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February 21, 2016

Maifield last lap win from champion Tessmann

Ryan Maifield snatched a last lap eBuggy victory over defending champion Ty Tessmann at the Dirt Nitro Challenge to successfully convert the first of the three TQ starts the TLR driver has secured this weekend at the Fear Farm. Leading the first 3-minutes of the race, a mistake by Maifield at the second step up would hand team-mate Dakotah Phend a lead. Starting 7th on the grid, the 19-year-old would only stay out front for a lap before he crashed coming into the right side triple. Allowing Tessmann to the front the Canadian looked like he would successfully defend his title as Maifield trying to put a pass on his team-mate at the berm caused the two cars to tangle. But with a lap to go the race would come alive as Maifield caught a slowing Tessmann making contact with the HB twice before the World Champion got out of shape allowing Maifield through for the win into the final corner. While further crashes would drop Phend back to 7th, a recovering Ryan Cavalieri who started third would complete the podium for Team Associated.

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February 21, 2016

Denney, Rivkin & Savoya complete DNC Truggy grid

The 15 drivers who will battle it out to become the Truggy Champion at the 17th running of the Dirt Nitro Challenge tonight is complete. With the B-Main offering the Top 3 a place on the back of the A-Main grid, it was pole sitter Tanner Denney who controlled the 30-minute encounter from start to finish, the new TLR signing winning by 6.5-seconds from former team-mate Spencer Rivkin and TLR’s other new recruit Renaud Savoya. Finishing 4th, the 2013 Top Qualifier Adam Drake will for the first time since the DNC moved to the Fear Farm not be on the grid for the main event. It was a disappointing race too for Drake’s Mugen team-mate Barry Pettit, running a competitive 3rd just after the 10-minute mark last year’s direct A-Main qualifier would suffer a plug failure.

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February 20, 2016

Elliott Harper leads ICC after Saturday

Harper leads ICC after Saturday

At this weekend’s 2016 International Carpet Challenge Elliott Harper backed up his round one TQ with the fastest time in the second qualifier, but the highlight of the day was the fourth round of qualifying. Elliott, Kyle Branson, Yannic Prumper, Olly Jefferies and Viljami Kutvonen exchanged fastest laps and the lead of the heat seemingly every lap, and it was Elliott who snatched the TQ on the final lap with his Schumacher, ahead of the Yokomo of Yannic and Viljami’s Awesomatix. Elliott, who said it was “great for the spectators to have such a close fight”, said he was looking forward to tomorrow, having saved the better of his two sets of tyres for the finals. Kyle, who set the best time in the third qualifier, second that “second’s not bad” after day one. Pretty happy with his Capricorn, he is now the only driver who can deny Harper of the overall TQ.

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February 20, 2016

Elliott Harper sets early pace at ICC

Elliott Harper has topped the opening qualifying round at the 2016 International Carpet Challenge. The Schumacher driver, running a plain green Protoform Mazda 6 bodyshell today, set a time nearly two seconds quicker than his closest challenger, Yannic Preumper. However, the German Yokomo driver did not have an easy run to second place, trading times with Olly Jefferies and top seed from practice, Viljami Kutvonen. The Finnish Awesomatix driver’s challenge essentially ended on the first lap, with a roll through the fast esses, whilst Jefferies rolled his Xray around the three minute mark, costing him one second. This left 2014 ICC winner Kyle Branson to take fourth in the round for Capricorn, with Viljami fifth and Christoper Krapp in sixth.

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February 20, 2016

2016 Reedy TC Race of Champions – Announcement

2016 Reedy TC Race of Champions - Announcement

Team Associated have announced the 2016 Reedy Touring Car Race of Champions to take place from the 26th to 29th of May. The annual event will return to the newly resurfaced Tamiya America circuit and entries will open February 24th at noon PST exclusively here. Due to time constraints and to maintain the world-class nature of the event, total entries are capped at 170 for the Open classes of 13.5T, 17.5T and Modified with each driver limited to one entry. To allow everyone an opportunity to be a part of the 2016 instalment, a lottery drawing for the Open classes will be conducted on March 21st, with those chosen securing a place in the event. Information and updates including, entry, rules, spec tires, hotels, and more will be posted soon here.

February 19, 2016

2016 International Carpet Challenge – Free practice

The 2016 International Carpet Challenge kicked off today at the Essex Winter Series venue in the south-east of the UK. Boasting the largest entry in its three-year history, the cream of UK talent are joined by a number of drivers from across Europe. With an evening of practice to get used to the fresh track layout, laptimes tumbled as the drivers got to grips with the unique EWS track. The pace in the Modified class was set by current UK National Champion Elliott Harper. Elliott described his Schumacher as “really good”, he will leave the car as it is for tomorrow’s controlled practice to see how the grip level changes overnight.

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February 19, 2016

Wahl & Ratheisky win at Tonisport Onroad Series

For the recent round of the German Tonisport Onroad Series drivers travelled to Berlin to compete in the three classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula. The weekend started off with practice on Friday and Saturday as well as the opening qualifier on Saturday evening. In the Touring Modified class Tim Wahl would set the TQ while the Touring Stock and Formula class belonged to a late arriving Jan Ratheisky who only attended on Sunday due to work commitments.

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February 19, 2016

Robin Frischkopf takes maiden Formula class win

The third round of the Swiss Islikon Masters was recently held and in the Formula class Robin Frischkopf managed to take the TQ after winning all qualifying rounds. The opening A-main then was a pretty easy affair for Robin but for the second leg he forgot to sauce the tyres, causing his car to being a lot slower. He also made a couple of mistakes which promoted Rainer Zimmer into the lead, but Robin managed to take back the lead in the final lap to take the win and with it his first Formula class victory. For the third and final A-main Robin decided to start dead last to make things a bit more exciting. The leg would then be a race between Andi Frattaroli (Xray) and Robin Frischkopf (Xray) and as Andi was able to defend his position by making his car very wide he took the final A-main win and also the overall runner-up spot from Rainer Zimmer (Xray) who completed the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]