The Texas-based Sun City Raceway held the MDA Tri State Championships this past weekend. The Open E-Buggy A-main was won by 2nd place qualifiers, Chris Boice thanks to taking A1 and A3. A2 winner, Camden Lime came in 2nd overall from Scotty Brewer in 3rd. Iram Torres and Iram Torres completed the top 5 results.
The inaugural JConcepts Spring Dirt Oval Nationals was held at the Hobbyplex track in Omaha, Nebraska last weekend. For this year, the Hobbyplex oval track was freshly built and a brand new pit lane was created for safe pull-offs and easy tuning. The fast track was grippy, smooth, and extremely fun to drive on, however the hot weather that came on Sunday actually started to dry the track more than anticipated, which resulted in a little higher tire wear. Completing a perfect weekend for him, Custom Works’s Max Flurer sealed the deal as he took the wire to wire win in the super competitive Outlaw Sprint class. Max was dialed from the 1st pack to the last and showed tremendous speed in the main setting the fastest lap of the weekend. Taking home 2nd was AFX’s Phil Beardshear, who fought hard all race and moved his way comfortably into 2nd behind Flurer. It was another impressive drive for Ed Gaines to move up from 5th and finished 3rd after 4 intense minutes of close racing. With this podium, Ed finished on the box in 3 of the 3 classes he entered.
The Besancon track in the eastern part of France hosted round 3 of the French Electric On-road Championship last weekend. In the Touring Modified class it was Hugo Ragaut with the overall TQ from Remi Callens and Loic Jasmin in 2nd and 3rd respectively. After the triple A-mains it was still Hugo with the number 1 spot, thanks to winning A1 and A3, while Loic moved up a spot to finish on the runner-up spot. 5th place qualifier, Alexandre Duchet would obtain the 3rd and final podium spot.
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The second round of the 2019 NCT Series was held in Spokane, Washington this past weekend. Jackson Andres (Mugen) would take the TQ in the 1/8th Expert E-Buggy class and he also came out on top after the triple A-main finals by taking wins in A2 and A3. Tekno RC’s Tayler Wonders came in 2nd with A1 winner, Serpent’s Joe Cathey completing the top 3 result. Xray’s Robert Sorjonen finished in 4th, Tekno RC’s Derek Rasheed came in 5th overall.
Image: Jonathan Andres
Round 2 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, California last weekend. The Expert Nitro Buggy class was TQ’d by Mugen’s Adam Drake, however in the 20-minute A-main final it was 9th place qualifier, Xray’s Jake Mayo who would excel, taking the win some 12 seconds in front of Adam while Tekno’s Steve Harris completed the top 3 podium result, another 5.6 seconds down.
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The second round of this year’s Swiss Electric On-road Championship was held at the HSH race track in Dintikon, Central Switzerland. More than 50 drivers competed in five category with the race seeing mixed weather on Saturday and sun on Sunday. In Touring Modified it was local hero Michele Manzo who won a very hard but fair fight for the victory against Carl Friedrich Groessel. Michele had dominated the qualifiers but in the finals it was a very tight race. On third it was Boris Siladi showing a good performance driving both the Touring ProStock and Modified classes.
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Viktor Wilck is the 2019 Reedy Race Champion, the Infinity driver becoming only the 4th multiple winning of the legendary race on this its 22nd running. Having conceded defeat to overnight points leader Ronald Volker as the final day’s action was widely expected to be rained out, a dry but cold & windy morning presented the 2012 champion with an opportunity to resume battle with Volker. With 2019 a new chapter in the history of the race following the demise of the famous Tamiya Track, conditions at new Steel City RC Speedway for the final two rounds of heads up racing were less than ideal with traction at a premium. It was a dramatic start to the morning as going head to head from the front row Wilck and Volker made contact in the penultimate round resulting in both cars breaking. One race to go and 1-point separated the pair. As the grid were published for the showdown, they would race in the same heat but the grid was somewhat controversial as Wilck was on pole and Volker lined up 11th. Up front Wilck, who was fastest throughout the event, pulled clear for an easy win while Volker worked his way through to second. This left them tied on points with the same number of wins, 2nd and 3rd places so it came down to the total time of their best three results which thanks to the only 21-lap run of the event in Round 10 gave Wilck his second Reedy Race of Champions title. Having come into the weekend chasing title No.8, Marc Rheinard would complete the podium in Fontana well clear of team-mate Akio Sobue in fourth.
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Round 2 of the 2WD South East Regional Series was held at the Barham track near Dover, UK this past weekend. The top 4 after the qualifiers would be Nathan Ralls, Kyle Moon, Ed Kerry, and David Poulter. In the triple A-mains it was Nathan Ralls who set the pace and by taking all three legs he would walk away with the overall win from Ed Kerry 2nd and David Poulter 3rd. Kyle Moon had to settle for 4th overall.
Image: David Poulter
