The third round of the BRCA eBuggy and Nitro Truck National Championship was held at JC Raceway this past weekend. In the eBuggy class and after a TQ in qualifying, Jonathan Skidmore took home top step of the podium. Darren Bloomfield took second after a really nice race with his team mate leaving competition for championship tight between them, with two rounds left, as Mitchell Booth completed the top 3.
The 2018 EFRA 1/10th scale Electric Track European Championships were held at the MRC Wiener Neustadt track this past weekend. The event started off wet but things got better over the weekend. In the Touring Modified Ronald Volker headed the field round from pole position in the first leg and in a great display of controlled driving soaked up all the pressure from a charging Alexander Hagberg to take a step towards retaining his title. Bruno Coelho had a quiet race by his standards to finish a couple of seconds behind the lead two.
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Round 3 of the Austrian 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the TSA-Krieglach track this past weekend. This race was the second one on a dirt surface this year and it was challenging all drivers a lot. The track started with good grip but it was getting slipperier from run to run. Lucas Grainer (Yomoko) dominated the 2WD qualifying and took the TQ ahead of Xray’s Hupo Hönigl. The first and third A-main final then went to Lucas Grainer, as Hupo came out fastest in A2. Overall it was Lucas with the win from Hupo 2nd and Team Associated’s Martin Kreil in 3rd.
The third round of the Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals took place last weekend in Dolni Bukovsko. The race kicked off on Friday with the usual free practice, but the track was still wet after rain the night before and only a few drivers decided to put their cars on the track, but then had tons of work to get them ready for the race. The 1/8th Nitro Buggy class saw Max Götzl taking the overall TQ with wins in Q2 and Q3 as Kaja Novotny came out fastest in the opening qualifier and he would also take the pole position for the main final after the semis.
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The Kamloops Summer Classic, round 3 of the Western Offroad Racing Series WORS was held at Thompson Valley RC Race Club who put together a brand new layout for the event, and attracted racers from all over Western Canada. WORS is a 5-round series traveling through British Columbia with the main 1/10th scale classes as well as Nitro and Electric 1/8th scale. Kamloops being a central locale, also draws many drivers from Alberta in a true Province vs Province show down. Local, Jason Mardon, had double duty both as racer and main race director for the event. Concentrating mainly on the 1/10th scale classes, Mardon managed TQ in both 2WD Buggy Open and 2WD Truck Open, P3 in 4WD Buggy Open and P6 in eBuggy.
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1/12 Japan National champion Yugo Nagashima, has joined the Power HD team. The 2018 Snowbirds Touring Modified Champion, 2018 1/12th Modified and Touring Modified Champion will be using Power HD’s competition spec servos at all major events and he has the following to say:
I would like to thanks Power HD to give me chance to race with Power HD servo. I had tried Power HD servo and I am really happy about the performance and quality.
Source: Power HD [chd.hk]
Oli Meggitt and the well-known EWS team announce the first EWS Abroad to be taking place later this year. Taking their popular EWS style of events outside of the UK for the first time, the race will take place at the popular MAV Aigen-Schlägl circuit in northern Austria, on the weekend of 1st and 2nd September. The event will feature a number of electric on-road classes, for Modified and Super Stock Touring Cars, plus Formula, all running to rules based on ETS, plus classes for Stock and Modified electric 1:8th scale. Factory drivers from Awesomatix, Infinity, Tonisport and Yokomo are already confirmed to join the race, and the location of the track close to the German and Czech borders means drivers from all over Europe can easily attend. It is planned to make this race a fun and relaxed atmosphere to end the outdoor summer season, with the host club arranging a driver’s party on the Saturday night too. More details and rules for the event, in English and German, and also info on hotel discounts and airport shuttle bus, can be found here, and entries are now open here. For more details, please contact Oli Meggitt (oli.meggitt@gmail.com).
The 2018 Bash at the Beach DAV charity event was hosted by 386 RC Raceway inside the Sunshine mall in Daytona. By far the largest class of the weekend was USVTA with some of the top Florida and Carolina VTA drivers being on hand including a ROAR VTA Champ as well. Myron Kinnard would overall TQ the class by winning the last chance qualifier with a 99 percent consistency and a 28-lapper to line up in 1st for the 8-minute A-main. Sitting in the TQ spot all Myron had to do was make it into turn 1 and 2. With eight long minutes anything can happen, but with a positive mind and steady hand Kinnard was able to go tone to tone, and take home the TQ and Championship.
Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]
