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May 6, 2013

Joakim Nicolaisen wins Rd1 of Norwegian nats

Joakim Nicolaisen wins Rd1 of Norwegian outdoor series

Team Associated Factory Team driver Joakim Nicolaisen has won the first round off the Norwegian outdoor series, that was held at Geiteryggen Raceway, Skien, approximately two and a half hours outside Oslo. The track was bumpy, and had low traction and the race was open to touring modified and touring stock, which was driven as a support class. The race featured three rounds of qualifying, were the best round was counted, as well as three rounds of finals. Joakim was able to win the first two qualifiers, but in the third round, a mistake allowed Øyvind Stusdal to take the win and set the new TQ time. Young talented driver, Magnus Guttormsen also made the cut, starting at the back of the grid.

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May 6, 2013

Evens & Robert win Belgian SCT Cup Rd1

The first race of the Belgian SCT Cup 2013 has been held on BRTC track last Sunday. The layout of the track has been changed for this year and is now faster than before while still being challenging and offering very low grip. The number of entries is progressing compared to last year, with the participation of some fast buggy 1/10 racers and most importantly, young newcomers. They also had the pleasure to welcome a French driver coming all the way from Paris, Philippe Hautecoeur. The day started under the sun with pastries and coffee available on site. In 2WD qualification, tire choice proved to be pretty complex with drivers changing them each run in search of the best compromise. Martin Vierin put in the fastest run of the first run on his SC10 in front of Nicolas Evens (TLR 22SCT), Jean-François Renard (TLR 22SCT), Philippe Hautecoeur (SC10) and Julian André (SC10). Second run saw Nicolas take the advantage ahead of Jean-François, Philippe and Martin. Last run was decisive for the pole position attribution with Martin and Nicolas with a win each. Nicolas took that leg in front of Martin, Cédric Van De Ginste (SC10) and Jean-François.

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May 6, 2013

Ty Tessmann double at ROAR Nats warmup race

The warmup race for the 2013 ROAR Fuel Offroad nationals took place last weekend at Gulf Coast Raceway’s covered track in Texas. Not all the factory teams were present but defending National champion Ty Tessmann was there along with other former National Champions, Worlds finalists and quick locals. Qualifying was all about HB driver Ty Tessmann, taking the top spot in both buggy and truggy. In the hour long buggy final Tessmann would take a clear win by nearly 2 laps ahead of TLR’s Adam Drake with Barry Pettit completing the podium. The 30 minute truggy final would see the same result this time with Ty nearly a lap ahead of Adam, with Pettit only 6 seconds back in 3rd.

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May 4, 2013

Daniel Sarmiento wins Philippine Offroad Nationals

Racers from all over Metro Manila as well as Cebu and even Riyadh descended on the CV Off-Road Track for The 2013 Nitro Buggy Philippine National Championships. Early in the morning everyone was greeted with fine & sunny weather. World renown Race Organizer & Announcer Scotty Ernst was on hand to as the event’s Race Director. His colorful commentary added even more excitement to what would be an already amped-up Race.

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May 4, 2013

Bernhard & Salven win Rd2 in West Germany

Last weekend MCK Dormagen was host for the 2nd round of the West-German championships and Daniel Thiele gave this report. ‘As already seen 2 weeks ago at Rd1 in Bad Breisig, 1/10 and 1/8 were driven on the same weekend. With 30 drivers in 1/10 200mm and 40 in 1/8 class 1+2, it was a really interesting weekend. On Saturday we started with a basic setup with the team working really close to work out the best setup as possible. Due to the high amount of starters and the difference in performance between 1/8 and 1/10, the race director decided to divide training into time block of 20 min. each.

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May 2, 2013

Hartson double at 2013 JConcepts Stock Nationals

The second edition of the JConcepts Stock Nationals was held last weekend at OC_RC Raceway, located in Huntington Beach California. The crew at OC_RC had a fresh, stock friendly layout for the event, that was fun, flowing and had a tricky rhythm section to keep the best drivers on their toes. With stock 17.5, no boost ruling the event, consistent, tight, fast laps were going to get you to the checkers first. With an increase in entries from the inaugural event to 168, classes were full with some of the fastest drivers in the world giving it a go in Stock at this fun event. The OC_RC crew ran an efficient program to allow 4 rounds of qualifying on Saturday using Qual Points to set the Sunday main events.

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May 2, 2013

John Sotiropoulos wins Greek 1/10th nats Rd2

Last weekend the 2nd round of the Greek 1/10th Nationals was held at beautiful Montelodromio track in Patras. There were a total of 20 drivers signed and the weather was sunny and hot. John Sotiropoulos, who only showed up on Sunday morning with no practice, showed strong and took the pole position in the 2nd qualifier, which kept till the end. In the 45 minute race John had perfect start and clean path in front so he had an easy job to keep his place till the end, finishing 1 lap clear of Nick Karabelas in 2nd with Kuriazis Michalis in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

May 2, 2013

Nähr & Günther win at South German Regionals Rd1

Nähr & Günther win at Rd1 of South German Regionals

Last weekend the MBC Bamberg hosted the first round of the South German Championship in the north of Bavaria with Team Shepherd winning two of the three racing classes. In the 1/10th scale touring car class Patrick Nähr had a hard time during qualifying but when the finals began he and his Velox/Sonic package were back in shape bumping up from the semi to the final witout a problem. When his biggest rivals Thomas Günsel and Dominic Greiner had to retire at the beginning of the final Patrick took over the control of the race cruising to victory 9 laps in front of Martin Schöffel and Mirco Thalheimer. In the 1/8th scale class 2, young talent Maximilian Günther had a brilliant debut with his new Velox V8. After qualifying he was ranked on 3rd position in the combined ranking of class 1 and class 2 nearly one lap in front of the next best placed driver of class 2. In the combined final Max demonstrated his driving skills and crossed the finishing line in third position behind the class 1 pairing of Nico Bähr (Serpent/Sonic) and Dominik Mayer (Xray/Orcan). With this result Max scored the maximum points for the ranking of the South German Championship at his first race with Shepherd.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]