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October 3, 2016

Cameron Zammit wins at Victorian State Titles

Last weekend the 2016 Victorian State Titles were held at the Keilor Offroad RC Club in Keilor, Victoria, Australia. The event began with practice on Saturday with the track starting off dry but overnight rain forced the club to drop one qualifier on Sunday morning. For round one in 4WD, the track was still quite wet and it was Cameron Zammit who took the win while Q2 went to Ray Munday by one second. In round three, Cameron started behind Ray and was sitting behind him for almost the duration of the race. On the last lap Ray made a small mistake and Cameron went through, which gave him the win and the overall TQ.

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October 3, 2016

Cavalieri sets pace in 2nd practice

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Ryan Cavalieri has opened Day 2 of the 1:8 Offroad World Championships In Las Vegas by setting the pace in the second round of practice. The Team Associated driver was quickest over 3-consecutive laps from TLR pairing Ryan Maifield and Dakotah Phend with the trio separated by less then a tenth of a second with Joe Bornhorst fourth fastest. Having set the pace in the opening practice yesterday, that time half a second faster than Cavalieri Practice 2 topping time, Jared Tebo would set the 12th fastest time while reigning World Champion Ty Tessmann was 15th quickest, both driver still pleased with their cars. Having set the fastest lap yesterday, Ryan Lutz was again the fastest driver around RC Tracks of Las Vegas with a 33.980 as he took his Tekno to the seventh fastest time for the round.

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October 2, 2016

The Worlds according to Ruona – The hand shaking phase is over

The Worlds according to Ruona - The hand shaking phase is over

Well, we made it through the hand shaking phase of the worlds. You know, where everyone across teams, countries and pit areas pretend to like each other for a little while. It’s always fake, it’s always awkward and personally, I look forward to when we all go back to normal. Sure, we all respect the competition, but in all reality, let’s race already.

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October 2, 2016

Tebo fastest in opening practice

On what can best be described as a very leisurely opening day to the 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Las Vegas it was Jared Tebo who set the pace as drivers ran just a single 10-minute practice run each around the RC Tracks of Las Vegas track. Posting a best three consecutive lap time of 1:42.818, Tebo led a Kyosho 1-2 from Elliott Boots with the separation less than 1/10th of a second. Behind, Mugen’s Cole Ogden would post the third fastest time while on a complete 10-minute race time it was his team-mate Adam Drake who would top the time sheets. With the focus of the first practice being to learn the track, something most drivers reported as not taking long, reigning champion Ty Tessmann would post the 15th fastest time summing up the track as ‘not challenging yet’.

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October 2, 2016

Wing rule causes some issue on Day 1 of WC

A wing rule that was introduced in April 2014, caused drivers some issue on the opening day of the 1:8 Offroad World Championship as IFMAR started to enforce the ruling that came about as a result of the race numbers used at the 2010 World in Thailand. The ruling, which states the rear wing side plates must have a space 50mm x 40mm in which to place the car’s race number, was not enforced at the previous Worlds in Italy 2-year-ago because no manufacturer had created a wing that met the newly drawn up specification. In November 2015, EFRA, the European governing body, voted to remove the ruling from its handbook as it had not been followed by the industry. Shortly after however, Kyosho would design & release a wing based on the ruling and as a result IFMAR had to enforce the ruling leaving drivers to either purchase a Kyosho wing, many drivers very sceptical over the real reason for the ruling due to the fact Kyosho had 100’s of wings in stock at the track, or extend the wing side plates of the brand of wing they use.

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September 30, 2016

Matt Owen wins British Short Course Nationals

The 2016 British Short Course National Championship was held at various venues throughout the summer. Matt Owen would take the overall title in the 2WD class with three wins and a second place from Richard Miller in second and Darren Boyle in third.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

September 30, 2016

Arkadiusz Smyk wins at Polish On-road Championships

The final round of the Polish Electric On-road Championship was recently held in Nowy Sącz on a newly built track and organised by the LOK. In the Touring Modified class it was Arkadiusz Smyk who took the overall TQ after winning three of the four qualifiers while teammate Michał Wójcik came in second. In the finals and coming out fastest in A2 and A3 Arkadiusz managed to take the overall win from Lukasz Mach while Michal Wojcik had to settle for third overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 30, 2016

Electro Challenge Slovenia finale – Report

The final round of the Electro Challenge Slovenia was held in Benedikt on a purpose-built track and in several electric on-road classes. 13.5T Stock had, by far, the most entries. Jan Popič grasped the TQ position, followed by Jan Pernarčič and Patrik Požgaj. Jan also won the opening two A-finals to take the overall win with one leg to spare. Sitting out A3, Popič made way for Jan Pernarčič and Patrik Požgaj to battle for the overall runner-up spot with Pernarčič taking the win by a narrow 0.6s from Požgaj.

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