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June 9, 2013

Ty Tessmann double at 1/10th Pre Worlds

The 1/10th Offroad Pre Worlds was run this week at the Silver Dollar Raceway in Chico, California. Crazy heat and sugared track conditions meant the drivers had a lot to contend with throughout the event. Having found the track to be very low on traction on the first day of practice, the decision was made to coat the surface with sugar, something that is regularly done at the Cactus Classic event each year. It helps race traction and minimizes the work needing to be done to maintain it, however some teams were against its application. The negative however is that it is very hard on tires as well as parts and has so much traction that drivers in 2wd mostly need to switch to mid motor cars. With all that said the conditions were consistent from the 2nd practice day through to the finals. Qualifying would see reigning World Champion Ryan Cavalieri take the top spot in 2wd ahead of reigning 1/8th National Champion Ty Tessmann in 2nd and former World Champion Neil Cragg in 3rd. In the 4wd class Ty would take the top spot ahead of Cactus Classic Champion Ryan Maifield in 2nd and Associated team mate Cavalieri in 3rd.

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June 9, 2013

Baruffolo is European ‘B’ 1/8th Offroad Champion

Baruffolo is European 'B' 1/8th Offroad Champion

The second of the EFRA European ‘B’ Championships this weekend was held at the Ongaroring in Sicily. Local youngster Davide Ongaro would take the TQ spot for Mugen but it was Marco Baruffolo who would dominate in the semi finals to take the pole position for the RB car. Rain on Saturday would flood the track but the local crew got the track back into race worthy condition for Sunday but rain again just before the main final saw drivers struggling with their cars in the 45 minute final. Baruffolo would prove unstoppable taking the win by nearly a lap from Spanish Mugen driver Oscar Baldo in 2nd with Austrian Mugen driver Jurgen Trieb in 3rd.

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June 8, 2013

Luca Redaelli takes European 1/10th ‘B’ title

Luca Redaelli takes European 1/10th 'B' title

The EFRA European 1/10th 200mm ‘B’ championships were hosted by the beautiful Gubbio track in Italy this week. Qualifying on this fast track would go the way of Italian Xray/IDM driver Luca Redaelli ahead of the German pairing of Dominik Greiner in 2nd and Simon Balk in 3rd driving Serpent and Xray respectively, with Davide Gallesi in 4th driving for Capricorn. With no driver guaranteed a place in the main final it was the semi finals which would decide the starting order. Italian Alessio Forte, the 10th placed qualifier, would end up taking the pole position for the final with top qualifier Redaelli lining up in 2nd. In the 45 minute final Forte would hit problems and retire at 24 minutes leaving Redaelli to take the win, closely follow home by Greiner in 2nd, 3 seconds separating the pair, with Simon Balk completing the podium one and a half laps back in 3rd.

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June 7, 2013

Daniel Sarmiento wins at Philippine Off-Road nats

The final round of the Philippine Off-Road Nationals took place in Metro Manila and the race also marked the end of this year’s Summer season in the region. Track conditions were maintained throughout the day to give everyone an equal shot at earning the coveted TQ spot. Some veterans encountered early problems with their Truggies which hurt their qualifying time in order to proceed to the final. With the Christmas tree format in place, racers not in the top 10 had to bump up to secure the last two available slots in order to join the magic 12 car final.

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June 6, 2013

Ar Bee wins at 2013 PMTC race

The PMTC 2013 electric on-road race was held in Shenzhen, China over the course of three days in F1, TC 13.5T and TC Modified classes and saw the attendance of more than 100 driver from China and Hong Kong. Hong Kong Yokomo’s Jacky took TQ in the modified class with a Yokomo BD7 but at the end of the finals it was Spec-R’s Ar Bee won the class with the Spec-R R1. Second place went to HoFai running a Serpent S411 with Patrick taking the last remaining podium spot with a Yokomo BD7.

Source: Spec-R [spec-r.com]

June 5, 2013

Kyosho Masters 2013 – Announcement

Kyosho France announce the 15th running of the Kyosho Masters. The race will take place at Sucy en Brie in France from the 14th to the 16th of June this year. It will be your typical Masters with top racing, lots of fun and giveaways. For more information you can contact the organisers at kyoshomasters@kyoshoeurope.com

June 5, 2013

Kyle Branson wins 1/8th Euro A warm up

Kyle Branson wins European A warm up

With just seven weeks to go before the 1/8th IC European A Championships gets underway at the Halifax track in England, last weekend was the pre-event warm up race providing the participants the opportunity to gain some valuable track time ahead of the main event. With a lower than anticipated entry due to busy race calendars across Europe, we still had the presence of Italian Marco Vanni, German Oliver Mack and Emil Kostadinov. With such a low entry, the club decided to arrange free practice for all day Friday and also Saturday and Sunday morning until a break for lunch. The format after lunch was for three rounds of qualifying and 30 minute finals for all competitors. With the lap timer on all weekend, it was good to gauge comparative lap times and the magic five minute run time setup which would prove essential come qualifying.

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June 4, 2013

Willetts & Embling win BRCA E8 & Truggy Nats Rd3

Last weekend 64 drivers descended on the sunny Dirt track in the Midlands and Coventry Model Car club. Upon arriving at the track it was immediately visible that the club members had been hard at work to present the track in the best possible shape after 3/4 days of rain and a full calendar of racing on the track the previous weekend for charity. As the car park started to fill it was nice to see a nice mix of top national drivers and club racers. The E8 buggy started the meeting off. The qualifying was to be 3 rounds with the best 2 to count with the first round having a 4 min warm up bolted on. At the end of the first qualifying run Elliott Boots set the pace with him being the only person to complete 9 laps. At the end of the second qualifying run Simon Willetts had joined Elliott in the 9 lap club. This was then extended to Jack Embling joining them at the end of qualifying 3.

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