Xray’s Marco Rizzo has won the 1/8th Armateur class at the final round of the Swiss nitro on-road nationals. A second place after the qualifiers behind Andy Geisser and in front of Rudi Scherer made for a good position to grab the number one spot in the A final. At the end Marco won the class in front of Andrea Hächler and Noah Asendorf which also secured him the vice championship.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The third round of the Argentinian off-road nationals took place at the Cordoba track. Adrian Castro (Xray/Novarossi) took the win in front of Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi) and Sebastian Recio (Mugen/Novarossi), who completed the podium.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
The 4th and final round of the Greek touring car championship took place near Heraklion, Crete. After qualifying local driver Terzis (Xray) took TQ in front of Nick Georgiades (Xray) and John Doucakis (Awesomatix). The first A main saw John passing both Xray drivers in lap 1 but he got hit by Nick sending the Awesomatix on its roof and creating a chain reaction. John found himself at the back of the field while Nick received a stop-and-go penalty. Both soon recovered and Nick took the win with John in second place. The 2nd A final again had a lap 1 carnage to offer, this time Nick Georgiades hit Terzis causing lots of confusion but now Nick escaped further action against him and ended in second position behind John. The decisive third A final saw John losing a position against T.O.P. driver Jim on lap 2 but the Awesomatix driver soon regained the third place and went on to chase the two Xrays of Nick and Terzis. The latter showed great sportsmanship by letting John by as he was clearly faster. John now was on a mission to try and catch Nick. After a short coming together as Nick went wide and John tried to pass him Nick ended in second place with John close behind. The result handed Nick the race win after the tie breaker and this also secured him the Xray driver overall title win of the series. John Doucakis ended the season sitting in the runner-up sport.
Source: JD & Racing [jdandracing.blogspot.com]
Last weekend saw the final round of the Austrian 1/10h Electric Buggy Nationals held at the Steyregg track. Vampire Racing’s Rene Trauner (Yokomo) took the win both in 2WD and 4WD securing him both 2013 national titles. Vampire Racing team mate Stefan Pfeifhofer (Team Associated) ends the season in second place in 2WD and 4WD making for a perfect 1-2 finish for Vampire Racing.
Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]
The 7th and final round of the RC LeMans Series took place at the Model Race Genk track in Belgium. Dry weather on Saturday meant top conditions for the practice runs in which the top drivers scrapped on the old track record. After Sunday’s qualifiers Tobias Weist took TQ with a 20 laps run in front of Tim Altmann and Sven Stoffels. Come the finals Tobias and Tim battled for the top spot with both deciding one of the three A mains. The decisive race ultimately went to Tobias as Tim made a rare mistake denying him the win. Frank Büsener came in second, Tim finished third. Sven Stoffels, third after the qualifiers but not on the podium, had a bit of a relief by setting a new track record in A main number three with a 15.093.
Source: RC LeMans Series [rc-lemans.de]
It has been announced that the 2013 Asian Offroad Championship will take place on the weekend of the 3rd of November at the Yatabe Arena Offroad Grandprix track. The race is open for 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy, 2WD Stock 17.5T and 4WD Stock 13.5T as well as Short Course Modified and to keep things running smoothly Novak’s own Charlie Suangka will be announcing at the event. More information can be found here (PDF file).
After a wet Summer the popular Herts Nitro Model Club Winter Series round 1 kicked off with the sun shining, warm temperatures and almost 70 racers attending. Qualifying in Nitro Buggy went to Jack Embling (Mugen), the E-Buggy class had Simon Reeves (TLR) taking the top spot and in Truggy Richard Cousins put his Kyosho on top of the field. In the finals Jon Jazlewood (Agama) came in one lap ahead of Simon Reeves (TLR) with Oliver Currie (Agama) completing the podium. In the 15 minute E-Buggy final Simon Reeves (TLR) took the win a lap ahead of Nigel Morris (Serpent) with Philip Michael (Mugen) another two laps down. In the Truggy class Richard Cousins kept everything together to take the win in front of Colin Drummond and James Morl. The next race will take place on the weekend of the 3rd of November.
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Robert Battle walked away with the win at the final round of the Spanish 1/8th Buggy nationals. In the 45 minute final he beat Kyosho driver Luis Ignacio Candel who came in second position, one lap down. Bryan Baldo finished third, Oscar Baldo and Jorge Soler Diaz completed the top 5.
Source: InfoRC [inforc.net]
