Schumacher have announce the addition of Burak and Berkan Kilic to the off-road team. Both have chosen Schumacher cars for their 1/10th off-road program for 2017/18 and they will compete at major races across Europe, including the EOS series and the German nationals.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
Singen in Germany played host to round two of this year’s Alpencup series. Michel Buschor (Xray) would take a double win in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes with Elias Ehrmann/Schiller (Xray) coming in 2nd and Roger Frei (Team Associated) completing the podium in 2WD. The 4WD class top 3 result was rounded out by Yokomo driver Philippe Weber and Silvio Pietroboni in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The Rocky Mountain Meltdown was held in Calgary, AB recently and it saw Robert Bowers walking away with the TQ and win in the E-Buggy class. Following some entertaining qualifiers Robert would lock up the TQ and pole position for the final that saw him dropping to 2nd after some early lap mistakes. This meant he would be in a battle with Jordan Anderson and Byron Brown but Robert settled down again and he worked on getting back to leader Carter. Bowers came closer but had a handful to really get to Carter’s bumper until disaster stroke for the leader with one minute to go. With a lucky break Robert got past Carter for that extra lap and to take the win from Jordan Anderson and Byron Mackenzie.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round three of the Metropolitan Championship was held at the Speed Paradise track recently. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class Nico Bregante (Xray) would secure himself the third consecutive pole position and race win this season with Alvaro Colombo (HB Racing) and Lucas Pons (Mugen) coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Elsewhere in the Master Category Augusto Occhiuzi achieved his third consecutive victory followed by Jean Moreteau and Alejandro Pisani for an all-Xray podium lock-out.
Round 2 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held this past weekend at Fear Farm R/C Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. Mugen’s Adam Drake made a clean sweep in the 1/8th E-Buggy qualifiers, taking the overall TQ in front of the Tekno RC duo of Dean Rock and Damien Coleman. In the 10-minute main final Adam was again the dominating driver as he took the win a lap in front of Dean Rock while Damien Coleman had to settle for 3rd another lap down.
Image: JBRL [jimmybabcock.com]
The second round of the Czech Electric Off-road Nationals was held in Janovice over the weekend. The super low traction conditions made things interesting especially in the 2WD classes and after the qualifying it was Xray’s Martin Bayer who swept the 2WD Buggy class by winning all qualifying rounds ahead of team mates Novotny, Gotzl, Bidovsky, Miksovsky and Mudra. The 4WD qualifiers were pretty much a blueprint of the 2WD class with Martin taking the overall TQ from Novotny, Miksovsky, Bidovsky, Gotzl and Mudra while the Stadium Truck class was TQ’d by Kaja Novotny.
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The second round of the Swiss Nitro Buggy National Championship was held in Oberbüren on a unique track laid out with astroturf and paving stones. High temperatures of nearly 35 degree Celsius made for very high grip the drivers needed to adapt to. Ultimately it was Jeremy Pittet who took the overall TQ from Patrick Hofer 2nd and Roman Kummer 3rd. The semifinals then saw Patrick Hofer (Team Associated/Reedy) coming out with the fastest time to put himself on the pole position for the A-main that he would win after some nice and clean fights with Jeremy Pittet (HB Racing/Team Orion) in 2nd while Ronny Lüber (Team Associated/LRP) would take the final podium spot in 3rd.
Thanks to Patrick Hofer for the report.
The Summer Shootout 2.0 was held at SouthSide Raceway in Florida over the weekend with over 340 entries for the several 1/8th and 1/10th scale classes. In the 35-minute Expert Nitro Buggy A-main TQ holder Cole Ogden (Mugen) would bring home the win with a 1-lap margin over runner-up, Evan Vail (Team Associated). In 3rd Griffin Hanna (Serpent), who struggled in qualifying but was able to work his way up through the field, would round out the podium result.
