June 21, 2014

Another TQ run for Phend

Dakotah Phend repeated his opening qualifying performance at the US National Championships making it two out of two in the truggy class as he again set the TQ pace. A slightly slower run than the morning, the second qualifier would be a repeat of the Q1 Top 3 with the Team Losi Racing driver again fastest from the HB of Ty Tessmann and the Mugen of Carson Wernimont. The biggest improvement of the round would come from Serpent’s Mike Truhe who having being 10th in Q1 would post the 4th fastest time.

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June 20, 2014

Tessmann runs out of fuel but still takes Q1

Despite running out of fuel on his final lap, Ty Tessmann took the first round of buggy qualifying at the US National Championships in Hutto, Texas.  On target for the only 10 lap run of the first of the four qualifiers,  the HB driver would run dry just after completing the fastest lap of the round but would still top the timesheets with a 9/6:57.187 run.  Behind the 2012 Champion, Kyosho’s Jared Tebo would set the second fastest time 1.2 seconds up on last year’s overall Top Qualifier Dakotah Phend.  Defending champion Adam Drake would only post the 20th fastest time, the TLR driver saying he just didn’t drive very well.

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June 20, 2014

Phend TQ’s opening Truggy qualifier

Dakotah Phend has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the US National Championships in Hutto, Texas.  The Team Losi Racing driver took his Truggy around the large Thornhill Racing Circuit in a time of 10/7:33.918 to outpace defending champion Ty Tessmann by 1.74 seconds.  Behind last year’s Top Qualifier, a further 4.86-seconds off the TQ pace, Mugen’s Carson Wernimont completed the Top 3 narrowly out pacing the Team Durango of Ryan Lutz.

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June 19, 2014

Lutz fastest in opening seeding practice at US Nats

Ryan Lutz was fastest in the opening seeding practice at the 1:8 Offroad US National Championship. Having had his first truggy time disallowed, in buggy the Team Durango driver put in a convincing performance over 3-consecutive laps around the Thornhill Racing Circuit to top the times from Truggy pace setter Ty Tessmann. As in truggy Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield would post the third fastest time followed by Dakotah Phend and defending champion Adam Drake.

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June 19, 2014

Tessman tops first Truggy seeding practice

Defending US National Truggy Champion Ty Tessmann topped the first seeding practice run at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas, this morning. The HB driver raced the fastest three consecutive laps of the large European style track in 134.919 to top the time sheets from Serpent’s Mike Truhe who ran a best time of 135.496 over the 7-minute run. The Top 3 for the first of the two seeding rounds was completed by Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield who set a time of 135.949.

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June 15, 2014

Pietsch claims first ENS win at Hockenheimring

Robert Pietsch claimed his first win of the inaugural Euro Nitro Series, when in a somewhat reversal of the season opener he won the Hockenheimring event from Top Qualifier Simon Kurzbuch. Top Qualifier in Melzo but having to settle for second behind the No.2 qualifier Lamberto Collari, today starting from second the Mugen driver took a close win over Championship points leader Kurzbuch, who ran out of fuel on the last lap, with Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe completing the podium at the German track.

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June 15, 2014

Dankel takes second ENS win

Having struggled throughout qualifying Eric Dankel would pull off an impressive performance at Hockenheimring in Germany to take his second win of the inaugural Euro Nitro Series Championship.  Starting from 5th on the grid, the winner of the season opener in Melzo, would work his way to the front getting passed early race dominator Teemu Leino in the final 10 minutes to win the race from Ronald Volker with a late crash & resulting flame-out dropping Leino to third.  For Top Qualifier Dominic Greiner, who lead for the first 10-minutes of the 45-minute encounter, a problem with his throttle servo linkage would see him retire just before the race reached 2/3 distance.

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June 14, 2014

Kurzbuch claims home TQ for Shepherd at German ENS

Shepherd’s Simon Kurzbuch claimed a home TQ for his team at Round 3 of the Euro Nitro series this evening at the Hockenheimring in Germany.  With its headquarters not too far from the track, the Swiss driver secured the manufacturer’s second overall TQ of the season when he topped the penultimate round of qualifying, team-mate Oliver Mack having secured pole position at Round 2 in Aigen last month.  His fourth TQ run of the weekend, the championship points leader will start tomorrow’s 45-minute Main in front of the Mugen of his main title rival Robert Pietsch with Shepherd team-mate Lars Hoppe third and BMT’s Daniele Ielasi fourth.

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