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4 different TQs as Ronnefalk survives Cav tangle to top Q4

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 07:57 AM PST

Qualifying at the 1:10 4WD Offroad World Championship produced yet another different TQ as David Ronnefalk took the fourth round despite a last lap tangle with former Champion Ryan Cavalieri that would cost the HB Racing driver over 2-seconds. Luckily however for the reigning 1:8 Offroad World Champion his predecessor Ty Tessmann would make a 5-second mistake of his own doing on the final lap allowing the Swede claim his first TQ run by 3-seconds over the Canadian. For Ronnefalk, who hasn’t run outside the Top 3 all day, the TQ puts him as the overnight provisional TQ holder over Tessmann. However, with rain forecast for tomorrow, should the fifth and final qualifier be cancelled reverting the standings to count 2 from 4 rather than 3 from 5, then it is Tessmann who will be declared Top Qualifier due to having the quicker TQ time which explains Ronnefalk’s frustration at being obstructed by Cavalieri. Overall it was a dramatic end to Day 2 of the event with the top heat also seeing Ryan Maifield retire after 3-laps while laying down the TQ pace with a broken arm and reigning champion Bruno Coelho having TQ’d the previous round tangled with Michal Orlowski eventually retiring after a series of crashes. A clean round from Dakotah Phend would reward the TLR driver with third, his best qualifier, ahead of Joern Neumann, also having his best run of the day, Spencer Rivkin and Dustin Evans.

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VPR EB410 aluminium option parts

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 07:55 AM PST

Coming from VRP and made for the Tekno EB410 1/10th 4WD buggy are several new aluminium option parts. The range includes a front and rear 7075 aluminium shock tower, an aluminium front camber link plate and a battery strap. The front and rear shock towers are made out of 7075 grade aluminium and feature double beveled edges making them carpet and turf friendly. The front camber link plate and battery strap are also made from 7075 grade aluminium and feature a double re-opted look with silver edges to add that bling factor to the buggy.

Source: VRP [visionracingproducts.com]

Team Associated 2017 Worlds T-shirt

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 07:35 AM PST

Team Associated have introduced their new 2017 World T-shirt as it is worn by AE’s factory team at this week’s IFMAR 1/10th Off-road World Championships in Xiamen, China. The tee is made from 100 percent cotton material, it comes in black and with all-new front and rear graphics. The shirt is available from now on in S to 5XL sizes.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

Baldo brothers join Kyosho Europe

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 06:21 AM PST

Kyosho Europe have announced the signing of Bryan and Oscar Baldo to their team. After a season with TLR and Horizon Hobby the two Spanish frontrunners have decided to change gear again and to go for Kyosho as their new home.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

Jason Woolridge wins at Battle Of The Sikest

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 06:05 AM PST

The Battle of the Sikest was held at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Texas recently. Jason Woolridge (Xray) would sweep the Open Nitro Buggy class by taking the TQ and win from Brian Rohde 2nd. Kyosgo driver Brian Beck rounded out the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Xray Racing Series Slovenia Rd1 – Report

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 04:51 AM PST

The Genius ring indoor track recently played host to round 1 of the Xray Racing Series Slovenia. Drivers from six different countries attended the event with some big names being present such as Jan Raitheisky, Andrea Ghilotti, B.A. Arnaldi and many others. The Touring Stock 13.5T class, run with XRS handout motors, was TQ’d by Jan Ratheisky from Andrea Ghilotti and B.A. Arnaldi. The 21.5T formula class, also run with handout motors, again went to Jan with Matej Dobnikar and Daniele Conte coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Finally in 1/12th scale Pan Car it was Valentin Mis with the TQ from Simone Bellin and Lorenzo Milanese.

The finals of the Touring Stock saw fierce battles between Jan, Andrea and B.A. In the first leg Jan had a contact with a back marker while leading the final as did Andrea, so both lost many places, allowing B.A. to take the win. In second final had Jan and Andrea making contact which again promoted B.A. into the lead and never looking back he would take the day’s win from Andreas 2nd and Jan 3rd overall.

Touring Stock results:
1. B.A. Arnaldi – Xray
2. Andrea Ghilotti – Xray
3. Jan Ratheisky – Xray
4. Edoardo Repetti – Xray
5. Luca Giovannoni – Awesomatix
6. Viktor Bolšec – Xray
7. Rok Rudl – Xray
8. Jan Pernarčič – Xray
9. Alojzij Osvald – Xray
10.Matej Miklavec – Xray

In the Formula class TQ Jan would be able to convert the pole position into a win from Matej and Herfried.

Formula final results:
1. Jan Ratheisky – Xray
2. Matej Dobnikar – Xray
3. Herfried Pucher – Shepherd
4. Matevž Furlan – Xray
5. Luca Conte – Shepherd
6. Joshua Milanese – Yokomo
7. Luka Školaris – Xray
8. Lele Mazzolini – Xray

Finally in 1/12th Pan Car it was Valentin Mis with the win from Goran Vignjevič and Simone Bellin.

1/12 Pan Car results:
1. Valentin Mis – Serpent
2. Goran Vignjevič – Xray
3. Simone Bellin – Team Associated
4. Lorenzo Milanese – Yokomo

Source: Xray [teamxray.om]

Xray Racing Series Poland Rd1 – Report

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 04:18 AM PST

The opening round of the Xray Racing Series Poland was held in Lodz. The event took place in a newly-built sports hall and the track, laid out with EOS carpet and using new jumps, made for real EOS feeling. Bartlomiej Zambrzycki made a clean sweep in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes by taking the TQ and win in both at round 1. Bartosz Zalewski obtained the runner-up spot in 2WD from Jakub Luczak 3rd with the two swapping places in the 4WD ranking, handing Jakub the overall 2nd place from Bartosz 3rd.

2WD Buggy final results:
1. Bartlomiej Zambrzycki – Yokomo
2. Bartosz Zalewski – Yokomo
3. Jakub Luczak – Xray
4. Wojciech Rzepecki – Team Associated
5. Pawel Ntkovca – Xray
6. Sebastian Migal – Schumacher
7. Wojtek Migal – Schumacher
8. Bartlomiej Kramza – Schumacher
9. Szymon Luczak – Xray
10.Sergiusz Kulak – Xray

4WD Buggy final results:
1. Bartlomiej Zambrzycki – Yokomo
2. Jakub Luczak – Xray
3. Bartosz Zalewski – Yokomo
4. Wojciech Rzepecki – Xray
5. Sebastian Migal – Schumacher
6. Szymon Luczak – Xray
7. Bartlomiej – Schumacher
8. Wojciech Migal – Schumacher
9. Marek Cisek – Xray
10.Sergiusz Kulak – Xray

Truck Pro final results:
1. Trella Pawel – Xray
2. Krus Kuba – Xray
3. Cichocki Aleksander – Xray
4. Pawlak Jan – Xray

Rookie final results:
1. Kramza Artur – Schumacher
2. Gajzler Arkadiusz – Xray
3. Rogodzinski Damian – Xray
4. Cichocki Aleksander – Xray
5. Zebrowski Jakub – Schumacher
6. Trella Piotr – Xray
7. Zalewski Jan – Yokomo
8. Delag Wiktor – Xray
9. Cytryniak Jan – Yokomo
10 Buczkowski Wiktor – Xray

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

4 different TQs as Ronnefalk survives Cav tangle to top Q4

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 02:53 AM PST

Qualifying at the 1:10 4WD Offroad World Championship produced yet another different TQ as David Ronnefalk took the fourth round despite a last lap tangle with former Champion Ryan Cavalieri that would cost the HB Racing driver over 2-seconds. Luckily however for the reigning 1:8 Offroad World Champion his predecessor Ty Tessmann would make a 5-second mistake of his own doing on the final lap allowing the Swede claim his first TQ run by 3-seconds over the Canadian. For Ronnefalk, who hasn’t run outside the Top 3 all day, the TQ puts him as the overnight provisional TQ holder over Tessmann. However, with rain forecast for tomorrow, should the fifth and final qualifier be cancelled reverting the standings to count 2 from 4 rather than 3 from 5, then it is Tessmann who will be declared Top Qualifier due to having the quicker TQ time which explains Ronnefalk’s frustration at being obstructed by Cavalieri. Overall it was a dramatic end to Day 2 of the event with the top heat also seeing Ryan Maifield retire after 3-laps while laying down the TQ pace with a broken arm and reigning champion Bruno Coelho having TQ’d the previous round tangled with Michal Orlowski eventually retiring after a series of crashes. A clean round from Dakotah Phend would reward the TLR driver with third, his best qualifier, ahead of Joern Neumann, also having his best run of the day, Spencer Rivkin and Dustin Evans.

‘I’m still pissed because if it rains tomorrow Ty will be TQ. Cavalieri cost me the best time on the last lap so that (Q5 being rained off) would suck’, was Ronnefalk’s response when asked about Q4. He continued, ‘Cavalieri spun around at the chicane and I thought he was going to let me by but he didn’t. Luckily I got the TQ because Ty crashed on his last lap’. Claiming his first Electric Offroad Worlds Championship podium 2-years ago in Japan, he concluded, ‘I am happy anyway because the car has been great so we’ll just have to wait and see what it is going to do to tomorrow’. Currently organisers are working off a forecast that will see it ran from 06:00 to 07:00 in the morning which should mean no delays to the timetable a round of free practice scheduled at 08:35 ahead of the final round of qualifying.

Summing up his Q4 attempt, Tessmann said, ‘It was good until the last lap’. The Xray driver continued, ‘the track is really difficult to get around but I was just pushing too hard to try catch David’. Asked about his error in the centre section, most onlookers missing it having been distracted by Ronnefalk’s tangle with Cavalieri, he replied, ‘I don’t really know what happened, the car just tumbled about 15 feet’. The result of the error was a 29.5 lap time compared to his previous 24.6 lap.

‘I ran the whole time without a mistake. I was quite a bit slower but I was more consistent and it paid off’, was Phend’s reaction to his best run of the day, his overall time 6-seconds quicker than his previous best of P8 in Q1. Having made changes to his car for the round, he said they had made the car ‘a lot safer to drive but slower’. Also going more safe at the controls driving at a ‘half decent pace’, he said ‘nearly everyone made two mistakes, it is getting harder every run out there but this time our approach paid off in the end’. Feeling they might have gone a bit too far with the set-up changes he plans to ‘go back a little to gain a little more speed for tomorrow’.

‘So so, two times I had to single the double and one time I had a big mistake’, was how top seed Neumann summed up the penultimate qualifier. The German, who is racing without a chassis sponsor and has opted to use an Xray, continued, ‘today the track is more difficult to drive than yesterday’. Sitting 6th in the overnight ranking he added, ‘I hope to end up Top 5 after qualifying because I think the finals will be wide open. Four different drivers have TQ’d which shows just how tough it is’. Behind Neumann, Spencer Rivkin would continue to be the best of the Associated drivers with fifth for the round combined with his Q1 TQ leaving him holding 5th overnight. AE team-mate Dustin Evans would end his day with a P6, his best result of the day. Needing to get a good result in Q5 to make the A-Main, he sits 12th overall which is one better than team-mate and former champion Ryan Cavalieri.

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Mustafa Alp wins at Italian UISP Nationals

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 02:50 AM PST

The Italian UISP Nationals were held at Indoor Racing Chilelli in Scrivia, Italy. The race schedule was free practice on Saturday followed by triple qualifiers and triple mains on Sunday. Classes run included Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T Stock, Touring 17.5T Stock as well as Formula, 1/10th Pan Car and LRP Blast Truck. In 13.5T Stock it was Xray’s Mustafa Alp, who TQ’d round 1 and 3 of the qualifiers while sitting out Q2 to save tyres. In the finals it was again Mustafa on the top spot from the Capricorn of Federico Barbieri and Team Associated driver Davide Ongaro.

Touring 13.5T final results:
1. Mustafa Alp – Xray
2. Federico Barbieri – Capricorn
3. Davide Ongaro – Team Associated
4. Umberto Pernice – Team Associated
5. Andrea Simari – Capricorn
6. Nico Catelani – Xray
7. Davide Bertuzzi – Xray
8. Ruggero Zanusso – Team Associated
9. Alessio Valentini – Team Associated
10. Andrea Valerio – Xray

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Paparegas takes 6th consecutive Greek IC Buggy title

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 02:21 AM PST

The fourth and final round of Greek 1/8th Buggy Championship took place at the Renti track with drivers from all over Greece attending the event. Reigning champion, Tasos Paparegas (Xray) was in attendance to defend his title with a 4th place overall being enough for him to take another national title. Qualifying went well for him but at the start of the A-main he went into issues with slower drivers that send him dead last. However Tasos would start a comeback and ultimately he would end the race on the 3 spot which was enough for him to take his sixth consecutive title. Anapoliotakis (Tekno) would end the day on the highest step of the podium from Kyosho driver Papanikolaou in 2nd. Overall in the championship, Anapoliotakis took the runner-up spot from Papanikolaou 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

World Champion Coelho delivers first TQ run

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 02:05 AM PST

Reigning World Champion Bruno Coelho ‘finally’ delivered his first TQ run in China as he became the first driver to run 13-laps at Xiamen ARC International Raceway. With a P4 for the opening round and a P5 in Q2, the Xray driver produced his cleanest run on his third attempt to top the times from David Ronnefalk and Ryan Maifield – the consistent duo of qualifying so far switching their Top 3 order of the previous two rounds. With Coelho the third different driver to top the times in qualifying, Q2 pace setter Ty Tessmann would back it up with a P4 while Spencer Rivkin managed a much improved performance on his previous qualifier to end up 7th for the round.

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World Champion Coelho delivers first TQ run

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 12:15 AM PST

Reigning World Champion Bruno Coelho ‘finally’ delivered his first TQ run in China as he became the first driver to run 13-laps at Xiamen ARC International Raceway. With a P4 for the opening round and a P5 in Q2, the Xray driver produced his cleanest run on his third attempt to top the times from David Ronnefalk and Ryan Maifield – the consistent duo of qualifying so far switching their Top 3 order of the previous two rounds. With Coelho the third different driver to top the times in qualifying, Q2 pace setter Ty Tessmann would back it up with a P4 while Spencer Rivkin managed a much improved performance on his previous qualifier to end up 7th for the round.

Opting to leave his Hobbywing powered XB4 unchanged for Q3 having ‘got the car very good’ for the second qualifier, Coelho reaction was one of relief as he summed up his performance with ‘finally’. The reigning European Champion, a title he won on dirt while his World and EOS titles all come on artificial surfaces, he said, ‘I just went out to make a clean run and while that didn’t actually happen because I hit the pipe at the start after a hard comeback I could get the TQ’. Having struggled to get his car to his liking throughout the six rounds of practice and the opening qualifier, he said improvements in Q2 gave him confidence and leaving the car unchanged he could focus more on his driving. With just one qualifier remaining on today’s schedule, the fifth & final qualifier taking place tomorrow morning ahead of the final, he said his focus for Q4 is to keep the car the same and learn to drive it better around the track without having to readjust to changes to the set-up.

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Video – 4wd Qualifying Rd2

Posted: 17 Nov 2017 12:13 AM PST

Tessmann takes Q2 in China

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 11:37 PM PST

Ty Tessmann has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the 1:10 Offroad World Championships in China. Having opened 4WD qualifying with a P5 run, the Xray driver found 7-seconds to top Q2 by a 1.4-second margin from Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield who posted another P2 run. Despite a number of mistakes over the 5-minutes, David Ronnefalk would have the pace to again complete the Top 3, the HB Racing driver posting the fastest lap on his penultimate lap to finish a further 1.1-seconds off Maifield. Having failed to finish Q1, Ryan Cavalieri would recover with a fourth for the round while Associated team-mate and Q1 pace setter Spencer Rivkin had a messy round ending up 19th fastest.

’That went really good’, was how Tessmann summed up his TQ performance. With driver’s getting just one warm-up lap prior to the heat start, he continued, ‘the car felt good in the warm-up but I didn’t make the double right and had to roll the jump so I was a a bit nervous at the start but in the race I made it every time and only had to roll it once’. Happy they have improved his XB4, the former 1:8 World Champion also felt tyres was a contributing factor. With the race using a hand out tyre, the Canadian said, ‘I think there is a big difference in the tyre batch to batch both in the grip and the wear. That was the first time I had a set go bald and the tyre had more grip. I’ve had a set with zero grip, good grip and somewhere in the middle. I think who goes fastest depends of the tyres’.

Summing up his second qualifying attempt, Maifield said, ‘I had a little bit of a mistake at the beginning and luckily stopped to let David (Ronnefalk) go by and then he did the same thing and let me go by so we worked well together on that. The newly crowned 2WD World Champion continued, ‘I also landed the table top weird and flat landed but apart from that I was going good and the car is working really nice’. He concluded, ‘we have good points to start with and we’ll keep going’.

‘Two third places is a good start as it could have been a lot worse’, was how Ronnefalk summed up Q2. The Swede continued, ‘the lap times feel great and the car is amazing but I need to relax a little. The racing is so intense. I need to stay more relaxed for the next one’. Giving an example of the intensity he said, ‘Myself, Maifield and Spencer got really close coming onto the straight. There was no space between the cars. It was not possible to drive. I was checking what Spencer was doing and wasn’t sure how he was going to jump and so I went for it but over jumped and crashed at the second double. Even with a lot of crashes I was still up there so if I can cut out some of them its got to be better’.

‘A lot better’, was Cavalieri’s reaction after the second of the five scheduled qualifiers, there still a threat of rain tomorrow. The former champion continued, ‘We changed everything on the car. I pretty much ran the same as Spencer so we finally have something that works’. Admitting to ‘stressing out every round’ prior to Q2, the American said ‘now I can relax and get on with driving’. Asked about his qualifier, Rivkin said, ‘I drove too slow. I wasn’t attacking like in the first round and it bit me’. Behind Cavalieri, Bruno Coelho and Joern Neumann would complete the Top 6.

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Rivkin surprises to TQ opening qualifier

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 09:17 PM PST

Spencer Rivkin has taken a surprise TQ in the opening round of 4WD qualifying at the World Championships in China. Seeding 8th in the fastest heat after a disappointing 2WD campaign, the former champion took the first of the 5-scheduled rounds of qualifying from his 2WD World Champion successor Ryan Maifield, the American duo separated by half a second. Behind them, David Ronnefalk would recover from an early mistake to complete the Top 3 ahead of reigning champion Bruno Coelho, Ty Tessmann and Naoto Matsukura. Having topped yesterday’s seeding in Xiamen, Joern Neumann have a costly mistake that cost him 6-seconds as he waited on marshals leaving the German with a P12 for the opening round.

‘I was not expecting that. I didn’t think the car was capable of such a run’, was Rivkin’s reaction to his TQ, the Associated driver more surprised than anyone that he got a TQ run. Having failed to make the A-Main in his 2WD title defence, the just turned 20-year-old continued, ‘we changed something on the car and it paid off so I just drove it. I can definitely drive better for sure. I really didn’t have much confidence going in the heat’. Looking to Q2, having also posted the fastest lap of Q1, he said, ‘we have changed the car every run, now I’m going to leave it and work on my driving. I know I can do better on the steering inputs’.

Summing up his P2, Maifield declared it ‘not bad’ adding, ‘I had just one mistake at the beginning, well, I got a little loose and Naoto collected me’. The Yokomo driver continued, ‘I also had some traffic. It wasn’t much of a problem it was more just nerve racking getting passed.’ Suffering another small mistake later in the run he said, ‘I had a bobble near the end, I hit the pipe and had to do a U turn but the car is working really well and I know what & where I am going with line choices so it looking good for the next one’.

‘Considering the start it was a good comeback at the end’, was Ronnefalk’s view of the opening qualifier. The HB Racing driver continued, ‘I also had a car blocking me for the last two minutes. It was Naoto. He was fast one lap and would then slow me down the next one so I could have gone faster if I didn’t have to worry about what he was doing. I said it to the referee after but he said he didn’t see it’. For Q2 the Swede said, ‘I will try to eliminate the mistake at the start and see if can find a way to make the car easy to drive out of the gate. It takes a couple of laps to get going but otherwise I’m happy with the car’.

Almost 3-seconds off Rivkin’s pace, Coelho declared his run as ‘not perfect’ but was happy that they ‘improved the car a lot from CP3 to now’. The Xray driver said he lost 5-seconds with mistakes early on admitting he was ’not very confident for the round’ but with a better set-up he ‘got better over the round’ and he is now more confident in the car and his driving for the next one. Declaring his XB4 as now working ‘good but still not perfect’ he concluded, ‘we are on the right way now so we just need to make small changes to get it better’.

Xray team-mate Tessmann was also happier with his car. The Canadian said, ‘we made a couple more changes after practice for this one and it was better. I made the jump section everytime’. Suffering ‘one marshal and one bobble’ he said, ‘we got the speed and just need to get rid of the crashes now’. Asked if he planned to adjust his car for Q2 he replied, ‘we will see how the track goes. It is very inconsistent so it hard to get around without crashing’.

Matsukura’s view on Q1 was to the point, the Japanese driver saying, ‘the car good, me no good’. The Infinity team driver added, ‘I had many many mistakes so I have to work on my driving, the car I will leave the same’. Behind Matsukura, Kyle McBride would finish get a P7 for the round from the second fastest heat ahead of Dakota Phend, Dustin Evans and Lee Martin.

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