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June 5, 2018

Pro Stock Series Rd1 – Report

Last weekend the first round of the Pro Stock Series was held at the WMC-Wiesbaden track. The track, that will also host the Pro-Stock-Series final later this year, saw exciting and fair races under beautiful weather conditions. Saturday’s practice showed that there was no favourite in both classes and as expected, the qualification was close. In the 1/8th class Michael Kosok took the TQ ahead of Wolfgang Hederich and Rudi Hofsäß while in 1/10th 200mm Touring it was Alexander Kien with the pole position ahead of Marcus May and David Ranft.

Continue reading the report here

June 5, 2018

Jakub Klapacz wins at Polish On-road Nats Rd2

The second round of the Polish Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Ruda Slaska track recently. In the competitive 13.5T stock class it was Jakub Klapacz with the TQ from Krystian Kopacki and Arkadiusz Smyk, however the finals were not run after the organisers had to call it a day following torrential rain. This meant the qualifying results were taken as the overall ranking with Jakub taking the win from Krystian and Arkadiusz.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

June 5, 2018

Marco Baruffolo wins Italian Four Race

The recent Four Race was held in Italy and it saw national frontrunner, Marco Baruffolo (Xray) taking the TQ and win in the Nitro Buggy class. Three laps down Agama’s Giovanni Camamo came in 2nd from Mugen driver Andrea Di Cecco in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 5, 2018

Liptak & Havránek win at MORAC Ring club race

The Austrian MORAC Ring held a club race this past weekend and in the 1/8th IC Track class it was Tomáš Lipták who came out on top after the double 20-minute A-main finals. Branislav Panák and Erich Scharler would round out the top 3. Over in the single 30-minutes 200mm main final it was Oliver Havránek with the overall win from Filip Obora and Igor Lipták.

View the 200mm podium here

June 5, 2018

Kyle Branson wins at British Open GP

Round 4 of the BRCA IC Track National Championship was held at the Brookline track and was held as the British Open GP together with the 1/10th 200mm GP class. The latter saw Alex Thurston taking the overall TQ honours after winning Q1 and Q2. In the final Alex had a clean start with him, Kyle Branson and Mark Green having a great race up front until a marshall put a back marker back on the track just before the straight meaning that Alex would come along and smash into him flat out. The crash crushed his car’s body, broke his bumper and damaged a front shock and the following pitstop meant that he was out of the equation for the win. Alex lost a good amount of laps, however with a borrowed shock from a retired teammate he was able to at least score a 3rd place finish to snatch valuable points as Mark Green came in 2nd and Kyle Branson took the win.

Image: Alex Thurston

June 5, 2018

Tyrolean Championship Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Tyrolean Championship was hosted by the RCCÖ club and held in Umhausen. Like the previous round the race was held in four electric on-road classes and in the Touring Modified category, that attracted a total of six entries all of which were in a position to win or at least finish on the podium, it was Thomas Rinner with error-free runs that award him the overall win from Aaron Tursky 2nd and Markus Fleischmann 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

June 4, 2018

Jiri Mara TQs & wins at Czech Open Rd4

The fourth round of the Czech Open series took place last weekend in Mlada Boleslav. Jiri Mara (SWorkz) and Kaja Novotny (Xray) traded TQs in the Nitro Buggy qualifying and in the end it was Jiri who won the final qualifier by a few tenths of a second for the overall TQ. In the main final it was again Jiri on top of the field while Kaja had problems to follow, mainly because of damages his buggy suffered from after a centre driveshaft pin came loose in his semi final. A quick repair allowed him to take part in the final, starting from P3, however Kaja wasn’t able to push his buggy but after a somewhat chaotic final, he was still able to finish on the runner-up spot and in front of Jiri Benes.

View the final results here

June 4, 2018

Adam Drake trifecta at JBRL Nitro Series Rd3

For round 3 of this year’s JBRL Nitro Series racers travelled to the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California. Mugen’s Adam Drake would sweep the Expert Nitro Buggy, Open Truggy and Open E-Buggy classes to make a perfect sweep. Anthony Westergaard (HB Racing) and Carlos Arredondo (Tekno) came in 2nd and 3rd in the Expert Buggy class while Carlos Arredondo and Cole Jenson (HB Racing) rounded out the Open Truggy podium. Finally in the Open E-Buggy class it was Anthony Westergaard on the runner-up spot from Steve Harris (Tekno) 3rd.

View the Truggy and E-Buggy podium here