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July 22, 2019

Ari Heinonen sweeps Finnish 1/8th Buggy Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the Finnish 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held at Fullspeed RC in Vantaa, Finland this past weekend. Ari Heinonen took the overall TQ after winning two of the three qualifying rounds from Lauri Ruotsalainen, who also took a round TQ. In the 45-minute A-main event it was again Ari who would prevail, taking the win some twelve seconds in front of Markku Honkanen on the runner-up spot. A lap down Simo Ahoniemi would complete the top 3 result, finishing on the same lap as 4th placed Tomi Salonen and 5th placed Lauri Ruotsalainen.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]

July 22, 2019

Wang & Tyler win at Sven Böhringer Family Reunion

Timezone Raceway of Battle Ground, Washington played host to the annual Sven Böhringer Family Reunion race, attracting over 150 entries in the six cases of 1/8th Masters, 1/8th Open, GT8, 1/10th 200mm Nitro, Touring Modified and Touring 17.5T Stock. In Touring Modified, drawing nearly 30 entries, it was Xray‘s JJ Wang with the overall TQ some 0.019s in front of Xray teammate, Korey Harbke. After the triple A-main events it was still JJ on top, thanks to winning A2 and A3 for the overall as Korey had to settle for 2nd with 1-2-5 finishes. 8th place qualifier, Yokomo‘s Randy Caster came in 3rd to round out the podium.

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July 22, 2019

Schreffler & Mazzara win at Hot Race Challenge

Barnstormers Raceway of Chester, New York recently played host to the Hot Race Challenge, attracting a total of 200 entries. In 1/8th E-Buggy it was HB Racing’s Jason Schreffler with the overall win from Xray’s Jared Phair on the 2 spot. Mugen’s Bryan Kata came in 3rd to round out the podium. Over in E-Truggy it was Mugen’s Anthony Mazzara with the overall from Jared Phair 2nd and Bryan Kata 3rd.

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July 22, 2019

Austrian Electric Off-road Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Austrian 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the ERT Steyregg club, host of the recent EOS round a couple of weeks ago. Wet weather greatly affected the weekend, however thanks to racing on astro turf the drivers would still be able to get some practice and the qualifiers in until the organisers decided to call it a day due to really heavy rain that made running the finals impossible.

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July 22, 2019

ROAR 1/8 EP Off-road & 4WD SCT Nationals – Report

The 2019 ROAR 1/8th Electric Off-road & 4WD Short Course Nationals were held at Adrenaline RC Raceway in Winchester, Virginia this past weekend. The ROAR National Championships is the biggest race of the year and just having wrapped up the 1/8th Fuel Nationals earlier in Hutto, Texas, it was time for the 2019 ROAR E-Nationals featuring most of the same top drivers competing for E-Buggy, E-Truggy, 4×4 SCT, and Masters E-Buggy National championships. Of course, the heavy hitters were in attendance which is always going to make for a good show. This year’s track was hosted by Adrenaline R/C. The layout made use of the track space and was a very nicely put together layout that mixed fun and challenge. The racing was going to be very close on a tight layout like this and the mains definitely showed that. Regardless, the fastest drivers seem to always find another gear when they need it and at this race, the usual suspects were still there.

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July 22, 2019

Jörn Neumann takes German E-Buggy title

The iconic Bischofsheim track played host to the German 1/8th Electric Buggy Nationals this past weekend. When the dust had settled after the triple A-main events it was multi-time German National Champion, SWorkz’s Jörn Neumann with the overall win thanks to coming out on top in A1 and A3 for the overall title from Agama’s Burak Kilic, who took the win in A2. Mugen driver Aaron Rönick came in 3rd to round out the podium in front of Agama’s Berkan Kilic in 4th and SWorkz driver Micha Widmaier in 5th.

Image: Markus Reise

July 22, 2019

Hampus Berg wins at Swedish Off-road Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the Swedish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held in Älvsbyn this past weekend. Lucas Westerlund lead the Nitro Buggy class after the qualifiers from Hampus Berg and Jessica Palsson, and in the 45-minute main final it were the latter two that would lead the proceedings with Hampus taking the win some nine seconds in front of Jessica. P4 qualifier, David Hassel came in 3rd, already some two laps don as Lucas Westerlund rounded out the top 4 results another lap down.

Image: Hampus Berg

July 22, 2019

Urban Astro Buggy Champs Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the 2019 season of the Urban Astro Buggy Champs in the 2WD class was held this past weekend at the challenging rooftop astroturf offroad circuit of Urban RC in Singapore. Warm sunshine greeted racers for once on an off-road race weekend. Running four qualifying rounds, the TQ fight would go to the wire as Sean Lee, Esmail Apandi and Dominic Quek, who was making his season debut, each TQ’d the first three rounds. Lee showed that he was the one to beat when he TQ’d round 4 by some three seconds from Apandi. Quek would start 3rd on the grid, with Andrew Tow taking the final direct entry into the 6-car A-Main. Running bump-up finals, and gaining the two bump-up spots into the A-Main were TS Bay and Sebastian Lee, father of Sean.

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