The 2nd round of the Italian nitro on-road championships was run at the Ayrton Senna circuit in Melzo. In the 1/8th Expert class Lamberto Collari took the win in the 45 minute final one lap ahead of Mirko Salemi and Alberto Picco. Daniele Ielasi came in 4th, Francesco Tironi ended the race in 5th place.
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Team Associated have confirmed that they are parting ways with multiple ROAR National Champion Ryan Maifield effective July 1st. In a message on their FB page, which lists the impressive collection of victories achieved together since they signed the young Arizona racer back in 2003, Team Associated said the following.
Discovered by industry legend Mike Reedy as a young teenager, Ryan burst onto the scene in 2003 by taking an impressive victory at the prestigious Cactus Classic with the just released RC10B4. For more than a decade the dynamic combination of Associated, Reedy, LRP and Maifield compiled a list of championships that is one of the most impressive to date. Team Associated and Reedy have nurtured many champions over the years, and Ryan Maifield will go down in history as one of the best. All of us at Team Associated and Reedy have cherished the time helping Ryan grow into the champion he is today, and wish him the best of luck in all his endeavours; both on and off the track.
Continuing to run with other main sponsors JConcepts and Novarossi, Ryan is expected to confirm his new car and electronics sponsor (expected to be TLR and Orion) in the coming days/weeks ahead of the 2014 ROAR Electric Nationals in Florida and the IFMAR Worlds which will take place later this year in Italy.
Source: Associated [teamassociated.com]
Known for his electric touring car skills Freddy Südhoff took a deep nitro sniff and joined the 3rd round of the Central German nitro on-road championship to race in the 1/8th on-road class. Having never raced a 1/8th scale car before he got familiar with his Sonic-powered Velox V8 EC, bored from fellow racer Oliver Mack and prepared by Armin Weihert. In qualifying he took the TQ being the only driver to reach 25 laps with his fastest laptime being 0.2 sec faster than the remainder of the field. In the semi-final A everything went fine and he claimed the pole-position for the 30 minute final while Philip Sting, who was the winner of the semi-final B, was 2 laps short. Right from the start of the final “Fast Freddy” stormed away and increased the gap lap by lap. As the tyre wear was very moderate his lap times were still very fast towards the end of the race although he pushed the whole final. After 30 minutes he crossed the finishline some 6 laps in front of Jürgen Hennemuth in 2nd and Alexander Schmitt in 3rd who was another lap down.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Round 3 of the BRCA 1/10th IC Championship took place at the Halifax Track in Yorkshire, the excellent facility that hosted the 1/8th European Championships in 2013. The weather forecast showed high temperatures for both days meaning two dry days of running were had. 25 drivers took part in the 200mm class and 14 in the Sports GT class. On Saturday in the open practice, Kyle Branson was showing a fast pace with his XRD-powered Capricorn in the 200mm class and Glyn Beal was posting the fastest laps in the Sports GT class with his Serpent/OS combo. Onto Sunday and round 1 of qualifying went the way of Kyle Branson and Richard Boult. Kyle again posted the fastest time in round 2 with Glyn Beal topping the round in the Sports GT class. The pair again topped round 3 and 4 of their respective classes giving them the TQ positions for their classes.
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The 3rd round of the Hessen Cup was run at the Ober-Mörlen track as part of the qualification for the German 1/8th off-road nationals. 114 drivers signed in for the race that was run under almost sunny weather conditions. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Mugen’s Maximilian Cordts took the win from Luca Bethke and Thorsten Müller.
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The 2014 edition of the International Dirt Meeting Greece attracted not only a good amount of national drivers but also some international guests. Run in very hot weather conditions at the Hobby Track Serres the race saw Mugen’s Davide Tortorici taking the win with his TOP-powred buggy from Dimitris Tsigos (Mugen/Ninja) and Kostas Zagorisos (Xray/Alpha).
Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]
The 4th round of this year’s Swiss 1/8th off-road championship took place in Gland near the Lake Geneva with about 130 entries. The TQ went to Swiss champion and Top 25 Euro driver Jeremy Pittet in front of Robin Frischkopf. At the end of the lower finals the track started to become bumpy and rutted making it not easy for the main finalists, lead by pole position holder Yael Zurfluh and Robin Frischkopf. The 45 minute final was clearly led by Yael with Robin Frischkopf, Joachim Kallen and Jeremy Pittet fighting for 2nd place. Jeremy ran into problems early so the fight for the runner-up spot was on between Joachim and Robin. Both swapped positions several times while being on different fuel strategies. With leader Yael being only a couple of corners in front Robin started to attack near the end of the final but problems while lapping backmarkers cost him dearly and had him falling back to 3rd place. At the end Robin also ran out of fuel but this incident had no further influence on the result. At the end Yael Zurfluh (TLR) took the win from Joachim Kallen (Kyosho) and Robin Frischkopf (Xray).
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The second of only two Western Germany 1/8th off-road regional rounds was run at the Modellfreunde Kürten track. Kyosho’s Carsten Keller was able to take the win in the 40 minute final despite being hindered by a wrong tyre choice. At the end he took the win some two laps ahead of Jan Sievert with Sven Sievert finishing another lap down. Maik Wiesweg and Chris Kammann completed the top 5 result.
Source: Spielzeugautorennfahrer [spielzeugautorennfahrer.de]
