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January 27, 2020

Ronald Völker TQs & wins at 2020 Charity Race

The annual Charity Race was hosted by Team La Gang at the RCLandia track in Scandiano, Italy this past weekend. The event was held in a multitude of electric on-road classes and in Touring Modified the race for the overall TQ was on between Yokomo’s Ronald Völker and Awesomatix privateer, Marc Rheinard. Ultimately it was Ronald with the pole position, beating Marc in the tie-breaker. The triple A-main had Ronald taking three straight wins as Marc Rheinard and Xray’s Alessio Menicucci battled it out for the overall runner-up spot. In the end Marc would hold the upper hand, taking overall 2nd from Alessio in 3rd.

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January 27, 2020

Jesse Davis doubles at Victorian IC On-Road State Titles

The 2020 RCRA Victorian IC On-Road State Titles were held this past weekend at the MRCCR club in Lilydale, Victoria, Australia. The race saw the running of both 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road classes and in 1/8th IC Track it was Infinity’s Jesse Davis with the overall TQ from Serpent’s Jeff Hamon. Jesse was able to conserve his qualifying performance in the 30-minute A-main event, leaving behind Jeff in 2nd some four laps down as Nicholas Salib (Infinity) came in 3rd to round out the podium. In 1/10th 200mm Touring Jeff Hamon would lead the way in qualifying, however the 30-minute A-main event had Jesse taking another win after Jeff ran into trouble, which meant he would have to settle for 6th place overall. Behind Jesse though it was the Infinity duo of Andrew Shapland in 2nd and Brayden Stanley in 3rd.

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January 27, 2020

Yokomo BD9 2.0mm flex upper deck

Coming from Yokomo and made for the BD9 touring car is a 2.0mm carbon fibre flex upper deck. Using the same graphite material as the standard top deck, the flex variant is of a different shape with a redesigned, increased torsional flex front section which results in a milder steering response which comes in handy to calm down steering in high-bite track conditions while increasing rear traction for lower grip tracks. The top deck is machined from high-quality carbon fibre and a direct fit, however Yokomo recommends to use alloy upper deck screws to maximise the top deck’s effects.

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January 27, 2020

Indoor Buggy Masters Rd2 wins for Ronnefalk & Berg

Round 2 of the Indoor Buggy Masters was held at the Klippan RC Club in Klippan, Sweden this past weekend. In 2WD Buggy it was a HB Racing sweep in the Reedy-style race with David Ronnefalk taking the day’s win from Hampus Berg in 2nd and Elias Johansson in 3rd. Over in 4WD Buggy, also held in a Reedy-style all-finals format it was Hampus Berg who would lead the way from Joel Rosengren in 2nd and Nils Gustafsson in 3rd, both running Team Associated machinery.

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January 27, 2020

Xray Racing Series Slovenia Rd3 – Report

The penultimate round of the Xray Racing Series Slovenia was held recently and attracted drivers from four different countries including Austria, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia. In the Formula 21.5 category it was Matej Dobnikar who easily took the overall TQ while in Touring 13.5 it was again Nejc Mihelic with the pole position as in the two previous rounds. In the Touring A-main it was the pole sitter Nejc Mihelic who converted the pole into a straight win with Bjan Miklozic and Nejc Marcic completing the all-Xray top 3.

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January 27, 2020

Rivkin in with a shout of 1st Reedy title with 1 remaining

World Champion Spencer Rivkin is in with a shout of a first Reedy Race title, the Team Associated driver adding another win to close the gap on long time points leader Ryan Maifield with just one round of racing to go at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California. Rivkin opened the penultimate round of 2WD with an easy win from pole over Alex Kosciuszek and last year’s 4WD Open Champion Ron Devoll meaning he would have to wait to see the outcome of Heat 2 to see what Maifield could do and if things would go down to the final. Starting from last on the grid, Maifield worked his way up to third before dropping back to fourth after an error but a mistake by Yokomo team-mate & race leader Lee Martin which would promote him back to third and make Rivkin’s quest a little harder. Rivkin needs to win his last race to take the title to a tie breaker.

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January 26, 2020

It’s Maifield’s title to lose with 2 to go at Reedy Race

It’s very much Ryan Maifield’s title to lose now with just two rounds of racing remaining at OCRC Raceway in California as the Yokomo driver put a P2 on the board bettering what his main points rivals could do in the 6th round of 2WD. Starting from 5th on the grid behind both Spencer Rivkin and Dakotah Phend, Maifield would cross the line in between the duo with Rivkin taking the win by a comfortable 2.8-second margin. Coming from the back of the grid in the 3rd of the heats, Broc Champlin would work his way through to 3rd by the finish but Rivkin’s win and a second place for Ryan Cavalieri in Heat 1 means the Team Associated teenager drops from 2nd to 4th in the standings, equal on points with 5th placed Ty Tessmann. That heat was won by Dustin Evans once again ahead of Clement Boda. Having not featured over the first two days of racing, Finland’s Joona Haatanen finally registered a win at the 26th running of the event, taking Heat 1 ahead of Cavalieri and Tessmann.

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January 26, 2020

Perfect morning for Maifield as he moves in on 2nd Reedy Race title

Ryan Maifield couldn’t have scripted a more perfect morning on the concluding day of the Reedy Offroad Race of Champions, the overnight points leader securing a win as his closest rivals lost ground, in particular Jared Tebo who could only manage a 6th. With just three rounds of 2WD action remaining at the 26th running of the famous race, Maifield now holds a 6 point advantage over Broc Champlin. Running in the same heat as Tebo, Champlin was in contention for the win putting pressure on eventually winner Ty Tessmann before a mistake with three laps to go that dropped him behind multiple Champion Ryan Cavalieri. Despite the missed opportunity, 3rd place would move the 17-year-old ahead of Tebo in the points table. The third round of 2WD’s other winner was former 2-time champion Dustin Evans who got the win ahead of young French driver Clement Boda, who lead for the first half of the race before traction rolling at the end of the main straight.

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