The fourth round of the Campeonata Lattitude 33 RC Chile took place in La Sirena, Chile. Gaston Zergard Latrach would TQ and take the top spot on the podium as JQ teammate Sebastian Azocar Lucchini would finish in 2nd place and Matias Sebastian Moreno Ampuero (Mugen) in 3rd place.
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The fifth round of the Dutch Electric On-road Nationals was held in Utrecht recently. With two TQ runs Rob Janssen (Team Magic) would secure the pole position for the Touring Stock A-mains in front of Infinity’s Jitse Miedema. A1 was pretty much smooth sailing for Rob, however with the sun coming out for A2, things changed a bit on favour of Jitse who was hot on the heels of Rob for the entire main, however Rob brought home the win in A2 also, taking the day’s win and with it the overall title. Jitse Miedema came in 2nd, in front of ARC’s Frank Baggen.
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The 2018 oOple Invernational was held at Robin Hood Raceway with some of the country’s fastest 1/10th off-road drivers as well as guests from abroad in attendance. In the 2WD Mod Buggy class it was Poland’s Michal Orlowski who set the pace, taking the TQ and the wins in the triple A-main events. Ben Jemison came in 2nd from Greg Williams 3rd. Hames Helliwell and Eugene Galley completed the top 5 result.
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The fifth round of this year’s NRS was hosted at the North West Nitro Track near Blackpool over the weekend. Agama’s William Skidmore took the TQ after the qualifiers and the win in the A-main, leaving behind Kyosho’s Kieran Cox in 2nd, a lap down. HB Racing’s Mick Butler complex the top 3 result nine seconds behind Kieran.
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The final round of the RC-Lemans Series was held at the EVMC Velp track in The Netherlands. The season finale also was the warm-up for the forthcoming 29th German National Championships what will be held at the same track. Like last year the title decision would be made only at the final round with Kai and Tim Altmann battling it out for the overall in the fast LMP1 class. Over in LMP2 Stock Rainer Schad, with three wins, was in the best position for the overall. However local hero Mathijs Hermens and 2015 Champion Sascha Lennartz were still in the mix, making things entertaining.
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The 2018 Great Lakes Challenge was hosted by the Toledo One Eights Racers in Northwood, Ohio last weekend. In the 1/8th Open 4WD A-main it was Serpent’s Ralph Burch with the overall TQ, however in the 30-minutes A-main event it was Serpent teammate, Joaquin Desoto Jr. with the win, a lap in front of Xray’s Mike Swauger. Capricorn’s Paolo Morganti came in 3rd, some eights seconds down on Mike. Scott Kimbrow and Lon Burling made up the top 5 while top qualifiers, Ralph Burch had to settle for 6th overall. Over in the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan class it was DJ Apolaro with the TQ and win. DJ brought home the win with a 7-seconds margin from Mike Swauger while Ralph Burch rounded out the top 3 results. Diatta Collymore and Jeremiah Ward followed in 4th and 5th respectively.
Image: Joaquin Desoto Jr.
Wölbling in Austria played host to the third round of the Austrian Nitro Buggy Nationals this past weekend. SWorkz’s Martin Wollanka (SWorkz/Picco/TPro) took the win in front of Patrik Schweinzer (Mugen/Novarossi/Pro-Line) 2nd and Dominic Bauer (Mugen/ Ninja/Pro-Line) 3rd. Over in the 40+ class it was Georg Horninger(SWorkz/MW-Picco/TPro) with the win from Mario Penn (HB Racing/Team Orion/TPro) as Heinz Müller (SWorkz/MW-Picco/TPro) snatched the final podium spot.
Round 6 of this year’s JBRL Electric Off-road Series was hosted by Pegasus Hobbies in Montclair, California this past weekend. The race was held in the usual mix of modified and stock classes and in the premier class of 2WD Open Buggy it was Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo, driving a Team Associated buggy with the win from the Team Associated duo of Johnathan Schultz and Nick Miller in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
