held last weekend in Cassino. It was Capricorn/Novarossi driver Giorgio Defelici that claimed the top qualifying spot and would also go on to win the event. Second place went to another Capricorn/Novarossi driver Massino Agnese who had a close battle with 3rd place Brazilian driver Edoardo Dulac with this Shepherd/Max.
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Round 3 of the French 1/8th buggy nationals was held this weekend in Cogolin in the south of the country close to Marseille. Qualification was headed by Losi/nVision driver Yannick Aigoin with his brother, Kyosho/Novarossi driver Jerome Aigoin in 2nd and US based Renaud Savoya with his RB powered Durango in 3rd. Nicolas Reynaud and Jerome Sartel completed the top 5. In the semi finals it was Jerome Aigoin that won Semi B to take pole position for the final with Savoya winning semi B to line up on 2nd spot ahead of 3rd place starter Yannick Aigoin. The 45 minute final ended in Yannick taking the win by over 2 laps from his brother Jerome in 2nd, who was locked in a close battle with Savoya in 3rd, the pair ending just over a second apart.
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