This past weekend the second round of the Polish Electric On-road Nationals was held in the city of Ruda Slaska in great weather conditions. In Touring Stock 13.5T Lukasz Mach (Xray) showed some great performance, taking the TQ and win and also the only sup-16 seconds lap time. Piotr Bigaj (ARC) came in 2nd overall from Krzysztof Ruman (Yokomo) in 3rd.
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The Ohio RC Factory played host to the 2020 Ohio State Championship last weekend. The event attracted nearly 100 entries and in Pro Nitro Buggy it was Joey Bourdon (Tekno) with the TQ and also the overall win in the 30-minute A-main event. Joey would swap positions with Collin Weatherholt (Mugen) throughout the race and would bring home the title by a narrow 1.06 seconds. Ralph Krumme (Agama) came in 3rd overall to round out the podium already two laps behind.
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Round 5 of the Stickit1Racing.com Modified Series was hosted by PDX Underground in Portland, Oregon yesterday. Held in 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy classes it was Yokomo privateer, Joseph Johnson with the win in the 2WD Mod Buggy class from Team Associated driver, Ryan Reavis on the runner-up spot. Yokomo USA team manager, Joe Pillars came in 3rd overall. Over in 4WD Mod Buggy it was Daniel Jeppesen with the win from Jim Meyer in 2nd and Sean Pham in 3rd.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
NDOR Notts & Derby Offroad RC Racing in the UK held the opening round of their Summer Series this past weekend. 26 drivers booked in to race and 25 turned up with the biggest E-Buggy turnout seen at NDOR for a very long while. For social distancing purposes the organisers split the drivers into a 9 Nitro Buggy heat, 8 E-Buggy heat and a mixed heat of 8. The race saw four rounds of heats and dominating Nitro through the qualifiers was Andrew Pritchard who also claimed the TQ. In E-Buggy it was Ewan Tumilty and David Corden battling in out between them.
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The RCSF Singen club in southern Germany played host to round 2 of this year’s Alpencup series. In the 2WD Buggy class Kay Frehner took the overall TQ and he also came out on after the triple A-main events, leaving behind Noah Kaufmann and Stefan Sidler in 2nd and 3rd respectively, making it an all-Team-Associated top 3. The 4WD Buggy class was won by Elias Ehrmann from Markus Wegmann and Sven Koller while the Stadium Truck class saw Stefan Sidler take the winning honours from Silvio Pietroboni in 2nd and Tyas Wuillemin in 3rd.
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Round 5 of the JBRL Electric Series as held at Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale, California this past Saturday. The event attracted over 160 entries and in 2WD Open Buggy it was Team Associated’s Ron DeVoll with the overall TQ and also the win in the single 6-minute A-main event. Ron’s Team Associated team mate, Davey Batta came in 2nd overall while Carlos Arredondo rounded out the top 3 result.
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Round 3 of 5 of the Heat Wave Series was held at Ripon RC Speedway and Hobbies in Ripon, California this past Saturday with 83 entries for the multiple electric on-road classes. The premier class of Touring Modified would see top qualifier, Lex Tyler taking home the win from veteran racer, Rick Hohwart in 2nd, who ended the single-leg 5-minute A-main only 1.1 seconds behind. 4th place qualifier, Aaron Lewis would complete the top 3 result from Kyle Colbert in 4th.
Image: Lex Tyler
The Nemo Raceway in Royal Leamington Spa, UK held their Race Two event this past weekend with about 50 drivers in attendance for the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy classes. Tommy Hall came out on top after the four rounds of qualifying, tie on points with Lee Martin while Lewis Jones ended the qualifiers in 3rd overall. Over in E-Buggy it was Kevin Brunsden with a clean sweep in the qualifiers as Scott Follington came in 2nd overall. The Nitro Buggy A-main then saw Agama driver Lee taking the win by 6.7 seconds in front of Lewis Jones (Team Associated) as Jamie Hall (Team Associated) came in 3rd overall, already a lap down after the 20-minute main.
