Round six of the Swiss 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held at the Mini Buggy Lausanne et Région club over the weekend. Following a mixed qualification and some issues at the start of the main final when he dropped to the last position, Patrick Hofer was able to grab the win in the main final from team mate Ronny Lüber.
Image: Patrick Hofer
The eagerly anticipated British Open was arranged by both the 1/8th and 1/10th Committee aside from the respective championships to help promote all the nitro on-road classes and crown champions over one weekend of racing. The drivers booked in where the core of each individual section apart from some top 1/8th drivers who were travelling to the Euros in Ettlingen. Out of a total of 68 drivers, the largest class was 1/8th with a total of 27 drivers with the 1/10th section providing the remaining with roughly equal split for 200mm and 220mm chassis types.
Click here to continue reading the report
Qualifying is over at the second edition of the Arena Outdoor race, and the day was as exciting as it can get with Berton and Baruffolo showing top notch skills on the beautiful Asti track. With the TLR driver taking Q1 and Q4 and Berton taking Q2 and Q3, it all went down to the second tie breaker to assign the TQ. It was eventually the reigning European B Champion to snatch the top spot from Marco with a 5 points advantage over the second throwout. Behind them, Stocco had some good but inconsistent qualifiers, ending the day with a DNF with a broken servo but still managing to keep third in the standings. Former 2-time European Champion Tortorici would close fourth overall, one point ahead of Valente who rounded up the top 5.
Continue reading the report here
The 2015 Baltic Championships were held at the freshly renovated Tartu racetrack with drivers from Latvia, Lithuania and Finland in attendance. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Rainer Ressar was able to grab the TQ by winning three of the five qualifiers. The 45 minute main final at first saw Rainer in the lead and even building a gap on the field but problems with backmarkers cost him some time later on, allowing Hendrik Lainemäe to catch up. After a pit incident when Rainer was blocked by another car Hendrik made it through and he was able to cruise to the win despite a chasing Rainer who started closing the gap to the leader. Ultimately Hendrik brought home the title from Rainer with Igoris Vilcinskas completing the top 3.
Click here to continue reading the report
Round six of the HNMC Summer Series would be held at the impressive Herts facility that was used for the Euro B Championships in June. The end of August in the UK typically sees a few rain showers, and the forecast was for some rain in the afternoon this time, so everyone was at least hoping that could get qualifying completed before the rains came. Darren Bloomfield has been putting in plenty of track time lately, and with that he has got the settings of his car well tuned and is very comfortable in his driving. Using the the same chassis settings as he had at the recent UK National round, Darren was untouchable in qualifying posting times faster than he achieved at the National. He would TQ all 3 rounds on his way to some very impressive lap times. Behind Darren there was the usual Herts protagonists in Kevin Brunsden, Tony Truman and Ollie Currie who had also all been extremely quick at the National, and these guys were battling it out and would be 2nd, 3rd and 4th in qualifying. Sadly, the predicted rains came almost immediately as qualifying finished and while they tried to run the first final it quickly became clear that the rain was here to stay, and the meeting would have to be cancelled.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
The 9th edition of the Sardine night race was held at the the Tour of Alhaurin de la Torre track in Malaga, Spain. 13 year old Juan Carlos (Tekno), one of the most promising talents in Spain set the pace by winning two out of three qualifying rounds, TQing the race and winning the main final by five laps after 45 minutes. Agustin Illanes (Mugen) came in second while Zacarias Villalba (Team C) rounded out the podium result.
Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]
The 2015 Mugen Challenge was hosted by LCRC Raceway in PA. The event had nearly 300 entries which was the largest turnout for the Mugen Challenge. Mugen Seiki’s Team Manager Tim Long and Adam Drake arrive a day early to put on a free driver clinic for the racers. Tim and Adam answered questions and spent time with each of the drivers discussing racing and looking over their vehicles. In the 1/8th Nitro Truck class Mugen’s Barry Pettit was the top qualifier. In the final Pettit, Bornhorst, Dickerson, and Drake all took turns leading the race. By the half way point of the 45-minute main Adam Drake settled into a comfortable lead followed by Barry Pettit, and young Mugen driver Ethan Mackanick making it a sweep of the podium for Mugen Seiki Racing.
Source: Mugen Seiki [mugenracing.com]
Round five of the 2015 Dutch 200mm Nitro On-road Championship was held in Utrecht in the centre of the Netherlands. The Utrecht track is the oldest permanent track in the country and was constructed in the early 1980’s from a line flying circle which also forms the track’s characteristic main straight bend. Good weather and temperatures of close to 30 degree Celsius made for perfect racing conditions but it would also make for increased tyre wear of the Capricorn control tyre which would be a factor in the main final. After the triple qualifiers it was again Daan Jacobs who took the TQ as he was the only driver to score a 20-lap run. Pedro Rombouts, Julius Kolff and John Bruins followed with 19-lap runs to complete the direct qualifying top 4.
Click here to continue reading the report
