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April 4, 2017

Tribudiman wins Jakarta Regional Buggy Champ opener

The first round of this year’s Jakarta Regional Buggy Championship was held at the Graha Raya track in Serpong, West Java this past weekend. A total of 41 drivers attended the event and due to heavy rain the night before race day, the race would start delayed and the race director was also forced to change the race format from triple 10-minute qualifiers to a shortened triple 7-minute format with the two best rounds to count. After the qualifiers, John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) took the TQ honours but in the 45-minute A-main event, Rama Tribudiman (Team Associated/O.S.) would take the win followed by Indra Liono (Xray/SPower) in second and Adrian Sutanto (Kyosho/O.S.) in third while TQ holder John had to settle for fourth overall.

View the final results here

April 4, 2017

Micha Widmaier sweeps German 1/10th Buggy qualifier

The MAC OR Hütschenhausen recently held a round of the German 1/10th Off-road National Championship qualifiers. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class it was Micha Widmaier (SWorkz) who made a near clean sweep by winning two of the three qualifiers and all three A-mains to take the overall win from the Team C duo of Tim Kurz and Tom Maquel. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class it was again Micha who dominated the field by bringing home the TQ and win from Tom Maquel and Markus Lübke (both Team C).

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

April 4, 2017

Adam Drake doubles at SoCal Nitro Shootout

The 2017 SoCal Nitro Shootout was held at the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California over the weekend. The event attracted over 200 entries and had heads-up racing for qualifying. Adam Drake would come out fastest in the Nitro Buggy qualifiers while Cody King TQ’d the Nitro Truck class. In the 30-minute Nitro Buggy A-main Drake proved to be unbeatable, taking the win by nearly a lap over the field and he would also walk away with the win in the Nitro Truck class for a perfect sweep.

View the Truck podium here

April 3, 2017

Meen V. wins at Mugen Asia Cup 2017

The Mugen Asia Cup was held this past weekend at New RC in Bangkok, Thailand. Organised by RC Addict the event attracted both national and international drivers and in the hour-long Nitro Buggy A-main it was former 200mm Nitro On-road World Champion, Meen V. who took the win from another former World Champion, Atsushi Hara, while Mongkolphan Lomrose complete the top 3 podium result. In the Truggy class, Tanit Kachchapananda came out on top to grab the day’s win.

View the Truggy podium here

April 3, 2017

Joao Figueiredo wins at Portuguese Nationals Rd1

The opening round of the Portuguese 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held at the Avanca track over the weekend. In Nitro Buggy Joao Figueiredo took the TQ after the qualifiers and he would also bring home the win in the 45-minute A-main from Carlos Duraes in second and Joao Monteiro in third. Multi-time national champion, Miguel Matias, had a pretty depressing weekend with a DNF in the main final after breaking an A-arm of his buggy in a bad landing.

Image: Joao Figueiredo

April 3, 2017

Lee Martin wins BRCA 1/8th Buggy Nationals Rd1

Round one of the BRCA 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at the NDOR astro turf track near Nottingham this past weekend. Kyosho’s Elliott Boots would take the overall TQ courtesy of three round TQs and a second place with Darren Bloomfield (Agama) placing himself on the 2 spot after the qualifiers. Elliott would start the 45-minute A-main from pole but in the end Infinity’s Lee Martin, who had a slow start into the weekend, would bring home the win at the season opener a narrow 5 seconds on front of Darren Bloomfield while Elliott had to settle for third, one lap short of Lee and Darren. Neil Cragg and Graham Alsop would round out the top 5 result another two laps down.

Image: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

April 3, 2017

Davide Ongaro wins Italian Nitro Buggy opener

The opening round of the Italian 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at the Gil Archi track in Corigliano Calabro over the weekend. In the 45-minute Expert main final it was Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro that proved to be unbeatable, bringing home the win one lap in front of Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton while Alessandro Stocco (TLR) completed the top 3 podium result.

Image: Piero Cresta

April 3, 2017

Robert Batlle successful at Spanish E-Buggy Nats Rd2

The second round of the Spanish 1/8th E-Buggy National Championship was held in Silla over the weekend. Mugen’s Robert Batlle took the TQ from Mugen team mate Jaume Figuls while the TLR duo of Oscar and Bryan Baldo completed the top 4 result. In the triple A-mains, Robert would secure the win in the opening leg from Jaume Figuls while Juan Carlos Canas came in third with the latter taking the win in A2, shifting the decision for the overall victory to the third and final A-main. Going into A3 four drivers were in the mix for the overall win and it looked like Jaume would bring it home but he would suffer from several issues that allowed Robert to cruise to the win with Juan Carlos Canas second and Oscar Baldo third overall.

View the final results here