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October 4, 2015

Cragg closes on Tebo in 1st Controlled Practice

Having set the pace over the four rounds of practice which opened proceedings at the 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Japan, Jared Tebo continued that form into controlled practice but Neil Cragg continues to reduce the American’s advantage. Having ended practice with a 6/10th advantage, Tebo was just 0.175 quicker in CP1 with both drivers running a fastest lap of 17.3 around the Yatabe Arena track. Behind the current and the former World Champions, Naoto Matsukura was third fastest with things closing up as just 6/10ths covered the Top 10 compared with the 1.6 seconds separation at the end of practice.

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October 4, 2015

Tebo the early benchmark at Yatabe

Jared Tebo continues to be the early benchmark at the 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Japan with the defending champion laying down the pace with three rounds of practice completed at the Yatabe Arena. Both in terms of fastest lap time and 3-consecutive laps, the Kyosho driver is distinctly faster than his rivals with team-mate Naoto Matsukura closest on consistency almost a full second off. A driver who didn’t attend the Warm-up Race and a novice on astro turf, TLR’s Dakotah Phend is third fastest followed by former champions Ryan Cavalieri and Neil Cragg.

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October 4, 2015

Drivers give first impressions of Worlds track

Drivers got their first taste of the 1:10 Offroad World Championship’s contentious astro turf track this morning at the Yatabe Arena with the overall layout getting a positive reaction however the track’s washboard section has been widely branded as ‘a stupid’ feature. A completely new track build to that used for the warm-up and having had no running drivers reported the astro turf needs more time to get a groove however in terms of outright 2WD lap times it was the defending champion Jared Tebo who set the pace from former champions Neil Cragg and Ryan Cavalieri. Over 3-consecutive laps it was Cragg who laid down the early pace ahead of Japanese star Kohta Akimoto.

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October 3, 2015

Swiss Electric On-road Championship Rd5 – Report

The final round of the 5-race Swiss National Electric On-road Championship was recently held at the Dintikon track. A somewhat low turnout of 36 drivers competed in the four classes of Touring Car Modified, 13.5T Pro Stock, Swiss 200mm GT and Formula 21.5T. Going into the final round the Touring Modified title was still to be decided, while in the other three classes the race was on for the runner-up spots. Saturday started out cold and cloudy and with a low-grip track thanks to some dust form the surrounding fields but both the weather and traction would improve over the day. The practice day concluded with a round of qualifying with the remainder of the qualifiers would be held on Sunday morning.

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October 3, 2015

World Championship Track Focus

The 16th running of the IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championships takes place at the World famous Yatabe Arena with the Japanese venue’s second hosting of the bi-annual event sparking much debate and divide within the offroad racing circles. With the World’s best drivers having fought it out for the sport’s greatest prize on dirt since the championship was first held in 1985, 30-years on the week long event will be run without a bit of dirt in sight. After receiving a proposal from the Japanese hosts seeking to use an artificial surface, the sport’s governing body IFMAR accepted, allowing the Yatabe Arena to create the first astro turf World Championship track. With many purists opposed to allowing an Offroad World Championship to be decided on a ‘touring car track with jumps’, 7-time Offroad World Champion & legend of the sport Masami Hirosaka sees a place for both dirt and astro turf tracks in the sport.

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October 2, 2015

7th annual Charity Race – Announcement

7th annual Charity Race - Announcement

The seventh edition of the Charity Race will be held at the RC Landia carpet track in Scandiano, Italy on the weekend of the 6th of December. The brainchild of the Team La Gang club as well as Marc and Toni Rheinard, each year attracts both factory drivers as well as local talent to race and collect money for the good cause with last year’s revenue having been donated to the Scandiano community kindergarten. Due to the limited pit space the entries are capped off at 120 drivers with the first Pro drivers having already signed up. This year’s race will be held on a brand new Fastrack HD II CRC carpet using Volante ETS tyres for the touring cars and Ride ETS tyres for the formula class. For more information feel free to email Toni Rheinard (info@tonisport.de) or Davide Sillingardi (sillarcmail@gmail.com) or visit the club’s website here.

October 1, 2015

Micha Widmeier renews with Schumacher

Up and coming young German driver, Micha Widmaier, has re-signed with Schumacher Racing and CS Electronics. Micha is the current German junior champion in 2WD with his KF2. Just two weeks ago Micha raced a prototype of Schumachers new CAT K2 4WD buggy at the EOS in Nurburgring and won the B final against some world class drivers. Micha plans to race at most of the big races in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland next year, including EOS and Euros. Micha said:

I am very happy that I can drive for Schumacher and CS in 2016. I will give my best at the races.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

October 1, 2015

Akio Sobue dominates Speed King Tour Rd5

The fifth round of this year’s Speed King Tour was held at the RC stadium Sodegaura outdoor tarmac track. The track layout was updated a few days before the event to better suit the high-speed modified touring cars. The event saw the running of a total of four classes including Touring Car Modified and Stock as well as two oval classes. Current standings leader and reigning Japanese Modified Touring Car Champion Akio Sobue (Tamiya) made a clean sweep this weekend by dominating from the first practice on. Akio would then take the TQ and also the A-final win in front of round four winner Jin Sawada (Yokomo) and local star Kyoichi Matsumoto. With his fourth win this season Akio is now in a strong position to take the overall title in the Modified class.

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