The final round of the Slovakian National Nitro On-road Championship was held at the Hudy Racing Arena. The main final of the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class saw some nice battles between Xray teammates Igor Liptak and Oliver Havranek with Igor ultimately holding the upper hand to take the day’s win from Oliver while Michal Abrahamek (Xray) had to settle for third following a bit of a tough ride.
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The 2016/17 BRCA GT Nationals got under way last weekend at a new addition to the calendar, the event was hosted by Barley Mow RC Car Club in Birtley just outside Newcastle. Like last year the the event was split into two days with GT10 and F1 on Saturday and GT12 on Sunday. The club laid a great track for the weekends action, praised by many drivers over the weekend, it had a good mix of corners from fast and flowing to tight and technical. Onto the racing, Saturday started with the GT10 class. It was Andy Murray who set the pace. He was closely followed by young Ollie Payne driving the Roche P10. As the day progressed grip levels improved and the times got better and better. Andy Murray would continue to top the results board being the fastest in all four rounds of qualifying. Ollie Payne challenged Andy in all the rounds but just lacked a little consistency, he would line up second, followed by Mark Christopher with his Xray, Craig Nutting was in the fourth spot with his Roche less than two tenths from third. Bob Hill completing the top 5 with his CRC.
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Alongside the running of the 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Las Vegas this week, the World governing body IFMAR has been holding its AGM. Along with confirming what has been widely known for some time that Perth, Australia, will be the venue for the next 1:8 Offroad Worlds in 2-years time, more interesting developments from the meeting relate to the next Electric Onroad Worlds and the 1:12th scale class. With the recent running of electric’s longest running class attracting another small entry as it did 2-years earlier in the United States, IFMAR are hoping to make the event more viable by introducing a number of changes including controlled tyres, a blinky mode 13.5 Spec Class as well as a Formula class, although the latter is stated as being ‘under investigation’ and subject to a ‘POSTAL Vote’.
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Jared Tebo fuelled his way to the honour of 1:8 Offroad World Championship Top Qualifier after taking the penultimate round of qualifying in Las Vegas. Having TQ’d the first of yesterday’s two Day 2 qualifiers, the Kyosho driver again kicked off the final day of qualifying with another TQ run thanks to going the full 10-minutes without stopping for fuel. With two P2 finishes also to his credit he wraps up the overall TQ that counts the best 4 of 6 with one round remaining. Behind Tebo, last night’s Q4 pace setter David Ronnefalk posted second for the round with the gap just 1.4-seconds despite the HB Racing driver stopping for fuel. Running in the same heat as Ronnefalk, team-mate Ty Tessmann would complete the Top 3. Former World Champion Cody King would be the only other driver to manage a 17-lap run on the increasingly difficult track as he showed further improvement in his package. Justing missing out on 17-laps, Davide Ongaro would get a P5 ahead of overnight TQ holder Elliott Boots.
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David Ronnefalk finally came good in the fourth round of qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships when the HB Racing driver ended Day 2 of qualifying with his first TQ run. The Swede, who had a difficult first day of qualifying leading to him being critical of the watering of the track, would go fastest as the sun set at RC Tracks of Las Vegas topping the round by 4-seconds over Q3 pace setter Jared Tebo. As in the previous qualifier, Dakotah Phend would again complete the Top 3 with reigning champion Ty Tessmann next up. For yesterday’s pace setter Elliott Boots, today’s second qualifier would be a slight improvement on his earlier run as he posted a P5 time ahead of Kyosho/Reds Racing team-mate Cody King.
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Round five of the OMK Fall Classic 2WD race series was hosted by the Oslo R/C Car Club and the event saw Xray’s Malin Karlsen making a clean sweep in the three qualifiers to take the pole position for the triple A-mains. The opening final had Malin leading from tone to tone but in the second leg she lost two positions after getting in contact with the track markers. From third she was able to catch up, pass the cars in front and take over the lead again. From that moment on she never looked back to take the win in A2 and with it the overall victory. To get as much track time as possible Malin decided to also run the third A-main and again she would end the race in dominant fashion, taking the third win of the evening. Behind her, Morten Bremsrud (Team Associated) and Steffen Larsen (Yokomo) had to settle for second and third overall.
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The sixth and final round of the Swiss 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Championship was held in Sitterdorf. Going into the final round it was Raphael Wicki who lead the championship with Traugott Schär also having the chance to take the overall title. Unfortunately the weather had different plans than to offer the pilots a nice weekend of racing and so the first three qualifiers were held on a wet track with Q4 being the only one to be run on a dry track. Michael Schäfer would take a maiden TQ in a National Championship race in front of Raphael Wicki. Traugott Schär came in third from nitro newbee Oliver Krähemann.
Jared Tebo has opened the second day of qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships with a TQ run, the Kyosho driver maintaining the Japanese manufacturer’s reign at the RC Tracks of Las Vegas. Opening qualifying with a P2 behind team-mate Elliott Boots in Q1 and then a P7 in the second round, the former Worlds Top Qualifier would top the times in Q3 by 3.5-seconds from reigning World Champion Ty Tessmann. Posting his first Top 3 run, Dakotah Phend, who runs in the same heat as Tessmann, would complete the Top 3 ahead of relative unknown Tomi Salonen, the Finnish driver having set his impressive time in the second heat of the reshuffled running order. Having dominated yesterday’s action TQ’ing both rounds, Boots’ third run would contain a number of mistake that would leave the European Champion with a P7.
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