Coyote Hobbies Raceway of Victorville, California played host to round 5 of the JBRL Electric Off-road Series last Saturday. The 2WD Open Buggy class saw TLR’s Sammy Moran walking away with the silverware from Tenko RC’s Carlos Arredondo, campaigning a Team Associated buggy, while TLR’s Jeff Guest completed the top 3 results.
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Round 5 of the Herts Nitro Model Club Summer Series was held last weekend. The congested calendar meant that this round clashed with the BRCA national but still almost 60 drivers attended the event. Qualifying would be the best three from four rounds with the Buggy TQ being Jay Williams, TQ in E-Buggy was Holger Lykke and the Truggy TQ went to George Miller. In the 20-minute Nitro Buggy A-main it was Wayne Buckhorn with the overall win some 20 seconds in front of John Niall. Jeremy Irving came in 3rd, only some two seconds behind John. E-Buggy saw Duncan Balgrove walking away with the win from Holger Lykke and Tony Verboom while in Truggy it was George Miller from John Afshin.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
The Timar Laszlo Memorial Race was held at the Morac-Ring track near Graz in Austria recently. The weekend kicked off with free practice on Friday with qualifying starting on Saturday noon with both days being affected by the weather. Xray’s Branislav Panak would lead qualifying in the damp and he also led the dry main final from tone to tone to take the win on Saturday some two laps in front of Anton Sloboda (Xray) while Filip Uher (Xray) came in 3rd another three laps down.
Round 3 of the Border Wars Series was held at LRC Raceway in Longmont, Colorado recently. The event is held in several nitro and electric off-road classes and in 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was Graham Hill with the clean sweep of overall TQ and win. Zeke Ballinger ended the 30-minute main final on the 2 spot, some five seconds behind the winner, as Sean Guthrie came in 3rd overall. Roman Gastelum and Jordan Davis would round out the top 5 result.
Source: Flashpoint R/C [flashpointrc.com]
The International Buggy Challenge was hosted by the Barcelos track in Portugal over the weekend, attracting many swift national and international 1/8th off-road drivers. In Nitro Buggy it was SWorkz’s Juan Carlos Canas with the overall TQ from Mugen’s Robert Batlle and Kyosho’s Joao Figueiredo. The 45-minute A-main than saw Robert holding the upper hand, however it was only with a 0.7 seconds margin from Juan Carlos on the runner-up spot. Joao would retain his 3rd place qualifying position to round out the podium from Ricardo Monteiro in 4th and Nuno Casal Ribeiro in 5th.
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Round 3 of the Spanish IC Track Nationals was held in Valladolid this past weekend. In the 1/8th IC Track category Victor Gonzalez took the overall TQ some three seconds in front of Nacho Lopez as Ruben Olivares came in 3rd after the qualifiers. The 45-minute main final than had Nacho coming out on top, a lap in front of Ruben was Victor had to settle for 3rd overall, another lap down. With the win, Nacho also took home the national title.
Image: Nacho Lopez
The IFMAR GT Pre-Worlds race was held in Homestead, Florida last week with IGT8’s DJ Apolaro walking away with the overall TQ and win in the ROAR 5-Port Spec class. The hour-long A-main final saw Paolo Morganti (IGT8) coming in 2nd, a close 2.3 seconds behind DJ as Super Pole winner, IGT8’s Lazaro Alonso ended the race in 3rd, only nine seconds behind the winner. Serpent’s Joaquin Desoto Jr. came in 4th, some three laps behind the top 3 as Fabrizio Martello (IGT8) completed the top 5 results another three laps down.
Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]
Round 3 of the Finnish 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held at Fullspeed RC in Vantaa, Finland this past weekend. Ari Heinonen took the overall TQ after winning two of the three qualifying rounds from Lauri Ruotsalainen, who also took a round TQ. In the 45-minute A-main event it was again Ari who would prevail, taking the win some twelve seconds in front of Markku Honkanen on the runner-up spot. A lap down Simo Ahoniemi would complete the top 3 result, finishing on the same lap as 4th placed Tomi Salonen and 5th placed Lauri Ruotsalainen.
Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]
