Round 5 of the Summer Series was held at the Herts track this past weekend. In the main final it was Agama’s Callum Niblett with an awesome drive to take a comfortably win in a quick and well practised field. William Skidmore (Agama) came in 2nd with some heavy pressure from Team Associated’s Lewis Jones who would end the day on the 3 spot.
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The warm-up race for this year’s EFRA Nitro Buggy European Championship was held in Freixedas, Portugal this past weekend. Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro continued his recent winning streak by adding another TQ and win to his already impressive 2018 season as after coming out fastest in the qualifiers and semifinal, he also brought some the win in the 60-minute main final some 22 seconds in front of HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk as Mugen’s Robert Batlle rounded out the top 3 a lap down.
The Eifel Elos club in the western part of Germany held a round of the German 1/10th Electric Off-road National qualifiers recently and in the 2WD Modified Buggy class it was Xray’s Jens Becker with the TQ and win. Coming in 1st in A1 and A2 secured Jens the overall in front of Team C’s Marcel Schneider and Marcus Lübke as in 4WD Mod Buggy it was HB Racing’s Marcel Schneider with the win from Jens as Team C’s Andre Welker rounded out the top 3 results.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round three of the BRCA touring nationals took place at the West London track and it marked the halfway point in the season. In Touring Modified Schumacher’s Elliott Harper arrived on a good run of form having won the BTCC round here the week before, but it was the Xray of Olly Jefferies that took TQ. In leg one the lead swapped between Jefferies and Harper before Olly dropped down the order. Leg two and more of the same but Harper came out on top to take the win. Irish driver Alan Bickerstaff (Team Associated) had one his best national results finishing 2nd with Jefferies having to settle 3rd. The Modified class is now tied at the top between Jefferies and Harper with two rounds to go.
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The 3rd round of the Victorian Drivers series saw just under 150 entries travel to the Mildura club in regional Australia, 6 hours drive from Melbourne. The club members had built a brand new technical track for the event with a new clay surface. Unfortunately very heavy rain on the Friday of the event left the track very heavy for practice Saturday morning, resulting in the track becoming very bumpy and challenging racer’s driving and setup skills. The track dried out and grooved up through the event with competitors starting on pin tyres and ending up on supersoft bars or webs. With slick timekeeping and organisation, the event ran to schedule despite the wet start. In 4WD Modified the qualifying order was the same as 2WD Modified, the two junior racers pushing Ray hard. In the finals Ray again took the win with his son Lachlan finishing 2nd, a very unlucky Isergin just missing the podium after collecting a marshall’s foot in A3. Healy again let his experience show in the finals, finishing 3rd after tough qualifiers.
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The Swedish Cup was recently held at the Vaxjo track with some of the country’s fastest racers in attendance. In the Electric Touring class it was Serpent’s Viktor Wilck with the TQ from Xray’s Markus Hellquist who also TQ’d a qualifying round, however he had to settle for P2 on the grid behind Viktor. After the A-mains the order would remain the same with Viktor taking the day’s win from Markus as HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk, in one of his few on-road outings, had to settle for 3rd overall.
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Round 4 of the German 1/10th Off-road central division regionals was held on a permanent astroturf track in Hütschenhausen recently. Xray’s Tim Kunz took the double TQ and win in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes, leaving behind Team C’s Marcus Lübke and Andre Welker in 2WD while Marcus Lübke (Team C) and Florian Welsch (Xray) rounded out the top 3 result in the 4WD class.
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The iconic Lostallo track in Switzerland recently saw the running of a 24h race for 1/10th electric on-road cars. The rules allowed to use both electric touring and pan cars alongside with the two both making use of 17.5T motors with the faster pan car LM class utilising a 3.00 gear ratio whereas the 4WD touring cars were run using a 4.00 gear ratio. To make up for the slight weight and speed disadvantage the touring cars allowed for quicker battery changes, in under a minute, while the average LM pitstop was at 80 seconds. This made for a level playing field in the dry track conditions. Ultimately it was Team Sitterdorf with the win after 3945 laps, taking profit of fewer pit stops, a slower speed and perfect preparation with 2017 winners, Team Insurbia, coming in 2nd only 17 laps or six minutes behind.
Thanks to Andrea Brianza for the report.
