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June 22, 2015

Asian On-Road Championships Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Asian On-Road Championships was held in Adelaide, Southern Australia over the weekend. The event saw some 100 entries split in the five different classes of 1/10 Touring Car Modified, 13.5 Stock, 21.5 Stock, Formula as well as 1/12th scale. The race was held at the permanent indoor asphalt track of Hobby Habit on a medium sized, very smooth and pretty high-bite track. In the Touring Car Modified class Yokomo’s Ronald Völker would take the TQ from Ryan Maker (VBC) who shot into the 2 spot by winning the final qualifier on new tyres as Ronald backed off. Alexander Hagberg put his Xray car on the 3 spot, saving tyres for the triple A-mains. Alex’ strategy would pay off as he came in 2nd in A1 and A3 to take the runner-up spot behind Ronald while Ryan fall back to 3rd place.

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June 22, 2015

Simon Moss teams up with Yokomo

Yokomo have announced the signing of UK’s Simon Moss to their electric off-road team. Simon, who only left his long-term sponsors Schumacher last week, will further strengthen Yokomo’s off-road team in the UK by joining front runners Lee Martin and Tom Cockerill. This is what Simon has to say about the deal:

I’m really looking forward to joining the Yokomo team and can’t wait to start racing their already strong platform! I want to thank Minoru, Shin Adachi and Lee Martin for making this move possible and hope to strengthen the team across the UK and Europe. I’m looking forward to attending the final rounds of the BRCA Nationals and competing in the EOS at the end of the year and doing what I can to support the team!

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

June 22, 2015

Ronnefalk & Martin win at 1/10th Euros warm-up

The warm-up race for this year’s EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championships was held at the Robin Hood Raceway in the UK. HB’s David Ronnefalk would take the TQ in the 2WD class and he went on to win the first and second A-main to take the win early. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg snatched the win in the third leg to take the runner-up spot from Lee Martin (Yokomo). In the 4WD class it was Lee Martin (Yokomo) who came out fastest from HB’s David Ronnefalk and Serpent driver Jörn Neumann. Despite Martin Bayer (Xray) taking the win in the opening A-main the overall victory went to Lee Martin from Martin Bayer on the runner-up spot. The podium was rounded out by David Ronnefalk in 3rd.

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June 22, 2015

Arnold, Soulignac & Cavard win at French TC Nats Rd4

The forth round of the French Electric Touring Car Nationals was held in Tours. In the Modified class Leo Arnold secured himself the pole position early by TQing the first two qualifying rounds. In the opening final Leo had a coming together with a competitor and he ended the leg early but wins in the second and third A-main got him the overall win in front of Alexandre Laurent and Thomas Vingeron in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The 10.5T Stock class had Arnaud Soulignac taking the winning honours from Pierre Delorme in 2nd while Jean Delorme would round out the podium in 3rd. Last but not least in the 13.5T Touring class Vincent Cavard came out successful from Christophe Pyszczek in 2nd and Rudy Amaral in 3rd.

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June 22, 2015

Kristof Sielaff wins at North German regionals Rd3

Kristof Sielaf wins at North German regionals Rd3

The third round of the North German Nitro On-road Regionals was held at the Hollmoorring track of the MC Munster. In the 1/10th 200mm class Kristoph Sielaff would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he also the fastest lap of the weekend in 15.9s which is only two tenth slower than the current track record set in 2012 by Eric Dankel. The main final would see Kristof falling back to 3rd early in the race but he was able to get back into the lead, until around halfway in to the final he ran into engine troubles. With some careful driving and despite having two flameouts during pitstops Kristof was able to take the win in front of Frank Falkenberg in 2nd and Lars Hoppe in 3rd place.

Thanks to Kristof Sielaff for the report.

June 22, 2015

Ty Tessmann doubles at ROAR Nitro Offroad Nationals

The 2015 ROAR Nitro Offroad Nationals were held this past weekend at the Silver Dollar RC Raceway in Chico, CA. The qualifying was pretty much dominated by HB’s Ty Tessmann, the reigning ROAR Nitro Buggy champion, who made a clean sweep in Nitro Truggy qualifying by winning all four qualifying rounds while in the Nitro Buggy class 2014 Nitro Truggy champ Dakotah Phend denied him the same domination as the TLR driver grabbed the final qualifier. The 60 minute Buggy final then saw an early battle of Ty and Dakotah with Phend taking the the lead at one point following a mistake of Tessmann but the latter shot back into the lead to re-establish the order. Later in the race Dakotah would have to retire with a problem on his buggy which promoted Ryan Cavalieri the 2nd spot. Around mid-race it looked like Cavalieri would be able to control the gap of a couple of seconds to Tessmann only until Ty was able to further open the gap as much that he was in the position to lap Ryan in the closing stages of the final. A late error of Tessmann meant a bit of relief for Cavalieri but Ty would ultimately lap Ryan after the latter also made a mistake. So at the end Ty Tessmann (HB/O.S.) would be adding another ROAR National title to his belt. Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated/Mx) and Jared Tebo (Kyosho/Mx) would round out the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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June 22, 2015

Marco Vanni clinches a surprise win in Leno

Marco Vanni clinches a surprise win

Veteran racer Marco Vanni is living his second youth in this 2015 season, as he earned another great result in the second round of the 8th scale Italian Nationals held on the beautiful Miniautodromo di Leno after finishing second in the season opener in Bologna. An eventful race, the start of the final would see the TQ Tironi, Balestri and Picco form a train of three cars chasing each other for the first 15 minutes, until Balestri managed to get his Capricorn C802 in front of Francesco’s Velox and started stretching his lead. With all the leading drivers on the same strategy changing tires only once, a very fast pit-stop by Picco’s pit crew put round 1 winner in the lead, with Balestri right on his tail and Tironi a couple corners behind. At the 37 minutes mark the race would lose its first contender, when a broken gearbox stopped Balestri. Only two minutes after, an engine failure would force Picco into retirement, this putting Tironi back in the front with a comfortable 5 laps lead on Codazzi, Vanni and Salemi. Francesco started driving safe around the track to save tires, fuel and to stay away from trouble but this didn’t help, and with 7 minutes left in the race his engines quit at the end of the straight meaning retirement for him. The lead is inherited by Vanni, who is able to see off Codazzi’s final push to take a surprise win.

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June 21, 2015

Yuichi Kanai joins Reds Racing

Reds Racing have announced the signing of former World Champion Yuichi Kanai to their factory team. The head of 1/8th offroad development for Kyosho is currently attending the Kyosho Masters in France from where the deal was finalised. Kanai will uses the Italian made engines to power his distinctive green race cars, replacing the RB engines he ran previously.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]