Red RC » National

May 25, 2015

Martin Bayer doubles at Czech 1/8th Off-road Nats Rd1

The first round of the Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend at the track of Horni Jeleni. The weather forecast did not look too promising but fortunately the race would take place in dry conditions. New for this year is an updated race format with the Nationals being 1-day events and with the best two drivers after qualifying would directly proceed into the main finals. In the 30 minute main final of the Nitro Buggy class Martin Bayer took the win from Jiri Mara and Jan Zamis.

Click here to continue reading

May 24, 2015

Yannick Aigoin takes French Nitro Buggy Champs Rd3

The third round of the French Nitro Buggy Championship was held this weekend at the track of Belfort. The 45 minute main final saw a terrific battle between Yannick Aigoin (Xray) and Renaud Savoya (HB) for pretty much the whole time with the better end for Yannick who won the main one lap ahead of Renaud. Jerome Sartel (TLR) rounded out the podium another lap down.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

May 22, 2015

Migneco wins at Maltese National Champs Rd4 & 5

Recently Roberto Migneco managed to dominate both round 4 and 5 of the 1/10 Nitro Touring Maltese National Championship. Driving two flawless finals with tone-to-tone wins he scored the maximum points with the help of his trusted mechanic and pitman Edward. The 6th and final round of the championship will be race in June with Roberto having the best chanced to be crowned as the 2015 champion.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 22, 2015

Danny Bartholomew doubles at Midwest RC Tour Rd2

Round 2 of the Midwest RC Tour was held at Thunder Road Hobbies in E. Moline, IL. A pretty bleak forecast hurt the entry count a little but still had 90 entries spread across Nitro Truggy, E-Buggy and Nitro Buggy. The layout was pretty straight forward with a couple of critical timing jumps. Qualifying was really close but as the 2nd round of qualifying came around the Sun broke thru and the track started changing drastically.

Click here to continue reading

May 21, 2015

Local Champions Tour Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Local Champions Tour, a new race series in the South of Germany, was held at the Türkheim track in the four on-road classes of 1/8th Nitro and Electric as well as 1/10th Nitro and Electric. Due to a not-so-perfect weather forecast only 31 drivers attended Saturday’s practice and overnight rain made for a wet track on Sunday morning. The track conditions only allowed for two qualifying rounds followed by bump-up finals and triple 15 minute A-mains, a new race format that combines both nitro and electric rules. At the end of the day Tobias won the 1/8th Nitro class from Bastian Gramlich and Alexander Bremberger. The 1/8th Electric class was won by Alex Kestler, the 1/10th Nitro win went to Philipp Kieble and 1/10th Electric had Thomas Werner walking away with the overall victory. Round 2 of the series will be held in Rötz on the 27th and 28th of June.

Click here to view the other podiums

May 21, 2015

Davide Carbone wins at Faboweb Trophy

The Italian Faboweb Trophy was held with 75 drivers in attendance and in the Formula class it was Davide Carbone who would win the race from TQ holder Paolo Bottignol. Roberto La Prova completed the podium by coming in 3rd.

Click here to view the final result

May 21, 2015

Bart Mullink wins at Dutch Buggy Cup

Round two of the Dutch Buggy Cup saw Bart Mullink (Agama) walking away with the day’s win from Jordi Velder. 3rd placed Jarno Pijpers (Xray) had a nice fight with team mate Sander van Genechten whom he was able to pass with only a couple of minutes to go. Behind Sander, Jasper van Duppen (Serpent) rounded out the top 5 result.

Click here to view the top 5 result

May 21, 2015

Slovakia Cup Rd5 – Report

The 5th round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the World-renown Hudy Racing Arena in six different electric on-road and off-road classes. In the Touring Car Modified category Martin Hudy set the pace in front of David Nemcek who fought with Oliver Havranek for the 2nd place. The A-mains then were a pretty easy affair for Martin who brought home the win on his home track in front of David and Oliver.

Click here to continue reading the report