The second round of this year’ Greek 1/8th Buggy National Championship was held at the STR track in Athens. Xray’s Tasos Paparegas was in control of things in the A-main final, bringing home the win from the SWorkz duo of Kostas Zagorisios in 2nd and Thanos Makropoulos in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The annual Silver State race was held at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas last weekend. Presented by The Dirt Racing crew, the race for sure is one of the best 1/8th experiences of the year. 2018 was the inaugural year that the South Point Hotel and Casino hosted the Silver State and now with a whole year to make think about changes and adjustments, this year’s event was even better. The new make-shift driver stand felt like a real driver stand, the 1/5th scale track turned into a practice track for guys to get more run time than just three five minute quals and to dial in their rides on a surface that was similar to the race track. The track layout is always going to be fun as Joey and Aaron have been doing this for nearly 20 years now and they just understand racing and what it takes to make a fun track that challenges all levels. The real magic of the Silver State race is the evolution of the track and track surface. With Nevada being a desert climate and the driest state in the US, it’s really hard to find good natural earth dirt to make a track. However, by using what they have, the sandy fine dirt never packs together for longevity and over the course of the weekend will break apart creating holes, craters, and broken jump faces making it extremely difficult to race on by the mains. Despite all this, this is what makes the Silver State so special as it really does test the racer’s ability to adapt and overcome.
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Mibosport have announced their Summer Race for the 1st of June. The event will be held at the popular Blansko track in the Czech Republic in several on-road classes including Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula, 1/10th Pan Car, Hobby as well as 200mm Nitro Touring. Included with the entry for the Touring Modified and Stock classes is a free set of hand-out Sweep tyres. And as the 1st of June is the International Children’s Day, all kids can attend the race for free. Full information can be found of the official event website here.
Round 2 of this year’s Spanish Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at the RC Silla track last weekend. Kyosho/Bullitt’s Bryan Baldo took the overall TQ and he also came out on top after the 45-minute A-main event, leaving behind HB Racing/XTR’s Ignacio Candel in 2nd and Mugen/Ultimate’s Ricardo Monteiro in 3rd. Oscar Navarro (Mugen/Ultimate) and Daniel Bernabe (Agama/Bullitt) would round out the top 5 results.
Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com] | InfoRC [inforc.net]
Last weekend the North German IC Track regionals took place at the MACH track in Hamburg. With rain on Saturday and only two hours of practice in the afternoon almost everybody would start out of the cold on Sunday. Qualifying in 2nd spot behind TQ Lennart Skornia (Serpent), it was Merlin Depta (Serpent) who pulled away right from the start of the A-main and after the 30-minute encounter Merlin would cross the finish line a lap in front of ARC’s Lars Hoppe with Shepherd’s Timo Schröder rounding out the Podium in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The opening round of the Czech 1/8th Off-road National Series was held last Saturday at the Kolin track. The weekend started off with free practice on Friday. During Saturday morning’s qualifiers Xray’s Max Götzl showed a very strong pace, taking the overall TQ in both the Nitro and Electric Buggy classes. SWorkz’s Jiri Mara and Xray’s Jiri Benes came in 2nd and 3rd respectively in Nitro while Marek Schiller and Ales Bidovsky completed the E-Buggy top 3. Going towards the nitro finals it started to rain during the first semi final with the weather getting more and more worse. This left the organisers with no choice but to call it a day, meaning the Nitro overall results were taken from the qualifiers, handing Max the overall win from Jiri Mara and Jiri Benes.
Round 3 of the HNMC Summer Series was held this past weekend at the Herts Nitro Model Club. Qualifying in Buggy was taken by Jamie Clancy with Karl Jackson taking E-Buggy and Pano TQ-ing Truggy. The 20-minute Buggy A-main then saw again Jamie Clancy (Team Associated) getting it done with HB Racing’s Graham Alsop and Team Associated’s Michael Lewis coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Karl Jackson would walk away with the win in the 12-minute E-Buggy main while George Miller snatched the win in Truggy.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
The warm-up race to the EFRA European B Buggy Championship was held at the Spanish RC Silla track this past weekend. Giovanni Camamo would bring home the win in the 30-minute A-main event from Jean Marc Lacheze on the 2 spot, a lap down. Twelve seconds behind Jean Marc it was Mirko Belli who would round out the top 3 podium result.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
