Round 7 of the Czech Open Series was held in Kolin this past weekend. The event started off on a wet track that would dry slowly but ultimately the weather made for good racing conditions with the 1/8th Nitro Buggy main being won by Fanda Kalenda (Serpent) in front of Milan Mudra (Xray) who suffered some problems in the final. The podium was rounded out by Kyosho driver Tomáš Kapička in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 4th round of the Jakarta Regional Buggy Championship was held at the Graha Raya track, Serpong, West Java last weekend. A total of 40 drivers attended this event and the race format originally saw three rounds of 10-minutes qualifying with the best two to count but due to rain during the third and final qualifying round the race director decided to count all fully run rounds. This meant Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) took the TQ honours when two rounds here completed but in the final he unfortunately got into traffic and only finished in 3rd while up front Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) took the first place followed by Rama Tribudiman (Team Associated/O.S.) in 2nd.
Round 1 of the German Nitro Buggy Nationals was held at the Ober Mörlen track this past weekend. Rain on Friday and Saturday was followed by a perfect day of racing on Sunday that was dominated by SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier who would take the win by almost a lap from Kyosho’s Aaron Münster 2nd and Alex Schmitt (HB Racing) 3rd. The second and final round of the championship will be held in two weeks time up north in Hamburg.
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]
Swansea And District Model Car Club held round 4 of the BRCA Rally Cross Nationals this past weekend. Kyosho’s Elliott Boots took the overall TQ on Saturday courtesy of three round TQs. Despite being late for his semi-final Elliott was able to win his semi with nine seconds over the leader and the main final then was again highlighted by some issues for Elliott with the fuel tank causing inconsistent fuel pressure at times. Nevertheless the Kyosho driver was able to bring home the win, scoring valuable points for the championship. Infinity’s Lee Martin came in 2nd from TLR’s Michael Lewis in 3rd. Going into the final round next month Lee Martin now leads the championship by just one point from Elliott Boots.
Image: BRCA [brca.org]
The annual Merdeka Challenge was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with about 80 entries from Singapore and Malaysia for the 1/8th and 1/10th scale nitro classes. In the premier 1/8th on-road category it was ARC driver Nelson Lee with the TQ, however after the final it was Xray’s Jade Lim with the win from Nelson Lee 2nd and Mugen racer Afat in 3rd.
Continue reading the report here
The 2017 EFRA 1/10th IC Track European Championships were held this week in Mulhouse, France. Unseasonal wet weather on Thursday and Friday would have seen many events either struggle to get finished, or not take place at all. Fortunately a track at Mulhouse that dried relatively quickly and, more importantly, speedy and thoughtful intervention by Javier Garcia, the EFRA delegate at the event, including a smart decision to move two qualifying rounds to Wednesday when the conditions were perfect, ensured no racing was lost. Remarkable as Thursday was rained out until 16:30 and the time set aside on Friday for the lower finals was also lost to weather.
Continue reading the report here
The 2017 Shepherd Cup was held in Hong Kong last weekend and the event saw Gary Hunang (Xray) taking the 1/8th Nitro On-road TQ after the three qualifiers. In the 45-minute main final Gary opted to change tyres around the 25-minute mark and he would take the win some four laps in front of Hui Zhan Hao (Serpent) and Ng Chiu Man (Serpent).
The weather forecast for round 6 of the BRCA 1/8th Circuit Nationals was mainly showers although nearly fifty drivers across the two classes made the trip to Wombwell, near Barnsley. The circuit is likened by many for its combination of high speed straight which utilises the karting circuit and then a medium speed infield with undulations making it very testing. On arrival, the track was damp on Saturday morning which saw many of the electric class runners preparing their wet cars as the forecast was indifferent for the whole weekend. By midday the track was dry. In the electric class, it was Alex Thurston and Adam Catchpole setting the pace with Pete Hastings and Dan Jones not too far behind them. With 17 entrants and times being so close, a place in the A-final would be tight for some. In the Nitro class, Andy Hastings was out to make up for his Halifax poor showing but the man on form, David Spashett, was again going to be the man to beat. Quick as ever were Tim Wood, Neal King and Mark Green, running the new Serpent chassis.
Continue reading the report here
