Round 4 of this year’s central German division Tonisport Onroad Series was held at the Mannheim track last weekend. In the Touring Modified class Mugen’s Eric Dankel made a clean sweep, TQing all four qualifying rounds of qualifying and also coming out on top after the triple A-mains. Team Magic’s Patrick Gassauer ended the day on the 2 spot from Thomas Stenger 3rd.
The 2018 Silver State race was held at South Point Hotel Casino and Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada last weekend, attracting the creme de la creme of the US’s off-road pilots. This year’s Silver State was a totally new experience from year’s past. In many ways, you can say that it’s a version 2.0 or a refresh of a great race organized by Joey Christiansen and The Dirt crew that still has the familiar taste, but a whole new look. One of the reasons why the Silver State is so popular is the plain and simple fact that it’s held in Las Vegas, Nevada also known as City of Lights (or Sin City whichever you prefer). Keeping the tradition alive, Joey decided to keep the race in Vegas but came up with a great idea to have an 8th scale and 5th scale race simultaneously at the South Point Hotel Casino and Spa. To everyone’s pleasant surprise, Joey hit the jackpot.
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Round 2 of the Schumacher BTCC series moved to sunny Stafford this weekend with Elliott Harper taking the win in Modified ending Olly Jefferies’ fine run of form. Elliott took the overall TQ ahead of Olly, winning three of the four qualifiers, local fast guy Zak Smith having a strong day qualified 3rd. In the final Elliott controlled the pace, Zak managed to get past Olly into 2nd and that’s how it remained.
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Round 1 of this year’s Norwegian 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the Bergen track in what is considered to be the rainiest region of the country. And indeed did the race kick off on the wet, however things got better during the weekend with the grip slowly coming up. The track layout used was tight and technical and together with the unpredictable weather the drivers were forced to be on their toes in terms of setup and tyres. The weekend kicked off on Saturday with the 2WD class and right from the start it was Xray’s Daniel Kobbevik who set the pace. After winning three of the four qualifiers he put his buggy on the pole position from Torbjorn Doler (Team Associated) on P2 as as Øystein Doler (Team Associated) came in 3rd.
The BAWÜ Cup was held at the Nufringen track in southern Germany recently, attracting a good amount of drivers to compete in several 1/8th off-road classes. In Nitro Buggy it was Micha Widmaier (SWorkz) with the day’s win in front of Fabian Hinderer (Mugen) and Tobias Nagel (SWorkz) in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Luca Schmid (SWorkz) lead the best of the rest in 4th place.
The 2018 Northwest Stock Championships were held this past weekend at PDX RC Underground in Portland, Oregon. The race schedule saw open practice on Friday and three rounds of qualifying and triple A-main events on Saturday. In the 2WD Pro Stock Buggy class, Yokomo’s Joe Pillars would dominate qualifying by TQ’ing all three rounds and secure the overall TQ. Pillars then went onto take the commanding Wins in A-main 1 and 2, to take his first Championship of the weekend from Team Associated’s Jack Leighan 2nd and newly-signed Yokomo driver, Wes Cipriotti in 3rd.
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The 2018 California Turf Cup was hosted by Silver Dollar Raceway in Chico, California over the weekend. The event was held in the usual variety of Modified and Stock classes an the 2WD Open Buggy category it was Kyle Turner with the overall TQ thanks to winning round 1 and 2 as Q3 winner, Kyle Layton would secure the P2 spot on the grid. In 4WD Open Buggy it was also Kyle Turner with the TQ courtesy of coming out fastest in Q2 and Q3 while Q1 winner, Brian Strange had to settle for 2nd on the grid. In the very competitive 13.5 4WD class Patrick Zhao TQ’d from Julian Jimenez.
Round four of the CTS3 was held at Roadrunners RC Club in Camarillo, California over the weekend. Fresh asphalt made racing close throughout the whole weekend and as the weather was perfect the track conditions were consistent. This round’s special guest appearance was the “Fabulous” Barry Baker, however in Modified Touring, it was Awesomatix driver Brandon Clements with the overall TQ, and he also came out victorious against a strong competition, with Team Associated driver Rick Hohwart in 2nd and team mate Randy Caster in 3rd. In 17.5 Touring it was Brandon Clements again who got the TQ honors and secured the win followed by Armond DeForest in 2nd and JD Ramsey in 3rd. In USGT Clayton Young TQ’d and he also took the win followed by Mark Goldwater in 2nd and Charles Lightfoot in 3rd. In Formula, it was Charles Lightfoot followed by Mark Goldwater in 2nd and Doug Rebal TQ in 3rd.
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