Round 6 of the Irish Navan Nitro Nuts series was held this past weekend. 1/8th Nitro buggy JQ Racing Ireland driver Bradley Baird took TQ and win. Bradley set off in the 30-minute A-final and never looked back setting fastest lap after fastest lap to take an impressive win. Agama driver Barkley Abernathy would come in 2nd, a lap down on Bradley as Kyosho pilotJimmy Chan rounded out the top 3 result.
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SDRC of San Diego, California held round 1 of their SDRC Supercross Series this past weekend with over 120 entries. The race was held in several electric off-road classes and 2WD Expert Open saw Kevin King taking the TQ and also the win in the single 7-minute A-main event, leaving behind Eli Westrup in 2nd and Tito Gonzalez in 3rd. Tyler Hicks and Matt Barksdale would round out the top 5 results.
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Round 2 of the North West Nitro Series was held at the club’s Mythop Road site near Blackpool this past weekend in pretty windy weather conditions. The original plan was to use the club’s dirt track but given the wind direction and openness of the rostrum it was decided to use the astro track instead. The wind never let off all day but this helped dry the wooden section as the day progressed but in the last qualifying round it rained for 5 mins making things interesting again for all. In the end it was Nick Cox (HB Racing/Team Orion) with the win in the Nitro Buggy A-main from Chris Sharpe Simkiss (SWorkz/SPower) in 2nd. Vincenzo Zuccarelli would round out the top 3 with his Novarossi-powered ride.
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Akio Sobue has maintained his perfect record at the 2018/19 OneTen Series presented by Infinity having taken the win in the 8-minute A-main here in Guangzhou. Having already wrapped up the title with the win in round 5 yesterday, the Japanese driver led a mostly processional race as racers drove with battery conservation in mind. In the end, the top 4 finished in the positions they started with Sawada crossing the line in 2nd, while Nicholas Lee and Jan Ratheisky, who had a good battle early on, completed the top 4 with Haoran Ma in 5th. The talk before the race was trying to finish the 8 minutes on this high speed track and Sobue said he drove the race very smoothly, having pushed hard in the first few laps to build a gap. He was able to maintain his lead and in the end had a lot of power left in his 6300mAh cells. Despite having taken the title, the Infinity driver said he will for sure be in Hong Kong for the final two rounds saying he is aiming for a perfect score in the series.
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With the Christmas and new year period it was back to racing for round 4 of the Schumacher Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club. An ever increasing field showed up with the numbers reaching 75 a club record. In 13.5 Touring qualifying Chris Lovely would set the pace early on, on a track catching many out when they tended to push. Andrew Green would leave it all till the last round with Ricky Lee 3rd, brother Kyle would line up 4th, with Joe Cocking, Daniel Burks and Nathan Winyard in 7th.
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A great turnout of 55 drivers attended round 4 of the Ledbury Winter Series this past weekend at Ledbury Model Car Club. The weather stayed dry and the track was extremely grippy. Mike Lewis dominated qualifying – securing all four round with TQ. His brother, Matt was 2nd overall with yet more AE drivers Jon Howells and Lloyd Pitt 3rd and 4th respectively. Onto the A-final that saw some really interesting battles throughout the 15-minute race. AE’s Matt Lewis took the win by only 0.6 secs from his brother Mike. Jon Howells took the final step, only 0.5 secs in front of HB driver Chris Lovell.
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The annual DHI Cup was held in Odense, Denmark this past weekend. As usual the race was held simultaneously on an off-road and an on-road track with the tracks sharing the drivers’ stand. In the 1/10th Buggy categories it was Schumacher’s Jörn Neumann with the clean sweep, taking the win in both 2WD and 4WD as HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk and Team Associated’s Jesper Rasmussen came in 2nd and 3rd respectively in 2WD Buggy. Over in 4WD Buggy it was David Ronnefalk with the runner-up spot from HB Racing teammate, Hampus Berg in 3rd.
The second round of this Winter’s XRS Germany was held at the permanent track of the MCRT-Aschaffenburg club. It was the last time the race took place at this facility since the track is likely to be closed in the first quarter of 2019. As the track is known for its small technical layout it demanded a lot from all drivers to make all clean runs. Classes run were Touring Car Stock, 1/12 GT Pan Car, Touring Car FWD and Formula. Most of the drivers already started off on Saturday with a whole day of free practice. Sunday was race day and at first saw three rounds of qualifying with the best two to count. Jannick Namyslo found a decent starting setup for his car and was able to TQ all three rounds. In FWD Harald Schmittgen, who drove the new Xray prototype, swept the qualifiers, highlighting the performance of both man and machine. In Formula Johannes dominated the field while in 1/12 GT Pan Car Felix was topping the timing sheets followed by Benedikt.
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