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May 30, 2018

2018 Lonestar Nitro Challenge – Report

This past weekend was the 2018 Lonestar Nitro Challenge at Thornhill Raceway put on by Joey Christiansen and directed by Jimmy Babcock. The three day event was pretty standard with Friday practice, Saturday qualifying, and Sunday mains plus the always popular horseshoe tournament. As far as the racing went, Team Associated’s Jake Dellinger would take the TQ honors in Pro Buggy and Pro E-Buggy with Dillon Caldwell taking TQ in Pro Truggy. In Pro Buggy Jake Dellinger and Dillon Caldwell would break away from the field early with Tekno’s Tyler Hooks not far behind, but with Tyler having a DNF early on, the race for 3rd was seemingly Team Associated’s Austin Jeffries until Xray’s Ethan Lefebvre mounted a late race charge to take over the spot. Jake Delligner would come out victorious after a lengthy battle with Caldwell which ended in a flame out for the HB Racing privateer, Caldwell would rebound to finish 2nd.

Continue reading the report here

May 30, 2018

Perez & Moreno win at Spanish Electric On-road Nats Rd1

Round 1 of the Spanish Electric On-road Nationals was held last weekend and in the Touring Modified class, Xray’s David Perez went home with the overall TQ and win. Echarri Santiago Carles (Mugen) came in 2nd from VBC Racing driver, Mateo Rodriguez Antonio in 3rd. In the Stock class, it was Luis Moreno Eugenio (Xray) who took the win in both A1 and A2, which gave him the overall win from Eres Ramos Vicente 2nd and Xray driver, Yeray Martinez 3rd.

View the Stock class podium here

May 30, 2018

Norwegian National Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Norwegian National Series was held at the Kodal Raceway in Sandefjord on an entertaining track that offered both fast and technical bits in addition to a bumpy surface and a somewhat low grip level. On Saturday the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class was run with the race format seeing three round of qualifying followed by the Superpole, semis and 45-minute A-main final. Oskar Fjeld would dominate the qualifying to secure the TQ for the main final with his old spec Xray while Andrè Røine would go on to win the superpole with his newer spec NT1.

Continue reading the report here

May 30, 2018

Leonardo Varga TQs & wins at Austrian IC Track Nats

Round 1 of the Austrian IC Track National Championship was held at the LAMAC Ring in St. Paul last weekend. A total of 43 drivers made their entry and in the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class it was Leonardo Varga securing the TQ in front of Christoph Rohrmoser and Franz Engel. The start of the A-main was very clean with Leonardo and Christoph pulling a gap from the rest of the field. Unfortunately, Christoph was later stopped by an engine-cut and thus lost the connection to the leader and after 45 minutes of exciting racing, Leonardo Varga crossed the finish line first with Christoph Rohrmoser and Franz Engel completing the all-Shepherd podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 29, 2018

JConcepts 1:8 Spring Nationals – Report

HobbyTown USA’s HobbyPlex played host to the 2018 JConcepts 1:8th Spring Nationals this past weekend. The HobbyPlex is no stranger to big races. In year’s past, HobbyPlex has hosted some of the biggest, elite-level races in the nation including the 1/10th ROAR Electric Nationals in 2016 and in July the 2018 ROAR 1/8th Electric Nationals in July. Without a doubt, the versatile HobbyPlex is a genuine racer’s favorite hosting multiple tracks including scaling, 1/8th offroad, 1/10th offroad, carpet on road, and even drone racing. Now in its 9th year, the JConcepts Spring Nationals always adds excitement to the Plex with regional, top-level talent racing for the win in 1/8th scale nitro, electric, and 1/10th 4×4 SCT. This year’s layout was a slightly modified layout of the existing layout to better suit the bigger 1/8th buggies and truggies and one thing for sure, it didn’t disappoint.

Continue reading the report here

May 29, 2018

Jessica Palsson sweeps South Swedish Cup Rd1

The opening round of this season’s South Swedish Cup was held at the Vetlanda Arena over the weekend. Building on her success at the recent second round of the Middle Swedish Cup, Kyosho’s Jessica Palsson again swept the competition, bringing home the TQ, overall win and best junior trophy. Starting from the 2 spot into the 30-minute A-main final she would ultimately leave pole position holder Hampus Berg (HB Racing) behind, bringing home the win some 23 seconds in front of Hampus as Pontus Larsson (Serpent) rounded out the top 3 results. Behind the three, Emil Magnusson (Kyosho) came in 4th and Jonas Dalensjö (HB Racing) made up the top 5.

Thanks to Jessica Palsson for the report.

May 29, 2018

Kevin Zwahlen wins at Swiss E-Buggy Nats Rd1

Round 1 of the Swiss 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals was held at the MNCJ Courgenay track last weekend. After the three qualifying rounds it was Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer with the overall TQ from Kevin Zwahlen (HB Racing) in 2nd, the latter scoring a single round TQ. In the finals Patrick was hampered by making too many mistakes which allowed local hero, Kevin Zwahlen to win A1 and A3 for the overall as Patrick had to settle for 2nd overall. Romeo Grass (Xray), who started from P3 into the triple A-mains, was able to conserve his qualifying position to round out the podium.

Thanks to Patrick Hofer for the report.

May 29, 2018

Sorjonen & Infanti win at WORS Tour Rd2

The second round of the WORS Tour was held at Kelowna RC in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Robert Sorjonen would secure the TQ in both the 1/10 4WD Modified Buggy and 1/8 E-Buggy classes and he would went on to win the 6-minute 4WD Mod main some seven seconds in front of runner-up, Mike Wetmore as Tyrell Wilkinson rounded out the top 3 result. Over in 1/8 E-Buggy Sorjonen wasn’t able to match his qualifying performance as it was Richard Infanti with the win a lap ahead of Robert after the 10-minute A-main encounter. Jason Mardon would come in 3rd, some 8.5 seconds behind Robert.

View the E-Buggy podium here