Carlos Sikora has taken the win in the E-Buggy class at Los CoCos RC in the a Dominican Republic this past weekend. Sikora would drive his JQRacing buggy to victory in the hot, rough and challenging conditions as Francis Ortiz (TLR) would claim 2nd and Luis Garcia (Kyosho) came in 3rd.
Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]
Round 9 of the Nitro X Cross series was geld at the East Shrewsbury club this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was HB Racing’s Graham Alsop with the win a lap in front of runner-up, Agama’s Jonathan Skidmore. Mike Lewis (Team Associated) in 3rd would round out the podium result as Matt Lewis and Jon Howells completed the top 5 result.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
PPM RC Racing have introduced the new RC-Cox 22.5g centre chassis weight for the Xray T4 2018 and 2017 kits. Made from brass and coming with a shiny finish and a laser-etched RC-Cox logo, the weight looks cool and is easy to install, all while helping to add overall weight when needed. The part can help to gain traction in low-grip conditions and it also acts as a battery stopper, ensuring the LiPo pack will not make contact with the front belt.
The Tourlaville club in Northern France hosted the EFRA On-road Large Scale European Championships last week. The championships would be decided in a Touring Car and the Formula class. In the Touring Car final the result was never in doubt as “Mighty” Markus Feldman took his 7th European title – but more significantly his first since 2010 with a lights to flag victory. Behind him the podium places were always in doubt as a battle royale between 2017 Euro Champ Bernard Arnaldi, up and coming star Patrick Folmann and 2016 Champ Giovanni Verbrugghe entertained the huge crowd for over half the 30 minutes of the final. In the end the Dane Folmann tangled with Arnaldi allowing Verbrugghe to slip past for 2nd. Folmann picked up 3rd when Arnaldi had to retire towards the end much to the disappointment of his fellow countrymen lining the track. This left a jubilant Feldmann to take the trophy, which he described as “Easy” thanks to “The fantastic set up and work from my mechanic”.
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Racing action returned to the Singapore-based Urban PlaySpace astroturf buggy track this past weekend with round 4 of the Astro Buggy Champs. Overnight storms saw racers greeted by a very wet track. However, the quick-dry surface meant that the track was fully raceable after just a short delay to the race programme. The day’s racing action would be in the 2WD class only, with the 4WD event rescheduled to another day. Qualifying was as usual super close on this difficult circuit. Racers were having trouble making mistake-free runs. Taking Q1 was Don Cheo, with young gun Sean Lee in 2nd. Fazly Ibrahim would come back to as the drier track yielded its first 19-lap run, while Jody Long recovered from a bad Q1 to take 2nd for the round. TQ would be determined in Q3, and it was Jody who finally TQ-ed a round of qualifying, with another 19-lapper, while Fazly finished 2nd. With both Jody and Fazly tied on overall points, it was Fazly who secured the overall TQ on the tiebreak.
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Coming from Yeah Racing are two new items in the form of magnetic body post markers for 6mm posts and an aluminium fan mount for 1/8th scale motors. Starting with the magnetic post markers, the items help to precisely drill touring car body mount holes as they conveniently locate the body post position on both clear and painted body shells. The set consists of four aluminium body post maskers and four O-shaped magnets and using the tools is very easy as the clamping-style body post markers are simply attached to the body posts, then the body will be put on top and placed as needed. The four magnets will then be placed on top of the body posts from the outside, marking the body post positions while also holding the body in place. Through the magnet’s holes the body post positions can be marked using a sharpie pen and drilled using a reamer. The set is available in red or black colour.
The warm-up to the German 2WD Nationals was held at the MAC Eifel Elos club this past weekend. The event was a double feature as it was a regional qualifying race combined with the German Nationals warm-up. In the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes it was multi-time German National Champion, Schumacher’s Jörn Neumann who lead the way by taking the TQ in both classes and also bringing home the overall victories. Luca Rau (Kyosho) and Michael Leupuschitz (Schumacher) would round out the 2WD Mod Buggy top 3 as Luca Rau (Kyosho) and Jens Becker (Xray) completed the Mod Wheeler podium.
The BRCA 1/8th Track Nationals took place at the popular Halifax track this past weekend. Shepherd’s Andy Hastings took the TQ honours and was pretty much on pace with eventual race winner, Tim Wood (Shepherd), however Andrew unfortunately scored a DNF, allowing Mark Green (Serpent) to take the runner-up spot as Serpent’s Richard Hicklin rounded out the top 3 results.
