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Izsay crowned Stock Champion
Adam Izsay took the win for the biggest class of the MIBO International Race securing the Stock Touring Car title in Hrotovice from Xray team-mate Oliver Havranek and Enrico Jung. Securing the overall TQ when he took his Xray to the top of the times in 2 of the five qualifiers, the 20-year-old Hungarian would win A1 from the Yokomo of this weekend’s track designer Jung. After that Izsay would have his work cut out for him. In A2 Šimon Horak would go to the front and take the win and then Havranek would get by to win A3. Luckily second on both occasions was enough to seal the deal. In FWD Jung would get the win beating Top Qualifier to the title while in Formula Gergö Valent had the perfect weekend securing the TQ and win A1 & 2 to secure an early title.
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Video – Main Final
Watch how the 2022 IFMAR 1:10 Nitro World Championship unfolded over 60-minutes of intense racing at the RC Addict track in Bangkok, Thailand, where a number of drivers take turns at the front. Commentary from the one and only Scotty Ernst.
Greiner from Matsukura in Q2
It was a battle of the Champions in the second round of qualifying at the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship with 2016 winner Dominic Greiner posting the TQ run ahead of reigning Champion Naoto Matsukura. Leading out the cars for Q2, Q1 pace setter Jilles Groskamp was on for another strong run until he rolled and needing to be marshalled quickly putting him out of contention. Having done the same thing himself in Q1 ending up with a P7, Greiner’s run to the fastest time was not without its moments. The Top Seed used up a lot of his luck reserves as he did a 360 at the end of the straight somehow without hitting anything and also being avoided by the two cars following behind his Capricorn. Despite this Greiner would come back to take the TQ for the round by 1.6-seconds from Matsukura with Infinity team-mate Dario Balerstri completing the Top 3.
‘Almost good’, was how Greiner summed up the second of the six qualifying rounds. He continued, ‘I made a 360 at the end of the straight. I ran wide and drove on the white line and the car spun. I was lucky the other cars didn’t hit me’. A driver always striving for better he was pleased with how his reunion with pit man Thomas Gunsel, saying ‘I had a perfect pit stop’. Having flipped early in Q1, something he admitted after the second qualifier ‘was maybe a driver issue’, the German said, ‘I drove very calm and tried to be smooth on the sections the car can flip and then built up my speed over the qualifier’. Looking to Q3, which will bring the first day of qualifying to a close, he plans to ‘stay same with car’ as ‘hopefully for this one there will be less grip’.
Asked about his performance, Matsukura said, ‘it was not too bad. I had a little mistake, just a small driving error. The track was slower but still edgy so I tried to be smooth with my driving’. Happy with his car’s performance the World Champion over three different RC disciplines said, ‘my focus is to get the points today and then tomorrow I can push more’.
Balestri joked, ‘I just tried to survive on the track’. Top Qualifier at the previous 1:10 World Championship encounter in Miami, he added, ‘I was super slow but had no flip’. A driver chasing the double of 1:8 and 1:10 World Champion, he continued, ‘You really can’t push so I just try to get the points from each heat’.
Posting the fourth fastest time, Tadahiko Sahashi said he improved his car for Q2 having ‘flipped many times’ in the opening round. Another driver who could potentially achieve the double here at RC Addict, the 2013 1:8 World Champion is finding today’s track conditions more tricky compared to yesterday when he topped the opening two rounds of seeding practice. The No.2 seed plans to make further set-up changes for Q3 as he continues to ‘chase the perfect set-up’.
P3 in the first round Jesse Davis took 5th on the second time of asking. Asked how his run was he replied, ‘It was a safe run, not really’. He explained, ‘I crashed one time when I touched the curb and flipped which damaged the rear shock tower so after that I just drove around safe after that’. Continuing he said, ‘I probably could have been 4th or 3rd for the round without the mistake but we’ll fit a new shock tower, and a new rear wing as I broke that too, and we’ll go again’.
Completing the Top 6, Takaaki Shimo said ‘the car is not bad today, yesterday it was super difficult’. Suffering one flip over the 7-minutes he said otherwise the run was OK. Asked if he planned further changes to his Infinity he said, ‘Maybe I will keep it the same and work instead on the driver’.
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Bornhorst leads Tekno 1-2 at Reedy Race
Joe Bornhorst is the surprise points leader at the end of the opening day of the Reedy Race of Champions at OCRC Raceway in California. After four of the 12 rounds of racing, the Tekno driver holds a 1-point lead over new team-mate Jared Tebo thanks to a very consistent day in which he finished all four races in the Top 3 including a win in the second round. Also having a consistent day of 4WD action, Tebo ended his day with his first win of this the 25th running of the race, taking the opening race of the final round ahead of David Ronnefalk. The other winners of the round were Ryan Maifield, who took his second win of the day ahead of defending champion Dustin Evans, with Cole Tollard concluding the day’s Invitational class racing with a win over points leader Bornhorst. The same race would see Ryan Cavalieri finish 5th, the Yokomo driver holding 3rd in the overnight standings with 2 rounds of 4WD to go before the switch to 2WD.
‘How about that. It’s pretty damn cool’, was a very pleased Bornhorst’s reaction to finding himself leading the Reedy Race. On his fourth round performance the American said, ‘I started 3rd and got up to 2nd. I made a little bit of a gap behind me and then started to go for the win but I got caught up in traffic and decided to take the 2 (second place)’. Asked about tomorrow’s racing, he replied, ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. I’m just going keep checking it over and keep on doing thing’.
Tebo described his race as ‘a great run’. Displaying a fresh new lease of life following his signing with Tekno, the former World Champion said, ‘I made no changes to my car all day. It has been really good I just haven’t driven that well or had things go my way but I drove really good that time. It was great racing with Ronnefalk, Orlowski and Haatanen. We were going really fast. It was really intense so I am really happy to get that win. It was a great way to top of the day’. On sitting second in the points, the former Kyosho driver said, ‘Who would have thought I’d be second and Tekno would be sitting 1-2. The car is pretty darn awesome’.
Carrying a 10 from Round 3 which positions him 8th in the Day 1 points table, driver’s allowed one dropped score per class, Maifield was happy to end his day with a second win. The Yokomo driver said, ‘I started 5th and was patient at the beginning and just waiting for the carnage ahead of me to happen. Then I was behind (Pole sitter) Brent (Thielke) and he had a mistake and I got by’. The Arizona driver continued, ‘The run before I thought went good but ended bad’. Starting 8th he added, ‘I was up to second and then crashed on my own and got a 10th from it but hopefully that is my throw away’. Asked about his car he replied, ‘I am just going to check her over and see how tomorrow goes’.
‘I was pretty lucky that one’, was how Evans summed up his P2 for the round. Chasing a third Reedy Race title, the Team Associated driver said each time I start at the back there are zero incidents but this time I got a little luck which is part of the Reedy Race. I’ll take a 2 out that’. Starting 9th on the grid, Evans was promoted to second in the final two minutes of the race when first Brent Thielke and Alex Kosciuszek got together off the front jump. With Kosciuszek waiting to give the place back to Thielke he got collected by Spencer Rivkin allowing Evans to slip by his team-mates for 2nd place. Sitting 5th in the points, Evans said, ‘I am using an 8th right now so I will keep plugging away so I can drop that. For sure I am still in it’. He added, ‘the points are going to be a lot higher this year. It is harder than previous years to get from the back to the front’.
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Chassis Focus – David Ronnefalk
Chassis – HB Racing D817
Engine – Team Orion CRF Factory RS V3 WC
Tyres – JConcepts Detox R2 Compound
Fuel – Runner Time Top 25
Radio/Servos – Sanwa/ Highest D1000
Body – JConcepts Silencer
Remarks – The current IFMAR 1:8th World Champion, David Ronnefalk, is making his first appearance at the Philippine Masters and has displayed very enthusiastic emotions about being here and racing in Asia. The WC is running a basic version of the D817 with the addition of hard arms and carbon fibre stiffener inserts to give him the feel and response that he needs on this sugar/molasses coated track. With the temperatures near 32C, Ronnefalk has gone up in shock oil and diff oil to adjust for the hotter climates here in Manila.
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