WORLDS: Ty Tessmann is the new World Champion

0 Sept. 27, 2014, 8:58 a.m.

9/27/2014
By Aaron Waldron

LiveRC.com

Ty Tessmann was immediately one of the fastest drivers when the clock was turned on during practice over a week ago, he set the fastest time in the first three qualifying rounds on his way to earning overall TQ honors. Two days later he won his semifinal easily, though started from second on the grid due to his time being slower than Even Semifinal winner Ryan Maifield. In the first turn, Ty turned in too early and crashed, but by the second pit stop he was out front and pulling away.

And he never stopped.

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By the time the sixty minute clock expired Tessmann had lapped the field and got by for an extra lap, licking and sealing the envelope on an incredible week in Italy. Each time he pulled into pit lane his father caught the Hot Bodies D812, spun it onto the wall so that his mother could plunge the prototype Pro-Line Fuel Stick into the tank and splash it full of fuel, and get him down and away faster than everyone else. Save for Ryan Lutz, who finished 12th after dropping out of the race just before the 40-minute mark, Tessmann also had the fastest lap of the main event. The win was the first for a Canadian at an IFMAR event, He simply could not be touched.

Second place went to the prototype Team Associated RC8B2 driven by Ryan Cavalieri, who earned the spot by just four seconds after battling back from as low as seventh. The two-time ROAR National Champion bounced all over the running order for the first 55 minutes of the race before moving into the runner-up position and finished four seconds ahead to earn his first podium at the nitro off-road Worlds.

In a race full of surprises, the biggest was no doubt third place finisher Carson Wernimont. The fourth-place finisher in the semifinal showed even more pace in the main event, running among the upper half of the field all race long and moved up to the third spot for good when Kyle McBride crashed with just five minutes to go. Racing in his second IFMAR Worlds and significantly improving on his 1/8-final appearance in Argentina. The typically-happy Southern Californian may not be able to stop smiling for months.

Defending World Champion Robert Batlle flamed out with an empty fuel tank about two-thirds of the way into the race and never recovered, finishing eighth.

Eight drivers ran for the duration, with host country hero Alex Zanchettin getting back out on the track to bring home ninth. IFMAR Worlds heartbreak continued for Ryan Maifield as the early leader going away, who started first via his lightning-quick semifinal time, dropped out of the race with a broken steering servo before the second pit stop. His crew replaced the servo and got him back on the track but he called it quits with a few minutes to go, finishing tenth.

2010 champion Cody King was involved in a bad crash at the start of the race when he hit a car and flew off the track, which broke the front arm. He rejoined the race after it was repaired, only to break another when he hit the railing at the end of pit lane with about twenty minutes to go. Ryan Lutz broke early in the race and dropped out for good around the 38-minute mark, finishing 12th.

Final finish order - 2014 IFMAR 1/8-Scale Off-Road World Championship

Ty Tessmann - Canada (Hot Bodies/O.S./Pro-Line/Nitrotane) - 94/60:35.008
Ryan Cavalieri - USA (Team Associated/Orion/AKA/Sidewinder) - 92/60:03.441
Carson Wernimont - USA (Mugen Seiki/O.S./AKA/Flash Point) - 92/60:07.555
Kyle McBride - Australia (Kyosho/Novarossi/Pro-Line/LRP) - 92/60:10.240
Martin Bayer - Czech Republic (XRAY/FX/AKA/LRP) - 92/60:23.363
Jared Tebo - USA (Kyosho/Orion/AKA/Maxima) - 92/60:28.612
Dakotah Phend - USA (TLR/Orion/Pro-Line/Nitrotane) - 92/60:42.626
Robert Batlle - Spain (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi/Procircuit/Nitrolux) - 91/60:29.200
Alex Zanchettin - Italy (TLR/Novarossi/Pro-Line/MLC) - 73/60:11.661
Ryan Maifield - USA (TLR/Novarossi/JConcepts/Sidewinder) - 58/57:44.718
Cody King - USA (Kyosho/REDS/Pro-Line/Byron) - 56/53:52.541
Ryan Lutz - USA (Durango/Alpha/AKA/Byron) - 25/38:51.657