Round 3 of the German Hessencup was held at the MSC Ober-Mörlen club last weekend. In the Expert Buggy class it was Carsten Keller with a dominant overall TQ from Lennart Wissel. In the 30-minute main final it was again Carsten who set the pace as he would bring home the win with a 2-laps margin from Tim Kunz 2nd and Lennart Wissel 3rd.
Image: Carsten Keller
The opening round of the NRW Cup was held in Kürten, Germany this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was SWorkz driver, Jan Nickels with the win from Mugen’s Rene van Schaijk on the runner-up spot. Xray’s Sander van Genechten would round out the top 3 result.
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at] | Image: Sander van Genechten
The warm-up race for the 2018 EFRA Electric Touring Car European Championship was held at the 1. MRC Wiener Neustadt track in Vienna, Austria last weekend. In the premier Touring Modified class, that attracted a total of 17 entries, it was Infinity’s Dominic Vogl with the overall TQ after coming out fastest in two of the four qualifiers. Xray’s Oliver Havranek and Alessio Menicucci, who won a qualifier each, came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In Touring 13.5T Stock Oliver made a near clean sweep, winning three qualifying rounds as Awesomatix’s Max Mächler, with one round TQ, came in 2nd.
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The Team James Cup was held this past weekend at the SportsSeoul GRC Track in Kimpo, Korea. The race was attracted by top international drivers as well as local talents but bad weather limited the amount of practice before the event, however things turned to the better on Saturday that was all sunshine. The day started off with three free practice rounds followed by one controlled practice round and three qualifiers with the nice day of racing ending under the floodlights. In the first qualifier, it was Alexander Hagberg who would take the TQ after swapping the lead with Nicholas Lee a couple of times, but the later made a mistake in the final corner. EC Kim would finish 2nd for the round with Lee coming in 3rd, not able to complete his final lap. Hagberg would again TQ in the second qualifier by 0.9s ahead of Lee, with another top local Korean driver, Ahn, coming in 3rd. The last qualifier would be ran under the floodlights. Hagberg would again go out on new tires to secure the overall TQ ahead of Lee on used tires and EC Kim in 3rd with new tires.
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This past weekend saw Rd1 of the Irish National Off-road Series kick off at the popular Badmcc race track. Bradley Baird took his JQ Racing buggies to a double TQ and victory in both Nitro and Electric classes. Alan Scroggie (HB Racing) and Paul Myles (Kyosho) would round out the Nitro podium as David Telford in 2nd and Andrew Rennick clinching 3rd, completed a JQ Racing podium sweep in the E-Buggy class.
ARC Italy have introduced new HD Mod 0.8 pinion gears for ARC’s nitro on-road cars. Available as 19T 1st gear and 24T 2nd gear variant, the pinions feature a special surface treatment that improves both gear life but also makes for greater overall smoothness. The gears are fully compatible with Capricorn and Infinity IF18 cars and they are soon also available in other sizes.
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The 2nd Annual Pan Car Masters was held at the MRTM Lostallo track in Switzerland over the weekend. The event is also known as the unofficial Pro10 World Championship with this year’s race attracting entries from Austria, Italy, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, the Czech Republic and the hosting country Switzerland. The weather forecast for the weekend wasn’t the best, however nearly 50 drivers made the trip to race at the iconic Swiss track. The event was held in several 1/10th and 1/8th Electric classes and although free practice was held in dry conditions, things turned to the worse for the timed practice, qualifiers and finals that were all run in the wet.
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452 Raceway of Lindale, Texas held their grand track opening race this past weekend. Texas native Nick Sublette swept the 1/8th scale Buggy classes as he drove his buggy to the win in the 30-minute Expert Nitro Buggy A-main final in front of Pablo Tejada and Myk Willis. Over in the Expert E-Buggy mains it was again Nick Sublette with a comfortable win from Mark Santa Maria 2nd and Stewart Holmes 3rd.
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