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February 19, 2015

Ronnefalk heads HB 1-2 in first DNC Truggy qualifier

New HB signing David Ronnefalk headed a HB 1-2 in the opening round of qualifying at the Dirt Nitro Challenge in Arizona, the Swede taking his D8T truggy to the fastest time around the Fear Farm track from defending champion & team-mate Ty Tessmann. Just 2/10ths off Tessmann, TLR’s Ryan Maifield completed the Top 3 with former team-mate & Mugen debutant Adam Drake setting the fourth fastest time, the Top 4 the only drivers to complete 12 laps over the 7-minutes.

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February 19, 2015

Tessman opens DNC as he finished in 2014

Although drivers got just a single round of practice on the opening day of the Dirt Nitro Challenge, defending double champion Ty Tessmann picked up from where he finished up the 2014 event by topping the buggy times having earlier in the day set the pace in truggy. Tessmann set the fastest 3-consecutive laps from Ryan Maifield, the only driver other than the Canadian to win a DNC title since Joey Christensen moved his event to the Fear Farm in 2012, with Ryan Cavalieri completing the Top 3.

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February 19, 2015

Tessmann tops truggy practice at DNC

Defending Truggy champion Ty Tessmann set the pace in the one & only round of practice on the opening day of the Dirt Nitro Challenge at the Fear Farm in Arizona. After a 4-hour delay to the start of the 16th running of the Joey ‘The Dirt’ Christensen signature event, the HB driver set the fastest three consecutive laps over the SWorkz of Austin Blair, with new HB team-mate David Ronnefalk completing the Top 3. Originally set to run two rounds of practice, a total of 56 heats making up one complete round of all the 1:8 classes, the delayed start means that the second practice has been cut and now instead of reseeding the heats for Q1, they will now be reseed for Q2 based on the Q1 results.

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February 18, 2015

Carson Wernimont joins VP Powermaster

VP Powermaster announce the addition of Carson Wernimont to their world class team of drivers. Carson is known around the world as a serious threat at any event and he joins VP off-road teammates Josh Wheeler, Mark Pavidis, Derek Sousa and Josh Clancy who all race at this week’s Dirt Nitro Challenge.

Source: VP [powermasterfuels.com]

February 18, 2015

Anthony Abisset to run Picco engines

Former 1/8th nitro on-road French National and European B Champion Anthony Abisset will make a switch to Picco engines for his upcoming campaign. The deal is part of a shuffle that takes place at the newly appointed French Picco distributor Racing Experience at the moment and it is understood that more drivers will make a swap to the Italian engines soon.

Source: Racing Experience [racing-experience.fr]

February 17, 2015

2015 IFMAR Electric Buggy Worlds website launched

The organisers of the 2015 IFMAR 1/10th Electric Buggy World Championships have their Stage 1 report ready for download. Following the recent final announcement regarding the track surface – World Championship tracks are now allowed to have a 100 percent astro turf surface – it is now also clear that the track will be fully purpose build on the Yatabe Arena’s on-road grand prix track, leaving the usual off-road track untouched to guarantee equal conditions for Japanese and foreign drives alike. The 34-page Stage 1 report with travelling, hotel and track information can be found here (PDF file) or by using the link below.

Source: 2015 EP Offroad Worlds [2015worlds.yatabearena.com]

February 17, 2015

Martin Wollanka continues with FX

FX announces the contract renewal with European vice-champion Martin Wollanka. The Austrian frontrunner will use the company’s engines in his 2015 campaign that will include appearances at events such as the European championships, the Austrian national series and selected international events. Martin says:

The 2014 season was the first year for me with the FX engine and it was also my best year ever with winning all national races and also gaining the European Vice-Champion title. The performance and reliability of the FX engine have been absolutely amazing for me and during the year I did not have any technical or reliability issues which gives me the needed confidence. After the successful first year and my positive experiences there is no other option for me than to continue to use FX engine in my car in the 2015 season.

Source: FX [fx-engines.com]

February 16, 2015

Gerd Strenge teams up with Serpent

Following his departure from Team Durango Germany’s Gerd Strenge now officially teamed up with Serpent for a long term cooperation that will combine racing, event support and product development duties. Gerd joins his protégé Jörn Neumann, who only recently signed with Serpent, as his race mechanic and engineer. Gerd will also assist Serpent’s on-road designer Michael Salven and also Billy Easton, who cares about everything off-road, with prototyping, testing and product development. Gerd’s first main event under the Serpent banner will be this week’s Dirt Nitro Challenge that you can follow on Red RC from Wednesday on.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]