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August 18, 2009

‘Perfect’ qualifier for Pietsch in Switzerland

Robert Pietsch believes he has just driven the best qualifier of his racing career after the Mugen driver produced a 29/10:03.705 run to move into povisional pole for the World Championships here in Lostallo. The German ace, who took TQ honours at the Warm Up race back in June, said the run was faultless and his MRX-4X was superb. Despite the engine being slightly to rich on the bottom end in the second qualifier, the factory Novarossi driver feels it will be extremely hard to beat the time even in the expected cooler conditions tomorrow with the Warm Up TQ time being slower in temperatures 10 degrees lower than it is here now in Switzerland.

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August 18, 2009

Collari TQs opening round at Lostallo

With a CV like his its no big surprise that defending World Champion Lamberto Collari has opened qualifying for the 2009 IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championship with a TQ run. Having ended up 140th in practice yesterday, the Team Kyosho driver said ‘thats a little better’ after posting his 29/10:08.301 run. The Italian who is chasing his ninth World title here this week in Switzerland said he will change the set-up on his Novarossi powered Evolva to try and make it easier to drive for today’s other qualifier.

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August 18, 2009

Maifield dominates Futaba/OS Engines Nitro Challenge

Hosted by the St. Louis Dirt Burners, the Futaba/OS Engines Nitro Challenge is one of the largest non-sanctioned events in the Midwest. With over 270 entries competing in seven classes the event offered a skill level for every driver. Team Associated sent recently crowned Truggy National champion, Ryan Maifield and his Reedy Powered Team Associated RC8B & RC8T to compete against some of the fastest drivers in the US including drivers like Josh Wheeler and Taylor James.

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August 17, 2009

5 Days of Practice complete in Switzerland, Pietsch on top

So five days of practice have been completed here in Switzerland at the 16th running of the IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championships and its Robert Pietsch who sits at the top of the time sheets despite failing to improve his time in the final practice. The factory Mugen driver completed 29 laps in 10:07.493 in the morning practice and after making a mistake early in the evening session decided to use the run to practice his pit stops.

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August 12, 2009

Hupo Honigl wins 2wd European title

Austrian driver Hupo Honigl has added another European title to his CV after winning the 2wd event today in Bilbao, Spain. Having qualified 2nd behind multiple British Champion Ellis Stafford, the pairing had an intense battle in the 2nd leg after a mistake in the leg 1 by the X-Factory driver gifted Honigl the round win. With the overall on the line, the race to the flag in leg 2 went down to the wire, but Hupo could hold on and take his 2nd leg win and take the European title, with Stafford eventually ending up in 2nd, while Lee Martin took the final podium spot after a win in the 3rd leg.

Check out oOple’s awesome report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

August 12, 2009

Cody King does double at JBRL

Last weekend saw Kyosho team driver Cody King come out on top at the JBRL race at Hot Rod Hobbies raceway. Cody TQ’d the truggy class and qualified 3rd in the buggy class but managed to go on and win in both categories. In the buggy class Cody managed to fend off Associated racer Ryan Cavalieri who finished 2nd and Tamiya’s Ryan Lutz who took 3rd, while in the truggy class it was again the 2 Ryans following, this time with Lutz taking the runner up spot and Cavalieri 3rd. All Kyosho drivers were using the new rear short shock tower their Kyosho MP9 chassis’.

Source: Kyosho America [kyoshoamerica.com]

August 12, 2009

Adam Drake takes NSS Buggy title at Rd3

The 3rd round of the Novarossi Summer Series once again took place at Revelation Raceway and this event attracted 11 heats. In the buggy class Losi driver Colby Poh TQ’d the first round, but Losi/Novarossi factory driver Adam Drake was able to TQ round two and take the overall TQ for the event. In the final The Drake was able to lead from start to finish, with Colby Poh finishing second while CEN’s Andy Smolnik took third. The final round of the series takes place in three weeks time and already Adam Drake has wrapped up the buggy title with a prefect score in the first 3 rounds, with three TQ’s and three wins.

August 12, 2009

Robitronic ROC Crawler Contest

Starting on the 29th of August and running through to the 30th, Robitronic will run their first ROC Crawler Contest. Taking place at the Megadrom in Geilinkirchen, Germany it is open to Class 1.9 crawlers and the fun starts at 8.00 for free training on Saturday with 3 different sections to tackle. More information on the event can be found here.

Source: Robitronic [robitronic.com]