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May 15, 2018

Nitro-West-Masters Rd1 – Report

The 2018 season of Nitro-West-Masters recently kicked off at the Bad Breisig track, located between Bonn and Koblenz at the river Rhine. 62 racers made their entry for round one of the popular nitro on-road championship. Following some intensive practice at perfect conditions and a familiar come-together to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Nitro-West-Masters on Saturday, the 2017 location of Germany´s 1/8 scale Nationals was hit by rain during the night. Only a few drivers dared to enter the 254-meter track during the first two rounds of qualifying but after a break all drivers had the opportunity for one dry run in the third and final heat. Because of the NWM mode with three consecutive laps to count, the drivers had a couple of chances to improve their lap times.

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May 15, 2018

Paolo Morganti TQs & wins at Miami GP

The Homestead RC Raceway played host to the Miami Grand Prix recently and in 1/8th Nitro GT it was Paolo Morganti with the TQ and win. In the 30-minutes main final Paolo would take the win with a 4-lap margin on Massimo Fabiani in 2nd and Eric Spong in 3rd as Lazaro Alonzo Jr. and Harold Pagan rounded out the top 5 results.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]

May 15, 2018

Rafiq takes win at KL Grand Prix GP Challenge Cup

The 2018 KL Grand Prix GP Challenge Cup was held in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia took place with the racing seeing massive weather changes. Late on Saturday rain was falling heavily, however the Sunday turned out hot and sunny. In the 1/8th class the first round of qualification saw Yee Kok Leong TQ-ing the round while Amirul Rafiq topped Yee Kok Leong’s time by a margin of only a second in round 2. So it all came down to the last round of qualifying, where Yee Kok Leong tried to seek redemption and pushed hard for the pole position but in the end it didn’t work out. Meanwhile, Amirul Rafiq was able to find more time to take the overall TQ with Yee Kok Leong 2nd and Anthony Wee in 3rd.

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May 15, 2018

Julien Morvan wins at French 1/8 IC Track Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the French 1/8 IC Track National Championship was held at the Neuville de Poitou track last weekend. Saturday running was hampered by rain, however in Sunday Sun greeted the drivers and in the end it was a nice day of racing. In the National category Jean Noel Austruy took the TQ but in the half hour long A-main final it was Julien Morvan with the win from young Maxime Ripoll, who came all the way from the 1/4 final to finish just four seconds off the leader. Behind the two, Bilal Sullivan would round out the podium result.

Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]

May 15, 2018

Kobbevik doubles at Norwegian 1/8 Nats Rd1

Round 1 of the Norwegian 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held in Kristiansand in the South of the country. The astro turf track is located in a motocross area and the weekend started off with a bit off rain, but it changed to sunshine and hot weather, with a slippery track in the morning and raising grip levels during the day. This year saw some changes such as the running of both the nitro and electric classes on the same weekend – mainly to try and reduce travelling costs but also attract new drivers to the classes. For the first weekend of the year things looked promising so far and the next round will for sure attract even more entries. Racing wise and in the Nitro class it was Serpent driver fast local Tom Erik Haaversen who set the track record and was the man to beat this weekend.

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May 14, 2018

Adam Drake sweeps JBRL Nitro Series Rd2

Round 2 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at Palm Desert Raceway this past weekend. Adam Drake was the man to beat in the Expert Buggy, Open Truggy and Open E-Buggy as he TQ all three of them. The 20-minute Expert Buggy A-main then also went in Adam’s favour as he took the win with a 1-lap margin from Anthony Westergaard 2nd and Mason Eppley 3rd. The 20-minute Open Truggy A-main also had Adam taking the win, this time with a 2-lap margin from Carlos Arredondo on the runner-up spot and Dean Rock in 3rd. Finally in the single 10-minute Open E-Buggy main it was once again Adam Drake who excelled. Drake left behind Mason Eppley and Steve Harris in 2nd and 3rd respectively for a clean sweep.

Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]

May 14, 2018

Leo Arnold wins at French 200mm Nats Rd3

The third round of this season’s French 1/10th 200mm National Championship was held at the popular Clermont-Ferrand track. The Elite class practice saw Basile Concialdi on top while the qualifiers had Quentin Leroux coming out fastest. In the 45-minute A-main final however it was Xray’s Leo Arnold who excelled as the took the win some five laps on front of Basile Concialdi (Shepherd) as Quentin Leroux (Capricorn) had to settle for 3rd, another two laps down.

Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com] | Image: Basile Concialdi

May 14, 2018

Indonesia Buggy Nationals Rd2 – Report

The second round of this year’s Indonesia National Buggy Championship was held at the MRCC track in Medan, North Sumatera. A total of 45 drivers from Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Semarang, Solo, Pontianak, Banjarmasin as well as local drivers attended this event that originally saw six rounds of 10-minutes qualifying, but due to heavy rain after round 3, the race director decided to take the best two of four rounds. After the fourth, pretty muddy, qualifying round on Sunday, Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) took the TQ honours and he also secured the win in the 45-minute main final followed by Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/O.S.) and Stanley Wangsanegara (HB Racing/O.S.) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

View the final results here