Full Throttle Raceway of Kissimmee, Florida played host to the third round of the FSEARA series this past weekend. In the 17.5 Pro Stock Touring A-main top qualifier Austin Wolfe would bring home the win from Robert Cooper and Dave Vera in third. Behind the three, Dave Franklin, Eric Still, Michael Bruce, Dave Baptiste, Mike Coburn, Steve Pendergraph, and Pete Pepe would round out the A-main result.
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In addition to the recently introduced front shock plate, Samix have now also announced the release of the rear counterpart. Machined from aluminium and coming decorated with laser-etched Samix logos for look, the parts allow to utilise up to nine different shock mounting locations while offering added strength and improved looks over the standard kit mounts The parts include all needed hardware, they are usable with Samix’s upper stiffener plate and they come in the three colours of green, black and gun metal.
Vigor RC have introduced new carbon fibre option parts for the Tamiya TRF419X touring car. First up is a 2.25mm lower chassis that features a fully symmetrical design, offering equal steering characteristics in both directions. On top of this the chassis provides higher corner speeds and improved car balance. Next up are 2.0mm and 1.6mm carbon fibre upper decks. A direct replacement for the stock part the top decks allow to fine-tune the overall grip available with the thinner 1.6mm plate being recommended especially for low-grip conditions. Last but not least are carbon fibre battery retainers. The L-shaped parts keep the battery in place even in hard impacts and they come in sets of two.
While it took three laps before he crashed out of the lead of A1 of the Euro Offroad Series, in the second encounter Bruno Coelho would get it wrong on the opening lap, only this time the Top Qualifier was able to get back to the front and deliver a win. Getting it wrong on the first run through the quad allowing Martin Bayer and Lee Martin to pass, A1 winner Michal Orlowski crashing out of second earlier in the lap, Coelho would take 8-laps to first get by Martin and then Bayer with a great pass around the outside at the quad. Again the only driver to run a 17-second lap time, once the winner of the season opener got back to the front he would stay there managing an extra lap over team-mate Bayer who saw off a strong challenge from Martin. Having recovered to 3rd and setting about a move on Bayer, a mistake with 3-laps to go would drop Orlowski back to 4th.
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Michal Orlowski has won the opening 4WD A-Main at the Euro Offroad Series in Poland. Starting from second the grid, the Schumacher driver would go to the front when Top Qualifier Bruno Coelho crashed coming off the wall on the second lap, a mistake he would repeat again two laps later. With Martin Bayer up to second, the Czech driver looked like he was about to challenge Orlowski for the lead but he too made a mistake. Setting the fastest lap of the race, the only driver to break in 17-seconds, Coelho would set about closing down Orlowski but with four laps to go an error at the quad ended the reigning champion’s chances leaving yesterday’s 2WD winner to win with a lap in hand. With fourth place starter Lee Martin crashing out of contention on the opening lap, Orlowski wasn’t immune from errors but such was his early advantage and good marshalling by team-mate Peter Pinisch he could survive a mistake on lap six. Coelho would go on to finish 2nd with Bayer third, followed by Hupo Honigl.
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4WD Championship leader Bruno Coelho is the Top Qualifier for Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series in Warsaw. Going into the fourth & final round of qualifying at the Warsaw Moto Show hosted event only team-mate Martin Bayer had a chance of denying the Xray driver the overall TQ. While Bayer would set the early pace after a mistake from Coelho at the 1-minute mark, it was Michal Orlowski who would go fastest pipping the Czech driver by 6/10ths of a second. Recovering from a difficult first two qualifiers on Friday, Orowski’s Q4 TQ would allow him to split the two Xrays on the starting grid as he secured second ahead of Bayer. For Nurburgring Top Qualifier Lee Martin, an early mistake put end to any chance of improvement and the Yokomo driver will start 4th ahead of on form Kája Novotný who secures his best ever EOS qualifying position with 5th.
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With 4WD qualifying resuming after yesterday’s 2WD action at Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series in Poland, it was Bruno Coelho who set the pace in Q3. Having topped the opening qualifier on Friday, the reigning champion was fastest from 2WD race winner Michal Orlowski. Over 4-seconds off the TQ pace, Lee Martin would complete the Top 3 just ahead of Martin Bayer who took the TQ in the second qualifier on Friday. Having suffered spur gear failures in the first two rounds, Malin Karlsen would finally go the full 5-minutes to post an impressive P5.
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Saturday at the Guan Kou Sunpadow Grand Prix in Xiamen, China and the remaining two rounds of qualifying for all classes was reduced to just one with the weather forecast predicting rain. This decision made in the morning confirmed the top qualifying spot for both Simon Kurzbuch and Nicholas Lee in the 1/8th and Modified touring classes having both took all 3 rounds on Friday. It was also decided to run two of the 3 touring car A-mains on Saturday, but in the end the forecast was, as it most of the time is, wrong and it turned out to be a warm sunny day.
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