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September 11, 2023

Champlin fastest in 3rd practice

The third round of practice at the 4wD Electric Offroad World Championship saw Broc Champlin set the pace, the Schumacher driver fastest over 3-consecutive laps ahead of Spencer Rivkin. As expected US drivers are featuring strongly. Ryan Maifield completed the Top 3 ahead of Dakotah Phend and Dustin Evans with defending Champion Bruno Coelho the best of the overseas visitors to Hobby Action RC Raceway with the 6th fastest time ahead of newly crowned European 2WD Champion Marcus Kaerup, David Ongaro and Michal Orlowski. Commenting on his latest run Champlin said, ‘We made a lot of improvements that round. I changed back to my testing set-up after making a few changes earlier than were not very good’. Asked how he is getting to grips with the track, he replied, ‘you definitely need to be patient on entry into some of the corners. It will be better with new tyres but I’ll make a small change to get a bit more bite on throttle and go from there’.

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September 11, 2023

Offroad Worlds is GO in Arizona

The IFMAR 1:10 Electric Offroad World Championships are finally underway in Arizona, USA. With Hobby Action RC Raceway rising to the occasion of hosting the 19th running of the Championships with its brilliant presentation of the track and pits, drivers would find themselves having to wait a further 3-hours than originally scheduled for the first buggies to hit the track. A Championship for which the slick tyres have been the big talking point it was the black rubber rings that would cause the delay. With no limit on the number of front tyres for 4WD and an open tyre in 2WD, some drivers stocked up on the front AKA tyre leading other drivers short. After meetings the decision was made to limit all drivers to 5 sets of front tyres. Those who purchased more based on the no limit rule forced to return tyres for re-distribution for those in need. While some drivers still only ended up with 3-sets, AKA are having extra tyres delivered to the track tomorrow and to ensure fairness all drivers are limited to running a maximum of three sets today. With the first buggies taking to the green track at midday it would be Dakotah Phend, running in the 14th and top heat, who would top the timing screens over 3-consecutive laps from Ryan Maifield and Dustin Evans but with the track expected to change considerably over the next 3 rounds of practice little can be read into the times.

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September 10, 2023

‘Silly to bet against Rivkin’ – Tebo

Former 2WD and 4WD World Champion Jared Tebo says it would be ‘Silly to bet against Rivkin’ retaining his 2WD World Championship title as the event gets underway in Arizona. Having announced 2023 would be his own final season as a Pro racer, Tebo believes Rivkin’s advantage at his home track of Hobby Action RC Raceway will be too much for his rival adding ‘he’s also good at 1:10’. Winning his first title in 4WD in Japan against all time great Masami Hirosaka in 2007 and then adding the 2WD 10-years ago when the USA host its last 1:10 Offroad Worlds, Tebo thinks one surprise over the next week could be Aydin Horne. ‘I thought he was one of the fastest at Warm-up but he maybe struggled with his nerves. I think he could upset Rivkin. I also think Aydin has been at a tyre disadvantage but they’ll all be on the same here and that will be a leveller. I want to see Aydin do good’. Another fellow countryman to impress him with his pace at the Warm-up was Broc Champlin, ‘Broc took time to get the Schumacher working on dirt but he’s found it now’.

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September 9, 2023

‘It’s going to be super hard’ – Coelho

This time last year Bruno Coelho successfully defended his Electric Touring Car World Championship title with a dominant performance in Italy. His rivals were always battling for second place. Tomorrow he will begin the defence of another of his World Championships when he looks to retain the 4WD Offroad title he won for Xray at their home track in Slovakia in 2019. This time however one could say the Portuguese ace is the one on the back foot this time as the battle will take place at the home track of Spencer Rivkin on a surface that generally should favour US drivers over the Europeans. Coelho is fully aware of this admitting, ‘It’s going to be super hard’.

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September 8, 2023

Ingholm & Johannessen win Norwegian Nationals RD4

ARC/RCMN drivers Albin Ingholm and Helge Johannessen emerged as winners in their respective classes at the 4th & final round of the Norwegian Touring Car Nationals, with Ingholm winning the Modified class and Johannessen taking the top spot in the Stock class. In Modified, Xray’s Mathias Nedrebø claimed the TQ, edging out Albin Ingholm by 0.6 seconds. The top three in qualifying was completed by the Awesomatix of Geir Bjarte Terum. In the finals, Nedrebø won A1 by a blistering 4 seconds. A2 offered thrilling battles, with Ingholm taking the lead halfway into the race, ultimately winning by a razor-thin margin of 0.4 seconds. The tension escalated in A3 as both Ingholm and Nedrebø were determined to leave their mark on the weekend. Ingholm wasted no time and took the lead on the first lap. Ingholm was slowly able to create a gap of about 1 second, but Nedrebø made a mistake on the last few laps, allowing Ingholm to cruise to victory with a margin of almost 5 seconds. Alexander Gjemble driving a Schumacher completed the podium.

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September 7, 2023

‘I’ve learned a lot since then’ – Phend

In 2019 Dakotah Phend would achieve his best World Championship result when he finished runner-up to Bruno Coelho in 1:10 4WD at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. Four years on, asked what is different about the Dakotah of today as we get set for the return of the 1:10 Offroad World Championship at the end of this week, the American’s reply is, ‘I’ve learned a lot since then’. Making his World Championship debut way back in 2008 in 1:8 Nitro, his debut in 1:10 Electric came in 2011 when the now 26-year-old put his cars in both A-Mains in Finland. With an impressive National Championship trophy collection in what is undoubtably the super power of nations when it comes to offroad racing, Phend’s sheer outright speed has always been spectacular to watch. Now the TLR driver believes he is much better at managing that speed and calculating risk versus reward.

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September 6, 2023

‘Definitely the strongest team we have ever had’, says Orlowski

Michal Orlowski goes into the IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championship at the end of this week confident his Schumacher team is fielding what is ‘definitely the strongest team we have ever had’ for a Worlds. 12 years on from making his World Championship debut in Vaasa, Finland, the Polish driver is expected to be a leading contender in the European challenge to deny the US drivers victory on their very own doorstep. Only racing 2WD at the 2011 WC because he couldn’t get hold of Tamiya’s 511 4WD kit at the time, the recently turned 22-year old heads up a strong Schumacher team going to Hobby Action RC Raceway in Arizona. With the vastly experienced Ryan Cavalieri & Lee Martin, a very on form Broc Champlin, and Daniel Kobbevik as team-mates, he is also coming off the back of his own very successful run of results, in both off and onroad. Winner of last weekend’s most recent Euro Touring Series encounter at Marc Rheinard’s home circuit Arena33, he travels to the US as the European 4WD Offroad Champion having regained the title back in July 8-years on from first holding it.

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September 5, 2023

2024 Charity Race – Announcement

It has become an iconic race on the Electric Touring Car Racing calendar and has raised thousands of euros for local charities since its inception, the 2024 edition of the Charity Race in Italian has been announced for February 17-18, 2024, at RC Landia. Won last year by Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski, the race has always been well support by factory teams with past winners including reigning World Champion Bruno Coelho and former Champions Marc Rheinard, Ronald Volker and Alexander Hagberg. 2024 will mark the 13th running of the event with racing for Modified, Stock 17.5T, FWD, GT, 1:12 OPEN and GT12. The venue will be equipped with newly delivered CRC carpet for the upcoming indoor season with entries limited to 120 places. The organisers, Team La Gang, will hold the traditional charity raffle for good causes over the race weekend with registration for the the ‘2024 Charity Race’ set to open on MyRCM in due course.

Source: Team La Gang [teamlagang.it]