The third round of the LRCC Championshipn was held at the AG Metal Off-Road Track in Limassol, Cyprus in excellent weather conditions and on a re-built track. Xray driver Andreas Thrasyvoulou would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he also came out on top of the proceedings after the main final to take the day’s win from the Agama duo of Simos Tikkis and Sotiris Taifas.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The Panama GP race was recently held in Costa Rica. The Cup was started last year to create a series held in the two neighbouring countries of Costa Rica and Panama and this time the drivers travelled to Costa Rica. In the 200mm class it was Picado who took the win in the A-main from Lazaro Milan in second and Roque Pinilla in third.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Pro-Line Racing hosted the final round of the JBRL Nitro Series this past weekend with the event having 120 entries including Adam Drake, Cody King, and Joseph Quagraine. Drake was the top qualifier in both rounds of qualifying for Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truck. In the Buggy class, Drake pulled away from the field in the early stages of the race, but had a bad lap or two and allowed Cody King to catch up. Adam and Cody had a great battle in the middle part of the race, but Drake eventually settled into a groove and distanced himself from the field. Drake took the victory followed by Cody and Joseph. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truck final, Adam Drake led wire to wire and took the victory.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
Braming in Denmark played host to the final round of the National 1/8th Off-road Championship. The event kicked off with E-Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes on Saturday with the qualifiers being started right after a single round of practice. Agama’s Burak Kilic would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he would also come out fastest after the triple E-Buggy finals to take the day’s win from TLR driver Jan Larsen in second and Mugen’s Florian Müller in third.
For the recent second round of the HNMC Winter Series the weather was looking good for the one day event with clear skies and an unusual winter prediction of no rain. There was an open practise session before racing got under way at 10am and with a large entry of over 85 drivers it was set to be a long day. Many drivers opting to wait until the opening round of qualifying to take to the track. Qualifying saw Darren taking the TQ with Ollie Currie and Callum Niblett in the following places showing superb pace hot on the heels of Darren. The A final was run as the sunlight started to go, and Darren got off to an early lead with Ollie Currie in second. A first corner nightmare for both Callum and Jon made for a gap that needed to be closed between them and the front half of the field. Callum did well to get back to 6th place but the gap was too much although he did take home the fastest lap of the race. Ollie and Darren drove flawlessly to take the first two spots on the podium with Jamie Clancy in third.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
The final round of the Jakarta Regional Buggy Championship was held at the Graha Raya track in Serpong, West Java. A total of 38 drivers attended the event that saw three rounds of 10-minutes qualifying with the two best rounds to count. The finals were then run with five drivers bumping up into the 45-minute main final. John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) grabbed the TQ but in the final, that was run in wet and muddy conditions, it would be Indra Liono (Xray/SPower) to take the win from Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) second and John Agus in third.
The second Tour of Champions race was recently held at the newly built RC Pylaros track in Kefalonia, Greece. In the 60-minute Nitro Buggy main final, Kostas Katsadonis (Xray) came out fastest from his brother Harris Katsadonis, who set the TQ and also the fastest lap. Mugen racer Thanos Pagonis ended the race on the final podium spot from Christofer Pliatsikas (Mugen) and Andreas Stellatos (SWorks).
The newly established N-Control RC Racing Circuit in Dale, Texas held its grand opening race this past weekend hosting 68 entries from across the state of Texas. Texas’s newest permanent on-road facility, and site of the 2017 Roar Electric On Road Paved Nationals, saw close racing across 10 different classes. The event took place over two days with Saturday holding three rounds of rocket qualifying, and Sunday offering a final round of qualifying followed by mains. Triple A-mains were held for the electric classes, and single 20-minute mains were run for all nitro races. The track was fast and flowing with consistently high traction offering up for some exciting racing all weekend.
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