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October 4, 2016

Boots takes opening qualifier at WC

Elliott Boots has taken the opening qualifier at the 1:8 Offroad World Championship heading a Kyosho 1-2 in Las Vegas. The reigning European Champion was fastest over the 1o-minute qualifier by 3-seconds from Jared Tebo, both drivers running in the same heat. Behind them it was Ryan Maifield who would complete the Top 3, the TLR driver laying down the TQ pace for his heat after bettering the opening time set by reigning Champion Ty Tessmann who would end up 5th fastest behind Ryan Cavalieri. Having topped seeding yesterday, David Ronnefalk would suffer a last lap mistake to end up with a P8 for Q1.

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October 4, 2016

The Worlds according to Ruona – Testing, practice or training?

We made it through a great practice day today at the worlds and so far things are looking pretty normal. The track is developing character with some bumpy places here and there and most certainly will continue. I see some drivers having trouble finding their marks out there so it’s obviously more difficult than it looks. After the 180 down the straight there is a nice hole forming and on the face of the following roller / jump. Things will only get more interesting from here.

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October 4, 2016

Ronnefalk tops seeding in Las Vegas

David Ronnefalk is the top seed for qualifying at the 16th running of the 1:8 Offroad World Championships. The former multiple European Champion headed a HB Racing 1-2 as team-mate Ty Tessmann posted the second quickest 3-consecutive laps in Las Vegas. Only 7th fastest in the first of the 2 seeding rounds, he would set the pace by 2/10ths of a second from the reigning World Champion with up & coming talent David Ongaro completing the Top 3, the 15-year-old the only one of two drivers in the Top 10 who failed to improve their time in the final practice.

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October 4, 2016

Matt Cline & Adam Rayls double at Sri Showdown

This past weekend was Sri Raceway’s annual Sri Showdown, a race that would bring in the best racers from the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana region and provide epic battles in many classes. After the qualifying wrapped up, Matt Cline would take the TQ honors in 4WD Modified Buggy and a third starting spot in 2WD Modified buggy behind Dylan Gerard and teammate Colton Cruise. The 2WD Mod main was an intense and epic battle between Cline and Gerard that would rage on for the 10 minute main which Matt was able to win. 4WD showed another good battle but Matt was able to run consistent laps and take the win while in 2WD Truck and 2WD SC Adam Rayls came out fastest in the A-mains.

Thanks to James Cline for the report.

October 3, 2016

Ongaro continues to set pace in Vegas to top first seeding round

Davide Ongaro continues to set the pace in practice at the 1:8 World Championships in Las Vegas, the talented young Italian opening Day 3 of the event by topping the first of the seeding rounds of practice. Having shot to the top of the time sheets in yesterday evening’s third round of practice, Ongaro proved that time was on merit as he again topped the times from Elliott Boots, the separation 6/10ths of a second. Behind them US National Champion Spencer Rivkin found a big improvement when it counted as he managed to get inside the Top 20 for the first time with 3rd for the round ahead of Round 1 pace setter Jared Tebo. For reigning World Champion Ty Tessmann a part failure at the start of the 10-minute run would result in the HB Racing driver ending up only with the 21st fastest 3-consecutive laps.

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October 3, 2016

Ongaro tops 3rd practice in Vegas

David Ongaro topped the third round of practice at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Las Vegas. The talented young Italian took his Mugen to the fastest three consecutive laps for all three rounds of practice in a round that would see European’s set the Top 3 times. Closest to Ongaro would be Elliott Boots, the Kyosho driver going marginally faster than his previous best time to be 0.189 off. Posting his first Top 10 time, HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk would go third fastest a further 3/10th off Boots. It was also to be a much improved round for reigning champion Ty Tessmann as he also posted his first Top 10 time with a P4 for the round ahead of Dakotah Phend with Ryan Lutz completing the Top 6.

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October 3, 2016

Jörg Tiit teams up with SWorkz

SWorkz have announced the latest addition to their 1/10th electric off-road team in the form of Estonia’s Jörg Tiit. The 1/6th scale European Off-road Champion and multiple 1/12th scale Euros A-main finalist will use the company’s S12-1M and S104 Evo EOS buggies in his forthcoming campaign and he has the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy to join the SWorkz! The attitude of SWorkz when they contacted me, was something that I had been looking for for a long time. Together with their professionalism, quality, will to be the best and constant search for evolution, their team is the place to be. I am so glad to be part of a team that is ready to work hard in order to achieve the absolute best!

Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]

October 3, 2016

Cameron Zammit wins at Victorian State Titles

Last weekend the 2016 Victorian State Titles were held at the Keilor Offroad RC Club in Keilor, Victoria, Australia. The event began with practice on Saturday with the track starting off dry but overnight rain forced the club to drop one qualifier on Sunday morning. For round one in 4WD, the track was still quite wet and it was Cameron Zammit who took the win while Q2 went to Ray Munday by one second. In round three, Cameron started behind Ray and was sitting behind him for almost the duration of the race. On the last lap Ray made a small mistake and Cameron went through, which gave him the win and the overall TQ.

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