The FAMAR South American On-road Championships were held in Americana, Brazil recently and in the 1/8th IC Track Pro class it was Mugen’s Flavio Elias with the TQ, win and overall title. Fabricio Zamperetti came in 2nd in the 40-minute A-main final, two laps behind Flavio. Kazuo Ohara would round out the podium for an all-Mugen top 3.
Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]
The KRC Off-Road Circuit in Tokushima, Japan hosted the O.S. Off-Road Challenge this past weekend with some of the country’s fastest nitro off-road racers in attendance. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class it was Mugen’s Yusuke Sugiura with he overall win from Kyosho’s Kazuya Tanaka in 2nd and Mugen’s Kenji Tsuruta in 3rd overall.
Image: Yusuke Sugiura
The Canberra club recently hosted round 2 of the Xray Racing Series Australia. Unfortunately the 2019 edition of the club’s round was to end in the same way as 2018 – with rain. The weather looked great at the start of the day, unfortunately as the progressed showers threatened, finally arriving just as the finals started. With the race meeting cancelled the organisers declared the results on the three rounds of completed qualifying. Before the rain, racing in all classes was close with only a few seconds separating the top three drivers in most classes. Alex Ilievski posted his fastest time in round three to take the overall win in Touring Stock 13.5, Nathan Tanti posted his quickest time in round two allowing him to secure 2nd place from an inconsistent Mark Wallin who finished 3rd.
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The Xray Racing Series Poland Nitro Off-road was held at the new track in Wlodawa recently. The track features a smooth US-style layout that was really challenging for man and machine as the big jumps and some of the corners make it difficult to pull consistent laps. The weekend kicked off with super dry conditions during Friday’s practice with the grip coming up on Saturday. Bartek Zalewski was the man to beat in 1/8th Buggy and E-Buggy with Seweryn Skowronski and Marek Cisek coming in 2nd and 3rd in the Nitro Buggy class as Sebastian Migal and Wojtek Rzepecki completed the qualifying top 3 in E-Buggy.
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The third round of this year’s French 1/10th electric off-road nationals was held at the Mini Bolide de Gonfreville l’Orcher club over the weekend. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class it was TLR’s Renaud Savoya with the TQ from young Team Associated whizz kid, Clement Boda. After the finals the two had swapped their qualifying positions, handing Clement the win as Renaud came in 2nd overall from Thomas Anger in 3rd.
Round 2 of the BRCA 1/10th Off-road Nationals was held at the iconic Kidderminster track this past weekend. In 2WD Modified Buggy it was Yokomo’s Lee Martin with the overall TQ, however it was Schumacher’s Tom Yardy with the win after the A-mains as Lee had to settle for 2nd overall. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg came in 3rd to round out the podium. In 4WD Mod Buggy, run on Sunday, it was Team Associated’s Neil Cragg with the TQ and win from SWorkz’s Elliott Boots in 2nd and Yokomo’s Lee Martin in 3rd.
Image: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
The opening round of the Club Series was held in East Shrewsbury this past weekend. Team Associated’s Matt Lewis would bring home the win in the Nitro Buggy A-main event from HB Racing’s Graham Alsop on the 2 spot. Team Associated’s Lewis Jones rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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The 2019 PDX Open was held at PDX RC Underground in Portland, Oregon recently. The PDX Open originated to settle the local debate on whether Mod cars were in fact faster over a five minute run than their 17.5 counterparts. The small track has seen comparable lap times between the Mod and Stock classes and many argued the more manageable power of the 17.5 and 13.5 classes provided an advantage. Travis Harker (Xray) set out to show that with proper throttle control and patience navigating the track and traffic, mod power not only provides more fun but faster lap times. He ran a 6.5T motor in 2WD and a 5.5T motor in the 4WD class. After 2 rounds of qualifying he was able to put in clean runs in both classes to start on the pole in both mains.
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