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August 30, 2016

2016 Tamiya Championship Series finale – Report

The 2016 Tamiya Championship Series finals concluded at Tamiya America’s racing facility in Aliso Viejo, California after nine regional races across the country. The event spanned two days and this year’s final celebrates 22 years of on-road Tamiya R/C car racing. The event brought eight new class champions, four of which will be representing the USA at the Tamiya World Championships in November; an event during the Tamiya Fair in Shizuoka-City, Japan. The four class-champions that will be moving on to the Tamiya World Championships are Timmy Valles in GT-1, Bill Jeric in Formula, Tobey Zhang in GT-2 and Jason Smith in the popular M-Chassis class. The champions in the additional classes are Alex Tolmasoff in GT-3, Tsuyoshi Niizuma in GT Novice Spec, Orlando Sherman in FWD and Tyree Phillips in the GT Pro Spec/Porsche Cup category.

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August 30, 2016

Slovenian Electric On-road National Champs – Report

The Slovenian Electric On-road National Championship was recently held at the Miniavtodrom na Logu track in Tolmin. The technical and fast track with its nice layout and flat surface was prepared with sugar water to make for decent traction conditions and the event was held in the three classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and 1/8th scale GT/Rally. As for the schedule, Saturday was devoted for free practice followed by three round of qualifying on Sunday morning with the finals being held after the lunch break. In 1/10 Touring Modified it was Darko Nemec (Xray) who won the race in front of TQ holder Stanislav Kokol (Xray) and Kristjan Mikložič (Xray) in third place.

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August 29, 2016

Lutz & Bornhorst sweep Pro-Line Shootout

Thornhill Racing Circuit played host to last weekend’s 2016 Pro-Line Shootout. Qualifying in Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy was dominated by the battle between the two teammates Ryan Lutz and Joe Bornhorst. In Nitro Buggy Joe swept all three round of the qualifying while in Nitro Truggy it was Ryan who won two rounds to take the overall TQ. Finally in 1/8th E-Buggy it was again Joe who made the triple after the qualifiers to take the overall TQ for the triple A-main events. Buggy was a battle between Joe and Ryan that were pacing each other, pretty much playing a game of chess waiting for the other one to make the first move. Joe made a couple mistakes at about the 25 minute mark allowing Ryan to get out to a comfortable lead. In the last fuel run, Joe tried to push hard to catch up but couldn’t quite do it allowing Ryan to grab the win and Joe came across about 10 seconds behind in second.

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August 29, 2016

Griffin Hanna doubles at Southern Off-road Series Rd3

Round three of the Southern Off-road Series was held at the Augusta RC Supercross track this past weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class, Griffin Hanna, coming from the 8 spot on the grid, would take over the lead on lap 3 and from that moment on he never looked back to take the win in the 20-minute encounter from Evan Vail in second and Grayson Thompson in third. In 1/8th E-Buggy Griffin would put his buggy on the TQ spot and he would finish the 10-minute race a lap ahead of runner-up, Dustin Loden while Coty Ingram completed the top 3.

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August 29, 2016

2016 French National Cup – Report

The French National Cup was held this past weekend in Evry near Paris. The French National Cup is one of two annual national outdoor series with the NC being a single race while the French Championship is a 5-race affair. In the Modified category, Cyril N’Diaye obtained the pole position while his teammate Thomas Vigneron, current leader of the French Championship, qualified on the 2 spot. During the opening two finale legs Cyril and Thomas had some tight battles and they finished 1/2 and 2/1 meaning the decision for the overall title would be made in A3. In the third and decisive main Cyril maintained his position to win the race from Thomas Vigneron in second and Hugo Ragaut in third.

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August 29, 2016

Ryan Cavalieri sweeps 2016 Surf City Classic

The annual Surf City Classic race was held at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California this past weekend. The premier 2WD Modified Buggy class saw Dakotah Phend (TLR) taking the top qualifying honours from Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri. The 4WD Modified Buggy qualifying was lead by Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri from Jared Tebo who put his Kyosho buggy on the 2 spot on the grid. The Modified Truck class had TLR’s Dustin Evans coming out fastest after the qualifiers while 2WD Modified Short Course again had Ryan Cavaleri putting his AE truck on the pole position for the single 10-minute A-main.

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August 29, 2016

Volker finally gets his World title after dramatic A3 in China

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Ronald Volker has finally got the World title he so desperately chased for the last number of years. Widely recognised as the one world’s best touring car driver as he reigned over the highly competitive Euro Touring Series for five consecutive seasons, the Electric Touring Car World Championship have eluded him and his long time Yokomo engineer Yukijiro Umino, but that all changed in a dramatic closing A-Main in Beijing this evening. With Top Qualifier and A1 winner Bruno Coelho favourite to lift the title despite handing Volker a win with a mistake in A2, a change in track conditions would catch out the Xray driver. Losing the rear of his car early in the opening lap and jumping the curbing, Volker would go to the front only to get hit by Coelho in the chicane bunching up the field and making for a dramatic couple of laps. With Volker somehow getting back the lead he lost corners earlier as Coelho and Marc Rheinard came together, once in front he never looked back as further carnage gave him an unassailable lead. Of the carnage the biggest benefactor would be Viktor Wilck, finishing 2nd in A3, he would take a surprise first Worlds podium finish getting third behind Coelho.

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August 27, 2016

Coelho hands A2 win to Volker

With one hand on the sport’s greatest prize, Bruno Coelho handed his only real rival of the 2016 World Championship Ronald Volker a lifeline when he rolled out of a comfortable lead over the German. Having convincingly won A1, A2 would be less easy for the Xray driver but he still had the advantage over the Yokomo of Volker but as the race entered the second half he would catch the curb at the chicane before the front straight and rolled. With Volker going to the front, the Top Qualifier would rejoin in second such was the pairs advantage over the field but he couldn’t do anything about catching the new leader. Behind, Marc Rheinard would benefit from Akio Sobue making contact with third place starter Alexander Hagberg to take a distant third.

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