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November 22, 2015

Simon Kurzbuch is 2015 IFMAR World Champion

With some delays, due to rain on Saturday morning the last 5 finals of the 2015 IFMAR 1/8th onroad World Championships were run in the afternoon at the ZECA Elias track in Americana City SP. The final started just after 5pm with Simon Kurzbuch on pole position for Shepherd. Following a hard fought pair of Semi finals in which we lost contenders Balestri, Pietsch & Collari it would be Takaaki Shimo who would start from 2nd with fellow Japanese racer Yuya Sahashi in 3rd. Fourth on the grid was local favourite Flavio Elias starting ahead of reigning World Champion Tadahiko Sahashi in 5th, Sebastian Recio (coming from the 1/4 finals) 6th, Shinnosuke Yokoyama 7th, Henrique Winik (also from the Quarters) 8th, Robin D’Hondt 9th and Daniele Ielasi completing the grid in 10th, the only Italian in the final.

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November 22, 2015

Coehlo takes Q2 at EOS

World Champion Bruno Coelho has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series in Slovakia. Racing at the home of his Xray team, the Portuguese driver headed a 1-2 for the XB4 at the Hudy Arena with Martin Wollanka 2/10ths off his pace. Having TQ’d last night’s opening 4WD qualifier after wrapping up his second 2WD win of the season, Lee Martin was third fastest ahead of the events winner for the last two season’s Martin Bayer.

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November 22, 2015

The Rally Legends Lancia Delta Esso Grifone bodies

Italtrading have introduced two new 1/10th rally bodyshells out of their The Rally Legends line of scale rally cars and bodies. Available soon are the Lancia Delta S4 and Evo2 in the Esso Grifone design. The bodies come made from clear polycarbonate and they include comprehensive decal sheets as well as moulded details such as lightbars, windscreen wipers and more. The bodies fit Italtrading’s own line of The Rally Legend cars as well as many other 1/10th scale touring car chassis.

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November 22, 2015

Team Associated 2015 Worlds T-shirt & Hoodie

Now up for grabs are Team Associated’s 2015 Worlds T-shirt and hoodie as worn by the Associated drivers at the 2015 IFMAR 1/10 Offroad World Championships. The short-sleeve 100 percent cotton T is available in two colours, blue and black. Also available is the 2015 Worlds Hoodie in black with the same colourful design. The merchandise is available in all popular adult size from S to 5XL and 3XL respectively.

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November 21, 2015

Martin extends EOS lead with Slovakian win

Lee Martin has extended his points lead in the Euro Offroad Series, the reigning champion making it two from two with victory in Round 2 at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. Top Qualifier for the 2WD A-Main, the bonus point making it the perfect result, the Yokomo driver would have to wait until the third A-Main to deliver his 7th EOS race win. Having won A1, a mistake in A2 would see Michal Orlowski take it from Bruno Coelho putting all three in contention for the overall win as they lined up for A3 which would deliver an entertaining conclusion. Getting passed by Orlowski, Martin would get back to the front to win the encounter ahead of Martin Bayer giving the overall win ahead of Orlowski with Coelho completing the podium at the Xray owned track.

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November 21, 2015

Orlowski wins A2 at EOS Slovakia

Michal Orlowski has won the second A-Main at EOS Slovakia, the Schumacher driver taking a convincing win over Bruno Coelho and A1 winner Lee Martin. Winner of the Hudy Arena event last season, Orlowski would take the lead after Top Qualifier Martin made a mistake on his third lap at the same spot as the Schumacher driver did in the opening final. The Yokomo driver’s short coming over the double would also disrupt Coelho’s race as his Xray would tag the reigning champions out of shape buggy. Able to build on the break given to him by the incident, Orlowski would win by over 3-seconds as Coelho managed to hold off the recovering Martin setting the stage for a 3-way shot out for the overall win of Round 2 of the championship.

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November 21, 2015

Martin sees off Orlowski in A1

Yokomo’s Lee Martin saw off two challenges from Michal Orlowski to win the opening A-Main at Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series in Slovakia. The Top Qualifier would lead from start to finish but twice came under pressure from the Schumacher driver at opposite ends of the 5-minute encounter, a last lap roll by Orlowski leaving Martin to win by 2.5 seconds. Starting from fourth and getting past Marc Rheinard at the first double on the opening lap, Bruno Coelho, having been promoted to second by Orlowski’s early mistake would complete the Top 3 after an almost identical mistake ended his chances of mounting an attack on the leader.

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November 21, 2015

Martin 2WD Top Qualifier at EOS

Lee Martin is 2WD Top Qualifier for Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. The reigning champion & current points leader claimed his 5th EOS pole position when he topped the fourth and final round of qualifying in Trencin ahead of Michal Orlowski, his only challenger for the overall TQ. Winner of the event last season, Orlowski will start the finals from second surrounded by Yokomos as Martin’s team-mate Marc Rheinard secured third on the grid thanks to a P4 run in the final qualifier. For home team Xray, Bruno Coelho lines up fourth ahead of team-mate & former event winner Martin Bayer who was another to improve his grid position greatly with a strong Q4 performance in which he set the third fastest time.

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