September 17, 2016

Wollanka takes opening qualifier at Nurburgring

Martin Wollanka has TQ’d the opening round of 2WD qualifying the Euro Offroad Series in Germany.  Having topped seeding yesterday, the Xray driver took full advantage of leading away the field putting in a faultless 5-minute run to top the times ahead of reigning champion Lee Martin.  Martin would end up 3/10ths of a second down on Wollanka with his Yokomo team-mate Marc Rheinard completing the Top 3.  Top Qualifier on the last visit to the Nurburgring, Neil Cragg would mange only P7, the Team Associated driver afterward saying he didn’t drive well and admitting he struggled with the switch back to 2WD after last night’s 4WD practice.

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September 16, 2016

Coelho extends advantage to top 4WD seeding at EOS

Bruno Coelho extended his advantage over his rivals in the final round of practice at the Nurburgring to secure the top seeding for 4WD at the Euro Offroad Series season opener.  Having set an impressive pace in CP1, topping that run from Michal Orlowski, the Xray driver would go over 2/10ths quicker extending his gap over the Schumacher driver, who didn’t improve, to over 6/10th over 3-laps.  Summing up his commanding start to the weekend, the reigning champion said ‘it’s all perfect’.  Behind Orlowski, Lee Martin would improve to the third quickest time ahead of Coelho’s team-mate Martin Wollanka with Marc Rheinard, another who failed to improve dropping from 3rd to 5th.

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September 16, 2016

Coelho heads time in first 4WD practice

Bruno Coelho has topped the times for the first round of 4WD controlled practice at the Euro Offroad Series season opener.  Back at the Nurburgring where he made his EOS debut 12-months ago before going on to be champion, the Xray driver had almost a 4/10ths advantage over his rivals over the 3-consecutive lap times that will determine the seeding for qualifying.  Closest to the winner of the last three 4WD EOS encounters would be Michal Orlowski, the Schumacher driver the only one able to match Coelho’s 18-second fastest lap pace. A sizeable gap back, Yokomo’s Marc Rheinard would complete the Top 3 followed by team-mate Lee Martin and Xray’s Martin Bayer.

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September 16, 2016

Lorenzo Crolla takes double French EP Buggy title

The recent final round of the French 1/10th Electric Off-road National Championship saw Armand Lanthaume (Xray) and Lorenzo Crolla (Xray) battle it out for the title in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. Lorenzo was able to pull fast laps from the get go and despite being hampered by some setup issues in the final 2WD qualifiers he was able to take the overall TQs in both classes. In the 2WD finals Lorenzo’s task of the day was to finish in the top 3 in order to wrap up the title and the mission was accomplished as he scored two P2 and a P1 finish to end the day on the runner-up spot behind team mate Armand Lanthaume. Ludovic Valtier (Team Associated) completed the top 3 podium result.

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September 16, 2016

Wollanka tops 2WD seeding at Nurburgring

Martin Wollanka will be the top seed for tomorrow’s 2WD qualifying at the opening round of the Euro Offroad Series at the Nurburgring.  The Xray driver would be the only driver to complete 3-consecutive laps in 58-seconds when he went fastest in the final round of practice outpacing reigning champion Lee Martin by 2/10ths.  Having set the pace in the first of the two controlled practices runs, Michal Orlowski would fail to improve on his time which was still good enough for third.  Making the biggest improvement of CP2, Marc Rheinard would jump from 7th in the first round to post P4 as the other three drivers who made up the Top 6 in the first practice were unable to better their times.

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September 16, 2016

Orlowski sets pace at EOS season opener

Michal Orlowski has set the pace for the first controlled practice at the Euro Offroad Series season opener at the Nurburgring.  With the track needing to be tweaked after each of the opening two free practice runs this morning, the Schumacher driver would lay down the fastest 3-consecutive lap time for the first of the two practice rounds that will determine the seeding of 2WD qualifying heats.  Super close at the top of the time sheets, Orlowski would be just .0001 of a second faster than reigning Champion Lee Martin with Martin Wollanka completing the Top 3 ahead of Neil Cragg.

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September 16, 2016

Max Götzl sweeps Off-road Party Cup Rd6

Round six of he Czech Off-road Party Cup was held in Kolin and the race saw Max Götzl taking the TQ in both the 1/8th nitro and E-buggy classes. Max dominated the nitro finals to take his first win of the weekend and he would also come out on top of the field in E-buggy although he had some problems in the opening A-main. Ultimately he would bring home A2 and A3 for the overall win and his second title of the day.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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September 15, 2016

Patrick Hofer wins Swiss E-Buggy Rd3 & Rd4

Round three and four of the Swiss 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals were held in Lütisburg on the astroturf track of the BC Hornets club. Round 3 of the championship was hosted on Saturday and it was the duo of Patrick Hofer and Kevin Zwahlen that battled for the victory with Patrick ultimately taking the winning honours and he was able to keep the momentum for Sunday’s round four that he would TQ and win in style to round out a perfect weekend.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

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