This past weekend Kyle Rhodes attended the 2nd annual Nitro X race which took place at Wolcott Hobby and Raceway in Wolcott CT and sent us this report. ‘I would be competing in 1/8th nitro buggy. Friday was scheduled for practice. I spent most of the day prepping my car and ran a few times to get the layout down and shake my MP9 TKI3 down. The event pulled in close to 100 entries.
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Round 5 of the Short Course Showdown Nation Wide Tour brought us to Phoenix Arizona to Warehouse 3. Warehouse 3 is absolutely beautiful facility. Located in a very new building in a multi-business strip mall, it has the perfect location to have a track and full RC Hobby shop. The schedule for the weekend consisted of practice on Friday, 3 Quals on Saturday, 1 Qual on Sunday and 7 minute finals for all classes with bump ups. Some of the areas fastest drivers were in attendance from both Team Associated as well as Team Losi Racing. Team Associated had Brian Kinwald one of the greatest Champions our industry has ever had join us as well as their up and coming young guns, Spencer Rivkin and Tommy Hinz. From Team Losi Racing we had Chris Wheeler, Chuck Hicks and Rocco Epler. The track went live at 10am sharp with the unique heads up qualifying style that is very popular in the Showdown and we had some great races. Qualifying went well both Saturday and Sunday and set the stage for some very thrilling finals. But before the finals could begin, we had our racer raffle to thank all our racers for joining us. Our great sponsors support the showdown so very well and give so much back to the racers, all the participants received some wonderful door prizes to help make the experience at the Showdown special.
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The fifth round of 2014 1/10 Off Road Swiss National Championship was held at Dielsdorf (EOCD Club) this past weekend. The weather conditions were changing, with rain, meaning the surface of the track remained slippery with the club making huge efforts to keep conditions as good as possible. The qualification runs were very interesting and difficult for the drivers due to weather changes and track conditions changing from wet to dry. Patrick Hofer, running his B5M and B44.2 powered by Reedy motors and batteries, managed these conditions best in both 2WD and 4WD categories, taking TQ in both classes. During the finals, Patrick focused his attention and concentration on the track conditions to take the win in every run on each category ahead of Peter Forster and Gregi Gassman in 2wd and Nico Schmitt and Peter Forster in 4wd.
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Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake won Pro Truck at the 2014 Battle of the Sikest at Thunder Alley R/C Raceway last weekend. Drake TQ’d all four rounds of qualifying and won the first two A mains to take the overall victory with his Novarossi powered TLR 8ight T 3.0 equipped with Pro-Line M3 Holeshot tires. Drake also TQ’ed Pro Buggy and finished second behind Ryan Lutz.
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Last weekend was the oOple Invernational race held at Robinhood raceway in the UK on their unique clay track. The event has become very popular in it’s short time on the race calendar with racers and their family’s and it’s easy to see why! The race finds the perfect balance of some serious racing on the track but lots of fun off the track on Friday and Saturday evenings. Friday consisted of open practice starting at 11:30am which went well on the perfectly presented track until around 4pm when the rain arrived! The covers were pulled over the track in a Wimbledon style fashion whilst the torrential rain passed over. Unfortunately the water managed to find it’s way onto the track in a few places and ruined the hard work that had been put in. The track team and several racers worked very hard to get the track useable again and practice re-started only for the rain to return so they called it a day at that.
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David Ronnefalk has successfully defended his 1:8 Offroad European Championship title with a convincing victory in Sand am Main. Having set the benchmark all week at the German event, the Kyosho star took an easy win over the Xray of Martin Wollanka but a mistake on the opening lap meant the Swede didn’t have it as easy as was expected. Making a mistake on the opening lap when on the run up the hill he landed his Orion powered MP9 on the track marker this allowed Darren Bloomfield to the front of the 1-hour main which also saw the Xray’s of Martin Bayer and Renaud Savoya lead for a time the 12-car field. After an entertaining opening 15-minutes Ronnefalk got back to the front and finding the composed form he has shown all week pulled clear to resume control. With first time finalist Wollanka securing a surprise second and his team-mate Renaud Savoya retiring from 3rd with a clutch bearing failure with 5-minutes to go the race for the final podium placing would be fought out by former Champions Darren Bloomfield and Robert Batlle. In the end it was Agama’s Bloomfield who came out on top with Batlle who found himself last at the end of the opening lap having to settle for fourth.
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Just as he did last year enroute to winning his first 1:8 Offroad European Championship title, David Ronnefalk will start the Main Final in Sand am Main from pole position. Top Qualifier for the event the Kyosho driver cruised to an easy win over the man who he took the title from Darren Bloomfield but it was the second of the Semi Finals that provided the drama. On target for a repeat of Ronnefalk’s domination of the first Semi, World Champion Robert Batlle’s Mugen would in the final 30-seconds of the 20-minute encounter come to a halt coming up the hill due to a battery failure. Luckily for the Spaniard, who won the last time the championships were hosted at the German track, he had completed just enough laps to claim sixth despite not going the full distance, the last bump up position, to progress to the final.
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With the week starting out with 169 drivers only 24 now remain in contention to become the 34th 1:8 Offroad European Champion at Sand am Main with the 1/4 Finals deciding the 8 drivers who will join the 16 direct qualifiers in the Semi Finals.
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