The opening round of the Club Series was held in East Shrewsbury this past weekend. Team Associated’s Matt Lewis would bring home the win in the Nitro Buggy A-main event from HB Racing’s Graham Alsop on the 2 spot. Team Associated’s Lewis Jones rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
The 2019 PDX Open was held at PDX RC Underground in Portland, Oregon recently. The PDX Open originated to settle the local debate on whether Mod cars were in fact faster over a five minute run than their 17.5 counterparts. The small track has seen comparable lap times between the Mod and Stock classes and many argued the more manageable power of the 17.5 and 13.5 classes provided an advantage. Travis Harker (Xray) set out to show that with proper throttle control and patience navigating the track and traffic, mod power not only provides more fun but faster lap times. He ran a 6.5T motor in 2WD and a 5.5T motor in the 4WD class. After 2 rounds of qualifying he was able to put in clean runs in both classes to start on the pole in both mains.
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The second round of the SBS 1/10 EP Malaysian Major League was held at the SBS track in Sungai Buloh, Malaysia recently. Round 2 was run on a full astroturf surface for the first time and most racers found that the high traction surface was easy to drive on but not easy to be quick. Most spent days before the race trying out different tires and shock setups while at the same time learning to drive on such a high grip surface, which is a rarity in this part of the world. This round saw also drivers from the UK and also Indonesia who travelled for the sole purpose of racing. With the aim to make the race day more interesting, this year’s format is a two-round qualifying heat with four rounds of mains per class. In 2WD Modified, it was Team Associated’s Bashir who took TQ and after a close fight during the finals, took the win in the tie-breaker. 2nd place went to Shahrin (Xray) with the 3rd place being taken by Yuri Taruna from Indonesia.
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The second round of this year’ Greek 1/8th Buggy National Championship was held at the STR track in Athens. Xray’s Tasos Paparegas was in control of things in the A-main final, bringing home the win from the SWorkz duo of Kostas Zagorisios in 2nd and Thanos Makropoulos in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the Austrian 1/10th Off-road Nationals was held at the GMAC Litschau club, one of the few real dirt tracks left in the country. The weather forecast looked terrible the week before the event, with even having the chance of snow on Sunday. Luckily things did not materialise with only one rain delay on Saturday afternoon. Racing on Sunday was held in very cold and slippery conditions, making things difficult for the drivers. In 2WD Buggy Xray’s Hupo Hönigl could secure the TQ in front of AE’s Peter Pinisch and Xray’s Lucas Grainer. The finals were even closer and Pinisch, Grainer and Hönigl won one final each so in the end the best time made the difference, which Hönigl had in front of Grainer and Pinisch.
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Mibosport have announced their Summer Race for the 1st of June. The event will be held at the popular Blansko track in the Czech Republic in several on-road classes including Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula, 1/10th Pan Car, Hobby as well as 200mm Nitro Touring. Included with the entry for the Touring Modified and Stock classes is a free set of hand-out Sweep tyres. And as the 1st of June is the International Children’s Day, all kids can attend the race for free. Full information can be found of the official event website here.
Round 2 of this year’s Spanish Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at the RC Silla track last weekend. Kyosho/Bullitt’s Bryan Baldo took the overall TQ and he also came out on top after the 45-minute A-main event, leaving behind HB Racing/XTR’s Ignacio Candel in 2nd and Mugen/Ultimate’s Ricardo Monteiro in 3rd. Oscar Navarro (Mugen/Ultimate) and Daniel Bernabe (Agama/Bullitt) would round out the top 5 results.
Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com] | InfoRC [inforc.net]
The JConcepts Stock Nationals were held at OC RC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California last weekend. Expert 2WD Buggy was the perfect race for Team Associated’s Kyle Layton as he set the TQ and ran away with the win in the 10-minute A-final. With his polished, smooth driving style and starting from pole, Kyle was going to be hard to beat. From the very first lap, he was maximum push and lead the way from tone to tone to take a very impressive win. Yokomo’s Jake Thayer also drove brilliantly and displayed his stock speed and finished 5 seconds back from Kyle for 2nd. Team Associated’s AJ Marasco delivered a terrific run to land himself 3rd on the podium, which is quite the feat since he hasn’t made the main at the JConcepts Stock Nationals prior.
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