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April 25, 2016

Tessmann & Maifield win at Lonestar Challenge

The 3rd annual The Dirt Lonestar Challenge was held at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas over the weekend. Host of the 2016 ROAR Offroad Fuel Nationals, the track recently received a cover to make it one of the, if not the largest off-road indoor facility and for the race The Dirt’s Joey Christensen also shaped a challenging new track layout. The Top Qualifier honours in the premier class of 1/8th Pro Buggy went to TLR’s Ryan Maifield but it was HB’s Ty Tessmann who came out fastest in the main final, leaving Ryan Mailfield and Ryan Lutz (Tekno) in second and third respectively.

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April 23, 2016

Hächler & Groskamp join A-Main grid at ENS

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Silvio Hächler and Jilles Groskamp join the A-Main grid for the opening round of the Euro Nitro Series in Italy. Finishing 1-2 in a rain effected B-Main they complete the 12-car line who will battle it out for the 1:8 victory at L.Collari RC Raceway. Starting from 7th on the grid and not looking like a race contender early on, a light rain shower would turn around the ARC drivers fortunes, the Swiss driver helped by a call from his pit crew to pit for wets with just four & a half minutes to go in the 20-minute encounter. Starting from pole, Bruno Coelho would pull out an early lead but 12-minutes in the Xray driver would go off spectacularly on the main straight while battling with Alberto Picco – the screw in his steering servo horn having fallen out. Groskamp would then take up the lead but with 6-minutes to go a drizzling of rain left cars struggling to get around. Hächler and Marco Vanni made the call to pit for wets and for a moment both looked to be moving up however Vanni would crash, handing the final spot on the grid to Groskamp.

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April 23, 2016

Hagberg & Kerry complete grid in Bologna

Alexander Hagberg & Joe Kerry will complete the 12 car grid for this evening’s 1:10 A-Main at the opening round of the Euro Nitro Series in Bologna, Italy. Both direct qualifiers for the event last year, Kerry qualifying 5th and Hagberg 8th, but this time round they found themselves in a competitive B-Main. A 20-minute encounter, Kerry’s Capricorn started on pole with Hagberg’s Xray starting fourth. Leading away, Kerry would stay out front for 6-laps before Hagberg went to the front where he would stay till the finish winning by almost a full lap over Kerry. The British driver would have to work hard for the final bump up spot coming under intense pressure from the KM of Eduardo Escandon. All over the rear bumper of the pole sitter, the ENS Fiorano Finalist would come together with Kerry and end up on the grass ending his chances of a bump to the reduced 30-minute A-Main.

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April 23, 2016

Team Associated limited edition B5/B5M kit

Coming from Team Associated is a limited edition run of the rear motor B5 1/10th 2WD buggy including a B5M conversion kit. Based on the original B5 the kit includes all needed parts to convert the vehicle into a mid-motor B5M, including the main chassis, suspension and gearbox parts. Included is also the B5 bodyshell but the needed B5M body has to be purchased separately.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

April 23, 2016

Alberta Touring Series Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Alberta Touring Series was held in Edmonton, Alberta with the NASCAR club hosted a great event with 117 entries across six classes. The focus of this series in its second year would be to have fun, keep rules to a minimum, save budget conscious racers some money with less travel and create a friendly provincial rivalry. The format for the weekend would be four qualifiers and triple mains for everyone. In the Touring Modified class, TQ Wayne Mah (Awesomatix) would take A1 and A2 in dominating fashion, with Ryan Berry (Awesomatix) winning A3 to finish 2nd and Joe Levesque (Awesomatix) taking 3rd.

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April 22, 2016

Balestri starts ENS title defense on pole

Balestri starts ENS title on pole

Dario Balestri will start his title defence from pole position after securing the overall TQ for the second year running at the Euro Nitro Series season opener in Bologna, Italy. Going into the fourth & final round of qualifying as one of four drivers who could become Top Qualifier, the Capricorn ace almost matched his Q1 TQ pace to again top the times, this time from Infinity’s Carmine Raiola and WRC’s Andrea Pirani, the latter posting the fastest lap of the round. While traffic would again hamper him in Q4, thanks to his TQ run in Q2 Mirko Salemi secures an ENS career best of 2nd on the grid. Carmine’s P2 in the final qualifier would see him snatch third on the grid from Simon Kurzbuch on tie break while Robert Pietsch made it five different manufacturers at the front end of the grid.

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April 22, 2016

Coelho is Top Qualifier at ENS opener

Bruno Coelho is Top Qualifier for the opening round of the Euro Nitro Series in Bologna, Italy. The Xray driver claimed his first ENS pole position by topping 2 of the 4 qualifiers and was on for a third TQ run in the final qualifier before a mistake. This left an improved Dominic Greiner to take Q4 and with it secure 2nd on the grid ahead of his Serpent team-mate Alessio Mazzeo. Mazzeo was the only one who could deny Coelho the overall TQ but the Q2 pace setter’s engine ran rich over the opening laps which was enough to leave him with a P2 in the very closely match World class driver line-up. For reigning champion Jilles Groskamp he will start his title defence from 6th on the grid behind Mark Green (P4) and former champion Erik Dankel (P5).

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April 22, 2016

HobbyTown & AMain Performance Hobbies join forces

HobbyTown Unlimited Inc., the franchisor of the largest chain of independently owned and operated retail hobby stores in the US and AMain Performance Hobbies, an industry leader in online hobby retailing, have joined forces to bring AMain branded brick and mortar retail stores and racing facilities. In addition to this, AMain Performance Hobbies will manage and execute hobbytown.com online merchandising, sales and commerce fulfillment. AMain Co-Founder and CEO Kendall Bennett believes that the brick and mortar hobby stores are vital to our industry. “As an avid hobbyist and owner of two brick and mortar retail stores, we have learned a great deal about the hobby consumer over the last 10 years. Brick and mortar stores provide a critical entry point for new hobby enthusiasts, while online retailers cater to hobbyists in need of a wider selection of unique and hard to find products.”

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