The 2017 APPA Championship was held in São Paulo, Brazil last weekend, attracting some of the country’s fastest nitro and electric on-road drivers. In the 1/8th Nitro On-road category it was Roberto Nunes with the win from Marcio Lopez in 2nd and Hamilton Santos, who rounded out the top 3 podium result.
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The opening round of the 2017/18 Rug Racers series was held this past weekend at Wodson Park in Ware, Hertfordshire. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Paul Pinkney and his Schumacher taking the win from Yokomo’s Harley Eldridge. It was Harley who locked down the pole position with FTQ, but a mistake in leg 1 moved her down to 3rd and Paul was able to capitalise. In 3rd Aaron Rose and his Schumacher completed the podium.
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The Romacross track in Rome, Italy played host to the Oktoberfest Race this past weekend. The event attracted Italy’s fastest off-road drivers and also guests from abroad such as Elliott Boots and Robert Batlle. A super-dry and bumpy track made for very dusty conditions but come Saturday evening the time were getting faster and at the end of qualifying it was Robert Batlle with the TQ from Marco Natale while Elliott Boots had to settle for 3rd overall after scoring one TQ run. After the semifinals it was still Robert on the top spot while Elliott had grooved in to take the P2 spot on the main final grid. At the start of the 30-minutes main final Elliott would follow Robert for a few laps, gaining in some places and losing in others. Finally Boots would close right up on Batlle and when the latter made a mistake, Elliott would take the lead and never look back. In the end Elliott was able to take the win by two laps and both Robert and Marco would suffer problems towards the end of the race, making way for Marco Ravaglia in 2nd and Dario Gabrielli 3rd.
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The 2017 TQ Carpet Championship Summer Series concluded this past weekend, attracting 83 racers and a total of 559 entries during the ten rounds of racing this summer. In the Sportsman Sedan class it was Gino Kwan with the overall from William Yip Sam Ip who ended the series tie on points with the better tie-breaker handing William the overall runner-up spot.
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The opening round of the Lestr Cup series took place last weekend in Prague. The organisers prepared tight and technical track using EOS carpet which made for good traction conditions. In the 2WD Buggy class Kaja Novotny lead Milan Mudra and Max Götzl who both had very closes finished. The 4WD qualifiers were a blueprint of the 2WD class as Kaja TQ’d all qualifiers to secure the pole position from Milan and Max.
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The Copa Mitad Del Mundo 2017 was held in Quito, Ecuador this past weekend, attracting some of the fastest North and South American nitro on-road drivers. In the premier 1/8th Nitro On-road class it was Rodrigo Grijalva with the win from Felipe Bastidas in 2nd and Agusto Quinteros, who rounded out the top 3 podium result.
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The opening round of the Polish Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the EOS Warsaw Expo track. Saturday’s qualifiers were lead by Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski followed by the Yokomo duo of Bartek Zambrzycki and Bartek Zalewski. The final qualifiers on Sunday, with the absence of Michal Orlowski, saw Bartek Zambrzycki taking the pole position for the A-mains and he would also sweep the finals to make the double in both 2WD and 4WD Buggy. Bartek Zalewski and Sebastian Migel (Schumacher) had nice battles for the 2 and 3 spots on the podium and ultimately they would finish in this order in both classes.
Round 6 of the Danish 1/8th Off-road National Championship was hosted by Sydvestjysk RC this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class, run on Sunday, it was Pelle Culmsee with the TQ and win to further underline his domination in this class this year. Having already wrapped up the championship going into round 6, it was one for the history books and by also taking the win in the 45-minute main final he further stamped his authority. Four laps behind Pelle, Peter Harder would come in 2nd from Florian Müller 3rd.
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