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October 10, 2016

Ronnefalk hits jackpot to become World Champion in Vegas

David Ronnefalk is the new 1:8 Offroad World Champion, the Swede finally delivering on the promise he has shown ever since being crowned European B Champion in 2009. Starting from 3rd on the grid, the HB Racing driver would win the 1-hour encounter in convincing style once he got passed pole sitter & defending champion Ty Tessmann, his HB Racing team-mate eventually finishing up third. Making it a European 1-2 in the American’s own backyard, 2012 World champion Robert Batlle would take the runner-up spot recovering from some big early mistakes. With Ronnefalk claiming the sport’s greatest prize, RC Tracks of Las Vegas would put the spotlight on his replacement as nitro offroad’s next star of the future as David Ongaro, despite his age, mixed it with the biggest names in RC with ease and confidence. A back pressure pipe would deny him from finishing his first Worlds final as Vice Champion leaving the Italian 6th behind Ryan Cavalieri. With many feeling the first running of a Worlds final under floodlights would favour the American drivers, it would be Top Qualifier Jared Tebo who would be the best US finisher taking fourth 2.2-seconds up on Cavalieri.

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October 10, 2016

Anthony Abisset TQs & wins 1/8th class at French Cup

Anthony Abisset TQs & wins at French Cup

The popular Clermont Ferrand track played host to the French Cup this past weekend, offing racing in several nitro on-road classes. The 1/8th class qualifying saw Anthony Abisset (Serpent/Picco) coming out fastest from Leo Arnold (Xray/Team Orion) and Arnaud Mathieu (Capricorn/Team Orion). Richard Volta (Infinity/Novarossi) and Christophe Louis (Mugen/Nds) would round out the top 5.

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October 10, 2016

Silverstone Winter Series Rd1 – Report

The Silverstone Winter Series kicked off with a great day’s racing at Moulton College in Northampton, UK. The main 2WD class featured 100 drivers. With brand new EOS style carpet and with Schumacher Minipin 1 or Minipin 2 control tyres there was plenty of grip and negligible tyre wear.
Veteran racer Ellis Stafford took the 2WD win with his TLR buggy, closely followed by Schumacher drivers Greg Williams and Charlie Ware.

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October 10, 2016

Simon Kurzbuch confirmed for Guankou Sunpadow GP

The organisers of the forthcoming Guankou Sunpadow RC Car Grand Prix have announced the confirmation of Simon Kurzbuch for the event. The 2015 IFMAR 1/8th On-road World Champion and 2014 ENS title holder will compete in the event’s competitive 1/8th scale class.

October 10, 2016

Belgium On-road Indoor season opener – Report

The opening race of the Belgium indoor on-road season was held at the Beerse sports centre near Antwerp on a purpose-built 40x20m track. Classes run were Touring Modified, Touring 10.5T blinky, Touring 17.5T blinky as well as a 21.5T Formula and a silver can beginners class. Practice would start on Saturday afternoon with the triple qualifiers and finals would be held on Sunday. In the Modified class, Thomas Stockman showed his class by placing his Yokomo on pole despite missing the practice on Saturday. Mitchell Van Es was in close contention while Florian Joos, Stefan Rommens and Athan De Witte qualified in fourth and fifth respectively.

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October 10, 2016

Quentin Leroux wins French Cup

The French Cup was held on the tight and technical SENS track in cold but dry weather conditions. After qualifying Quentin Leroux took the lead with an average of 16.965s over over three consecutive laps followed by Basile Concialdi and Jean-Baptiste Geneau who were about 0.1s slower. Overall the qualifying was very tight with only 0.2 seconds separating the second to ninth place. In the semi-final Quentin confirmed his performance by finishing first, a lap ahead of second placed Renaud Monin. In the main final Quentin Leroux kept the lead and widened the gap gradually over its competitors and a great battle was on for second and third between Michael Derderian and Basile Concialdi with Basile’s car stalling before the finish line. Following the French Championship title Quentin Leroux now also brought home the French Cup title.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

October 10, 2016

MRC Speed Weekend – Report

This past weekend the MRC Speed Weekend was hosted by the Model Racing Club Vianen. Th first large indoor race of the season was held on a purpose-built track in a sports hall in Vianen near Utrecht, The Netherlands and it saw the running of the three classes of Touring 10.5T Blinky, Touring 17.5T using red Trackstar motors, and Formula 21.5T. The track was laid out using ETS carpet and the opening day saw free practice followed by controlled practice. In Touring 10.5 Robert Krens (Schumacher) would win the reseeding, based on three consecutive laps, from Eric Bresser (Xray)  and Michel Peterse (Xray). Touring 17.5 had Wesley van Dijken (Xray) coming out on top from Rob Janssen (Team Magic) and Ronald Arts (Team Magic) while in the Formula class it was Jitse Miedema (Xray) who came out on top in front of Ruud Knoester (Xray) and Michel van der Velden (Xray).

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October 9, 2016

Tessmann on pole in Vegas

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Ty Tessmann is on pole position for the 1:8 Offroad World Championship decider. The reigning World Champion will start his title defence from the front of the grid after a time penalty dropped Semi Final winner Ryan Cavalieri to second. The Associated driver looked to have snatched the top spot on the grid after a thrilling win over Ty Tessmann in the second and faster of the Semi Finals. The 2014 Runner up driver took the win on the last corner by a margin of 4/10ths of a second but contact with Tessmann would later result in the American being demoted to second which promoted Tessmann to the win and pole for the 16th running of the World Championships. Winning the first of the Semis ahead of young star David Ongaro, David Ronnefalk will start 3rd with the very impressive Ongaro next up. For Top Qualifier Jared Tebo, his quest for a first nitro World title will begin from 6th on the grid after he finished 3rd in the same Semi as Ronnefalk, him giving away the race lead on the first lap with a mistake. The same Semi would also bring an end to 2010 World Champion Cody King’s run of World Final appearances since his title, the Kyosho driver finishing 8th.

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