June 1, 2016

Markus Hellquist doubles at Nordic Championships

The Nordic Nitro On-road Championships were held this weekend at the Eskilstuna track in Sweden. The race also doubled as the warm-up for the EFRA 1/8th Track Euros later in July and thus the event attracted drivers from six countries but unfortunately the weather would play a major factor during the weekend. The 1/8th main final was a 3-horse race for the win with Mikael Fransson being the fastest driver in qualifying, from Roland Ström and Markus Hellquist. Tricky conditions laid the ground for a very exciting race with the lead swapping several times and in the end Markus Hellquist was the one to finish first and to bring home the victory. Mikael Fransson finished in second and since Roland Ström was not able to finish the race, Italian driver of Marco Vanni rounded up the podium in third.

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June 1, 2016

RC Mafia Offroad Series Rd2 – Report

The second round of the RC Mafia Offroad Series took place in Nowa Gadka, Poland. The event saw both 1/8th and 1/10th off-road racing and in the premier class of 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was Kaja Novotny who took the TQ and the young man would also come out fastest after the qualifiers in E-Buggy as well as 1/10th 2WD, the latter following some nice battles with young and talented Jakub Luczak. Tomasz Gadnicki snatched the pole position for 1/10th 4WD A-mains while Marek Cisek took the TQ in 1/8th E-Truggy. Finally in 1/8 Nitro Truggy Tomasz Gadnicky grabbed his second TQ of the day.

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May 31, 2016

Sloboda & Abrahamek win Czech GP On-road Nats Rd2

The second round of the Czech Nitro On-road Nationals was held in Slavkov, Czech Republic over the weekend. In the 1/8th class, Tono Sloboda (Xray) brought the win from second placed Jiri Rybak (Xray) and third placed Miroslav Jurenka (Shepherd). The 1/10th 200mm class was won by Michal Abrahamek (Xray) who went for soft tyres and a conservative fuel strategy in the final. His efforts would pay out as he took the win some three laps ahead of Alexander Ockajak with Jiří Král completing an all-Xray podium.

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May 31, 2016

Tayler Wonders wins Nitro Buggy at NCT Rd2

Round two of the Northwest Championship Tour was held this past weekend in Spokane, Washington. The 3-day event would see practice held on Friday, three rounds of qualifying on Saturday, followed by the A-main events on Sunday. After all three rounds of qualifying were complete, Kyosho America’s Tayler Wonders would find himself lined up 3rd on the grid for the A-Main event. After a great battle for most of the race between the top 3 qualifiers, Wonders would come out on top to take the win in front of Team Associated driver Jason Hunt and Tekno RC’s Jesse Munn in third.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

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May 31, 2016

2016 AKA Catapult GP – Report

The recent AKA GP was back again at HNMC, one of the UK’s leading dirt tracks and venue. The controlled tyre debate could roll on day and night but with all drivers on the same pattern it did lead to closer racing and driver ability would show through. As usual the club had put in a lot of effort to get the track ready for this event and it was well received. The event plan was to give drivers maximum track time and so four rounds of practice, seven rounds of qualifying and 30 minute lower finals with a 45 minute main would be held. All four rounds of controlled practice went to Jamie Clancy with Jack Embling second in each Nitro Buggy round while in E-Buggy three rounds went to Jack Embling and Claus Didriksen from Norway taking round 1.

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May 31, 2016

Jared Tebo doubles at 2016 JC Spring Nationals

The 2016 JConcepts Spring Nationals where held at The Plex in Omaha, Nebraska over the weekend. The event attracted both local talent as well as national front runners and the opening Nitro Buggy qualifiers saw Jared Tebo walking away with wins in Q1 and Q2 but in Q3 of Buggy Tebo and Jonathan Burkhalter battled for the round TQ with the two being separated by only a tenth of a second. With Jonathan leading he would bobble right at the end, handing Jared another TQ for a clean sweep. In Truggy things looked a bit different. Jared ran onto engine trouble in Q1 after damaging his engine’s carburettor after landing a jump, causing the engine to work erratic for the remainder of the run. After sorting the problems out for Q2 Tebo was on fire, taking wins in the following rounds to also grab the TQ position in Truggy.

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May 30, 2016

Carsten Keller wins at West German regionals Rd2

Round two of the German West division Nitro Off-road regionals was held in Kürten over the weekend. Different from other parts of the country the weather stayed dry, meaning good and high grip racing conditions. In the qualifiers the race for the TQ position was on between Carsten Keller (SWorkz) and Jörn Neumann (Serpent). At the end Carsten would be able to grab a very narrow TQ and the fight between the two would continue in the main final when both swapped the lead several times in the opening stages. About 10 minutes in to the main Carsten was able to open a gap that he would be able to extend to over a lap at the end of the 30-minute final. Jörn Neumann had to settle for second while Daniel Reckward (Serpent) completed the top 3 result another lap down.

Source: Spielzeugautorennfahrer [spielzeugautorennfahrer.de]

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May 30, 2016

Paolo Morganti TQs & wins at 39th annual Texas Biggie

Last weekend’s Texas Biggie race saw Paolo Morganti taking the TQ in the GT8 class. In the 25-minute main final Paolo would continue to dominate by bringing home the win some two laps in front of Tony Luna with young Marcus Cole rounding out the podium another four laps down.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

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