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July 22, 2019

Urban Astro Buggy Champs Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the 2019 season of the Urban Astro Buggy Champs in the 2WD class was held this past weekend at the challenging rooftop astroturf offroad circuit of Urban RC in Singapore. Warm sunshine greeted racers for once on an off-road race weekend. Running four qualifying rounds, the TQ fight would go to the wire as Sean Lee, Esmail Apandi and Dominic Quek, who was making his season debut, each TQ’d the first three rounds. Lee showed that he was the one to beat when he TQ’d round 4 by some three seconds from Apandi. Quek would start 3rd on the grid, with Andrew Tow taking the final direct entry into the 6-car A-Main. Running bump-up finals, and gaining the two bump-up spots into the A-Main were TS Bay and Sebastian Lee, father of Sean.

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July 22, 2019

Joni Skidmore takes maiden BRCA Rally X win

The third round of this year’s BRCA 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held at the Cleobury Mortimer track this past weekend. After the five qualify rounds it was Team Associated’s Jamie Clancy with the overall TQ, winning three of the five rounds to take the overall TQ from Agama’s Jonathan Skidmore who also took a round TQ. SWorkz’s Elliott Boots came in 3rd from Team Associated’s Matt Lewis. HB Racing’s Graham Alsop ended the qualifiers in 5th from Team Associated’s Lewis Jones, who also scored a round TQ. The finals then were also a pretty close affair with the top 4 all finishing on the same lap, separated by only 20 seconds on the line. Ultimately it was Jonathan Skidmore with his maiden nationals win some ten seconds in front of Jamie Clancy as Lewis Jones came in 3rd to round out the podium. Graham Alsop came in 4th as best of the rest and in front of Agama’s William Skidmore.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

July 21, 2019

Naoto Matsukura takes JMRCA S-EX Touring title

The All-Japan Electric Touring Nationals were held in Suwa, Nagano this past weekend. In the premier S-EX Modified class it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura with the overall TQ and he also came out on top in the opening two A-mains to take the overall title with the final A-main to spare. Yokomo’s Hayato Ishioka came in 2nd while Infinity’s Akio Sobue rounded out the top 3 podium result.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

July 20, 2019

WRC Racing SBX1 1/8th scale nitro buggy – Coming soon

Italian company WRC Racing, known for their popular on-road kits, have released two teaser images of their first ever nitro off-road kit, the SBX1 buggy. The images show a conventional pivot ball front end design, lightweight alloy shock towers as well as big bore shock absorbers. Full details of the 1/8th nitro kit will become available in time for the release which is expected this Summer.

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July 20, 2019

Kinwald BKlassic – Announcement

The 2019 Kinwald BKlassic will take place from the 18th to 20th of October at Hobby Action RC Raceway in Chandler, Arizona. The race is held in honour of Brian Kinwald with parts of the entry fee being donated to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation Southwest Chapter. The race will be held in several 1/10th 2WD, 4WD and Short Course classes as well as a vintage 2WD category. More information can be found on social media here.

July 20, 2019

Kurzbuch on Pole at ENS Austria

Simon Kurzbuch will start Round 3 of the Infinity Euro Nitro Series on pole position, the Shepherd driver taking all three of today’s qualifiers in Austria. Missing out on the TQ in the opening qualifier yesterday to Dario Balestri, Kurzbuch would open Saturday’s action with a comfortable TQ run over Carmine Raiola. Q3 was to be a closer affair with the former World Champion snatching the fastest time from Balestri on the final lap. With Q3 the rocket round this effectively sealed the deal for Kurzbuch with the hotter conditions of the final qualifier making it an impossible task for Balestri. In the end it was Kurzbuch who topped it ahead of Balestri, albeit over 2-second slower than his previous effort. Brought forward to tonight due to the bad weather being forecast for tomorrow, Balestri will line-up second for the A-Main ahead of Raiola, Silvio Hächler, Toni Gruber, Oliver Krähemann and ENS Italy winner Dominic Greiner.

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July 20, 2019

Leino Top Qualifier at ENS Austria

Teemu Leino is the Top Qualifier at ENS Austria, the Infinity driver putting in a dominant performance to take all four rounds of qualifying at the Aigen track. A two time winner up in the Austrian hills, the Championship leader will start ahead of team-mate Jilles Groskamp, the reigning Champion unable challenge to match the Finn’s blistering pace. Claiming his best ever ENS qualifying result, Jakub Rozycki will start from 3rd on the grid for the 45-minute encounter, which, due to inbound rain has been rescheduled to run tonight. Matching his 2017 qualifying result at the track, Melvin Diekmann will start 4th ahead of Milan Holthuis and 2017 podium finisher Thilo Tödtmann.

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July 20, 2019

Kurzbuch takes Q2 in Austria

Simon Kurzbuch has taken the second round of qualifying at ENS Austria this morning on what is going to a be busy day for drivers. With rain forecast for tomorrow the schedule has been revised to include the running of all finals tonight following the conclusion of the four rounds of qualifying. Having just missed out on the TQ in yesterday evening’s opening qualifier to Dario Balestri, Kurzbuch would take Q2 by over a second from Carmine Raiola with Balestri just 3/100ths further off in third as the only drivers to 17-lap runs of the Aigen track. New to the Shepherd team for the 2019 season, Toni Gruber posted the 4th fastest time ahead of Silvio Hächler with Merlin Depta the top Serpent after ENS Italy winner Dominic Greiner had an off while running on a Top 3 pace.

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