The Minicar Club Wiesbaden played host to a round of the Central German Nitro On-road regionals this past weekend. In 1/8th IC Track class 1 it was Infinity’s Oliver Mack with the TQ and win from Shepherd’s Toni Gruber while Serpent’s Philip Sting rounded out the top 3 result after the 30-minute main final.
The opening round of the newly-founded RCGP series was held in Manila, Philippines this past weekend. The event is held in the RCGP Pro and RC2 Open classes with the latter being open to non-sponsored drivers while the RCGP category is intended for Pro teams of one to two drivers. The RCGP class is also separated into two races per weekend with race 1 being swept by Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro who took the TQ and overall win from the HB Racing duo of David Ronnefalk and Cole Ogden. Mugen’s Robert Batlle came in 4th from Infinity’s Kyle McBride in 5th. JQ Racing’s Max Mort, SWorkz’s Juan Carlos Canas and Infinity’s Lee Martin completed the top 8 results.
The opening round of the Danish Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the Odense R/C Minirace club this weekend. Team Associated’s Jesper Rasmussen took the TQ and win in the 2WD Buggy class from up and coming Marcus Kaerup as veteran racer, Jonas Kaerup came in 3rd to round out an all-Team-Associated podium.
Image: Jesper Rasmussen
The first round of the Middle Swedish Cup was held in Skövde this weekend. The race attracted nearly 60 entries for the premier 1/8th Nitro Buggy class and it was Pontus Larsson (Serpent/Bullitt) with the clean sweep and overall TQ after the qualifiers. Jessica Palsson (Kyosho/O.S.) came in 2nd from Emil Magnusson (Kyosho/Picco) in 3rd. In the 30-minute main final Pontus, who had a troubles start into the main final, and Jessica came out on top, doing the extra lap with the two being separated by 12 seconds on the finish line while Emil same in 3rd, a lap down. Elias Johansson (HB Racing/Team Orion) and Hampus Berg (HB Racing/Team Orion) would make up the top 5 result.
Image: Jessica Palsson
The GT Euro warm-up race was held in Leipzig, Germany this weekend. In the Nitro GT class it was SWorkz/Picco’s Uli Westenfelder with the win from Holger Schmidt (Serpent/O.S.) in 2nd while Denis Mlivic (JQRacing/Alpha) completed the top 3 result. Over in the 4S GTE category it was Jochen Jannik (HB Racing) with the win from Uli Wstenfelder (SWorkz) as Armin Junge (Mugen) completed the podium result.
The second round of the Brazilian State Championships was held at the AARC Racing Track in Santo André, Brazil last weekend. Erich Heshiki (Xray) took the overall TQ in the 8.5T Modified Touring class, tie on points with Awesomatix’s Dennis Pickthall. The triple A-mains saw Erich coming out on top in all mains for the overall as Cesar Salvadori (ARC) snatched the runner-up spot from Dennis in 3rd overall.
Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]
Homestead in Florida played host to the 2019 Miami Grand Prix last weekend. Racing was on in several nitro on-road classes and in GT8 it was IGT8’s Rino Lino with the overall TQ and also the win in 45-minute A-main final. Lazaro Alonso, despite not completely recovered from an accident and having to drive sitting on a chair, raced hard and strong and finished in 2nd place while Avery Pierce rounded out the top 3 for an all-IGT8 podium.
Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]
The second round of the Portuguese Touring Car Championship was held at the AMVR track with nearly 30 drivers in attendance. The weekend was blessed with great weather, temperatures in the mid-20s, no wind, a clean track and good traction. In the Touring Car class both Carlos Manual and Hugo Miguel showed a strong pace and even made that extra lap in the fourth qualifying round. This set the stage for the finals with Carlos taking the pole position from Hugo on the 2 spot. When the dust had settled, it was Hugo who came out successful, taking the win for Serpent with Capricorn’s Carlos Manuel on the runner-up spot. Mario Miranda (Xray) was on fire in the finals, taking the final podium spot coming from the 5th spot on the grid.
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