Last weekend saw the third race of the South German Championship held at the MAC Nürnberg and with fine weather all weekend it attracted a lot of racers. In the 1:10 class it was Robert Pietsch who took the race win followed by Michael Heinrich in 2nd and Nobuhiro Kanabe in 3rd. In the 1:8 class Eric Dankel took the win, 2nd was Nicolai Bähr and 3rd Manuel Dietrich.
Last weekend saw the third round of the French 1/8th scale buggy Nationals run at Dolus D’Oléron on the west coast. Qualifying saw Losi/Novarossi driver Yannick Aigoin take the top spot followed by Xray/RB driver Jerome Sartel in 2nd and championship leader Jerome Aigoin with his Kyosho/Novarossi in 3rd. A disaster for Jerome Aigoin in the semi final meant he wouldn’t take part in the final, while Yannick and Sartel both won their Semi finals. With Yannick starting from the pole position, he romped ahead to win the hour long race by 2 laps ahead of Sartel in 2nd, with Mugen/Novarossi driver Guillaume Vray claiming 3rd, 11 seconds further back.
Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]
This past weekend was the ROAR Region 10 championships held at Dirt Works in Burlington Colorado and Mike Truhe gave us this report. The race was a two day event with qualifying Saturday and the finals on Sunday. I was unable to attend Saturday’s qualifying as I was finishing up some final testing at Colorado Fast Track in Colorado springs. Qualifying went well for Matt Chambers as he went on to TQ the buggy class convincingly. Myself and Lars Johnson arrived Sunday morning in the hope we could bump up into the final. The B-main went fairly well with me and Lars taking to top two spots after the 30min B-main. The 45 minute final was really exciting. The wind picked up a little bit making some of the jumps a little more difficult. In the end it was a Losi podium with me taking the win, Matt Chambers in second and Lars Johnson taking the final podium spot. Big thanks to Bill from Dirt Works for the awesome event and hospitality.
Source: Losi [losi.com]
Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the British 1/10th gas Nationals take place in Halifax and current national champion Kyle Branson sent us the following report. The weather was good on Saturday with temperatures around 26 degrees, The track had good traction to start with and gradually improved through the day, My car was good at the start but i gradually got understeer and so did Mark Green but he had it worse than me, we seemed to be the only drivers suffering with it, we tried a lot of things but for some reason we couldn’t get the steering back, although the car was still pretty fast by the end of Saturday. On Sunday the car felt better in the first run in the morning but I suffered with a little oversteer which was strange as it had changed from the day before, Mark made some changes in the morning and had made a big improvement in his car. I was TQ in the first qualifying ahead of Mark, in the second Mark got TQ just a second ahead of me in second place and in the final round I managed to improve by just about half a second, this put me one second behind Mark.
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The 2nd round of the Italian 1/8th scale buggy nationals took place last weekend in Sacile in the north east of the country. Current national Champion Riccardo Rabitti was fastest qualifier ahead of round 1 winner Fabio Boero, but after the semi finals it would be Davide Tortorici that would start the main final from pole position. In the final, Losi/Picco driver Rabitti would manage to break clear of the chasing pack close to the end to win by 12 seconds ahead of Mugen/Reds driver Fabio Boero in 2nd with Hobao/Sirio driver Davide Tortorici in 3rd, a further 13 seconds back.
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Last weekend the warm-up race for the German 4WD electric off-road nationals took place on a 1/8 nitro buggy track near Berlin. A total of 25 drivers made it to the challenging track of the RoadRunner-Berlin club . This was quite a low outcome for this otherwise highly competitive class but it seems like it was a result of the bank holiday weekend. With 17 drivers in total the 4WD Modified class contained the most action and was won by Team Durango driver Andre Welker who switched to the DEX410 only days before the race. Second place went to very young Tim Walther (Team Durango DEX410) with Chris Kamman (Team Associated B44) in 3rd. The B-final was won by Hamburg-based Markus Bauer (Team Durango DEX410). The 4WD Stock class went to Eberhard ‘Ebi’ Beck with Alexander Matschuck and Dietmar Spieß (all Team Durango DEX410) in second and third place respectively.
Mark Christopher took a convincing FTD at the recent UK nationals shattering the existing track record at Halifax for the Sports GT class. His Team Dremel UK, Xray NT1 powered by Novarossi was the only car in the class to make the previously elusive 19 laps, which was achieved in each of the three qualifying runs. Mark also went on to win the final by two laps over fellow Team mate Richard Boult, both running Knack racing 220mm conversions on their NT1’s. The 220mm cars are increasing in popularity in the UK Nationals.
The JConcepts Wave race takes place in the heart of the R/C corridor, SoCal. One of the world’s premier indoor off-road facilities, ORCR Raceway has been chosen for 2 years in a row to host the event. With more than 100 indoor pit spots, as well as a fully stocked hobby shop and sizable indoor clay off-road track, the Wave’s venue and location are second to none. California locals were well represented with Steven Hartson, Brent Thielke, Cody Turner, Frank Root and Chris Jarosz taking part in the event. Drivers traveling in from out of town such as Nor Cal’s Lloyd Dassonville, Arizona’s Tanner Denney and Florida’s Jason Ruona provided tight competition all weekend.
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