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April 18, 2023

Pesenti & Fankhauser win at Swiss Nationals opener

The opening round of the Swiss Nitro Onroad Nationals took place at Lostallo with Mattia Pesenti and Patrick Fankhauser coming away with the wins. In 1:8 it would be the ARC of Silvio Hächler who would top qualifying ahead of the Mugens of former World Champion Simon and Remy Hasler with Pesenti’s Xray fourth. In 1:10, Fankhauser’s Infinity was the Top Qualifier ahead of the Xray’s of Philipp Bühler and Traugott Schär. With a 2023 rule change meaning no direct qualifiers for the Main, the semi finals would see the demise of Kurzbuch. In the 45-minute final, Hächler would experience gearbox issues allowing Pesenti to take the win ahead of the pole sitter with the Infinity of Luca Martinelli completing the podium. In 1:10, it was a dominant performance from Fankhauser who secured the Round 1 victory ahead of Schär and the Xray of Stefan Wütrich. Round 2 of the National Championship will take place in Aigle on May 5-6.

View 1:10 Podium here

April 18, 2023

Lemieux wins US Buggy Championships

The 6th running of the US Buggy Championships took place at Trackside Hobbies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, over the weekend with Chase Lemieux completing the buggy double. A track famed for once being owned by the ‘Voice of RC’ Scotty Ernst, this year’s event attracted 220 entries. In qualifying Lemieux, the son of former international onroad ace Paul, would take the TQ honours with Tyler Whitt his closest rival in both 2WD and 4WD. Decided over single A-Mains, the Xray driver would fully capitalise on pole position winning 2WD by 2-seconds from the Xray of Whitt with Casey Blasczyk completing the podium. In 4WD, again Lemieux led home Whitt over the 8-minute main with Matt Sunderlage finishing third.

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April 17, 2023

Cragg & Hall win British 1:10 Offroad Nationals Opener

The BRCA British 1:10 Offroad National Championships kicked off at Robin Hood Raceway over the weekend with a double victory for Team Associated in the hands of Neil Cragg in 2WD and Tommy Hall in 4WD. The first date on the 6 round National calendar, Saturday’s action would decide 2WD with qualifying seeing former World Champion Cragg taking the overall TQ from Jamie Hall, Josh Holsworth and Tommy Hall. In the finals on the astro surface track, Cragg failed to capitalise on his pole position starting position as Jamie Hall took the win ahead him but the reigning Champion made amends in A2 and A3 winning both to open his 2023 season on maximum points ahead of Jamie and Tommy Hall. In 4WD, it was Tommy Hall who was Top Qualifier after 6 rounds of heats ahead of Cragg and Schumacher’s Lee Martin. Hall took all three A-Mains with Martin able to get the better of Cragg to secure second overall.

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April 17, 2023

Groskamp wins Dutch 1:8 Onroad Nationals Opener

The NOMAC Dutch National Championship for Onroad Nitro took place over the weekend at the RACO2000 circuit in Utreacht with Jilles Groskamp taking the 1:8 win. The Team Infinity driver secured the TQ with fastest time in the third of the three 4-minute qualifying rounds with Robbin Hertong, Jesse Keller and Joey Sober lining up behind him on the starting grid for the 30-minute final. From the front, and setting the fastest lap of the race, the former European Champion of the class pulled clear to win from the Serpent pairing of Keller and another former European Champion Michael Salven. Having start in electric touring car which took his career international and only later turned his hand to nitro racing, the race was Groskamp’s first at Dutch Nationals outing in 1:8. In 1:10, the win went to the Infinity of Kristof Sielaff from Thomas van Duin and Marcell van Buël.

Image: Jilles Groskamp [Facebook]

April 12, 2023

Boda continues domination of French 1:10 Offroad Nationals

Sworkz team driver Clément Boda continued his domination of the French 1:10 Offroad National Championships with another double victory at Round 2 over the weekend. Winning both 2WD and 4WD at last month’s season opener, which was hosted by Club Auto Modelisme St Exupery on their indoor carpet track, Round 2 was also on carpet but this time outdoors at the track of Mini Racing Club Antibois. In 2WD qualifying it would be the Xray of Noha Ben Mohamed who would secure the overall TQ from Boda with the order reversed in 4WD. In the finals, Boda would win the first two 2WD encounters to wrap up the win but in 4WD it would go to A3 as Mohamed won A2 from Boda by just 3/10ths of a second. Staying out front in A3, Boda would maintain his 100% Nationals winning streak. The 4WD podium would be completed by Valentin Peuziat while in 2WD Carl Maignien rounded out the Top 3.

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April 6, 2023

Roman & Herman selected for ‘Rising Star Program’

A program that was started at the Canadian National Championship in 2018, the ‘Rising Star Program’ was awarded to two young talents of the hobby at the latest running of the Onroad Nationals in Ontario over the weekend. Having made the award for the first time to an American driver Riley Drennen last November at the legendary U.S. Indoor Champs in Cleveland, this time round they selected Julianna Roman and Paxton Herman based on them exhibiting sportsmanship and dedication to the hobby. The panel have looked at Juliana year after year but never had a pan car option so were really pleased to finally give her the award thanks to CRC. Hoping to grow the program and get more manufactures on board so they can expand it around the world they have already been contacted by RC Maker since the latest presentation saying they want to be involved in the future! As part of being selected as ‘Rising Stars’, Julianna and Paxton were each presented with full racing outfits from the program’s supporters – Teamzombie Canada (batteries), Motiv/Gravity (tyres and motors), SJT Tires (tyres), CRC (car kit), Orca (esc), Key Fulcrum (servos), Rs3d Printing (car stands), JT bearings (bearing kits), Outlaw RC (free racing for there class next year), Phoenix RC Raceway (free practice and racing for a season) and Niagara RC (indoor free practice and racing for a season).

View Paxton Herman presentation here

April 3, 2023

Wood wins British 1:8 Onroad Nationals opener

Tim Wood has won the opening round of the 2023 BRCA British 1:8 Onroad National Championships. Hosted by the Cotswold Model Car Club over the weekend, the first encounter of the 6 round championship would see the Team Shepherd driver top all four rounds of qualifying but it was his run in Q3 that secured him the TQ honours. Behind, Andrew Hastings would line-up second with his Capricorn after he posted his fastest time in Q2. John Carr completed the Top 3 posting his quickest run in the penultimate qualifier. In the 30-minute final it would be a repeat of last year’s penultimate round visit to the Cotswolds track, as Wood secured a comfortable win with his Hasi Tuned powered Velox V8.2s. Hastings would finish second while the Serpent of Matthieu Dambrine, fifth fastest in qualifying, completed the podium as Carr retired after 8-minutes.

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April 3, 2023

Hebert dominates at ’23 Canadian Onroad Nationals

Keven Hebert completed another double at the Canadian Onroad Nationals, the Xray driver securing both the Touring Car and 1:12 wins at the Seaway Mall in Welland, Ontario. Attracting just shy of 350 entries, Canadian’s best known onroad racer would secure the overall TQ in both classes, setting the fastest time from Leonard Schinzano in 1:12 and Douglas Shewfelt in Mod Touring Car. In the single legs Mains, Hebert would dominate from the front winning 1:12 by a full lap after the 8-minutes from Schinzano with fourth place qualifier JB Catricala completing the podium. In Touring Car, Hebert pulled clear to win from Shewfelt’s Awesomatix with third place qualifier Barrett Morrow also holding station to complete the Top 3.

Image: Keven Hebert [Facebook]