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May 28, 2018

Burak Kilic wins North German Buggy regionals Rd3

The third round of the North German 1/8th Off-road regionals, a qualifying race for the German Nationals, was held at the Kiel track this past weekend. Track conditions were pretty rough with drivers constantly searching for the best setup to manage the 30-minute A-main with as little mishaps as possible. Ultimately it was young Burak Kilic (Agama) who would bring home the win in front of Kyosho’s Marcel Paul. The race for the final podium spot was a very entertaining and hard-fought one with Timo Engelstätter bringing home the final podium spot after some tough but very fair fights with Berkan Kilic (Agama) in the final two laps.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.

May 28, 2018

Reno Savoya TQs & wins French Elite Buggy Champs Rd3

The Boisset Saint Priest track played host to round 3 of the French 1/8th Elite Buggy Championship over the weekend. TLR’s Renaud Savoya would make the perfect sweep with the overall TQ, pole position after the semi finals and also the overall win, although the main final wasn’t run due to a massive thunderstorm. With the semi results taken to determine the final results it was Team Associated’s Tom Robin on the runner-up spot from HB Racing’s Thomas Musso in 3rd. Kyosho’s Rayan Medjoubi and Xray’s Jerome Aigoin would round out the top 5 results.

Image: Team Losi Racing [tlracing.com]

May 28, 2018

Davide Ongaro takes early Italian Nitro Buggy title

For round 3 of the Italian 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship racers travelled to the Balocco track over the weekend. In the Expert class Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro continued on his great 2018 form with a TQ and win, with the later also secured him the overall title after winning three out of three rounds so far. Davide ended the 45-minute A-main encounter some two laps in front of Xray’s Marco Baruffolo as Mugen Andrea Trevisan came in 3rd, another lap down. Tekno’s Alex Zanchettin lead the best of the rest in 4th.

Source: ModellismoRC [modellismorc.net]

May 28, 2018

Robert Batlle wins challenging Spanish Buggy Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held this past weekend at the El Alamo track in challenging conditions. Heavy rain in the build-up to the event meant the club had to work hard to make the race happen but ultimately and after using a lot of sawdust to making the track race-worthy, the event would take place. The opening rounds were held on a very muddy track and the qualifiers would see three different winners in the form of Bryan Baldo, Daniel Vega and Juanma Guillen, however due to incidents on and off the track and penalties given after the qualifiers, none of the three would take the overall TQ that was handed to Robert Batlle from Oscar Baldo 2nd and Ricard Monteiro 3rd. Following a couple of controversies after the semifinals, the 45-minute main final would ultimately take place and in the end it was Robert Batlle with a tone-to-tone win one lap ahead of Oscar Baldo as Oscar Navarro rounded out the top 3, some ten seconds short of Baldo.

View the final results here

May 25, 2018

Nitro-West-Masters Rd2 – Report

Round two of six of the Nitro-West-Masters was held at the Haltern track, located in the North of the Ruhr region in Western Germany. 66 drivers meant an impressive entry for the hosting Rallye-Club Haltern club. It was more than only a race weekend because a new tarmac surface on the 234-meter track and a newly-build driver´s rostrum including race-control were dedicated as well as more than 80 people joined the Saturday night party to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Nitro-West-Masters which was initialised by Uwe Baldes back in 2009.

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May 25, 2018

Hanson & Barron win at Gone Bananas race

The Gone Bananas Trophy Race was held at Finish Line Raceway in Indiana recently. In the 2WD Mod Buggy class John Barron II would take the overall TQ with his Stock buggy and he would also lead the A-main until he had a bobble and fall back to 3rd. With some fast laps he was soon back in 2nd again, however he did not manage to catch the leader and finish on the 2 spot behind Frank Honson and in front of Tony Fox.

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May 25, 2018

Czech 1/10th Off-road Nationals Rd2 – Report

The second round of Czech 1/10th Off-road Nationals took place in Janovice recently. The track layout was more on the easy side so close racing was expected and rain on Friday morning meant lots of grip for the practice rounds, however that would change over Saturday. For the qualifiers the track still kept some water and grip was on the okay side and in the 2WD class it was Kaja Novotny who showed great speed and winning Q1 and Q2 got him the overall TQ with Max Gotzl and Zdenek Miksovsky completing TOP 3 for the finals.

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May 25, 2018

Xray Racing Series Czech Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Czech Xray Racing Series was held at the Celakovice race track. In the premier Modified class, it was Matěj Šulc, who took the TQ and overall win from Michal Blahovský. Kája Doležal, Martin Kořínek and Tomáš Svoboda wouldn’t give up the battle for the 3rd place until the last final, but with some small mistakes from Martin and Tomáš, Kája could finish 3rd in the last final to become the final podium finisher.

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