Round three of this year’s Jimmy Babcock Racing League Electric Series was held at Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale, California. As usual the event attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers and in 2WD Open Buggy it was Cody Turner who brought home the win from Jake Mayo in second and Steven Hartson in third, making it an all Team Associated podium.
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The second round of the RC Mafia Offroad Series took place in Nowa Gadka, Poland. The event saw both 1/8th and 1/10th off-road racing and in the premier class of 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was Kaja Novotny who took the TQ and the young man would also come out fastest after the qualifiers in E-Buggy as well as 1/10th 2WD, the latter following some nice battles with young and talented Jakub Luczak. Tomasz Gadnicki snatched the pole position for 1/10th 4WD A-mains while Marek Cisek took the TQ in 1/8th E-Truggy. Finally in 1/8 Nitro Truggy Tomasz Gadnicky grabbed his second TQ of the day.
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The HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska held the 7th annual JConcepts 1:8 Spring Nationals over Memorial Day weekend. As the Plex has changed adding a building over the race track five years ago, the event has been a popular stop for the area Nitro racers to get their first taste of the season for a larger event. The usual suspects of the regional fast guys showed up on Friday to get some laps on the fresh layout built by Alex Sturgeon and crew. Saturday would show three rounds of qualifying using best two out of three to seed you into Sunday’s main events with bump ups from the lower mains. With all of the rounds completed Minnesota’s Seth VanDalen (Tekno) would come out fastest in Expert E-Buggy. The A-mains would be a triple affair with VanDalen taking round 1. Indiana’s Tyler Jones would get comfortable at the front with his Team Associated buggy and take the wins in A2 and A3 to get the overall followed by VanDalen and the bump up king of the weekend Hunter Holmberg and his TLR.
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This past weekend the Intertrack Off-road Challenge was held in Zidlochovice, Czech Republic. The 1-day fun event was run without practice on Saturday, making for equal conditions for everyone. Xray’s Martin Bayer set easy TQ runs in both 1/8th Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy and he went on to come out successful in the A-mains of both classes with Xray team mate Max Götzl taking the runner-up spot in the nitro class and Mark Zilinsky (TLR) rounding out the podium. In E-Buggy Martin was sidelined by Roman Pudich and Martin Rytíř in second and third respectively.
The second round of the Czech Nitro On-road Nationals was held in Slavkov, Czech Republic over the weekend. In the 1/8th class, Tono Sloboda (Xray) brought the win from second placed Jiri Rybak (Xray) and third placed Miroslav Jurenka (Shepherd). The 1/10th 200mm class was won by Michal Abrahamek (Xray) who went for soft tyres and a conservative fuel strategy in the final. His efforts would pay out as he took the win some three laps ahead of Alexander Ockajak with Jiří Král completing an all-Xray podium.
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The 2016 Turf Meltdown Trophy Race was held at RC Madness in Enfield, Connecticut with a total of 75 race entries. The largest classes would be 2WD Modified Buggy and 4WD Modified Buggy and both saw Kyosho America’s Scott Furtado taking TQs and wins with Anthony Jesmond (Schumacher)
and Ed Gaunt (TLR) coming in second and third respectively in the 2WD class. 4WD Modified Buggy had the Xray duo of Matt Noto and Chris Marcy completing the top 3 result.
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Round two of the Northwest Championship Tour was held this past weekend in Spokane, Washington. The 3-day event would see practice held on Friday, three rounds of qualifying on Saturday, followed by the A-main events on Sunday. After all three rounds of qualifying were complete, Kyosho America’s Tayler Wonders would find himself lined up 3rd on the grid for the A-Main event. After a great battle for most of the race between the top 3 qualifiers, Wonders would come out on top to take the win in front of Team Associated driver Jason Hunt and Tekno RC’s Jesse Munn in third.
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The recent third round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Ampuis track with 77 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring 10.5T, Touring 13.5T and Formula 21.5T. Saturday started out with hot and dry weather and in Touring 10.5T is was Pierre Delorme who set the pace with Alexandre Duchet hot on his heels. As predicted the weather turned to the worst on Sunday and so the remaining qualifiers were held in wet conditions. The opening two A-mains of the 10.5T class then saw Pierre taking pretty easy wins in front of brother Jean, who started from the 7 spot and had pretty good runs. In the final A-main, on a drying track, things became complicated in terms of tyre choice with Jean making the right decision to run Volante tyres and he was able to bring home the win with a tight gap on Alexandre. Overall Pierre came out successful in the main from Jean and Alexandre in second and third respectively.
