Riccardo Rabitti has claimed the first of the silverware at the 2009 Arena Offroad Meeting after he cruised to victory in the Brushless Buggy class here tonight at the ‘Arena of Cowboys’. Starting on pole the Italian wrapped up the title early winning the opening two Legs of the triple A-Mains with ease. With the crown secured the Losi driver set himself the challenge for the third leg of running a sub 42 second lap. Taking a hat trick of wins to complete the perfect event he came very close, recording a 42.078. Afterwards Rabitti said he was very happy to win but he must now turn his attentions to improving his performance in the nitro buggy category in which he lies 5th in the overnight qualification ranking.
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Rabitti cruises to Brushless title at the Arena
Tortorici takes Q3 in Italy
Davide Tortorici has TQ’d the penultimate round of qualifying here at the Arena Offroad Meeting with a 7 lap run in 5:21.145. Having sent out a warning shot in Q2 when he took his Crono RS7 to the third fastest, the Italian improved on that time by almost three seconds to top Q3 from Austrian Kyosho driver Martin Karner and the Mugen of former World Championship finalist Matteo Dapporto. Tortorici was helped somewhat by a poor round for the all conquering Losi team with Yannick Aigoin managing only 7th, after a bad choice of set-up & tyres with Martin Bayer one place behind him. Bayer, who again set the fastest lap for the round with a 43.361, said his run was simply down to bad driving on his behalf.
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Raimondo Gilletti wins SM Trophy
The SM Trophy took place last weekend in Messina and the race was attended by former European B Champion Alessio Mazzeo and Euros direct qualifier Biagio Spataro. Qualifying would go the way however of Team Magic factory driver Raimondo Gilletti, setting the TQ spot along with the fastest lap, with Spataro lining up in 2nd and Mazzeo 3rd. In the final Gilletti and Mazzeo traded places early on before Raimondo could take the first place after the 2nd stop and build up a 2 lap gap to take the win.
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Raimondo Gilletti wins SM Trophy
Aigoin ups Arena pace
The second round of qualifying for the Arena Offroad Meeting has been completed with Yannick Aigoin laying down a super fast buggy run of 7-laps in 5:07.797 to finish 10 seconds clear of his nearest rival Losi team-mate Martin Bayer. The French ace said a change of shock pistons and oil resulted in an almost perfect car for the run and he was happy to be able to knock 13 seconds of his Heat 1 time. Despite the huge margin Aigoin plans to try a few small set-up changes for the third and final heat of the day. In Truggy Aigoin once again set the pace bettering his round 1 time by just over a second, again ahead of Bayer.
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Losi rule the Ranch in opening qualifier
Team Losi have got off to a near perfect start in qualifying here at the Arena Offroad Meeting in Italy as their team drivers set the pace in all categories. In Buggy it is Martin Bayer who set was fastest in the first qualifier recording 7 laps in 5:19.794 to head a Losi 1-2-3 from team-mates Yannick Aigoin, who is setting the pace in Truggy, and Brushless pacesetter Ricardo Rabitti.
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Which is Really Faster — Nitro or Electric?
In response to Are You Ready to Go Nitro, Clyde writes,
I have been hearing a lot of people saying that nitro is faster then electric and was just wondering how this rumor got started? Every electric I have owned has walked circles around my nitro. I had a E-Maxx and a T-Maxx, the e-maxx was much faster and bashed a lot better. My E-Revo will outrun any nitro 4wd truggy/buggy that I have seen, of course besides a nitro 4-tec or the like. Brushless technology is producing tons more power then nitro, at a better rpm and pulls into higher speed.
Which is Really Faster — Nitro or Electric? originally appeared on About.com Radio Controlled Vehicles on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 11:25:56.
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