October 25, 2014

Impressive Wernimont secures overall TQ at EOS Rd1

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Carson Wernimont has become the first American to TQ a round of the European high profile Euro Offroad Series, the Schumacher driver securing pole position for the season opener in Poland from reigning champion Naoto Matsukura.  Going into the final qualifier in a three way shootout for the honour of Top Qualifier with Yokomo pairing Matsukura and Lee Martin, third behind Joern Neumann and Jesper Rasmussen was enough for Wernimont to achieve something his fellow countrymen Ryan Cavalieri, Dustin Evans and Mike Truhe failed to do.

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October 25, 2014

Wernimont cracks carpet surface at EOS

Wernimont cracks carpet surface at EOS

American talent Carson Wernimont has made a break through in terms of racing on European style indoor tracks by claiming an impressive TQ run double at the Euro Offroad Series in Poland.  Having shown strongly in practice yesterday for what is only his second time to race on carpet, he finally put his Schumacher at the top the time sheets in Q4 going on to back that up in Q5 with a second TQ run.  The result puts 17-year-old old in contention alongside defending Champion Naoto Matsukura and Lee Martin for the overall 2WD TQ going into the sixth & final qualifier at the EOS #4 season opener.

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October 25, 2014

Martin tops 2WD Q3 at EOS

Martin tops 2WD Q3 at EOS

Lee Martin topped the third round of 2WD qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series in Poland.  With Yokomo team-mate Naoto Matusukra setting the pace in the opening two qualifiers at the Poznan event, a mistake by the defending champion allowed Martin to go top of the timing screens to take take the round by one & a half seconds from Team Durango’s Joern Neumann.  After struggling in Q2, Schumacher’s Carson Wernimont completed the Top 3 while further mistakes from Matsukura would see him end up 14th fastest.

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October 24, 2014

Matsukura sets 4WD pace at EOS Poznan

Matsukura sets 4WD pace at EOS Poznan

Naoto Matsukura made it a good first day for Yokomo at the opening round of the Euro Offroad Series in Poznan, Poland, as he topped 4WD practice with team-mate Lee Martin having set the pace in 2WD earlier in the day.  The Japanese driver, who TQ’d the finale of last season’s EOS, was distinctly quicker than his rival over 3-consecutive laps with Team Xray’s Martin Wollanka 1.4-second off with the second fastest time.  With only 4/10ths of a second covering the next five drivers, defending champion Joern Neumann completed the Top 3 for the two timed practice rounds that will be used to seed the heats for 4WD qualifying which takes place at ‘Hobby’ on Sunday.

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October 24, 2014

Martin tops 2WD practice at EOS season opener

Martin tops 2WD practice at EOS season opener

Lee Martin got the new season of the Euro Offroad Series underway in the best way possible way as he topped 2WD practice in Poznan, Poland.  The Yokomo driver headed a 1-2 for the Japanese manufacturer with defending champion Naoto Matusukura posting the second fastest time over 3-consecutive laps.  Winner of last year’s ‘Hobby’ hosted event Hupo Honigl took his Team C to the third fastest time with an impressive performance from Schumacher’s of US driver Carson Wernimont securing him fourth in the reseeding for tomorrow’s 2WD qualifying.  Having TQ’d here 12-months ago it was a tough practice for Wernimont’s team-mate Tom Cockerill, the English driver only able for 11th fastest.

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October 23, 2014

1st annual Shiverville Worlds – Report

1st annual Shiverville Worlds – Report

The 1st annual Shiverville Worlds was held at Shiverville Raceway in High Springs, FL. Brian Lewis, Landon Lewis along with the entire Shiverville family and crew prepped an amazingly smooth track surface for the 2-day race format. The flowing yet technical layout provided close and fair racing all weekend. In the 2WD Modified class Team Associated drivers Jason Ruona and Paul Wynn TQ’d all three rounds of qualifying and positioned themselves 1 and 2 on the starting grid for Sunday’s double A-main events. In the 4WD and 4×4 SCT Modified classes John Bernard Jr was top of the class taking TQ in both classes to put his TLR 22-4 and Tekno SCT vehicles on pole position respectively.

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October 23, 2014

Dustin Evans doubles at Lunsford Race

Dustin Evans doubles at Lunsford Race

North West Hobbies hosted the 1st ever Lunsford Race in Albany, Oregon to celebrate one of the most influential individuals in the hobby today, Kelly “Mr. Titanium” Lunsford of Lunsford Racing. Like the metal, he’s no ordinary personality and after a quick chat you’ll come to realize what a stand up individual he is. Positive, light-hearted, and always willing to help, he’s given more to this sport than ever asked of. Because this was the 1st ever Lunsford Race, a few special guests were invited to make this event even more spectacular. TLR/Orion drivers Ryan Maifield and Dustin Evans were scheduled to come, but because of sickness Maifield wasn’t able to make it however the former nation champion Dustin Evans did.

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October 23, 2014

Carlos Pineda wins Spanish 2WD champs Rd3

Carlos Pineda wins Spanish 2WD champs Rd3

In the 3rd round of the 2WD Spanish Championship, Carlos Pineda notched up the win to take the Spanish championship down to the wire. Carlos took the overall TQ and win ahead of superstar Robert Battle. The pair fought hard for the overall win but Carlos maintained a consistent pace to win legs 1 and 2 to keeping the championship fight alive heading into the final round.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

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