The 2018 Taiwan AE Off-road Cup was held last weekend with the race being open to racers of all brands. The event was held at the Sanxia venue in several electric off-road classes, drawing a new record entry, and in the premier 2WD Mod category it was Tang Qi-Feng with the win as Howard Cho brought home the overall victory in 2WD Stock Buggy.
Round 6 of the Xray Racing Series Greek 1/10th Off-road was held at the Fanatix Racing Track last weekend. It was a pretty difficult day due to the high temperatures, however that did not stop the driver from being out there and have fun. The race attracted both seasoned racers and up and coming talent alike. Seven rising stars, eight to 16 years of age, were the highlight of the day. Fotinos took the pole in front of Sikianakis 2nd and Ioannidis 3rd on the starting grid. In leg one of the A-main Fotinos took the win after a solid performance. The second leg then saw Ioannidis taking the win from Takas 2nd and Fotinos 3rd. The final leg was a fight for the 1st place between Fotinos, Ioannidis and Takas. Everything was possible and anyone could be the winner. Eventually Ioannidis took the leg win and the also the overall from Fotinos 2nd and Takas 3rd.
The 5th annual Firecracker 500 was Radio Controlled Hobbies and Raceway’s largest race of the summer. The temperatures were hot and so was the racing. Attendance was strong with about 100 entries, which included some of the fastest drivers from RC Madness, another local track. Xray’s Brent Sianez was able to secure TQ honours and wins in Modified 2WD Buggy, Modified 4WD Buggy, and 13.5 4WD Buggy. Matt Buldoc (TLR) and Carl Smart (Team Associated) would round out the top 3 in 2WD Mod Buggy.
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The fourth round of the Slovakian 1/10th Buggy Nationals took place at the Dubnica nad Váhom track last weekend. It was the maiden race for the track and the event drew the highest number of entries ever. In 4WD Mod Buggy it was Lacko Toth with the overall TQ while the 2WD class was led by Adam Urban. As the sun was shining bright all day the finals were held in dusty low-traction conditions and in 4WD it was Lacko who made the out of it to take the overall from Roman Pavlus and Adam Urban.
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The 2018 EFRA 1/10th Electric Buggy European Championship are held in Reims, France this week. On the FFVRC club’s slippery clay indoor track the 2WD portion of the event saw a great qualifying battle between Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen and Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski who would be trading TQs each of the first four qualifying rounds until Yokomo’s Lee Martin made himself only the third TQ driver with a win in round 5. However it was still Haatanen with the overall from Orlowski 2nd. Lee would grab the 3 spot on the grid thanks to his TQ, promoting HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk, who looked to be fast all week, into 4th on the grid.
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The third round of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals was held in Imst, Tyrol last weekend. The race was held in Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula classes and the latter saw Andreas Stiebler taking the TQ after the qualifiers, tie on points with Andreas Teubl. With wins in A2 and A3 however it was Philipp Stadler who would take the overall win as Andreas Stiebler and Andreas Teubl had to settle for 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Image: Philipp Stadler
The 2018 Sanwa Grand Prix was held at Steel City RC Speedway in Fontana, California last weekend. In the 1/8th Open class it was Infinity’s Christian Lopez with the TQ after the qualifiers, however in the 30-minutes A-main Christian would score a DNF while up front Serpent’s Joaquin De Soto, who qualified in 4th, took home the win some three laps in front of Serpent teammate, Chris Velez 2nd. Bryce Butterfield (Xray) would round out the top 3 podium result.
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The fourth round of this year’s WORS series was held in Nanaimo, BC. The track that was completely rebuilt only three weeks prior so only locals had a couple races on it with the surface being hard packed with slight bumps, large jump sections and off camber turns, making it a challenging layout than the average track in the series. In 1/10th 4WD Mod Buggy Rob Sorjonen would take the overall TQ and he would also come out fastest in Pro E-Buggy and E-Truggy. Rob then also went on to wrap up all three classes by A2 sealing up a solid weekend. With Paul Moria and Jason Mardon coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively in 1/10th 4WD Mod Buggy.
