Round 3 of the Portuguese Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Maiorca track over the weekend. Serpent’s Hugo Miguel walked away with the win in the 1/10th Touring class from Xray’s Frederic Santos on the runner-up spot. Nuno Duraes would end the day on the 3 spot to round out the podium.
Image: Nuno Duraes
The third round of the Portuguese 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Pista de Vilela track this past weekend. Serpent’s Carlos Duraes would walk away with the win in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, winning the A-main with a 1-lap margin in front of Mugen’s Ricardo Monteiro in 2nd and TLR’s Goncalo Melo 3rd. Joao Lopes and Nuno Casal Ribeiro would round out the top 5 results. Over in the E-Buggy class it was Ricardo Monteiro with the win from Nuno Casal 2nd and Joao Figueiredo 3rd.
Round 1 of the Swedish 1/8th Off-road Championship was held at the Tomelilla Motorklubb this past weekend. HB Racing’s Hampus Berg was in control of things in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class as he took the overall TQ, pole position for the A-main and also the win in the 45-minute encounter. It wasn’t without problems though as Hampus traded the lead in the main with eventual runner-up, David Ronnefalk a couple of times. After swapping positions in the opening stages Hampus was able to stretch the lead about mid-race only to suffer from a flame out during a pitstop in the later stages of the race. David was promoted into the lead and looked to bring home the win only to roll his buggy on the last lap, allowing Hampus to take over the lead again and bring home the win from David 2nd and Oskar Levin 3rd, making it an all HB Racing podium.
Image: Hampus Berg
The opening round of the 1/10 Slovakian Electric Off-road Nationals took place last weekend in Košice. The technical track with a long straight offered a combination of different surfaces, making setup tricky. A rainy day before the race increased the grip for the qualification run with the 2WD being TQ’d by local driver Peter Tauber while in 4WD it was Miloš Švihran who grabbed the pole position for the finals.
The second round of the Swiss Nationals took place in Schaffhausen, Switzerland with the event attracting many drivers from across Switzerland and neighbouring Germany. The AMCS track is a fun track and has its own unique charm as the drivers stand is not located in the usual manner and is located on the left corner of the track. To this adds an ageing and sometimes bumpy surface, making setup not an easy task. In the Modified class, Marco Kaufmann (Xray) made a clean sweep by TQing all qualifying rounds and bringing home the win in all three A-mains to end the day in front of Serpent’s Dionys Stadler and Yokomo’s Michele Manzo.
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The fourth and final round of the RC Model League was hosted by the Automodellisti Viterbesi club in Italy last weekend. The event was held in 1/8th Nitro On-road, 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring and Touring Stock 13.5T classes and in the 1/8th category, attracting 18 entries, it was Roberto De Cesare with the TQ and win. Roberto Purgatori came in 2nd from Maichol Tonizza 3rd.
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Last weekend the 2018 DCRC Championship was held at the Jincheon Raceway in South Korea. Wataru Takashiro would sweep the Nitro Buggy class as he took the overall TQ and win from Hwang Sun Jung in 2nd and Ryan Lee in 3rd.
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The small and bumpy Black Hill RC track in Hobro hosted round 2 of the Danish Electric Off-road Nationals recently. In the 2WD qualifiers Jesper Rasmussen was on fire right from the start as he was one of the few drivers that delivered a mistake-free run. In Q2 Jesper took again the TQ without any mistakes in front of M. Kaerup. In Q3 Jesper was on TQ pace again but rolled it, allowing Frederik Hovgaard in front but in the end Jesper’s pace was a bit faster and he ultimately also took round 3.
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