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May 26, 2019

Coelho wins 2WD at 1/10th Off-road Worlds Warm-up

The warm-up race for the 2019 IFMAR 1/10th Off-road World Championships was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia this past weekend. Held on the facility’s tricky dirt indoor track the race saw the running of the 2WD Buggy class first, with practice, timed practice and the qualifiers scheduled for Friday. Xray’s Martin Bayer took the timed practice, however in the qualifiers it was Xray’s Bruno Coelho who was able to take the overall TQ in front of Martin Bayer and Daniel Kobbevik (Xray). Team Associated’s young gun, Joona Haatanen was showing a good pace during qualifications and was able to take Q3. Going into the finals on Saturday, Bruno was the man to beat but Bruno held his starting position and after taking A1 and A2 he secured the overall win early. Martin Bayer finished 2nd and Joona Haatanen came in 3rd. Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin and Dustin Evens were able to move up a bit and finished 4th and 5th respectively.

View the A-main results here

May 24, 2019

Kasekamp & Lainemae win at Estonian Off-road Nats Rd1

Round 1 of the Estonian Off-road Nationals was held at the Tartu RC track recently featuring all sorts of scales, ranging from 1/10th scale up to 1/5th Large Scale, making for ever changing conditions on the astroturf and red clay track. In qualifying it would be Hendrik Lainemae setting the pace in both E-Buggy and Nitro Buggy. The trend would continue in the finals. Nitro Buggy would see a lot of interesting situations for the top drivers. Hendrik would lead the field for the start of the 30-minute final but flamed out on the in-lap for the first round of pit-stops. Karl Kasekamp would take the lead, closely followed by Robin Ilus. Some 14 minutes into the race, Karl would pit after mishearing someone else being called in. Robin Ilus would suffer a flame-out and a shaky last pit stop for Hendrik would give Karl a safe gap to pit an extra time before the end. On the last laps Hendrik would pass Rainer Ressar, who had a mostly clean recovery drive after his 1st lap which dropped him to last, for 2nd position.

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May 23, 2019

Bartosz Zalewski doubles at RCSP Cup Rd1

Round 1 of the Polish Puchar RC Sport Piaseczno RCSP Cup was held recently with Bartosz Zalewski sweeping the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy classes. On Saturday the weather was on the rainy side, however this changed for Sunday when the sun came out, making for good racing conditions. Bartosz would be accompanied by Donat Bula and Marek Cisek on the Nitro podium while Lukasz Polak and Jan Zalewski rounded out the E-Buggy top 3.

View the E-Buggy podium here

May 23, 2019

E-Buggy win for Ty Tessmann at Lonestar Challenge

Thornhill RC Raceway in Hutto, Texas played host to the Lonestar Challenge last weekend. The event also doubled as the nationals warmup and the event, organised by The Dirt, attracted most of the country’s fast 1/8th off-road racers. Friday was practice day on a wet track, it was watered a couple of times throughout the day which gave good grip. The track started to get smooth and polished up by Friday night and in the first round of electric buggy Xray’s Ty Tessmann qualified 3rd which he backed up by two TQs which would give him the overall TQ. Sunday was mains day, and drivers were still trying to get grip on the polished surface. The organisers did double A-mains for E-Buggy with both mains counting to determine the overall winner. A1 was up first, Tessmann had a mistake fairly early on that he needed to be marshalled for which dropped him quite a ways back to 4th. Ty got back in the groove and was able to make his way by 3rd and 2nd place and then had a good battle with Agama’s Ryan Lutz before making a pass back to the lead which is where he would finish the race. A2 was smoother, Ty was able to just put in clean laps and lead tone to tone, which would give him the overall win in from Ryan Lutz 2nd and Serpent’s Brandon Rose 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 22, 2019

2019 SARDA National Championship Rd2 – Report

The TRAP Raceway was host to the second round of the SARDA National 1/10th Off-road Championship in Pretoria, South Africa last weekend. TRAP being a tight track with not many opportunities to pass makes qualifying in a good position vital, this also led to some of the closest and most exciting racing seen for a while with everyone hunting the top step of the podium. Charles Hollander would top qualify in the 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy classes while Wikus Coetzer swept 2WD Stock, Stadium Trucks and 2WD SCT. In the 4WD Stock class it was Michael Gibson who would led the field. In the 2WD Mod A-main it then also was Charles Hollander who also brought home the win with Rikus Jansen Van Vuuren and Wikus Coetzer coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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May 21, 2019

Spring Indoor National Series 9 – Report

The Spring Indoor National Series 9 was held this past weekend at Tacoma R/C Raceway in Tacoma, Washington. Over the years, the JConcepts Indoor National Series has showcased some of the best racing by a very special group of drivers ranging from World Champions, National Champions, Reedy Champions, and many more. These high caliber pro drivers definitely know how to put on a killer show for not just the drivers, but for the spectators of all ages. Making the trip this year to the Pacific NW was world-class talent including Ryan Maifield, Ryan Cavalieri, Dustin Evans, Cole Tollard, Max Flurer, Aydin Horne, as well as featuring local speedsters like Tanner Day and Harley Yoshii. This year’s level of talent was deep and made for a spectacular race weekend that did not disappoint.

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May 21, 2019

David Poulter wins at South East Regional Series Rd2

The second round of the UK 4WD South East Regional Series was held at Eden Park Raceway recently. At the end of some entertaining A-main events it was David Poulter with the win, thanks to 2-3-1 finishes while Ed Kerry, finishing 1-2-2, had to settle for 2nd overall after the tie-breaker. Nathan Ralls came in 3rd with 3-1-3 finishes.

Image: David Poulter

May 21, 2019

Meen V. wins at New RC Club race Rd3

The New RC track of Bangkok, Thailand recently held round 3 of their club racing series, attracting many of the country’s swift 1/8th off-road racers. At the end of the 45-minute Nitro Buggy A-main final it was 2012 IFMAR 1/10th 200mm World Champion, Meen V. with the win some 23 seconds in front of Mongkolphan in 2nd. Paphon would round out the top 3 podium result in front of Chalee P. and Leng.

Source: Power HD [chd.hk]