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March 30, 2019

OneTen Modified A1 goes to Rheinard

Marc Rheinard has taken the win in the opening round of triple A-mains here at PYC. The Infinity driver could take advantage of his new tires to work his way passed Akio and then Nicholas, with a very nice pass down the inside. Akio’s race would implode early on as battling with very low traction he hit the curb coming onto the straight and went into the wall. This would pop off his shock and he would retire. Behind the top 2, Jin Sawada and Naoki Akiyama completed the top 4 after a very nice battle following an earlier incident that had dropped both down the order. Marc summed up his win as ‘so far so good’ the multiple WC admitting that he was on ‘new tires while the others were all on old’. Once passed Akio, he closed on Nico and made an ‘ok pass’ and now with the others needing to use their 3rd set of tires for the 2nd main, Marc will decide when to use his 3rd and final set of handout Sweep tires.

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March 30, 2019

Nicholas Lee breaks Sobue’s streak to TQ at PYC

Nicholas Lee has taken the TQ spot here at PYC having taken the 3rd and final round of qualifying by over 2 seconds. The result was a repeat of Q2 as the Yokomo driver again headed Sobue and Rheinard, giving the Singaporean his first pole position of the season and the first by anyone other than Akio. Jin Sawada, Meen Vejrak and Gary Huang all finished in the same place as they had in the Q2 and that would be how they start this afternoons 4-minute triple A-mains. ‘Finally Akio didn’t win every round’ was what a happy Nicholas Lee said when asked about his run. Running on new tires, he described the decision as last minute as Akio had also changed last minute and with the two of them in the hunt for the TQ, the Singaporean followed suit. Describing his BD9 as really good, he said ‘in the beginning it was close but by the end it was really good’.

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March 30, 2019

Akio Sobue takes opening qualifier at PYC

Akio Sobue has headed the opening round of qualifying at PYC for the penultimate round of the series in Hong Kong. The infinity driver made his way to the top of the times after his team mate Marc Rheinard had started strongly. The German faded near the end and was eventually passed by Yokomo’s Nicholas Lee who took 2nd for the round. Jin Sawada would make it 3 IF14s in the top 4, with Serpent driver Naoki Akiyama completing the top 5 some 8 seconds back from the pace setter. Newly crowned champion Sobue said ‘Rd1 was OK but too much steering, I almost spin’, explaining further that due to the rule of needing to clean your tires with brake cleaner before applying the handout Sweep additive had meant there was a lot more traction at the beginning. Once his car had run some minutes it improved and his car was ‘easier to drive’

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March 29, 2019

Hobbywing sign Marco Baruffolo

Hobbywing have announced the Italian 1/8th off-road frontrunner, Marco Baruffolo to their factory team. The Italian national champion and multi-time EFRA European Championship A-finalist will power his 1/8th and 1/10th scale Xray rides using Hobbywing speed controllers and motors and he has the following to say:

I am very happy to take part of Hobbywing team and I am really happy about the ESC and motors!

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

March 28, 2019

Jörn Neumann doubles at 2019 SIGP Offroad race

The 2019 SIGP Offroad race was held last weekend at the ARC International Race Track in Xiamen, China. The annual event has grown bigger and bigger each year with the 2019 edition having attracted more than 200 drivers to compete at Sunpadow’s world class venue. Newly-signed Agama driver Ryan Lutz, 2018 SIGP double champion, made a very strong comeback, taking the overall TQ in both the Nitro and Electric Buggy classes. But come the finals day, another SIGP double champion, Jörn Neumann, would dominate the proceedings. The SWorkz driver won the first two rounds of the E-Buggy A-main to grabbed his first title of the day in front of Ryan Lutz and Kyosho’s Wataru Takashiro. Then he had another fantastic run in the 45-minutes Nitro Buggy main to claim another double championship as Ryan Lutz came in 2nd and JQRacing’s own Joseph Quagraine completed the top 3.

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March 17, 2019

Coelho wins 4WD at EOS Slovakia

Bruno Coelho has won 4WD at the fourth round of the Euro Offroad Series in Slovakia. Having concluded the first half of the season last month in Daun with the first win of his campaign, the Xray driver today opened the second half of the season with victory when he wrapped things up in A2. Similar to A1, Coelho’s only challenger would be Michal Orlowski but this time the Schumacher driver came undone on his own when he got it wrong at the table top on lap 3. Dropping down the order, he would eventually pull off as team-mate Joern Neumann took advantage of other’s mistakes to finish second, 6-seconds down on Coelho. With the prospect of a repeat of the double win he took at the Hudy Arena last year gone, Michal would manage to win A3 which would with his P4 from A1 at least see the reigning champion make the podium in 3rd place. Having to defend greatly finishing A3 in second just ahead of Joona Haatanen and Jörn Neumann, it would be Martin Bayer who would claim the second step on the podium for an Xray 1-2. Neumann ended the event in 4th position ahead of Haatanen and with Lee Martin completing the Top 6.

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March 17, 2019

Coelho wins A1 easily after early touch with Orlowski

Bruno Coelho took an easy and comfortable win in the opening A-Main of 4WD at EOS Slovakia, the Xray driver leading his team-mate Martin Bayer, Lee Martin and Michal Orlowski. Starting from the TQ, the first lap saw a bobble from Coelho who went wide as he got up on two wheels allowing Orlowski to the front but it was short lived. Under pressure from Coelho, the Schumacher driver make a number errors leading to him touching the piping, and trying to get back on to the racing line there was contact with the Pole fairing off worst as his car flipped and needed to be marshalled. From there, already with gap over the chasing pack, Coelho opened up the lead lap after lap ahead of Daniel Kobbevik until the Norwegian made a mistake with just 3-laps to go. This allowed Bayer back up to second but he had Martin and a recovering Orlowski right behind. Orlowski got by Martin but handed it back again with a mistake on the final jump as he attempted a final pass to get by Bayer.

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March 17, 2019

Coelho Top Qualifier at EOS Slovakia

Bruno Coelho is the 4WD Top Qualifier at the fourth round of the Euro Offroad Series. The Portuguese driver secured a home pole position for Xray when he topped the final round of qualifying in Slovakia from team-mate Daniel Kobbevik and Lee Martin. Having not had the best of starts to qualifying with the first two rounds going to Michal Orlowski, Coelho admitted himself that Q4 had gone better than expected as his time gave him the tie break over Orlowski who will start P2. Behind the duo, whose pace is one level above the rest of the field here at Hudy Arena, last year’s Top Qualifier Martin Bayer will start third ahead of Kobbevik, Martin and Joern Neumann.

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