Round 5 of the North West Nitro Summer Championship was held in Weeton, UK last weekend. The 1/8th Buggy A-main final saw SWorkz’s Chris Sharpe-Simkiss walking away with the win, a lap in front of Tekno RC’s Alan Yates, driving an electric buggy, as Ian Slater (Kyosho) came in 3rd another lap down.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
The opening round of the Indonesia Buggy Nationals was held at the Maxspin Track in Maribaya, West Java last weekend. A total of 41 drivers from Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Batam, Gresik, Banjarmasin as well as local drivers attended the event. The race format was six rounds of 10-minutes qualifying with the four best to count. After the six rounds it was Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) with the overall TQ honours. In the main final however Jason had to settle for 5th overall as he broke a front lower arm in the opening stages of the race, loosing five minutes in the pits to have his car fixed. Up front it was Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Ninja) who took the win in front of Falla (Mugen/O.S.) in 2nd and John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) in 3rd place.
The Italian ACI SGT Championship was held at the Teverola track recently. In the 1/8th Nitro SGT class it was young Andrea Catanzani with the win from Mimmo Calce on the runner-up spot. Filippo Beretta would round out the podium result in 3rd place.
Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]
SS Hobbies and Raceway of Tampa, Floria played host to round one of The Force Series fall session this past weekend. With heavy rains throughout Friday practice and Saturday race day, racing went on without delays as this unique track is covered and protected from mother nature. With 134 entries going into qualifying, racing heated up quickly in expert nitro buggy class as teammates Lee Setser, JR Mitch, and AJ Marasco would qualify top 3 going into the A-main event. The 25-minute main would see plenty of action throughout, but it was Lee Setser that held off a late charge from JR Mitch for the win. JR would finish 2nd and AJ Marasco rounded out the top 3.
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Round 5 of the Southern Regional Series was hosted by the Southcoast RC track in Dorset last weekend. SWorkz’s Kevin Brunsden took two round TQs for the overall and also came out on top of the 20-minute A-main, a lap and a half in front of young Dylan Saunders (Team Associated) who was able to grab the runner-up spot in the closing stages, taking profit of a mishap of Agama’s Jon Hazlewood who would take 3rd in front of James Clifford.
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Round 5 of this year’s JBRL Nitro Series was held at the Wild West R/C track in Winchester, California last weekend. The event had nearly 130 entries and attracted some of the region’s fastest nitro off-road racers. In Expert Buggy it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the overall TQ, but the 15-minute A-main event would see 4th place qualifier Jake Mayo (Xray) taking the win from 8th place qualifier Carlos Arredondo (Tekno RC) in 2nd and TQ Adam Drake in 3rd.
Brooklands circuit in Kent hosted round 7 of the BRCA 1/8th IC Track Championship this past weekend. Weather conditions were favourable with no rain and Saturday saw a number of new and younger drivers attending which was great to see. The main final saw a battle between Mark Green, Tim Wood and David Spashett. Tim and Mark had a good battle up front whilst Dave was picking his way up the order after starting from 11th after a time delay. Wood passed Mark to take the lead early on, and at the chequered flag the result was 1st and fastest lap for Tim Wood, 2nd Mark Green, and 3rd David Spashett. The next race is the Halifax British Open later this month.
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The 2019 Queensland State Championships were held at England Park Model Raceway in Brisbane, Australia last weekend. Jeff Hamon took the overall TQ in the 1/8th IC Track class from Steven Jovanovic in 2nd. After the half hour long A-main it was again Jeff who came out on top, taking the Queensland State title in front of Steven on the runner-up spot and Andrew Gillespie in 3rd.
