The second round of the French Electric On-road Championship was held at the Longvic track over the weekend. In the Touring Stock class it was Pierre Delorme with the win from Briac Berthoud on the 2 spot and Julien Jost in 3rd. Over in the Formula class it was Jeremy Limoges who brought home the silverware from Willy Voisangrin 2nd and Varinard Jean-Michel 3rd.
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The Mini Auto Club Andelysien played host to round 1 of the French 1/8th Nitro Buggy national championship this past weekend. The top qualifying spot went to TLR’s Renaud Savoya, however in the A-main it was Kyosho’s Rayan Medjoubi who would prevail, taking the win after a tough fight with Renaud. TLR’s Tom Robin would round out the podium in front of 4th placed Thomas Musso (Mugen) and 5th placed Vincent Meertens (Xray).
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The 2019 DXR Dirt Kings race was held held at the Harper Adams University in Shropshire, UK over the weekend, attracting some of the world’s fastest 1/8th nitro off-road racers. Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro would sweep the Nitro Buggy qualifiers with a clean 800 points score, followed by Agama’s Ryan Lutz in 2nd, tie on points with Kyosho’s Joao Figueiredo. New SWorkz signing, Elliott Boots and teammate Juan Carlos Canas would follow in 4th and 5th, again tie on points. The 45-minute main final than would see a very close outcome with Ryan Lutz taking a slim 2.5 seconds win from Davide in 2nd while Juan Carlos came in 3rd, only ten seconds behind Davide. Agama’s Burak Kilic and SWorkz’s Elliott Boots came in 4th and 5th, already two laps down.
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The fifth and final round of the 2018/19 Northwest Indoor Series was once again hosted by Tacoma R/C Raceway in Washington. This 5-race series would begin at the end of 2018 and would go through April of 2019. Each round of the series would see many of the best drivers that the Northwest has to offer. With each drivers four best finishes out of 5 counting, there was no room for error in this extremely competitive series. After the dust had finally settled from this intense 6-month series, it was Yokomo USA team driver Jackson Andres taking the impressive overall series championships in both the premier 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes.
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The Absima Summer Championship was opened with brilliant sunshine and brilliant racing at the Coastal Model Car Club this weekend. A bumper entry rolled through the gates to fight it out for the first round. First up it was the touring cars, and after a scare with a breakage in practice Adrian Dew dominated the results by winning all the qualifiers and finals, although there was some great action for the lead with both Jason Scott and Attila Hadji.
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The third round of the Metropolitan Championship was held at the Hernan Matticoli Circuit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Off-road specialist Nicolas Bregante had one of his few on-road outings and was very fast from the get-go despite missing practice due to work commitments. Counting round TQs in Q2 and Q3 secured him the overall TQ and starting from pole position allowed him to take the wins in the opening two A-mains for the overall. Ezequiel Forgaral ended the day on the runner-up spot and in front of Luciano Capel in 3rd.
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The second round of the Swiss Electric Off-road Championship was held at the Islikon indoor track. The race would mark the final race event at the popular location that will close its door permanently after the Easter weekend. Racing-wise it was Nico Schmid who took wins in the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes, leaving behind his brother Florian in 2nd place in both categories. Kay Fehner snatched the final podium spot in 2WD while Philip Jeisy rounded out the top 3 in 4WD, making it all-Xray top 3 podiums in both categories.
Round 3 of the 2019 Urban Touring Series took place this past Sunday at Urban’s rooftop PlaySpace raceway. Despite forecasts of rain, an enthusiastic grid of close to 30 racers turned up to pit themselves against one another in the Touring Car 17.5T Blinky and Formula classes. In the TC Class, it was Nicholas Lee who would take overall TQ by topping Q1 and Q2. Dominic Quek would have to settle for a P2 start in the A-Main. Sean Lee had a great qualifying to snatch P3 from Esmail Apandi who made some uncharacteristic mistakes during his runs. Wee EC and Hasron Robana would take the last two direct spots in the A-main, and would be eventually joined by Sebastian Lee and Chhua Joo Kiah bumping up.
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