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August 12, 2019

German Electric On-road Nationals – Report

The 2019 German Electric On-road Nationals were hosted by the RCCT Münden club this past weekend. The event was held in the usual Touring Modified, Stock and Formula classes and in TC Mod it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker who set the pace in the qualifiers, taking the overall win from Yokomo teammate, Christopher Krapp in 2nd and Awesomatix’s Freddy Südhoff in 3rd. The triple A-mains then were a done deal for Ronald, who took wins in all three legs to add another German National title to his belt. Christopher snatched the runner-up spot with 2-4-2 finishes while Freddy cemented his final podium spot with 3-2-3 finishes. Infinity’s Yannic Prümper came in 4th while Marc Rheinard rounded out the top 5 following a troublesome weekend.

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August 12, 2019

RC-Lemans Series Rd5 – Report

The fifth and penultimate round of the 2019 RC-Lemans Series was held at the famous AMC Apeldoorn track in the Netherlands. The weather was great all weekend and a huge entry made for competitive racing in the LMP1 Modified and LMP2 Stock classes. After a short break at round 4 to was Tim Altmann back in form on one of his favourite tracks, taking all three qualifiers for the overall TQ from championship leader, Timo Schad with Kai Altmann and Reinder Wilms not far behind. The Stock class saw the return of former Dutch Pro10 champion, Nick Boon who instantly took the overall TQ from Mathijs Hermens and championship leader, Rainer Schad.

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August 11, 2019

Asian Onroad Championships Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of this years Asian Onroad Championships was held at Toms Racing Circuit in Hong Kong this past weekend. The race definitely had some hurdles to get over with the ongoing protests in the city scaring away racers and a massive amount of tourism. Racing-wise and in the Modified Touring class it was Nicholas Lee sitting on pole position and one overall win in this class in the early days of AOC, Nicholas wanted another. The Mod final was stacked with eleven cars, so back traffic was either going to help you or hurt you. Lucky for Nicholas Lee, he is a surgeon cutting through traffic with scalpel like precision allowing him to not only take the early lead, but extend it immensely in all the finals even running the only 21-lap run of the entire weekend in the A3 final. Lee made it a clean sweep to take the over all win with Yugo Nagashima taking the second overall and Simon Nicholson rounding out the top three.

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August 9, 2019

Raymond M. Soto wins at the Series Race

The Barceloneta R/C Speedway in Puerto Rico recently hosted the Series Race. In the Nitro GT class it was Raymond M. Soto
with the overall win from Fernando Mendez on the runner-up spot. Samuel Zayas would round out the top 3 result for an all-IGT8 podium.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]

August 9, 2019

Buddy Christian wins at JBRL Nitro Series Rd5

Round 5 of this year’s JBRL Nitro Series was held at Wild West R/C in Winchester, California last weekend. In the Sportsman Buggy class it was Brian Kuskie with the overall TQ after the qualifiers, however the 15-minute main final saw Mugen’s Buddy Christian taking the win a lap in front of TLR’s Eric Lara. Dave Wentz (Kyosho) came in 3rd to round out the podium some 4.5 seconds behind Eric. Top qualifier Brian Kuskie had to settle for 4th overall.

Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]

August 9, 2019

Chris Sharpe-Simkiss wins at NWN Summer Series Rd5

Round 5 of the North West Nitro Summer Championship was held in Weeton, UK last weekend. The 1/8th Buggy A-main final saw SWorkz’s Chris Sharpe-Simkiss walking away with the win, a lap in front of Tekno RC’s Alan Yates, driving an electric buggy, as Ian Slater (Kyosho) came in 3rd another lap down.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

August 8, 2019

Indonesia Buggy Nationals Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Indonesia Buggy Nationals was held at the Maxspin Track in Maribaya, West Java last weekend. A total of 41 drivers from Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Batam, Gresik, Banjarmasin as well as local drivers attended the event. The race format was six rounds of 10-minutes qualifying with the four best to count. After the six rounds it was Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) with the overall TQ honours. In the main final however Jason had to settle for 5th overall as he broke a front lower arm in the opening stages of the race, loosing five minutes in the pits to have his car fixed. Up front it was Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Ninja) who took the win in front of Falla (Mugen/O.S.) in 2nd and John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) in 3rd place.

View the final results here

August 7, 2019

Andrea Catanzani wins at Italian ACI SGT Champs

The Italian ACI SGT Championship was held at the Teverola track recently. In the 1/8th Nitro SGT class it was young Andrea Catanzani with the win from Mimmo Calce on the runner-up spot. Filippo Beretta would round out the podium result in 3rd place.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]