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August 2, 2017

Futaba/OS Engines Nitro Challenge – Report

The 11th Annual Futaba/OS Engines Nitro Challenge was hosted by St. Louis Dirt Burners in Missouri. The concept of the race is that it allows the locals to experience an awesome racing event while adding a terrific chance to meet some of the industry pros to learn from the legends. This year’s aces was Futaba’s Ryan Lutz and OS Speed’s Adam Drake; definitely two iconic legends of the industry. The layout is always a lot of fun at Dirt Burners and this year’s layout was smooth and flowy with an added dose of speed making a terrific and challenging track for all racers and skill levels. The weekend started off wet, but the track crew did a fantastic job and got everything rolling smooth.

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August 2, 2017

Carlos Peracho wins at Spanish IC Track Nats Rd3

This past weekend the third round of the Spanish Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the Asociación de Getafe de radiocontrol club in Madrid. The race saw high temperatures and high traction and during Saturday’s qualifying and in the 1/8th class there was a great fight for the pole position that was decided in the final round with Carlos Peracho Heras ultimately coming out on top, setting a new track record in the process. The race for the win in the main final was then on between Carlos and Guillermo. Both were on different strategies with Carlos opting for two tyre stops while Guillermo only did a single pit stop for tyres. The battle went on until engine trouble hit Guillermo, allowing Carlos to win the race in front of Alberto Alonso in 2nd and Sergio Montesinos 3rd, making it an all-Shepherd podium. Elsewhere in the 40+ final Miguel Delgado (Shepherd) took the winning honours.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

July 31, 2017

Chris Brame wins at SWCS Race Rd5

After a very hot weekend of racing at RCRCNT in Dallas, Texas, Chris Brame took win after a gruelling 30-minute main event at round 5 of the SWCS. Brame’s Novarossi-powered IGT8 powered out a victory on the hot and slick track while TQ Jeff Whiting (Serpent/Novarossi) ran into issues at about the seven-minute mark. The heat also got to Richard “Pit” Racer’s (IGT8/Picco) clutch and quickly fell off the pace as well. Ultimately and behind Chris it was Darrell Byrd (Serpent/Novarossi) with the runner-up spot while Keith Byrd (Serpent/Picco) rounded out the top 3 result.

View the top 5 results here

July 31, 2017

Mark Sousa wins Pro Nitro Buggy at King of Kings race

Stateline Raceway held the King of Kings race this past weekend and it was Mark Sousa who would take the win in the Pro Nitro Buggy A-main. Qualifying 4th on the grid, Mark had a good battle with Tyler Jones for 2nd in the opening stages before Tyler would make a mistake and Mark was able to get around him and was behind Dakota Phend by 8 seconds until Dakota broke his car. At that point Collin Weatherholt got around Mark for the lead and the two battled for a bit. Mark was able to get around him after Colin pitted but unfortunately he flamed out coming out of pit lane and that left Sousa to battle with Austin Horne for the win. Two two went back and forward but Mark Sousa (Xray) was able to open it up at the very end to take the win from Austin Horne (Team Associated) 2nd and Collin Weatherholt (TLR) 3rd.

Image: Mark Sousa

July 31, 2017

Haugen & Husman win at EFRA 40+ IC Track Euros

The 2017 EFRA 40+ Nitro On-road European Championships were held in Skarpnäck, Sweden, this past weekend. With the Friday being rained off the event was basically a 1-day affair which made it necessary to reduce the qualifiers to three rounds with the two best to count. In 1/8th on-road it was Sweden’s Mikael Fransson (Serpent) with the TQ while Andreas Husman (Mugen) TQ’d the 200mm Touring class. After the Superpole Lars Haugen (Mugen) in 1/8th and Mickael Brandt (Xray) in Nitro Touring were the two other drivers to score direct spots in their respective main finals.

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July 31, 2017

Caroli & Laubscher win at SARDA 1/12th Series Rd3

The third round of the 2017 South-African ORE 1/12th national championship series was held at the Welkom RC Arena this past weekend. With a tight 2017 RC racing schedule in South Africa some of the 1/12th drivers could not participate in the event but all the championship contenders were present for the four qualifying rounds and three finals. Most of the drivers arrived Friday for some practise and setup on the fast and very high traction track. Practice on Friday showed that the local Antonio Caroli and newcomer Hein Kotze would be drivers to beat in Modified and youngsters Brandon Solomon and Francois Laubscher in the 13.5T blinky stock class.

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July 31, 2017

Cragg & Martin win at BRCA 1/10th Off-road Rd5

Round 5 of this year’s BRCA 1/10th Off-road Championship was held at the Southport Model Racing Club this past weekend. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg would TQ and win the 4WD portion on Sunday in front of Yokomo’s Lee Martin and Schumacher’s Tom Yardy. The 2WD part, run on Saturday, also had Neil Cragg taking the TQ but with wins in A2 and A3 it was Lee Martin who snatched the win from Neil in 2nd and Tom Yardy 3rd.

Image: Neil Cragg

July 30, 2017

Jason Nugroho wins Indonesian Buggy Champs Rd3

Round 3 of the Indonesian National Buggy Championship was held at the Graha Raya track in Tangerang, West Java, Indonesia. A total of 76 drivers from Surabaya, Bandung, Medan, Banjarmasin, Bali, Kendari, Makasar, Gorontalo, Kupang, Batam as well as local drivers attended the event that originally saw six 10-minute qualifiers but due to heavy rain during qualifying day the race director decided to cut qualifying to four round of which two would count. Xray/Novarossi’s Jason Nugroho made the best out of the conditions, taking the TQ honours and also securing the win in the 1-hour main event some four seconds in front of Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) in 2nd while John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) rounded out the top 3 one lap down.

View the final results here