The fourth round of the BRCA Truggy and E8 Buggy Nationals was held at Herts Model Car Club. Jamie Clancy (Team Associated) would bring home the win in the half-hour long Nitro Truggy A-main, some narrow three seconds in front of AE teammate, Lewis Jones. Agama’s John Hazlewood would round out the 40-laps club in 3rd, another 26 seconds down.
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The 8th round of the Chilean National IC Track Championship attracted a good number of entries, making for some competitive racing throughout the day. After the qualifications, Tomás Ramirez (IGT8/Novarossi) took the pole position for the 30-minutes long A-main encounter while also scoring the fastest lap with a 25.110. At the start of the 3-minutes warm-up time a servo failure already ended the race of Tomás who wasn’t allowed to start in the final. This was the opportunity for his teammate, Alvaro Jara (IGT8/Novarossi), to snatch valuable points in the championship to chase Tomás in the ranking. But Felipe Lyon (Serpent/Novarossi), using the new GQ-Soft Compound tyres and after missing the 7th round of the championship, pushed so hard, that he was able to beat Alvaro Jara to take the win. An interesting battle for the 3rd step on the podium was between Raimundo Puelma (Ofna/Picco), Alvaro Jara Jr. (IGT8/Novarossi) and Benjamín Ramirez (IGT8/GO Engines). Benjamín, with solid driver skills, continued pushing until five minutes before the end of the race, allowing him to get past both drivers to take the 3rd place overall.
This past weekend Thornhill Racing Circuit hosted the 2018 Pro-Line Shootout. The annual Pro-Line spec tire event had 200 entries and Mugen’s Adam Drake would be the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truck, and Electric Buggy. In the 40-minute Nitro Buggy final, Adam Drake would lead from the start and ended up taking the victory followed by Team Associated’s Jake Dellinger and Tekno RC’s Tyler Hooks.
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The Amstetten track in Northern Austria played host to a sizzling hot round 3 of the Austrian IC Track Championship. Before the start of the 45-minute A-main it was Lubi Paunovic who called for a time out and the short period was also taken benefit of by Nejc Mihelic who faced engine troubles in the warm-up period to the A-main. The short time out allowed Nejc to swiftly swap his car’s engine. The final started without Nejc on the grid who restarted his car in the pit and followed the field close to one lap down. At this time Gerhard Kandelhart was leading the race closely followed by Herfried Pucher who recovered after a difficult weekend and found back to speed in the final. After 15 minutes, Pucher took over the lead until the 30-minute mark where the leading cars of Pucher and Mihelic decided to change the outside tyres only. In this phase Mihelic recovered from the difficulties in the beginning and closed the gap to Pucher. In the end Mihelic was able to bring home the win some three seconds in front of Pucher and Paunovic, another two laps down.
The 1/8th Nitro Buggy season in Israel has come to an end with the recent round 8 of the championship. Held at the Negev Speed Racing track it was a super hot affair with temperatures reaching up to 34 degrees Celsius. After the four qualifying rounds Yaniv Sivan took the TQ honours and he also got the hole shot at the start of the A-main. Yaniv was closely followed by Aviv Maymon in 2nd and when Sivan made a small mistake it promoted Maymon into the lead. What followed was a forth and back for several times until Aviv suffered a flameout which cost him a position that was taken by Or Balulu who in turn also suffered engine issues. This promoted Tal Siles to 2nd and Dvir Hirak to 3rd. From there the top 3 positions remains the same until the checkered flag. As Ofir Avitan had checked out in the championship the race for the runner-up spot was on between Tal Siles and Yaniv Sivan. Going into the final round Yaniv had a 2-points lead and with the 2nd place finish at round 8 he cemented the vice-championship from Tal Siles 3rd.
The final round of the North German IC Track Championship took place at the MC Munster track located between Hamburg and Hanover. After the qualification Lars Hoppe took the TQ spot in the 1/8th class while Rico Kröber dominated the 1/10th 200mm qualification at will. The final of the 1/8th class was a thrilling one. At the start Timo Schröder could pass Lars but after a small mistake Lars took over the lead again, but Timo did not give up and kept up the pressure. After two quick refuelling stops Lars was able to pull away a good four seconds but after an accident with a back marker, Lars had to slow down which unfortunately caused his engine to stop. Timo, who made a tyre change, was right back on the heels of Lars and each of the spectators was waiting for the showdown of the two. Unfortunately, another engine stall from Lars saw Timo Schröder winning the race some two laps ahead of Lars in 2nd and Benny Ciere in 3rd position. With the win Timo also took his maiden North German Championship title.
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This past week three European Championships were up for grabs in Austria in the Large Scale 1/6th 4WD, 2WD and Short Course classes. The 4WD final produced 30 minutes of the highest quality racing, with never more than a couple of seconds between the leaders and the lead changing on multiple occasions. Pekko Iivonen led from the pole but was soon in a monumental scrap with reigning European champions Dario Veseli of Croatia and TQ man Sven Rodenwald from Germany. With all three teammates in the MCD equipe, there was a desire from all three to keep the racing as fair as possible. The first turning point cam at about half way when a couple of mistakes dropped Sven out of contention, leaving Pekko and Dario to dice for the win. With fastest laps being traded and the lead regularly swopping the second key element of the final became apparent as one of Iivonen’s front tyres begun to become unglued. Now just missing the ultimate pace the Finnish youngster could not stay with Veseli who claimed his third successive 4WD European title.
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Round 4 of the MNRC was held at LSRCC in Proctor, Minnesota last weekend. The race was held in several nitro and electric off-road classes and it was Kyle Holmberg who set the pace in 1/8th Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy, bringing home the TQs in both categories. In the 30-minutes Nitro Buggy A-main and from the sound of the tone Kyle never looked back and had a near perfect 30 minutes by pulling a 57 second lead over second placed Seth Vandalen. In 3rd Allan Smith rounded out the podium result.
