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November 19, 2016

Orlowski cruises to A1 victory

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Michal Orlowski has taken a dominant victory in the opening 2WD A-Main at the Euro Offroad Series in Poland. Starting from the pole, the Schumacher driver however would get the first jump slightly wrong with his error leading Lee Martin and Neil Cragg to tangle delaying the field and giving him an early break he would only go on to extend. With Hupo Honigl coming off best from hectic first lap to go from 6th to second, Cragg’s move into second short lived as he crashed at the quad, Orlowski was then able to extend his lead crossing the finish almost 6-seconds in front. Holding second for 4 minutes and 45 second, with Martin right on his rear wing, Honigl would make a mistake handing second to the reigning champion with a lap to go. Eventually finishing 5th as Cragg and Christopher Krapp also went through on the last lap to claim 3rd and 4th, the former race winner said afterwards, ‘I want to shoot myself, I don’t even know how I crashed’.

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November 19, 2016

Orlowski sows up home TQ in Warsaw

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Michal Orlowski has sown up the overall TQ for Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series in his home town of Warsaw. The Schumacher driver took the honours early with a third TQ run in the penultimate round of qualifying at the Warsaw Moto Show hosted event. Only his second time to take an overall TQ, it two seasons since his first at the Hudy Arena during EOS Season #4, the back to back EOS 2WD Vice-Champion again topped in a repeat of the Q2 outcome with Neil Cragg finishing P2 followed by Joern Neumann. While Orlowski shone up front it was also a good round for team-mate Christopher Krapp as he posted P4 ahead of championship leader Marc Rheinard. For reigning champion Lee Martin Q3 would result in retirement after contact with the boards on the main straight broke a rear arm of his Yokomo.

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November 19, 2016

Jack Embling departs Kyosho

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Just a year on from signing with Kyosho Europe, Jack Embling has announced he will not continue with the Japanese manufacturer with it believed the British driver will team up for 2017 with one of the key American brands. The former protege of offroad ace Lee Martin, Embling enjoyed a successful domestic campaign with Kyosho being crowned the 2016 Truggy Champion as well as finishing 3rd overall in E-Buggy and 4th in the Nitro championship behind Darren Bloomfield, Elliot Boots and Lee Martin. Commenting on his Kyosho departure Jack said:

I would like to announce that I will not be continuing with Kyosho for the 2017 season. I would like to thank Mick, Mitsuo, Christophe and everyone at Kyosho for giving me the opportunity to race with them this year, and the rest of the team. I had always wanted to drive for Kyosho, and it’s been a great year on and off the track. However an opportunity came up which was hard to turn down. Watch this space for an exciting announcement for 2017 coming soon.

November 19, 2016

Orlowski again in Q2

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Michal Orlowski continued his reign in Poland again posting a TQ run in the second round of qualifying at EOS Poland. The Schumacher driver will suffer a similar mistake to that he had at the wall section in Q1 but again was able to recover to top the heat by 1.8 seconds from Neil Cragg. An impressive run from Joern Neumann would net the former champion a P3 for the round while Bruno Coelho would also be more competitive to go fourth fastest ahead of reigning champion Lee Martin. Again the fastest man on the track posting the fastest lap, commenting on his TQ run Orlowski said, ‘Again I had a mistake after the wall but the other guys had some errors which allowed me to recover to get another TQ’. Able to secure the overall TQ for his home race in Q3, he concluded, ‘I’ll just try not to crash this time’.

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November 19, 2016

Orlowski takes Q1 while Zambrzycki shines with P3

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Michal Orlowski has TQ’d the opening round of 2WD qualifying at Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series in Poland. Having topped seeding practice yesterday, the Schumacher driver continued that form into qualifying but the established EOS title contender’s result was only part of a successful morning for the Polish RC scene as fellow Pole Bartlomiej Zambrzycki claimed third for the round. In between the two teenagers, reigning champion Lee Martin would post the 2nd fastest time while in 4th place it was Hupo Honigl who was the leading Xray.

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November 19, 2016

Markus Hellquist wins at Swedish Indoor Cup Rd1

The opening round of the Swedish Indoor Cup was hosted by the Wäxjö MS club on a quite technical track. The race format was three rounds of qualifiers with the best round to count followed by triple A-mains. Right from the start Markus Hellquist showed a very strong pace and he would take the TQ a few seconds ahead of teammate Erik Ström with Fabian Vernersson completing the top 3 only two tenth of a second short of Erik. In the finals Markus made a clean sweep to take the win while Erik was able to defend his runner-up spot. Behind the two Daniel Carlsson would end the day on the three spot from Mikael Fransson and Andreas Johansson in fourth and fifth.

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November 19, 2016

Kurzbuch & Lee dominant in Xiamen after 3 rounds

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This weekend sees the top drivers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, along with some select top international racers, including current World Champion Simon Kurzbuch, descend on the ARC International Raceway in Xiamen, China for the Guan Kou Sunpadow GP. Greeted by this amazing facility with its 200m long 3 storey driver stand and impressive track, this is the same facility that will host the 2017 IFMAR EP Offroad World Championships next November on its dirt offroad track. This race is for onroad only with 8 heats of 1/8th scale onroad and 7 heats of EP onroad split between modified and stock. This is also a money race with the winner in each class to receive approximately USD 3000.

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November 18, 2016

Ricardo Monteiro departs Team Losi Racing

2010 1/8th Buggy European Champion B and multiple National Portuguese Champion, Ricardo Monteiro has announced his departure from long-term sponsor TLR. Ricardo leaves behind a successful campaign but he is leaving open for now what the future will be holding for him in terms of chassis sponsors. This is what Ricardo has to say:

All good things come to an end. After 7/8 years of awesome racing and many many good moments, it is time for me and TLR to part ways. First of all I would like to thank the people at Modelcar, in the form of Luis and André for believing me at the very start of my career and helping me get through to this stage, I wish you all the best luck on your future endeavours. Then a very BIG thank you to all the guys at TLR that ever helped me (Todd, Jerome Sartel and Ryan, Jerome Chambon and Adam Drake while they were there). It was many many years of ups and downs that make a good part of my r/c racing career that I will forever hold deer to me. I’m still not sure what’s ahead of me, but I am certain it will be an awesome new ride.