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June 26, 2018

Pelle Culmsee trifecta at Danish 1/8th Nats Rd3

The third round of this year’s Danish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Skive track recently. The weekend started off sunny and warm which made for dusty and bumpy track conditions. In the E-Buggy class it was Pelle Culmsee who TQ’d three of the four rounds for the overall TQ in front of Jan Larsen. In the opening two mains Pelle was able to build a gap on the field and he would take wins with a lap margin for the overall win from Jan Larsen 2nd and Aske Repute 3rd.

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June 26, 2018

Tassos Paparegas wins Greek 1/8th Buggy Nats

Last weekend saw the running of the Greek 1/8th Buggy Championship at the newly established Speed Track Ready facility in Athens. In the 35-minutes main final Tassos Paparegas (Xray) battled it out with Giannis Papanikolaou (Kyosho) but later in the run Tassos was able to pull away for the win in front of Giannis on the runner-up spot. In 3rd, Yannis Perogiannakis (Mugen) rounded out the podium result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 26, 2018

Widmaier & Voldenauer win at BAWÜ Cup

Leinfelden in Germany played host to the BAWÜ Cup this past weekend and it was SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier with the win in both the Nitro Buggy and Electric Truggy classes. The Mugen duo of Stefan Byesse and Luca Schmid would round out the Nitro Buggy top 3 while Udo Öhler and Andreas Rüüp (both SWorkz) completed the Electric Truggy podium. Elsewhere in the E-Buggy class it was Morris Voldenauer (SWorkz) with the win from Patrick Müller (Mugen) and Victor Gabriel (Kyosho).

View the E-Truggy and E-Buggy podiums here

June 25, 2018

DJ Apolaro teams up with Hot Race Tires

Former U.S. ROAR National Champion and Nitro On-road contender DJ Apolaro, has joined up with Italian manufacturer Hot Race Tires for the 2018/19 on-road racing season. DJ started off his new program by setting the TQ with a new track record and winning the 1/8th Open class at this past weekend’s KO Propo Nitro Grand Prix held at the new Steel City Raceway in Fontana, California. DJ had no test time with the tires leading up to the event, but was immediately pleased with the quality and performance once he finally was able to run.

Source: Hot Race Tires [hotracetyres.com]

June 25, 2018

JJ Wang wins 200mm class at KO Grand Prix

The KO Propo Grand Prix was held at Steel City RC Raceway in Fontana, California this past weekend. The event was held in several 1/8th and 1/10th and 1/5th classes and in 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan it was Mugen’s JJ Wang with the TQ from Xray’s Mike Swauger on the 2 spot after the qualifiers. JJ then also brought home the win in the 30-minutes main final some twelve seconds in front of Mike Swauger as Bryce Butterfield rounded out the podium result for Xray some two laps down. DJ Apolaro and Jose Casas would complete the top 5 results.

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June 25, 2018

Kevin Brundsen wins at SRS Rd3

Clanfield RC played host to round three of the SRS this past weekend. Agama’s Jon Hazlewood took the TQ in the Nitro Buggy class with SWorkz’s Kevin Brundsen on the 2 spot. When the flag dropped and the final was over it was however Kevin with the win from Jon in 2nd as Agama’s Callum Niblett rounded out the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

June 25, 2018

Alberto Garcia wins at Summer Race

The Summer Race event was hosted by the Spanish Cartt club in Fuencarral this past weekend and it was Alberto Garcia with TQ and the win in the 30-minute Nitro Buggy main final. Ivan Ramirez came in 2nd some three laps down as Pablo Izquierdo completed the top 3 results.

Source: Alpha [alpha-rc.com]

June 25, 2018

Yannick Aigoin wins French 1/8 Buggy Nats Rd4

The MACSQ track in Saint-Quentin, France played host to round 4 of this year’s French 1/8th Nitro Off-road Nationals. After the qualifiers it was Xray’s Yannick Aigoin with the TQ and it was also Yannick who grabbed the pole position for the main final after coming out fastest in the semifinals. In the 45-minute main final a fierce battle for the overall was on between Yannick and his brother Jerome while TLR’s Renaud Savoya was also in the mix. In the end Yannick would hold the upper hand to take home the win in front of Jerome Aigoin (Xray) as Renaud had to settle for 3rd overall.

Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]