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June 23, 2015

Schäfer & Thalheimer win at Central German Champs

Round 3 of the Central German Nitro On-road Championships took place in Kirchhain with a total of 44 drivers in attendance despite the weather forecast being not very good. Luckily the main finals could be raced under dry conditions but the race time was shortened to 20 minutes as more rain was predicted. At the start of the 1/8th scale class 1 finale the track was still wet at some places so everybody was driving carefully. Patrick Schäfer had to start from 6th position as he had a technical problem in the single dry qualifier. Lap by lap he moved up the order and after the first round of pit stops he took over the lead from Peter Poldvere. Without looking back he controlled the race from the front crossing the finishing line 2 laps in front of Peter with Alex Schmitt completing the podium another lap down.

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June 23, 2015

1st Annual Club RC Dash for Cash – Report

Club R/C located in Houston, Texas recently hosted their first Dash for Cash race. On Friday, the doors opened at 9am for a full day of practice. The track had a new layout installed less than a week ago so it was starting to build grip as practice went along. On Saturday morning doors opened at 7am with 2 hours of open practice. Drivers meeting and the start of round 1 qualifying at 9:15am. Qualifying was based on your 1 fastest round. 4 full rounds were run on Saturday. All A mains where set with the 1 fastest qualifier and no bumps with triple A mains being run to decide the over all winner of each class.

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June 23, 2015

Lars Hoppe wins at German Nitro On-road regionals

Last weekend saw the running of the 3rd round of the North German Nitro On-road regionals at the famous Munster track. After changing weather conditions on Saturday the race day would dry, making for good weather conditions. In the 1/8th class Lars Hoppe (ARC/Reds) would take the TQ, win and fastest lap to round out a perfect weekend. Starting from pole position, Lars set the pace in the final and he was followed by Lennart Skornia (Serpent/Orcan), Merlin Depta (Serpent/Picco), Andreas Giesa (Shepherd/Picco) and Timo Schröder (Shepherd/XRD). The spectators witnessed some very exciting 30 minutes with a fierce final lap battle between Marco Kruse (Mugen/RB) and Timo Schröder for the runner-up spot. At the end Marco was able to come in 2nd in front of Timo while Lars ended the final some six laps in front of the two.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]

June 22, 2015

Asian On-Road Championships Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Asian On-Road Championships was held in Adelaide, Southern Australia over the weekend. The event saw some 100 entries split in the five different classes of 1/10 Touring Car Modified, 13.5 Stock, 21.5 Stock, Formula as well as 1/12th scale. The race was held at the permanent indoor asphalt track of Hobby Habit on a medium sized, very smooth and pretty high-bite track. In the Touring Car Modified class Yokomo’s Ronald Völker would take the TQ from Ryan Maker (VBC) who shot into the 2 spot by winning the final qualifier on new tyres as Ronald backed off. Alexander Hagberg put his Xray car on the 3 spot, saving tyres for the triple A-mains. Alex’ strategy would pay off as he came in 2nd in A1 and A3 to take the runner-up spot behind Ronald while Ryan fall back to 3rd place.

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June 22, 2015

Ronnefalk & Martin win at 1/10th Euros warm-up

The warm-up race for this year’s EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championships was held at the Robin Hood Raceway in the UK. HB’s David Ronnefalk would take the TQ in the 2WD class and he went on to win the first and second A-main to take the win early. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg snatched the win in the third leg to take the runner-up spot from Lee Martin (Yokomo). In the 4WD class it was Lee Martin (Yokomo) who came out fastest from HB’s David Ronnefalk and Serpent driver Jörn Neumann. Despite Martin Bayer (Xray) taking the win in the opening A-main the overall victory went to Lee Martin from Martin Bayer on the runner-up spot. The podium was rounded out by David Ronnefalk in 3rd.

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June 22, 2015

Arnold, Soulignac & Cavard win at French TC Nats Rd4

The forth round of the French Electric Touring Car Nationals was held in Tours. In the Modified class Leo Arnold secured himself the pole position early by TQing the first two qualifying rounds. In the opening final Leo had a coming together with a competitor and he ended the leg early but wins in the second and third A-main got him the overall win in front of Alexandre Laurent and Thomas Vingeron in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The 10.5T Stock class had Arnaud Soulignac taking the winning honours from Pierre Delorme in 2nd while Jean Delorme would round out the podium in 3rd. Last but not least in the 13.5T Touring class Vincent Cavard came out successful from Christophe Pyszczek in 2nd and Rudy Amaral in 3rd.

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June 22, 2015

Kristof Sielaff wins at North German regionals Rd3

Kristof Sielaf wins at North German regionals Rd3

The third round of the North German Nitro On-road Regionals was held at the Hollmoorring track of the MC Munster. In the 1/10th 200mm class Kristoph Sielaff would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he also the fastest lap of the weekend in 15.9s which is only two tenth slower than the current track record set in 2012 by Eric Dankel. The main final would see Kristof falling back to 3rd early in the race but he was able to get back into the lead, until around halfway in to the final he ran into engine troubles. With some careful driving and despite having two flameouts during pitstops Kristof was able to take the win in front of Frank Falkenberg in 2nd and Lars Hoppe in 3rd place.

Thanks to Kristof Sielaff for the report.

June 22, 2015

Ty Tessmann doubles at ROAR Nitro Offroad Nationals

The 2015 ROAR Nitro Offroad Nationals were held this past weekend at the Silver Dollar RC Raceway in Chico, CA. The qualifying was pretty much dominated by HB’s Ty Tessmann, the reigning ROAR Nitro Buggy champion, who made a clean sweep in Nitro Truggy qualifying by winning all four qualifying rounds while in the Nitro Buggy class 2014 Nitro Truggy champ Dakotah Phend denied him the same domination as the TLR driver grabbed the final qualifier. The 60 minute Buggy final then saw an early battle of Ty and Dakotah with Phend taking the the lead at one point following a mistake of Tessmann but the latter shot back into the lead to re-establish the order. Later in the race Dakotah would have to retire with a problem on his buggy which promoted Ryan Cavalieri the 2nd spot. Around mid-race it looked like Cavalieri would be able to control the gap of a couple of seconds to Tessmann only until Ty was able to further open the gap as much that he was in the position to lap Ryan in the closing stages of the final. A late error of Tessmann meant a bit of relief for Cavalieri but Ty would ultimately lap Ryan after the latter also made a mistake. So at the end Ty Tessmann (HB/O.S.) would be adding another ROAR National title to his belt. Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated/Mx) and Jared Tebo (Kyosho/Mx) would round out the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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