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April 1, 2015

Jared Tebo wins E-Buggy class at Silver State

The 2015 Silver State was held this past weekend in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada at RC Tracks of Las Vegas located just a few blocks off the World famous Strip. This first class race facility will host the 2016 IFMAR 1/8 Nitro Buggy World Championships next year and with perfect weather conditions and over 450 total entries, it was going to be a great weekend of racing. The 1/8th E-Buggy class saw a single 10-Minute A-Main event. Kyosho’s Jared Tebo would take full advantage of his 2nd position on the grid and pace Mugen’s Ace Robert Batlle for the first couple minutes of the race. Batlle made a small mistake in the centre of the track and Tebo got by for the lead. A hard charging Ryan Lutz would make things interesting at the later stages of the race, but Tebo would stay strong and hold on for the win. Tekno RC’s Lutz would finish 2nd and HB’s Ty Tessman made a great comeback to finish up on the podium in 3rd.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

March 31, 2015

Patrick Nähr continues with Shepherd

Shepherd have announced the re-signing of former European Champion B, multiple German Championship and multiple European Championship finalist Patrick Nähr. It will be the 5th season with Shepherd for the talented German driver who finished 9th at the last Euro A in Valencia. After joining only two ENS races last year Patrick plans to attend all of this year’s events as well as the German Nationals in Leipzig and the European Championship in Izmir. Patrick had the following to say:

I’m very happy to be a part of the Shepherd Team in 2015 after 4 very successful years with them. Since my Euro B title in 2011 the Velox V10 was constantly improved which allowed me to reach the top10 of the Euros A in the last 2 years. I’m looking forward to attending the Euros in Izmir, all ENS races and the German nationals together with the rest of team as we are always having a great time. I would like to thank Patrick Schäfer, his family and the whole Shepherd crew for this possibility.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

March 30, 2015

Steven Weiss teams up with ARC

German front-runner Steven Weiss has joined ARC for the 2015 season. Having only re-joined Xray last year the multi-time EFRA Euros finalist now made a move to ARC to race the company’s R10 touring car. Steven had the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy to join the ARC Team with their R10 touring car. I would like to thanks Jones Chu and Henrik Heitsch for giving me this opportunity. ARC is a young company who start with their first touring car in 2012 and they improve all their products all the time. I’m already excited to work together with the entire team to improve their car and all products even more. Now I am looking forward on some great times with the team.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]

March 30, 2015

Tebo & Maifield win at 2015 Silver State

The 2015 Silver State race was held at RC Tracks of Las Vegas over the weekend. In the Expert Nitro Buggy class Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri took the TQ and he led for a good part of the race until a driving error let Jared Tebo, who also had a mixed A-main, by for the lead and at the end the Kyosho driver brought home the title in front of Ryan Cavalieri with Ty Tessmann (HB) rounding out the podium.

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March 30, 2015

Martin claims first EOS double

Lee Martin claimed his first double of the Euro Offroad Series with the Yokomo driver adding his first ever 4WD win to a third 2WD win yesterday at Round 3 of the championship in Wels, Austria. Only the 4th driver to do the double in the EOS’ 14 race history, the British ace completed the perfect weekend when he claimed Yokomo’s second ever 4WD victory with another dominant win in A2. The win puts the newly crowned 2WD Champion in contention to do the title double as the championship moves next to the Hudy Arena in Slovakia for the Season #4 finale. Joining Martin on the podium would be the Xray’s pairing of Martin Bayer and Martin Wollanka, Bayer winning the final race of the day ahead of defending champion Joern Neumann who would finish 5th overall on his Serpent debut.

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March 29, 2015

Martin cruises to A1 win in Austria

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Lee Martin cruised to an easy unchallenged win in the opening 4WD A-Main at the Euro Offroad Series in Austria this afternoon but behind the Yokomo driver there was plenty of action to entertain the large crowd of onlookers. Starting from pole position, Martin quickly established a lead as behind a slow starting David Ronnefalk came under pressure from the Xray of Martin Bayer. In the battle the two would make contact which would also hold up Martin Wollanka allowing the Schumacher of Michal Orlowski to slip through to second place, where he would stay till the finish with Bayer to complete the Top 3 1.1-seconds back. Starting from the back of the grid Serpent’s Joern Neumann would enjoy a great race to finish fourth after seeing off the challenges of Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer.

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March 29, 2015

Martin on target for EOS Wels clean sweep with 4WD TQ

Lee Martin is on target for a clean sweep at Round 3 of the Euro Offroad Series in Wels, Austria, with the Yokomo driver locking up the overall TQ in 4WD with one round still to run. Having started off the 4WD action at the ‘Modellbau Wels’ Hobby Show event by taking the opening qualifier, yesterday’s 2WD winner backed that up with two more TQ runs to claim his first Top Qualifier honours in 4WD. Behind, it was Martin Bayer who again was the British driver’s closest rival in Q2 while in Q3 David Ronnefalk was second fastest with Martin declaring that for the finals he is most worried about the potential challenge of the Swede.

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March 29, 2015

Martin kicks off 4WD with TQ run

Newly crowned 2WD Euro Offroad Series champion Lee Martin got the 4WD action underway at Round 3 in Wels, Austria, in the best way possible this morning as he TQ’d the opening round of qualifying. Having took the 2WD win yesterday and with it the 2014/15 title, the Yokomo driver topped the times by 3.8 seconds from Xray’s Martin Bayer with the HB of qualifying top seed David Ronnefalk completing the Top 3, a further half a second off. For defending champion Joern Neumann, who is making his Serpent debut in the championship this weekend the opening qualifier looked set to net him a Top 3 run but a mistake right on his last lap right before the timing loop dropped the German to 7th.

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