The Italian UISP Championships were held at the Barco track this past weekend. In the F1 class main final TLR’s Mattia Polito came out successful from team mate Walter Floris. Mugen driver Davide Tortorici rounded out the top 3 result while Leonardo Valente and Riccardo Rabitti came in fourth and fifth respectively.
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Bruno Coelho leaves Round 3 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series as the new points leader, 2nd overall in Austria giving him a 1-point advantage over reigning champion Ronald Volker and Marc Rheinard as the championship moves onto asphalt. With Volker wrapping up his first win of the season in A2 at the final carpet race to become the third different winner of Season #9, the third A-Main was all about deciding the podium order behind the Yokomo driver. Leading away the field, Coelho would ultimately take a straight forward win over Rheinard an initially challenge fading over the race. Finishing A3 second ahead of Alexander Hagberg, Rheinard who came into the weekend as joint leader of the championship with Coelho would complete the overall podium.
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Coming soon from GForce is a 10.5T motor and 90A speed controller combo package for drift cars. The set includes the sensored Raijin 10.5T drift motor and the TS90A speed controller with the motor featuring large venting openings, a 3-piece aluminium motor can and an internal fan to lower the running temperatures. The included TS90A controller is highly adjustable, it sports turbo functions, a large heatsink and it is adjustable using GForce’s own Progbox programming device. The package will become available this month.
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Round two of the Bali Regional Buggy Championships was recently held at the Wilson track in Bali. In the 60 minute main final Willy Santana would take the overall win from Damar in second and Yoko Soemarto in third. Agung and Yulis would round out the top 5 result.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
The opening round of the Jakarta Regional series was held in Graha Bintaro over the weekend. Xray’s Jason Nugroho took the TQ after the qualifiers and he would also bring home the win in the main final with his Novarossi-powered ride. John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) came in second while Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) completed the top 3 podium result. Behind the three Chopin Yusuf (TLR/Novarossi) and Rama Tribudiman (Team Associated/O.S.) rounded out the top 5.
Source: Jason Nugroho
The opening round of the BRCA 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held this past weekend at the Deerdale track. The main final saw a close fight between Kyosho’s Elliott Boots, Agama’s Darren Bloomfield and Mugen driver Lee Martin. Neil Cragg (Team Associated) at first broke away from the three but he suffered issues early in the race, allowing Elliott to grab the day’s win in difficult track and weather conditions with high winds from Bloomfield and Martin.
Source: Elliott Boots
The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy championship was held this past weekend at the Silla track in Valencia. 10-times national champion, Robert Batlle (Mugen) would take the TQ but hot on his heals was young Juan Carlos Canas (Mugen) who would take the 2 spot after the qualifiers from Mugen team mate Oscar Baldo. After the semis, Robert would still be on top to go from pole position into the A-main with the Mugen duo of Oscar and Bryan Baldo claiming the positions behind the Spanish record champion. The final then was a lively affair for Robert who at first lost a couple of positions due to a flame out but he reclaimed the lead to take the day’s win from Bryan Baldo while Portugal’s Ricardo Monteiro (TLR) grabbed the final podium spot.
The second round of the Indonesian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the SIS track in North Jakarta with a total of 50 racers attending in the three classes of Touring Open, FWD and Mini. The sugarwatered track offered a highspeed layout but the overall grip was described as complicated by some. In the Touring Open class Bowie Ginting took the overall TQ by securing round 2 and 3 but he would struggle in the mains as he only had one of the two allowed tyres sets at hand due to one set being unusable. Anyway Bowie was able to bring home the win in the opening A-main due to his closest competitor, Muhammad Izzah, making a series of mistakes despite being around 0.3 seconds faster per lap on fresh tyres.
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