July 12, 2014

Maifield TQs first 4WD Qualifier at Indoor Nats

Ryan Maifield kicked off his arrival at Team Losi Racing in the best way possible as he TQ’d the opening round of 4WD Buggy qualifying this morning at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals. Setting the fastest lap, Maifield topped the round by 1.94 seconds from the Associated of Daimon Borkowicz, the up & coming talent having set the TQ pace of the top heat for a number of laps before a rollover. Having topped last night’s seeding practice, Drew Moller completed the Top 3 just 56/1000ths off Borkowicz.

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July 12, 2014

Hartson fastest in 2WD seeding

Steven Hartson set the pace in seeding for 2WD Buggy at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals, the Team Associated driver fastest over 3-consecutive laps from team-mate Spencer Rivkin with TLR’s Frank Root completing the Top 3. Suffering an undisclosed issue with his TLR22, when Ryan Maifield eventually got running he would post the fourth fastest time ahead of Associated driver Chris Jarosz, who posted the fastest lap, while 4WD Buggy Top Seed Drew Moller completed the Top 6.

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July 12, 2014

Moller tops 4WD seeding in Chico

Drew Moller topped seeding for 4WD Buggy at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals, the A-Main Hobbies driver taking his HB around the track in the fastest 3-consecutive laps from the Associated pairing of Daimon Borkowicz and Steven Hartson. The first time new TLR’s new star signing Ryan Maifield found himself on the clock with one of his new buggies he would post the fourth fastest time followed by the Xray of Tyler Vik and his protege Spencer Rivkin.

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July 12, 2014

Maifield happy with early form at JConcepts Nats

Making his debut for Team Losi Racing this weekend at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals in Chico, California, Ryan Maifield appears to be adapting quickly to his new equipment declaring himself happy with his early form at Outback Raceway. Having sent a shockwave through offroad racing circles with his mid season departure from long time sponsor Team Associated, the Arizona ace has travelled to the third race in the popular five race JConcepts Series well supported with TLR Senior Product Developer Frank Root and Joe Pillars of new electrics sponsor Team Orion both on hand to assist their new star signing.

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July 10, 2014

Tomasz Gadnicki wins Polish Oder-Pomerania Cup 2014

German and Polish racers recently gathered in the Polish town of Szczecin to attend at the first ever Oder-Pomerania Cup. Despite some health and tyre problems Tomasz Gadnicki was able to win the 45 minute final in front of Michal Pokora and Danuel Tadeusiak who completed the podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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July 9, 2014

Skornia wins at Northern Germany regionals Rd3

The 3rd round of the Northern Germany nitro on-road regionals was held at the MAC Hamburg track. Lennart Skornia was the man to beat during the weekend as he was able to win all four qualifying heats to take the overall TQ. After starting from pole position into the main final, Lennart never looked back to take a close win from Ingo Bobrowski and Christian Schnädter who finished in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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July 9, 2014

Bruno Coelho takes Portuguese off-road nats Rd4

The 4th round of this year’s Portuguese 1/8th off-road nationals was held at the track of Evora. The Sunday started off wet but temperatures in the 26°C range made the surface dry swiftly. As for the racing action, Xray’s Bruno Coelho and Miguel Matias won their respective semifinals with a wide margin so everything looked set for a team battle in the main final. In the main Bruno took off with no problems right from the start but an engine problem allowed Miguel to take the lead later on but his lead was not for long because Bruno was able to fight back and to take the main win in front of Miguel Matias and Ricardo Monteiro.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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July 9, 2014

Markus Hellquist wins in Oslo

The combined 3rd round of the Swedish Cup and Norwegian national championship was held by the Oslo Modellbilklubb. The event was run in the four classes of 1/8th track, 1/10th 200mm nitro touring, and both modified and stock electric on-road. The weather was very uncertain, but in the end the event was run in dry weather conditions, despite some rain during Saturday night. After 4 rounds of 5 minute qualifying in the nitro classes, Lars Haugen managed to get the TQ spot in 1/8th track, followed by Bengt Andersson in 2nd and Christofer Hedlund in 3rd.

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