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February 2, 2019

Orlowski Top Qualifier at EOS Daun (2WD)

Michal Orlowski is the Top Qualifier at the first EOS encounter of 2019, the Schumacher driver wrapping up his second consecutive pole position of Season #8 with a third TQ run in the fourth & final round of 2WD in Daun, Germany. After a long 14.5 hour day at the track, the shoot out for the overall Round 3 TQ came down to Orlowski and Daniel Kobbevik, the latter having TQ’d the first qualifier of the day. Unfortunately for Kobbevik, the challenge for his first EOS TQ was short lived as he traction rolled his Xray just before the wall before opting to pull up as he couldn’t better his already impressive P2 starting position for tomorrow’s A-Main grid. While team-mate Bruno Coelho would set the early pace, once again an error would prevent the EOS Poland winner from converting his speed into a TQ run. Posting the fastest lap of the heat, he would recover to take a P3 behind Joona Haatanen while up front Orlowski topped the times by 1.8-seconds. While it was a bad closing round for Lee Martin, the Yokomo driver will line-up third ahead of Coelho and Haatanen.

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February 1, 2019

Another TQ run for Orlowski in Daun

Michal Orlowski has posted another TQ run at the Euro Offroad Series third round, this time the Schumacher becoming the first driver to record 14-laps around the uniquely shaped, large indoor carpet track in Daun, Germany. Having taken Q2 after a late error by Q1 pace setter Daniel Kobbevik, Orlowski took a convincing TQ in the penultimate round able to focus solely on his own driving as both Kobbevik and Xray team-mate Bruno Coelho made early errors. Behind Orlowski, Lee Martin secured the second fastest time denying Schumacher a 1-2 with Joern Neumann topping the second fastest heat to get a 3rd for his efforts. Coming into the weekend sharing the points lead with Orlowski, Joona Haatanen would enjoy his best run posting a P4 time ahead of Hupo Honigl, who running in the second fastest heat would end up the fastest Xray for the round ahead of Coelho and Martin Bayer.

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February 1, 2019

Orlowski snatches Q2 after last lap error from Kobbevik

Michal Orlowski has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at EOS Daun, the Schumacher driver benefiting from a last lap error from Q1 winner Daniel Kobbevik. The Xray driver was on target to make it two from two but the table top was his undoing as he took too tight a line that resulted in contact with the corner wall that cost him over 3.5 seconds. This allowed both Orlowski and Bruno Coelho, thanks to his last lap being his fastest, to post quicker times with Kobbevik ending up 3rd. Behind, there was a big gap back to 4th placed Lee Martin, the Yokomo driver having his own costly error half way through the run that cost him almost 4-seconds. 8/10th behind, HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk would pull a 5th from the round with Joel Valander rounding out the Top 6.

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February 1, 2019

Kevin Siller wins at Ron White Memorial race

MakinTraxx R/C hosted the 2019 Race for Ron race last weekend. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Kevin Siller with the overall TQ and he would also take an easy win in the single 8-minute A-main, leaving behind Dylan Raposo in 2nd and Dan Bach in 3rd.

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February 1, 2019

Jan Ratheisky joins Sunpadow factory team

Sunpadow has announced the signing of German top driver Jan Ratheisky. The Formula World Cup, multiple EFRA Stock and Formula European as well as multiple ETS Stock and Formula champion will be part of Sunpadow’s factory team, running the company’s competition LiPo battery packs while helping with research and development. Jan has the following to say:

Sunpadow LiPo batteries are great, I’m honored to join their racing team. I believe the power system powered by Sunpadow will help me to perform better in the coming races.

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

February 1, 2019

Schumacher Indoor Off Road Masters Rd5 – Report

Last weekend was the fifth round of the hugely popular Worksop Series, there was once again a fantastic entry of drivers across the three classes of 2WD, 4WD and the Vintage Buggy class. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. Qualifying in 2WD saw a dominating performance by Jonathan Skidmore, taking TQ in three out of the four rounds to take pole position from Matthew Thompson and Craig Collinson.

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February 1, 2019

JConcepts Spring Dirt Oval Nationals – Announcement

JConcepts present the Spring Dirt Oval Nationals from May 24th to 26th. Held at the iconic HobbyTown facility in Omaha, Nebraska, the centrally located venue invites Dirt Oval racers of all skill level to race at the Plex. The class breakdown is popular, including Sprint and Late Model in addition to the latest class introductions of Street Stock, Wingless Sprint and Short Course Modified. Full information are available on the event’s dedicated website here. Registration will be performed by the HobbyPlex crew and will go live on April 2nd, 2019 on RCSignup.com.

January 31, 2019

Brian Lewis sweeps Forever Heroes Race

The 3rd annual Forever Heroes race was held in Albany, Georgia recently. The 2-day event was hosted by Chehaw Raceway and drew a little over 100 entries. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class Brian Lewis took the TQ and he went on to win the A-main by five laps, leaving behind Brian Peterson in 2nd and Chad Brinkley in 3rd. In the Pro E-Buggy A-mains Brian would secure wins in A1 and A2 for the overall from Justin Kinsey 2nd and Brian Peterson 3rd.

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