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July 11, 2013

Ronnefalk holds overnight TQ in Reims

Swedish ace David Ronnefalk holds the overnight TQ at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships after he topped a second round of qualifying in Reims, France, taking his Orion powered Kyosho to the fastest time in Q3 by 4-seconds from Xray’s Renaud Savoya with Lee Martin taking his Mugen to third. Setting the 12th fastest time, the closing heat of the day saw defending Champion Darren Bloomfield post his best round with the British driver confident he can build on that in tomorrow’s final two qualifiers.

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July 11, 2013

Batlle fastest in Q2

Mugen’s Robert Batlle has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad European Championship, the World Champion topping the times by just 4/10ths over Q1 pace setter David Ronnefalk with 3-time former Champion Renaud Savoya completing the Top 3. Once again defending champion Darren Bloomfield struggled, the TLR driver only able for the 38th fastest time due to ‘struggling for grip’.

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July 11, 2013

Ronnefalk TQ’s opening Reims Qualifier

Ronnefalk TQ's opening Reims Qualifier

Team Kyosho’s young star David Ronnefalk has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships in Reims, France, the Swede navigating the chalk track 3-seconds faster than World Champion Robert Batlle with Xray’s Martin Bayer completing the Top 3 in a close encounter which saw the next 6 drivers covered by just 3-seconds. For defending champion Darren Bloomfield two mistakes left him down the order with the 20th fastest time, the British driver saying he just pushed too hard.

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July 11, 2013

Trin T. & Meen V. win at Malaysia KL International GP

140 drivers found their way to the 2013 Malaysia KL International GP held at the KLIRCC track. The nitro on-road race was run in 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm and saw the attendance many fast drivers with the most prominent of them being current 200mm World Champion Meen V. who raced both the 1/8th and 1/10h class. The 1/8th qualifying was won by Meen who outperformed his competitors by nearly a lap in his best 7 minutes run. He was followed by his KM team mates Charlee P. and Azri Amri. Bad luck and a DNF in the final prevented Meen from turning his TQ position into a win and he ended in 10th place with Trin T. (KM Racing) winning the race with the KM K8 prototype in front of Azri Amri and Nick Chong.

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July 10, 2013

Alabama Manufacturers Shootout 4.0 – Report

The AMS event in Cullman, Alabama, continues to be one of the more well known races on the calendar during the summer racing season. The 4.0 event went off extremely well with the direction and management of Jimmy Babcock and Nick Black. A hefty 521 entries packed the facility for the weekend with the 1/8th classes once again showing the largest interest at this event. The now famous dirt, building and track layouts make for great racing and hold up extremely well to the punishment of the racers all weekend. Once again, the JConcepts crew was on hand to support the product, customers and race team as well as a contributing sponsor to the “Greatest show on Dirt.” Qualifying started with Team Associated/JConcepts driver Ryan Maifield picking up where he left off from previous years and TQ’ed the opening qualifier in the 1/8th truck class by a narrow margin over Jared Tebo.

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July 10, 2013

Jerome Aigoin top seed for qualifying in Reims

Jerome Aigoin

Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin is the top seed for qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships after the quiet Frenchman topped the second round of timed practice in France from Kyosho/Novarossi team-mate Elliott Boots with Mugen’s Lee Martin putting in a much improved run to post the third fastest time. Having posted the fastest time of the day in the morning’s opening timed practice, Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk lost around 7-seconds after a coming together with a slower buggy and ending up only 10th fastest.

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July 10, 2013

Ronnefalk fastest in 1st timed practice

Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk has topped the opening timed round of practice at the 1:8 Offroad European Championship in France, completing 8 laps of the unique chalk surface track 2.7-seconds faster than Associated’s Yannick Aigoin with Kyosho’s Elliot Boots completing the Top 3 a further 2.3 seconds adrift. Defending Champion Darren Bloomfield took his TLR to the 6th fastest time over the 5-minute run which will count towards a reseeding of the heats for qualifying which gets underway tomorrow.

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July 10, 2013

John Ermen wins Dutch on-road nationals Rd4

The 4th round of the Dutch 1/8 on-road nationals was held on the very small and tricky circuit of MBC de Sluis in Gouda. This year the track received a new layer of asphalt and a new fence to protect the spectators much better because small mistakes are easy to make here. John Ermen was the only driver to set a 22 lap qualification time followed by RickV, Steven Cuypers and Robin d’Hondt. Still they had to drive the semi finals to reach the main final, that was no problem although John did face a moment of problems loosing some laps but he was fast enough to reach the main final.

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