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April 23, 2018

Carsten Keller wins at 2018 Anglühen race

The 2018 Anglühen race was hosted by the NitroManiacs club in Mönchengladbach, Germany, this past weekend. The event was held in a Nitro Buggy and a Nitro Truggy class and in Buggy it was Mugen’s Carsten Keller with the TQ from Marcel Guske 2nd and Christian Hahlen 3rd. In the 45-minute main final it was again Mugen driver Carsten who was in control of things, taking the day’s win some two laps in front of TLR’s Nick Lorenz as Mugen’s Christian Hahlen completed the top 3 podium result.

Image: Spielzeugautorennfahrer

April 23, 2018

Merlin Depta wins at North German IC track regionals

The opening round of the North German Nitro On-road regionals, qualifying races for the German Nationals, was held at the Munster track this past weekend. Beautiful weather made for excellent racing conditions and in 1/8th IC Track it was Serpent’s Merlin Depta with the win some three laps in front of Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe. Lars had a near perfect weekend until he suffered car problems that cost him about one and a half minutes in the A-main, however he was able to bring home the runner-up spot from Shepherd teammate, Andreas Giesa in 3rd.

Image: Lars Hoppe

April 23, 2018

BRCA Touring Car Nationals Rd1 – Report

The BRCA National Electric Touring Car season kicked off at the weekend at the very popular Cotswolds track. After many seasons racing with the Sorex control tyre this year the series has switched to the Sweep tyre, but apart from the change of tyre it was business as usual for the top UK racers. Joining the domestic field for 2018 was Alexander Hagberg who was fresh from his recent ETS win in Spain. Three classes were up for grabs, Modified, 13.5 boosted and 13.5 blinky and 110 drivers lined up for round one of qualifying early Sunday morning. In Modified Olly Jefferies was out to defend his title while Elliott Harper and Chris Grainer looked to end a domestic drought that saw neither of them win a UK national in 2017, Kyle Branson and Alexander Hagberg were also on hand and looking for their first UK national wins.

Continue reading the report here

April 20, 2018

Tasos Paparegas wins Greek Buggy Champs

The Greek 1/8th Buggy Championship was held at the Kefalonia island recently. Xray’s Tasos Paparegas took the win from Kyosho’s Ioannis Papanikolaou as Bornovas Aris (Xray) rounded out the top 3 results.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 20, 2018

Matthew Pyle wins at Light It Up Blue Autism race

The recent Light It Up Blue Autism benefit race race saw Matthew Pyle taking the TQ in the 17.5T 2WD Buggy class by 0.250 seconds. The A-main then was a neck-to-neck 3-way battle between Matthew, Robert Reynolds, and Michael Walker. Matthew just put in consistent laps and kept his car on the racing line and in the end he squeaked out the win from Michael Walker 2nd and Bobby Reynolds 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 20, 2018

Dustin Evans sweeps April Fools Classic

The 2018 April Fools Classic was recently held at Murf’s Intermountain R/C Raceway. After four competitive rounds of qualifying in 2WD Modified Buggy, Team Associated’s Dustin Evans was able to grab the TQ with Team Associated teammates Jake Mayo and Rob Gillespie starting 2nd and 3rd, both of whom also TQ’d in rounds of qualifying. Dustin went on the win the first two mains, with Jake Mayo winning the third main. Jake was able to secure second overall, while Gillespie rounded out the podium for a Team Associated/Reedy podium sweep.

Continue reading the report here

April 19, 2018

Leo Arnold sweeps French 200mm Nats Rd2

Last weekend the second round of the French 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Nationals was held at the famous Ampuis track. The track offers a mixture of slow and fast corners with technical sections and a nice and flowing layout. The year the nats use a 4-minute rocket rounds format for qualifying and it was Leo Arnold who would take the overall TQ from Michael Derderian and Kevin Rasquin with the top 2 drivers proceed directly into the 45-minute A-main. Leo Arnold (Xray) would start from pole position into the final and he would hold onto the lead for the whole race to take the win some two laps in front of Capricorn’s Quentin Leroux. Behind the two Michael Derderian (Xray) had quite a comeback after suffering a flame-out at the start of the A-main to finish on the final podium spot. Leo and Michael were also the only two pilots to opt for two tyre stops whereas the remainder of the A-main only did one stop for new rubber.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 18, 2018

Paolo Morganti TQs & wins at Wallace Racing Champs

The 2018 Wallace Racing Challenge was held at Full Throttle RC Raceway last weekend with 87 entries in several gas and a single electric class. In the 1/8th GT ROAR 5-port Spec category Paolo Morganti would take the TQ and he also went on to win the 30-minute A-main some two laps in front of Fernando Medez as Jose Almonte rounded out the top 3 results from Angel Santiago 4th. Over in the non-sponsored GT ranking it was Fernando Medez with the win.

View the non-sponsored podium here