The final round of this Winter’s WBC Cup was held at the Netto RC Arena over the weekend. Many of Sweden’s top off-road drivers signed up to battle it out on the demanding track that offers a mix of high speed and tight corners, table top jumps, singles and many more. In 2WD Elias Johansson (Team Associated) took the TQ in front of Jessica Pålsson (Kyosho) and Hampus Berg (Team Associated).
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Ryan Lutz has taken an expected win in the 1/8th nitro buggy class in Xiamen China, but he didn’t have it all his own way. Looking at the results one would think the race was a procession but at various stages of the 1 hour main there was plenty of excitement at the front of the field. Yusuke Suguira looked to have the faster car throughout the race, especially in the early part, but too many mistakes meant he couldn’t capitalise, while in their own league, behind the leading pair Kaja Novotny took home 3rd after a long and exciting battle with Wataru Takashiro who ended up just off the podium in 4th.
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The final round of the 2017/18 Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. As the UK was affected by another freezing and snow-filled weekend, it was great to see another almost capacity entry to round out a busy year, which was also bolstered by a “guest heat” of the popular Tamiya Trucks. With the Modified title already decided, Olly Jefferies decided to sit out this round, but still was trackside to cheer on his team and help them out for the finals. It was therefore Elliott Harper, who already had one hand firmly on the championship runner-up trophy, who got proceedings underway by topping the first two rounds of qualifying for Schumacher. Alexander Hagberg, who took his first ever EWS win at the previous event, was close to Elliott but had to settle for 2nd each time. The fight for third was much closer, however, with the top five in Q1 being filled out by the Yokomo of new Maclan signing Harley Eldridge, Team Associated’s Chris Grainger, and the Schumacher of former series champion Stefan Chodzynski. The second qualifier saw Matt White take 3rd for Associated, in front of Harley and Stefan.
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The opening round of the 2018 Santa Perpetua Championship for 1/8 Electric Buggies was held this past weekend and it was Agama driver Alex García Aguilera with the TQ and win. Martí Prat (Mugen) came in 2nd from David Tonijuan (Team Associated) in 3rd.
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Round 3 of the Thornhill Championship Series was held this past weekend. In the very competitive Expert E-Buggy class it was Justin Coral with the TQ from Quincy Hughes 2nd and Jerry Dean Junior 3rd. With P2 to P6 all finishing within some 2.5 seconds the stage was set for entertaining A-mains with Quincy Hughes ultimately coming out on top after the double mains, courtesy of two wins, from Smiley Henn 2nd and Rocco Margiotta 3rd.
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The final round of the North West Nitro Winter series was held recently and it was Chris Simkiss who would walk away with the overall title in the Nitro Truggy class. Andy Beaumont would end the series on the runner-up spot from Mick Fallows who rounded out the top 3.
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The final round of the Danish RC Kongen Winterseries was held this past weekend and it was 10-years old Marcus Kaerup (Team Associated) who walked away with the double TQ, double win and double championship titles. At the final round Marcus would leave behind Frederik Hovgaard (Yokomo) and Pelle Culmsee (HB Racing) in 4WD as well as Jonas Kaerup (Team Associated) and Frederik Hovgaard (Yokomo) in 2WD to seal the championship title sweep.
Image: Jonas Kaerup
The opening round of Indonesian 1/10 Electric On-road National Championship was held at the Giant Arena Circuit in South Borneo. A huge 75×40 meters asphalt track, inside an asphalt mixing facility, attracted 50 racers who joined the primary Modified class in medium high traction conditions. Racing-wise it was the defending national champion, Bowie Ginting, who scored an early two TQ points to secure himself the pole position while Suwardi Suliandy took the 3rd round to start from 2nd on the grid followed by Chandra Yosef on P3. In the mains it was again Bowie who led the proceedings, taking the overall victory from Yosef and Suliandy.
