This past weekend the rounds 3 and 4 of the UK NitroXCross series were being held at Nene Valley. Round 3 on Saturday was won by Lewis Jones with a 1-lap margin from Graham Alsop 2nd and Mike Lewis 3rd. The latter would went on to win Sunday’s round 4 from round 3 winner, Lewis Jones in 2nd and Jon Howells 3rd.
Round 2 of the Schumacher BTCC series moved to sunny Stafford this weekend with Elliott Harper taking the win in Modified ending Olly Jefferies’ fine run of form. Elliott took the overall TQ ahead of Olly, winning three of the four qualifiers, local fast guy Zak Smith having a strong day qualified 3rd. In the final Elliott controlled the pace, Zak managed to get past Olly into 2nd and that’s how it remained.
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Round 1 of this year’s Norwegian 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the Bergen track in what is considered to be the rainiest region of the country. And indeed did the race kick off on the wet, however things got better during the weekend with the grip slowly coming up. The track layout used was tight and technical and together with the unpredictable weather the drivers were forced to be on their toes in terms of setup and tyres. The weekend kicked off on Saturday with the 2WD class and right from the start it was Xray’s Daniel Kobbevik who set the pace. After winning three of the four qualifiers he put his buggy on the pole position from Torbjorn Doler (Team Associated) on P2 as as Øystein Doler (Team Associated) came in 3rd.
The opening round of the South German Nitro On-road regionals, qualifying races for the German Nationals, was held at the Minidrom Köditz MCC Hof track over the weekend. In the 1/8 nitro class it was Maxi Vogl who set the pace, setting the only 12-second lap time at the difficult track and just missing the lap record by three hundredths of a second. At the start of the final Maxi easily pulled away and he originally planing to do a tyre change mid-race, but decided to save his tyres and as a result, he took the win with a two-lap margin in front of Bastian Gramlich and Armin Baier.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
This past weekend saw the opening round of the Summer Northern Regional Series at NDOR in Nottingham, UK. Young Kieran Cox took the TQ and the win in Nitro Buggy in front of Jack Hirst 2nd and Ash Owen 3rd. The next round will be held on the 17th of June at the Deerdale astro track.
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The BAWÜ Cup was held at the Nufringen track in southern Germany recently, attracting a good amount of drivers to compete in several 1/8th off-road classes. In Nitro Buggy it was Micha Widmaier (SWorkz) with the day’s win in front of Fabian Hinderer (Mugen) and Tobias Nagel (SWorkz) in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Luca Schmid (SWorkz) lead the best of the rest in 4th place.
The 2018 Northwest Stock Championships were held this past weekend at PDX RC Underground in Portland, Oregon. The race schedule saw open practice on Friday and three rounds of qualifying and triple A-main events on Saturday. In the 2WD Pro Stock Buggy class, Yokomo’s Joe Pillars would dominate qualifying by TQ’ing all three rounds and secure the overall TQ. Pillars then went onto take the commanding Wins in A-main 1 and 2, to take his first Championship of the weekend from Team Associated’s Jack Leighan 2nd and newly-signed Yokomo driver, Wes Cipriotti in 3rd.
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Robin D’hondt has claimed his first ever ENS victory today in the Netherlands, the Capricorn driver securing victory ahead of three of the 1:8 Onroad’s greatest drivers. Starting from fifth on the grid, the Belgian was able to capitalise on others hitting trouble but when they came back at him he kept is nerve together with running a flawless race both on the track and in the pits. Top Qualifier Simon Kurzbuch looked like he was on another of his Sunday drives but coming up to his second fuel stop the Shepherd driver’s car stopped. This allowed the Infinity of Dario Balestri to move to the front but he would have problems on his first tyre stop with a stray tyre in the pitlane which he thought had come from his car. All the while D’hondt was there to take control, and while Kurzbuch somehow recovered the 2-laps he lost early on, the European Champion kept the ENS Champion at bay. With thrilling battles throughout the race for the podium positions, Silvio Hächler in the mix until hitting problems, when all the final pitstops were done & dusted, the final 4-minutes would produce a great battle for second between Kurzbuch and Balestri, the latter holding off his rival. With Lamberto Collari a part of the battle but getting caught at the line he would just miss the podium.
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