Last weekend the 2018 DCRC Championship was held at the Jincheon Raceway in South Korea. Wataru Takashiro would sweep the Nitro Buggy class as he took the overall TQ and win from Hwang Sun Jung in 2nd and Ryan Lee in 3rd.
Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]
This past weekend was the 2018 Lonestar Nitro Challenge at Thornhill Raceway put on by Joey Christiansen and directed by Jimmy Babcock. The three day event was pretty standard with Friday practice, Saturday qualifying, and Sunday mains plus the always popular horseshoe tournament. As far as the racing went, Team Associated’s Jake Dellinger would take the TQ honors in Pro Buggy and Pro E-Buggy with Dillon Caldwell taking TQ in Pro Truggy. In Pro Buggy Jake Dellinger and Dillon Caldwell would break away from the field early with Tekno’s Tyler Hooks not far behind, but with Tyler having a DNF early on, the race for 3rd was seemingly Team Associated’s Austin Jeffries until Xray’s Ethan Lefebvre mounted a late race charge to take over the spot. Jake Delligner would come out victorious after a lengthy battle with Caldwell which ended in a flame out for the HB Racing privateer, Caldwell would rebound to finish 2nd.
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The opening round of the Norwegian National Series was held at the Kodal Raceway in Sandefjord on an entertaining track that offered both fast and technical bits in addition to a bumpy surface and a somewhat low grip level. On Saturday the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class was run with the race format seeing three round of qualifying followed by the Superpole, semis and 45-minute A-main final. Oskar Fjeld would dominate the qualifying to secure the TQ for the main final with his old spec Xray while Andrè Røine would go on to win the superpole with his newer spec NT1.
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Round 1 of the Austrian IC Track National Championship was held at the LAMAC Ring in St. Paul last weekend. A total of 43 drivers made their entry and in the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class it was Leonardo Varga securing the TQ in front of Christoph Rohrmoser and Franz Engel. The start of the A-main was very clean with Leonardo and Christoph pulling a gap from the rest of the field. Unfortunately, Christoph was later stopped by an engine-cut and thus lost the connection to the leader and after 45 minutes of exciting racing, Leonardo Varga crossed the finish line first with Christoph Rohrmoser and Franz Engel completing the all-Shepherd podium.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
HobbyTown USA’s HobbyPlex played host to the 2018 JConcepts 1:8th Spring Nationals this past weekend. The HobbyPlex is no stranger to big races. In year’s past, HobbyPlex has hosted some of the biggest, elite-level races in the nation including the 1/10th ROAR Electric Nationals in 2016 and in July the 2018 ROAR 1/8th Electric Nationals in July. Without a doubt, the versatile HobbyPlex is a genuine racer’s favorite hosting multiple tracks including scaling, 1/8th offroad, 1/10th offroad, carpet on road, and even drone racing. Now in its 9th year, the JConcepts Spring Nationals always adds excitement to the Plex with regional, top-level talent racing for the win in 1/8th scale nitro, electric, and 1/10th 4×4 SCT. This year’s layout was a slightly modified layout of the existing layout to better suit the bigger 1/8th buggies and truggies and one thing for sure, it didn’t disappoint.
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The opening round of this season’s South Swedish Cup was held at the Vetlanda Arena over the weekend. Building on her success at the recent second round of the Middle Swedish Cup, Kyosho’s Jessica Palsson again swept the competition, bringing home the TQ, overall win and best junior trophy. Starting from the 2 spot into the 30-minute A-main final she would ultimately leave pole position holder Hampus Berg (HB Racing) behind, bringing home the win some 23 seconds in front of Hampus as Pontus Larsson (Serpent) rounded out the top 3 results. Behind the three, Emil Magnusson (Kyosho) came in 4th and Jonas Dalensjö (HB Racing) made up the top 5.
Thanks to Jessica Palsson for the report.
The organisers of the Sunpadow International RC Car Grand Prix, held at the ARC International Raceway in Xiamen, China, have announced that the 2018 edition of the race now has been shifted a week back from its original date, now taking place from the 9th to the 11th of November. The premier classes will be 1/8th IC Track and 1/10th Electric Touring Car with additional categories being 1/8th Electric On-road, 1/8th Electric Moto and 1/5th Electric Moto. More information about the event can be found on ARC Raceway’s official website here.
The opening round of the Austrian IC Track Nationals was held at the popular LAMAC track over the weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro A-main final the conditions were pretty challenging with a sudden thunderstorm at the 14-minute mark. For the safety of all competitors the race director decided to call the race a day and this handed then-leader Herfried Pucher the win in front of TQ holder Mihelic Nejc and Pascal Knöller in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
