Madrid hosted the Warm-up race to the Spanish electric on-road nationals last weekend. Cold weather made car setup difficult and in the end it was Xray driver Carles Echarri who would make the best out of it by taking the win in the Modified Touring Car class from Awesomatix’s Luisen Carrasco in 2nd. Luis Moreno came in 3rd to round out the podium result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 4th annual Desert Classic was held at Hobby Action R/C Raceway in Chandler, Arizona last weekend. Relatively new to the big race scene, the Desert Classic is now in its 4th year and just keeps getting better with each iteration. This year’s layout was fabulous. Many of the racers in the pits commented that the layout was fun, easy, but had a nice degree of difficulty that was just enough to make racing interesting. It had a tremendous amount of flow mixed with a very tricky rhythm section that cut back towards the middle of the track. The jumps weren’t so straight forward either as they had a high degree of difficulty; like the set of double-doubles on the right side. You had to land your car perfectly on the downslope of the 2nd set to gain time. If you missed it, you would have to wait for the car to settle before getting on the gas losing valuable tenths. Overall, the layout was perfect for racing and the track smoothness was the best it has ever been at Hobby Action. Another plus was the consistency of the track as the watering system was on point and made fair for all. Xray’s Ty Tessman was on fire in 2WD Modified. The Canadian superstar captured the overall TQ in qualifying and used it to win A1 and A2 to wrap up the overall 2WD win. Yokomo’S Ryan Maifield found a good groove in qualifying and looked ultra-competitive in 2WD and was able to win A3 to finished 2nd. Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin was Mr. Consistency and was the only driver to make all three modified podiums by landing himself 3rd in Truck, 4WD, and 2WD Modified.
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The fourth round of the BRCA Formula 1 Indoor Nationals was held at the CARS club in Chesterfield this past weekend. The club laid down a very technical circuit and in qualifying it was Schumacher’s Andy Murray, running a prototype car, who would lead the way from Carisma Racing’s Ben Cosgrove. A1 was a pretty unspectacular race up front with the top 3 holding their position, and also in A2 it was Andy with the win while Ben Cosgrove and Michael Lee (Xray) swapped places after a little error of Ben who was chasing down Andy. Ultimately Ben was able to hold onto the runner-up spot overall from Michael in 3rd overall.
Image: Ben Cosgrove
Round 4 of the Northwest Indoor Series was held at the Tacoma RC Raceway in Tacoma, Washington last weekend. The event attracted over 150 entries and in the premier class of 2WD Mod Buggy it was TLR racer, Mikey Brown with the overall TQ. Mikey then went on to win A1 and A2 for an early overall victory while the fight for the remaining podium spots was on between Harley Yoshii, Roger Seim, Dalton Pierce and Jackson Andres. In the end it was Yokomo pilot Harley who would snatch the runner-up spot with 2-3-3 finishes as Roger Seim (Yokomo), despite winning A3, had to settle for 3rd overall. Dalton Pierce ended tie on points with Harley and Roger but only came in 4th overall as Jackson Andres completed the top 5 results.
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The Deerdale Off-road Club in the UK held a round of their Winter Series this past weekend. The event was the penultimate round of the winter series and in Nitro Buggy it was HB Racing’s Graham Alsop with the win from the Team Associated duo of Neil Cragg in 2nd and Freddie Thompson in 3rd. Over in the E-Buggy class Paul Fyfe would walk away with thew in from Rob Beavers in 2nd and Chris Jeffery in 3rd.
Palm Desert Raceway of Palm Desert, California hosted round 3 of the Grass Roots Racing Series this past weekend, attracting over 130 entries. In the Open Nitro Buggy class it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the overall TQ and he would also bring home the win in the 20-minute A-main event from 10th place qualifier, TLR’s Anthony Westergaard in 2nd. Cole Jenson, also piloting a TLR buggy, came in 3rd overall a lap short of Adam and Anthony.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
Round 10 of the popular HNMC Winter Series was held at the Herts Nitro Model Club in the UK this past weekend. New Mugen signing, Jonathan Skidmore took the overall TQ in the Nitro Buggy class and he also lead the 15-minute main final from tone to tone, bringing home the win some four seconds in front of Jamie Clancy (Team Associated) as William Skidmore (Mugen) came in 3rd overall, some 15 seconds behind Jamie. Lee Martin would end the day sitting in 4th from Kevin Brunsden in 5th.
Image: Jonathan Skidmore
The opening round of the Spanish Nitro Buggy national championship was held at the San Jose track this past weekend. The event attracted over 80 entries and it was SWorkz driver, Juan Carlos Canas who would lead the way as he took the overall TQ from Mugen’s Robert Batlle. While the 45-minute main final was pretty much smooth sailing for Juan Carlos, Robert had troublesome first part of the final but he was able to settle down and establish himself in 2nd behind Juan Carlos. In the end JC Canas would bring home the win with a 1-lap margin from Robert in 2nd while Oscar Navarro (Mugen) ended the main final in 3rd, another lap down. Kyosho’s Joao Figueiredo and Xray’s Joan Espasa completed the top 5 result in the same lap as Oscar.
Image: InfoRC [inforc.net]
