Round 5 of the 2018 JBRL Electric Off-road Series was held at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California last weekend. In the premier class of 2WD Open Buggy it was Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo with the win from Team Associated driver, Nick Miller. Shawn Blackwell Sr. would round out the podium for TLR.
This past weekend Thornhill Racing Circuit hosted the 2018 Pro-Line Shootout. The annual Pro-Line spec tire event had 200 entries and Mugen’s Adam Drake would be the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truck, and Electric Buggy. In the 40-minute Nitro Buggy final, Adam Drake would lead from the start and ended up taking the victory followed by Team Associated’s Jake Dellinger and Tekno RC’s Tyler Hooks.
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The Amstetten track in Northern Austria played host to a sizzling hot round 3 of the Austrian IC Track Championship. Before the start of the 45-minute A-main it was Lubi Paunovic who called for a time out and the short period was also taken benefit of by Nejc Mihelic who faced engine troubles in the warm-up period to the A-main. The short time out allowed Nejc to swiftly swap his car’s engine. The final started without Nejc on the grid who restarted his car in the pit and followed the field close to one lap down. At this time Gerhard Kandelhart was leading the race closely followed by Herfried Pucher who recovered after a difficult weekend and found back to speed in the final. After 15 minutes, Pucher took over the lead until the 30-minute mark where the leading cars of Pucher and Mihelic decided to change the outside tyres only. In this phase Mihelic recovered from the difficulties in the beginning and closed the gap to Pucher. In the end Mihelic was able to bring home the win some three seconds in front of Pucher and Paunovic, another two laps down.
The MAC de Baanbrekers club played host to the fourth round of the Belgian Electric On-road Nationals over the weekend. With the Benelux+ race held a week ago on the same track, every driver was focused and keen to get a good result. The biggest uncertainty would however prove to be the weather. On Sunday morning, everyone was checking the weather apps as heavy showers were expected to appear around 15 p.m. Qualifying got underway on a dry track, but the strong winds made the track very tricky to drive. In the premier Touring Modified class, everyone expected Olivier Bultynck (Awesomatix) to dominate the event. His usually strongest opponent, young Dutch driver Mitchell Van Es (Awesomatix), couldn’t quite get the perfect setup for the changing track conditions and had to settle for P2 in the first qualifier, some eight seconds behind Olivier. Florian Joos (Xray) took a provisional 3rd place. Young Athan De Witte (Yokomo) had been very strong in the practice sessions, but had to retire his car with a diff issue.
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Round 4 of the BRCA Touring Car Series was hosted by the Halifax club, with the two Stock classes already decided in favour of Zak Finlay and Colin Jackson the main focus was on the battle for the coveted Modified title. Coming into Halifax Elliott Harper and Olly Jefferies were tied at the top of the Modified points table, Jefferies had made the better start to the season but it was Harper that arrived at Halifax as the pre-race favourite after a strong showing at rounds 2 and 3. After some weeks of great weather in the UK the Halifax national kicked off under almost monsoon conditions and Elliott Harper took the first round of qualifying, Jefferies bounced back in round 2 and went on to take TQ ahead of Harper, Alan Bickerstaff Chris Grainer and Alexander Hagberg.
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During this week’s EFRA 1/10th Electric Buggy European Championships held in Reims, France, it was HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk who took the double title of 2WD and 4WD. His 4WD win came just a few days after winning the 2WD title, the sixth Euros title for the Swedish ace. The race was a show of dominance from David. After taking the TQ position, the newly crowned 2WD Champion won A-main number one and two with an advance of two seconds in the first and four seconds in the second final handing him the overall in front of the Schumacher duo of Jörn Neumann and Michal Orlowski.
Round 4 of the MNRC was held at LSRCC in Proctor, Minnesota last weekend. The race was held in several nitro and electric off-road classes and it was Kyle Holmberg who set the pace in 1/8th Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy, bringing home the TQs in both categories. In the 30-minutes Nitro Buggy A-main and from the sound of the tone Kyle never looked back and had a near perfect 30 minutes by pulling a 57 second lead over second placed Seth Vandalen. In 3rd Allan Smith rounded out the podium result.
The 2018 Taiwan AE Off-road Cup was held last weekend with the race being open to racers of all brands. The event was held at the Sanxia venue in several electric off-road classes, drawing a new record entry, and in the premier 2WD Mod category it was Tang Qi-Feng with the win as Howard Cho brought home the overall victory in 2WD Stock Buggy.
