Round 1 of the Swedish Indoor Buggy Masters was held at the TMK indoor track in Tomelilla this past weekend. The event used a Reedy style racing format and when the dust had settled it was HB Racing’s Hampus Berg with the overall win in the 2WD class from Otto Ausfelt (Team Associated) in 2nd while Joel Rosengren (Team Associated) completed the top 3 podium results.
The second round of the X-Factory UK Winter Series took place this past Saturday in Watford, United Kingdom, with several new faces competing at this event too. A fast, but tricky track was laid by the DMS Model Car Club and after the four rounds of qualifying it was Mark Lewis (Team Associated) who would take the TQ in the 2WD class, followed by Kevin Hunt (Team Associated) in 2nd, Chris Delves (Schumacher) in 3rd, William Venebles (Team Associated) in 4th, Joe Renton (Team Associated) in 5th and Lee Hedges (Xray) in 6th. The remaining A-final spots would be filled from the bump ups via the lower finals.
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CML Distribution welcome 10-time Irish Champion, National A-finalist and world wide 1/8th off-road racer, Bradley Baird to the Team Associated 1/8th off-road team. Bradley will be on hand trackside at most major events and CML look forward to working with Bradley through 2020 and beyond.
Source: CML Distribution [cmldistribution.co.uk]
The opening round of the Tonisport Onroad Series North Division was held recently at the RC Team Nord Megadrom track in Hasloh near Hamburg. The race was held on a tight high-grip track which made things difficult especially for the Touring Modified drivers. In the end it was veteran racer, Uwe Reimers with the day’s win from a hard charing Sören Sparbier 2nd and Christian Stolze in 3rd.
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The 2019 Australian Electric On-road Championships were held in Littlehampton, South Australia over the weekend. The top class, Open Modified, was spearheaded by Yokomo’s Simon Nicholson taking the overall TQ and win with 1-8-1 finishes while his Yokomo teammate, Antoni Caretti came in 2nd with 2-1-4 finishes. Jeffery Mackie (ARC) would complete the top 3 results tie on points with Jack McMillan while John Puse rounded out the top 5.
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The opening round of the Xray Racing Series Slovenia was held at the Genius Ring track in Medeuzza, Italy. In the Touring 13.5T Stock class it was Nejc Mihelic with the overall TQ while the Formula class was top qualified by Matej Dobnikar. After the Touring A-mains it was still Nejc on the top spot, leaving behind Viktor Bolsec who came all the way from P6 on the grid. Bjan Miklozic would round out an all-Xray top 3 podium result.
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This past weekend was the second round of the hugely popular Worksop Series and there was once again a huge entry of drivers across all classes of 2WD, 4WD, 2WD stadium truck and the Vintage Buggy class. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. The control tyre in the buggy classes is the Schumacher yellow Honeycomb, this works superbly well at Worksop. The track layout was superb, it was a fast layout but there were also many jumps and features in the track which everyone enjoyed. Qualifying in 2WD saw a dominating performance by Neil Cragg, taking TQ in three out of the four rounds to take pole position from Tommy Hall and Greg Williams.
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The Team Associated Off-road Championships were held at Trackside Hobbies and Raceway in Brookfield, Wisconsin over the weekend, attracting nearly 330 entries. The smooth and consistent high-grip track conditions made for very close racing and in the premier 2WD Mod Buggy class it was Xray’s Ty Tessmann with the overall TQ from Team Associated’s Dustin Evans on the 2 spot. The triple A-main events saw Ty taking wins in A1 and A2 for an early overall victory as Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin cemented his overall runner-up spot by taking the win in A3. Dustin Evans, with 2-3-2 finished had to settle for 3rd overall and in front of TLR’s Dakotah Phend.
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