Today was lower finals day with the biggest casualty being 2009 World Championship runner-up Mike Swauger. Driving Xray’s new RX8 chassis the Ameican ace had a difficult qualifying ending up in the 1/16th final but easily won the 20 minute encounter from team-mate Martin Hudy to progress to the final race of the day and one step away from making it through to the big day.
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Robert Pietsch is the Top Qualifier for the 2011 IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championships as track conditions for the fourth & final round of qualifying were not fast enough to see any changes at the top with Atsushi Hara, Dario Balestri and Takaaki Shimo completing the Top 4 that qualify direct for the big race on Saturday.
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Elliott Boots took his DNX408 to a victory at Round 1 of the Slough summer series. Kevin Brunsden put his DNX408 in second to complete a 1-2 for Team Durango. Elliott made few changes from his general setup from the Astroturf track he raced the week before for the Slough dirt track. The track was very rough, dry and dusty, a real test for any can to drive fast. Team Durango cars were a step above the rest however and after taking TQ, Elliott lapped the entire field except for his team mate Kevin during the 20 minute A-Final.
Source: Durango [team-durango.com]
Atsushi Hara has moved into second spot in qualifying at the 2011 IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championships after improving his time in this morning’s third round of qualifying at the Homestead RC Raceway in Miami. The Japanese ace improved by almost 6 seconds as he set the second fastest time in the penultimate round behind provisional Top Qualifier Robert Pietsch who was unable to better his Q1 time.
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Robert Pietsch holds provisional TQ honours for the 2011 IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championships at the end of the first day of qualifying. The German was fastest in both the rounds that made up today’s schedule but it was his Q1 time that puts him top of the ranking ahead of Dario Balestri, Atsushi Hara and Takaaki Shimo.
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2008 World Championship Top Qualifier Robert Pietsch has topped the opening round of qualifying at the 18th IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championship. The reigning European Champion was fastest from 2008 finalist Dario Balestri and class newcomer Atsushi Hara, the three being the only drivers to record 37 laps.
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It took us longer than expected, but we finally have our highlights video of the Expert Buggy and Truggy A-main from last weekend’s 2011 Silver State in Las Vegas.
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1:8 Onroad debutant Atsushi Hara has topped the extra practice session that replaced the opening two rounds of qualifying following this morning’s tyre additive scandal. The Japanese ace, whose confidence is growing with every outing, was fastest from Italian’s Dario Balestri and Michele Romangnoli.
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