The Italian Pinerolo track hosted the EFRA 1/10th Buggy European Championship warm-up race this past weekend. In the 2WD Buggy class it was current 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Champion, Davide Ongaro (Team Associated) with the win from Schumacher’s Michael Orlowski on the runner-up spot. Xray’s Martin Bayer came in 3rd to round out the podium.
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This June will see the running of the Spec Class VRC Worlds in various Nitro and Electric, On-road and Off-road categories. The fun kicks off on the 5th of June with Nitro Sedans, 1/12th scale Sports Cars and Rally X. All Spec classes are part of VRC’s free2play package – all that is needed is the respective track. The full schedule can be found after the break or on the official VRC website here.
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The German MC Schwendt club held their Father’s Day race this past weekend. In Nitro Buggy it was fast Swedish Kyosho girl Jessica Palsson with the win from Mugen’s Timo Engelstätter on the 2 spot. Mugen’s Yannic Grieger would round out the top 3 result from Christopher Toni Beer (Agama) in 4th and Johannes Klett (Mugen) in 5th. Over in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Jessica with the win as SWorkz’s Sophie Müller makes it an all-girl top 2. Steven Nortdorf (Agama), Domantas Cesiulis (TLR) and Frank Grieger (Mugen) came in 3rd to 5th place.
The Glostrup RC club held round 3 of the Danish Electric Off-road Nationals this past weekend. The 2WD Buggy class saw Jesper Rasmussen taking the TQ from Marcus Kaerup and Jonas Kaerup. After the triple A-main events the order would stay the same with Jesper taking the opening two A-mains for the overall as Marcus cemented his runner-up position with a leg 3 win.
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The technical Västerorts track played host to round 1 of the Swedish 1/10th Off-road Summer Cup. HB Racing’s Elias Johansson was in full control of the proceedings, taking the TQs and wins in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes. Martin Johansson Nielsen (Xray) came in 2nd in 2WD while Markus Andreasson (Xray) rounded out the top 3 result. Over in 4WD Buggy the top 3 order would be as in 2WD with Elias taking then from Martin and Markus.
The second round of the BRCATruggy and E8 Buggy Nationals was held at the Northern Club North West Nitro just outside of Preston, Lancashire. With the forecast looking a little iffy to say the least only 37 drivers made the trip to the track. This gave the organisers a simple four heats per round – two Truggy heats and two E-Buggy heats. With the rain being on and off in the morning everyone knew it was going to make interesting conditions on the track. The racing started with two rounds of timed practice. During this stage of the meeting the drivers were finding the track difficult with the constant change in the conditions. After practice was over the race went into the three rounds of qualifying in the same heat order as the practice rounds. During the qualifying stage the weather was changing constantly. This made the track conditions changing constantly too with different levels of grip in every race. This were obviously shown in the lap times for the races. Jamie Clancy would take the TQ with his Team Associated Truggy, Jonathan Skidmore (Agama) took 2nd overall and Mitchell Booth (Tekno) took 3rd overall. In E-Buggy it was Jonathan Skidmore again take the TQ again with his Agama, Jonathan’s brother William who also drives for Agama took 2nd place overall and Simon Reeves took 3rd place overall.
The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th GT Championship was held in Lleida recently. Toni Santana would walk away with the win in the electric class from David Rebello on the 2 spot. Carlos Fernandez rounded out the top 3 podium result.
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The popular outdoor tarmac track of A.S.D. Rivoli Racing, located near the shores of Lake Garda, played host to the fourth round of the Italian GT12 Series 2019. With the weather finally cooperating after several rainy weekends in a row, race conditions were perfect with air temperatures reaching 33°C, while track temperatures soared to 53°C during the finals. With a win still proving elusive in the 2019 edition of the Series, Mattia Dall’Oca was more determined than ever taking control of the field already from Q1 and achieving, by the end of the day, the trifecta of pole position, fastest lap and race win. Beside Mattia, the three Qualification rounds held during the morning saw Luca Tassinari showing a strong pace which was ultimately worth P2 on the A-mains’ grid, closely followed by Alessandro Rampini.
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