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August 27, 2018

Hofer & Kaufmann win at Swiss Buggy Nats Rd5

Round 5 of the Swiss 1/8th Nitro Buggy Championship was held in Morges this past weekend. Just over 100 drivers registered for the race that was held on a temporary grass track near the Lake of Geneva. Patrick Hofer in Expert and Noah Kaufmann in the Amateur class took the overall TQ in their respective categories. In the Expert final Patrick Hofer brought home the win with a 5-seconds merging, making it his fifth win this season. With the win Patrick also secured himself a 4th Swiss Championship title in this category. Over in the Amateur class Noah took the pole position for the A-main after winning the semifinals and he would also take the overall win with a 1-lap margin, taking another step towards the overall championship title.

Source: Team Associated [facebook.com]

August 27, 2018

Urban Touring Series Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Urban Touring Series was run this past weekend under scorching conditions at the rooftop circuit at the Singapore-based Urban PlaySpace. A smaller than usual field took to the start, but, with all the championship contenders in attendance, a highly competitive race was assured. In Saturday’s practice, it was PY Tang, Sean Lee and Dominic Quek that set the pace for the rest. Come race day, it was the same trio leading the way in qualifying. In Q1, PY Tang (ARC) drew first blood in the battle on new tyres, TQ-ing the round by almost 3 secs over Dominic Quek (Xray). PY would repeat in Q2, but by a significantly smaller margin of just 0.7s over Dominic. In Q3, Dominic finally managed to TQ – by 0.3s over PY – a qualifying round. In the final round of qualifying, it was the orange-white car of Dominic again who TQ-ed by a 0.5s margin. With two of the four qualifying rounds counting, PY would secure overall TQ by virtue of his faster Q1 time. Dominic would have to settle for a P2 start in the A-main, with Sean Lee (TRF) starting P3.

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August 27, 2018

Hampus Berg takes Swedish Nitro Buggy title

The third round of the Swedish Nitro Buggy Nationals was held in Skarpnäck, Stockholm over the weekend. With two wins in the first two rounds in Tomelilla and Gotland, HB Racing’s Hampus Berg was considered the pre-event favourite and with a 2nd place at round 3 he was ultimately able to secure the overall Championship together with the Junior championship. Kyosho’s Jessica Palsson would end the season on the runner-up spot from Serpent’s Pontus Larsson 3rd.

View the final results here

August 27, 2018

Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals took place last weekend at the Skripov track. Known for its bumpy, technical layout with some unique features the track suffers a bit from constant rainy weather with this year’s nationals event being no exception as open practice on Friday was cut short due to the weather. On Saturday morning the drivers arrived to a flooded track and it looked like the race had to be called a day, but the organisers managed to prep the track with a lot of sawdust, making it quite reachable.

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August 27, 2018

Jean-Pierrick Sartel takes French Cup win

The Carca track in Noeux-les-Mines played host to the French Cup this past weekend. Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel took the overall TQ after the five qualifying round and he also came out successful in the both dry and wet A-main event to take the win from HB Racing’s Thomas Musso in 2nd and TLR’s Jerome Sartel in 3rd.

Image: RC Cars Cavalieri

August 27, 2018

Jörn Neumann crowned German Nitro Buggy Champ

The second round of the German Nitro Buggy Nationals was held at the Osterhofen track over the weekend. With a win at the second and final round, and following a win at round 1, SWorkz’s Jörn Neumann secured himself another German National title. Agama’s Burak Kilic ended the season as overall runner-up as Mugen’s Carsten Keller rounded out the overall top 3 results.

View the overall top 3 results here

August 24, 2018

Aaron Stringer wins at AARCMCC Nats Rd3

The third round of the Australian AARCMCC Nationals was held in Townsville last weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Truggy case it was Mugen’s Aaron Stringer with the TQ and win from young Mugen teammate, Caleb Noble. HB Racing driver, Shane Mangu would round out the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]

August 24, 2018

Daniel Kobbevik takes double Norwegian 1/8 Buggy title

The third round of the Norwegian 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Hvervenbukta Raceway in Oslo. The weekend started out with heavy rain on Friday afternoon, so track was ready for a boat race, not cars. Thankfully the weather got better so limited practice was possible before the race start on Saturday morning. Saturday kicked off with Daniel Kobbevik taking a solid TQ in the opening Nitro qualifier, and he would carry on that way so take the overall TQ after the four qualifying rounds. The closest driver was Mugen driver Hans Magne Berg, who had a really good pace this weekend. One more qualifier was held on Sunday morning and Daniel won that one as well. This weekend was especially important for Daniel to get into the final in both classes to take the overall wins, since the last race is on the same date as the 1/8th Electric Euros and the start of the EOS.

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