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April 27, 2017

Philippine Masters 2017 Track Focus – CV Offroad Track

Ahead of our coverage of the 2017 Philippine Masters, which begins tomorrow, we take a look at the track that will host the event, CV Offroad Track. The Philippines is not a country that springs to mind when one thinks of 1:8 Offroad racing but this weekend it will welcome some of the sport’s biggest names as they travel to Manila to complete in the Philippine Masters. Now in its seventh year, the event has slowly grown each year but 2017 is certainly a year that should put it on the international calendar with the entry boasting 3 World Champions including the reigning champion David Ronnefalk. First organised in 2011 by Dogbone RC, the country’s Mugen & Serpent distributor, the race moved to the current CV Offroad Track in 2014 where it started to enjoy an increasing profile. With the Quezon City RC Car Club bringing in Scotty Ernst as an announcer for their first year of hosting the race, aiming to get international attention from such a move, things have just grown ever since. With 2015 marking the first year of US star Adam Drake and Aussie Kyle McBride competing, this year they are joined by Ronnefalk, Ty Tessmann, Atsushi Hara, Richard Saxton with even HB Racing designer Torrance Deguzman coming out of international retirement to race. Such a strong entry marks out the Philippine Masters as Asia’s main annual buggy event, a fact QCRCCC, which this year celebrates its 20th year since founding are proud of and keen to develop further.

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April 26, 2017

Bregante wins at Argentinian Metropolitan Champs Rd2

Round two of the Argentinian Metropolitan Championship was held at the Speed Paradise track recently. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class Nicolas Bregante took the win in the 30-minute main final with a one lap margin on Alvardo Colombo in second. Sebastian Recio would complete the podium in 3rd, about 0.3 seconds down on Alvaro. Lucas Lemes and Matias Lence rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 26, 2017

Kurzbuch & Schär win at Swiss IC Track opener

Round one of the Swiss Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the iconic Lostallo circuit. The event was run anti-clockwise which meant some difficulties for the 200mm pilots due to the small chicane entering the main straight. Fuel consumption is always an issue on the fast track and in the 1/8th class Simon Kurzbuch and Mattia Pesenti made the best out of it, obtained the top 2 spots after qualifying. In the 45-minute main final Simon Kurzbuch once again showed a World-class performance, taking the win some three laps in front of Michael Henzi while Raphael Roider ended the main another three laps down in third.

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April 26, 2017

2017 Nitro-West-Masters Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Nitro-West-Masters (NWM), a popular championship held in the western part of Germany, turned into a full-throttle party on the fast 310-meter Hamm track last weekend. With a total of 64 entries, practice on Saturday was intense and the event would start in full on Sunday morning with three heats of 7-minutes qualifying of which the three fastest laps would count. In the premier 1/8th Open class it was Tobias Hepp who snatched the pole position less than two hundredth of a second ahead of ARC teammate John Ermen. On the 3rd and 4th spot, Michael Salven (Serpent) and René Puepke (Shepherd) were the last direct qualifiers for the main.

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April 26, 2017

Austin Blair wins at Tekin Shootout

Amain’s Silver Dollar Raceway recently played host to the 2017 Tekin Shootout. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class the 20-minute A-main saw a close fight between Austin Blair (SWorkz) and CJ Jelin (Xray) who constantly swapped positions due to being on different fuel strategies. In the closing stages and after the final fuel stop, Austin got into the lead again and even after a hard chase CJ was not able to catch him again meaning Austin would take the win a narrow 0.132 seconds in front of CJ while Mason Eppley (Tekno) rounded out the top 3.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 25, 2017

Mattia Polito wins at FastRace Trophy

The FastRace Trophy was held this past weekend at the Ospy Team track in Gussago, Northern Italy. In the F1 category the main final was won by young Mattia Polito with Luca Puerari coming in 2nd some three laps down. Leonardo Valente took the TQ but had to settle for 3rd overall as he fell victim of bad luck at the start of the final.

Source: Pepe Group [pepegroup.net]

April 25, 2017

Nicky Davies wins at ESBRC Rd1

Round 1 of the ESBRC series was held in Shrewsbury and in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Ash Owen who secured himself the overall TQ after winning two of the three qualifying rounds. In the final Ash made a good start but would make a few too many mistakes before the first pit stop. This allowed Nicky Davies to take the win from Ash in 2nd and Kyle Boon 3rd.

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April 25, 2017

Tasos Paparegas wins Greek Nitro Buggy Nats Rd1

The RC Cannibals track of Athens, Greece played host to round 1 of the National 1/8th Buggy championship this past weekend. Newly crowned Greek National Cup winner, Tasos Paparegas (Xray) would take the win in the main final after being hit by electrical issues in the qualifiers. One lap behind, Agama driver Zagorisos would end on the runner-up spot while SWorkz’ Makropoulos came in 3rd to complete the podium.

View the final results here