The opening round of the Spanish Madrid regional championship was held at the Fuencarral track last weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class Oscar Navarro took the TQ from Alberto Garcia and Daniel Vega with the latter taking the win with a 1-lap margin in the 45-minute A-main from Juanma Guillen 2nd and Alberto Garcia 3rd.
Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]
Fenix have introduced a new Pro10 gear differential specifically designed for the popular VIP Performance VTE kit, a prototype ball differential as well as a range of silicone fluids. Starting with the VIP gear diff, the assembly uses a 7mm titanium axle and a new diff housing that allows for proper 235mm specifications. Included in the kit comes a clamping diff hub with M3 and 4-40 unc threads that allows to use either of the two. As for the prototype ball differential, it builds on a 1/4 inch titanium axle for durability and precision, it utilises 16 1/8 inch diff balls for smoothness and like the above gear diff, it will make use of the double thread clamping hub. Last but not least comes Fenix’s new silicone fluid range that covers everything from shock to touring diff up to gear diff silicone oils. The 100 percent pure silicone oils are made in Europe and they come in convenient snap cap bottles.
The 2018 Dirt Classics were held at the Elektro Offroad Club in Dielsdorf, Switzerland over the weekend in several electric off-road classes. Aaron Münster would double TQ the 2WD Modified and 4WD Modified Buggy classes and he was able to convert the pole positions into wins also for a perfect sweep. Peter Forster and Philipp Huber in 2nd and 3rd respectively would complete the 2WD podium while Philip Jeisy and Fabian Widmer rounded out the 4WD top 3 results.
Last weekend the fifth round of the Spanish Levante Championship was held at the Elda with some of the region’s fastest drivers in attendance. Kyosho’s Bryan Baldo took the win in the Nitro Buggy A category from Mugen’s Manuel Iniesta on the runner-up spot. Oscar Baldo (Kyosho) came in 3rd from Joan Espasa 4th and Luis Ignacio Candel 5th.
Image: Bryan & Oscar Baldo
Xray have announced the Xray Racing Series South-East Asia will be held at Urban PlaySpace in Singapore on the 2nd and 3rd of June. The event will see Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T Blinky and Formula 21.5T Blinky classes and it will be held at Urban PlaySpace’s iconic roof-top racetrack in down town Singapore. The race will see the attendance of World-class drivers such as Jan Ratheisky and Dominic Quek and more information and sign-up for the event are available here.
The BIG Hamburg club held their 35 years anniversary race this past weekend at their large outdoor dirt track. Classes run were 1/8th Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy and the race attracted some of the country’s fastest off-road racers to compete under perfect weather and track conditions. In the Nitro class and at the start of the 40-minutes main final it was Burak Kilic (Agama) who lead the field from Maik Wiesweg (Mugen) and Berkan Kilic (Agama). The latter ran into trouble later and scored a DNF, making way for Jan Sievert (Mugen). This would then also be the top 3 result at the end of the 40 minutes.
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For the third round of this year’s French 1/10th Electric Buggy National Championship racers travelled to the Bonneville dirt track last weekend. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class Xray’s Armand Lantheaume took the overall TQ and he also won the opening two A-main events for the overall as HB Racing’s Thomas Musso came in 2nd and Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski rounded out the top 3 results. Over in the 2WD Modified Buggy class it was Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski with the win after the triple A-mains. TLR’s Renaud Savoya came in 2nd from young Team Associated driver, Clement Boda in 3rd.
The opening round of the Danish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Skanderborg RC club last weekend. On Saturday the Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy classes would be run and it was Pelle Culmsee who grabbed the TQs in both categories. In Nitro Truggy Pelle had a bit of a troublesome A-main as he got taken out by another driver, nevertheless he was able to win the main in style and in front of Daniel Bubel and Daniel Rose.
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