The fourth round of the Catalan Championships was held this past weekend at the RC Santa Perpetua track. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Alex Valls with the overall TQ from Pol Hernandez in 2nd and Dani Batlle on the 3rd spot. After the 45-minute A-main it was again Alex Valls on the top spot, leaving behind Aleix Montero in 2nd and Alex Fernandez in 3rd.
The Buggyland 5.0 race was held in Madrid, Spain over the weekend, attracting most of Europe’s front-running 1/8th off-road racers. In the Nitro Buggy class it was HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk with the overall TQ while the E-Buggy class was lead by Mugen’s Juan Carlos Canas. After the nitro semifinals it was Juan Carlos with the pole position for the 60-minute nitro buggy A-main and he would also lead for a good part of the race as he seemed able to counter any attacks of the hard charging David Ronnefalk. However Juan Carlos suffered a flameout and bad luck in the later stages of the main, meaning David was able to bring home the win a lap in front of Kyosho’s Elliott Boots while SWorkz’s Martin Wollanka took the final podium spot. Ricardo Berton and Joao Figueredo came in 4th and 5th and in front of Jörn Neumann and Juan Carlos Canas, who had to settle for 7th, some three laps short of the winner.
Xray have announced the signing of multiple Chinese national champion, Gary Huang to their factory team. The PMTC, HKRCSA, AMA and Sanye Cup champion will campaign Xray’s T4 and RX8 platforms at races regional, national and international races such as the Chinese Nationals, AOC, OneTen Series, the Xray Racing Series China/Hong Kong and the TITC.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The Gulf Coast Raceways in Porter, Texas and the Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas recently played host to the first ever Texas Two Step race. It was setup like the Pro-Line duel race in California. The scoring would be combining your results from Saturday and Sunday to make an overall. Friday was practice at either track with Saturday being raced at the Gulf Coast Raceway and Sunday things would decide at the Thornhill track. When the dust had settled, Ethan Lefebvre would take the overall in Nitro Buggy in front of Dillon Caldwell and Tyler Hooks. Over in Electric Buggy it was Tyler Hooks with the overall from Brandon Rose and Ethan Lefebvre.
SPARC R/C Raceway of Kingsville, Ontario held the Brian Decaire Memorial Race last weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class Xray’s Mark Sousa was able to take overall TQ and win in front of Serpent’s Abiye Birku on the runner-up spot. Douglas Shewfelt (Serpent) would round out the podium in 3rd.
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The final two rounds of the Czech 1/8th Buggy Nationals took place at the Horni Jeleni track last weekend. At round 5 it was Max Gotzl with the overall TQ in the Nitro Buggy class, however after the semifinals it was Martin Bayer with the pole position for the 45-minute A-main event with Max coming in 2nd and Jiri Mara starting from the 3 spot. Soon after the start Martin had a bobble that allowed Max to take the lead but Bayer soon recovered and Max tried to fight back after the final stop for fuel but Martin had the faster pace and so he took the win from Max in 2nd and Jiri in 3rd.
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The Levante regional championship concluded last weekend and it was Mugen’s Manuel Iniesta who took the win and the overall title. The RC Roldan track played host to the race with the Kyosho duo of Oscar and Bryan Baldo competing the top 3 results behind winner Manuel.
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The Mach-One astro turf track in Helmond, The Netherlands played host to a round of the NRW Cup this past weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class Carsten Keller took the overall TQ while in the Electric Buggy class it was Jarno Pijpers who was in 1st place after the qualifiers. Following the semifinal it was Jarno with the pole position for the Nitro A-main and right from the start he was able to build a gap on Carsten who had bad luck in his semifinal. Ultimately Jarno Pijpers (SWorkz) was able to bring home the win from Carsten Keller (Mugen) in 2nd and Collin Meijer (Serpent) in 3rd. The Electric class had Jarno Pijpers (SWorkz) taking another pole position with Sander van Genechten (Xray) on the 2 spot on the grid. After the start Jarno and Sander would pull away from the rest off the field. Sander would follow Jarno for a few minutes, but Sander made a mistake and Jarno would open a gap to take the win from Sander in 2nd and Tim Donk (Team C) on the 3 spot.
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