July 26, 2019

Portuguese Electric On-road Championship Rd4 – Report

The fourth and penultimate round of the Portuguese Electric On-road Championship was held at the ARMAIA track last weekend, attracting 25 drivers for the Touring and twelve entries for the Formula classes. In Touring Car, Hugo Miguel would take the TQ, however in the A-finals Carlos Manuel (Capricorn) would find his way to the top taking the win in front of Hugo (Serpent) and Francisco (Xray). In Formula some intense racing with lots of overtaking was showcased. João Nascimento took the overall TQ but it was Paulo Bartolo (Serpent) with the overall win from the Xray duo of Luís Simões and João Nascimento.

View the Formula podium here

July 25, 2019

RC-Lemans Series Rd4 – Report

The AMC Hildesheim track near Hanover in the Northern part of Germany played host to round 4 of this year’s RC-Lemans Series last weekend. The weather was good all weekend except from a quite heavy rain shower on Saturday evening. The fast LMP1 class saw local hero and point standings leader Timo Schad leading the way in the qualifiers where he made a clean sweep to take the pole position for the triple A-mains from Tobias Weist on the 2 spot. Joachim Behnken, Reinder Wilms and Josip Bogdanovic followed behind while the swift Altmann duo of Kai and Tim were absent at round 4.

Continue reading the report here

July 25, 2019

Davide Ongaro crowned EFRA 2WD Euro Champ

The 2019 EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championships are taking place in Pinerolo, Italy this week. The event, held at the AgriModel Pista Off Road Jonny RC club, kicked off with the 2WD portion that attracted 75 entries. In qualifying round 1 and in heat 7 of 8 Neil Cragg would do the first 11 lap run in qualifying with the top seeded heat still to come. With a number of drivers having mistakes early on it would be Davide Ongaro who would come through to take control of the heat and be the second driver to set an 11 lap run with the quickest time in the round, Neil Cragg would be 2nd and Martin Bayer 3rd.

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July 24, 2019

HNMC Summer Series Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the Herts Nitro Model Club Summer Series was held last weekend. The congested calendar meant that this round clashed with the BRCA national but still almost 60 drivers attended the event. Qualifying would be the best three from four rounds with the Buggy TQ being Jay Williams, TQ in E-Buggy was Holger Lykke and the Truggy TQ went to George Miller. In the 20-minute Nitro Buggy A-main it was Wayne Buckhorn with the overall win some 20 seconds in front of John Niall. Jeremy Irving came in 3rd, only some two seconds behind John. E-Buggy saw Duncan Balgrove walking away with the win from Holger Lykke and Tony Verboom while in Truggy it was George Miller from John Afshin.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

July 23, 2019

Batlle & Figueiredo win at International Buggy Challenge

The International Buggy Challenge was hosted by the Barcelos track in Portugal over the weekend, attracting many swift national and international 1/8th off-road drivers. In Nitro Buggy it was SWorkz’s Juan Carlos Canas with the overall TQ from Mugen’s Robert Batlle and Kyosho’s Joao Figueiredo. The 45-minute A-main than saw Robert holding the upper hand, however it was only with a 0.7 seconds margin from Juan Carlos on the runner-up spot. Joao would retain his 3rd place qualifying position to round out the podium from Ricardo Monteiro in 4th and Nuno Casal Ribeiro in 5th.

View the E-Buggy top 3 result here

July 22, 2019

Wang & Tyler win at Sven Böhringer Family Reunion

Timezone Raceway of Battle Ground, Washington played host to the annual Sven Böhringer Family Reunion race, attracting over 150 entries in the six cases of 1/8th Masters, 1/8th Open, GT8, 1/10th 200mm Nitro, Touring Modified and Touring 17.5T Stock. In Touring Modified, drawing nearly 30 entries, it was Xray‘s JJ Wang with the overall TQ some 0.019s in front of Xray teammate, Korey Harbke. After the triple A-main events it was still JJ on top, thanks to winning A2 and A3 for the overall as Korey had to settle for 2nd with 1-2-5 finishes. 8th place qualifier, Yokomo‘s Randy Caster came in 3rd to round out the podium.

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July 22, 2019

Schreffler & Mazzara win at Hot Race Challenge

Barnstormers Raceway of Chester, New York recently played host to the Hot Race Challenge, attracting a total of 200 entries. In 1/8th E-Buggy it was HB Racing’s Jason Schreffler with the overall win from Xray’s Jared Phair on the 2 spot. Mugen’s Bryan Kata came in 3rd to round out the podium. Over in E-Truggy it was Mugen’s Anthony Mazzara with the overall from Jared Phair 2nd and Bryan Kata 3rd.

View the E-Truggy podium here

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