The fourth round of the Campeonata Lattitude 33 RC Chile took place in La Sirena, Chile. Gaston Zergard Latrach would TQ and take the top spot on the podium as JQ teammate Sebastian Azocar Lucchini would finish in 2nd place and Matias Sebastian Moreno Ampuero (Mugen) in 3rd place.
Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]
Reigning 1:8 Onroad World Champions Infinity have announced the signing of the sport’s most successful siblings – the Sahashi brothers. The well known Japanese brothers have been a leading force in nitro onroad racing and bring a wealth of knowledge the Japanese manufacturer bolstering its efforts for the 1:10 Onroad World Championships later this year. Both multiple World finalists, younger brother Tadahiko was crowned the 1:8 World Champion in 2013 with Yuya crowned 1:10 Vice-Champion the following year. With Yuya also making the podium at the 2015 1:8 World Championships, this was a particularly special moment for the popular brothers with Tadahiko also making the final in Brazil. The Sahashi pairing will spend the coming weeks getting familiar with Infinity’s new European Championship winning IF15 as preparation for their Worlds debut with Infinity at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the USA in October.
Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]
The fifth round of this year’s NRS was hosted at the North West Nitro Track near Blackpool over the weekend. Agama’s William Skidmore took the TQ after the qualifiers and the win in the A-main, leaving behind Kyosho’s Kieran Cox in 2nd, a lap down. HB Racing’s Mick Butler complex the top 3 result nine seconds behind Kieran.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
The Campogalliano track in Modena, Italy played host to the 17th Kyosho International Meeting last weekend. In the F1 Expert Nitro Buggy class it was young Mattia Polito who scored the hattrick of TQ, win and fastest lap, leaving behind Elliott Boots in 2nd and Fabrizio Teghesi in 3rd.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
The 2018 Great Lakes Challenge was hosted by the Toledo One Eights Racers in Northwood, Ohio last weekend. In the 1/8th Open 4WD A-main it was Serpent’s Ralph Burch with the overall TQ, however in the 30-minutes A-main event it was Serpent teammate, Joaquin Desoto Jr. with the win, a lap in front of Xray’s Mike Swauger. Capricorn’s Paolo Morganti came in 3rd, some eights seconds down on Mike. Scott Kimbrow and Lon Burling made up the top 5 while top qualifiers, Ralph Burch had to settle for 6th overall. Over in the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan class it was DJ Apolaro with the TQ and win. DJ brought home the win with a 7-seconds margin from Mike Swauger while Ralph Burch rounded out the top 3 results. Diatta Collymore and Jeremiah Ward followed in 4th and 5th respectively.
Image: Joaquin Desoto Jr.
Wölbling in Austria played host to the third round of the Austrian Nitro Buggy Nationals this past weekend. SWorkz’s Martin Wollanka (SWorkz/Picco/TPro) took the win in front of Patrik Schweinzer (Mugen/Novarossi/Pro-Line) 2nd and Dominic Bauer (Mugen/ Ninja/Pro-Line) 3rd. Over in the 40+ class it was Georg Horninger(SWorkz/MW-Picco/TPro) with the win from Mario Penn (HB Racing/Team Orion/TPro) as Heinz Müller (SWorkz/MW-Picco/TPro) snatched the final podium spot.
The 2018 1/8th Off-road Nordics were held at the Fullspeed RC racing Arena in Vantaa, Finland over the weekend. Even tough the race is called the Nordics, drivers from other countries were also welcomed to join. This time the most drivers came from Finland with Estonia being the second most represented country. The event kicked off on Friday with a day of practice with Saturday being qualification day and from the get go Joseph Quagraine with his own JQRacing car and Lauri Ruotsalainen driving a Team Associated showed good speed taking the first and second spot in Q1. Later Joona Haatanen showed great speed, taking Q2 and Q3 with his Team Associated in front of Joseph Quagraine and Max Mört.
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Round 5 of the Swiss 1/8th Nitro Buggy Championship was held in Morges this past weekend. Just over 100 drivers registered for the race that was held on a temporary grass track near the Lake of Geneva. Patrick Hofer in Expert and Noah Kaufmann in the Amateur class took the overall TQ in their respective categories. In the Expert final Patrick Hofer brought home the win with a 5-seconds merging, making it his fifth win this season. With the win Patrick also secured himself a 4th Swiss Championship title in this category. Over in the Amateur class Noah took the pole position for the A-main after winning the semifinals and he would also take the overall win with a 1-lap margin, taking another step towards the overall championship title.
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