July 25, 2019

Davide Ongaro crowned EFRA 2WD Euro Champ

The 2019 EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championships are taking place in Pinerolo, Italy this week. The event, held at the AgriModel Pista Off Road Jonny RC club, kicked off with the 2WD portion that attracted 75 entries. In qualifying round 1 and in heat 7 of 8 Neil Cragg would do the first 11 lap run in qualifying with the top seeded heat still to come. With a number of drivers having mistakes early on it would be Davide Ongaro who would come through to take control of the heat and be the second driver to set an 11 lap run with the quickest time in the round, Neil Cragg would be 2nd and Martin Bayer 3rd.

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July 24, 2019

HNMC Summer Series Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the Herts Nitro Model Club Summer Series was held last weekend. The congested calendar meant that this round clashed with the BRCA national but still almost 60 drivers attended the event. Qualifying would be the best three from four rounds with the Buggy TQ being Jay Williams, TQ in E-Buggy was Holger Lykke and the Truggy TQ went to George Miller. In the 20-minute Nitro Buggy A-main it was Wayne Buckhorn with the overall win some 20 seconds in front of John Niall. Jeremy Irving came in 3rd, only some two seconds behind John. E-Buggy saw Duncan Balgrove walking away with the win from Holger Lykke and Tony Verboom while in Truggy it was George Miller from John Afshin.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

July 23, 2019

Graham Hill wins at Border Wars Series Rd3

Round 3 of the Border Wars Series was held at LRC Raceway in Longmont, Colorado recently. The event is held in several nitro and electric off-road classes and in 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was Graham Hill with the clean sweep of overall TQ and win. Zeke Ballinger ended the 30-minute main final on the 2 spot, some five seconds behind the winner, as Sean Guthrie came in 3rd overall. Roman Gastelum and Jordan Davis would round out the top 5 result.

Source: Flashpoint R/C [flashpointrc.com]

July 23, 2019

Batlle & Figueiredo win at International Buggy Challenge

The International Buggy Challenge was hosted by the Barcelos track in Portugal over the weekend, attracting many swift national and international 1/8th off-road drivers. In Nitro Buggy it was SWorkz’s Juan Carlos Canas with the overall TQ from Mugen’s Robert Batlle and Kyosho’s Joao Figueiredo. The 45-minute A-main than saw Robert holding the upper hand, however it was only with a 0.7 seconds margin from Juan Carlos on the runner-up spot. Joao would retain his 3rd place qualifying position to round out the podium from Ricardo Monteiro in 4th and Nuno Casal Ribeiro in 5th.

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July 22, 2019

Ari Heinonen sweeps Finnish 1/8th Buggy Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the Finnish 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held at Fullspeed RC in Vantaa, Finland this past weekend. Ari Heinonen took the overall TQ after winning two of the three qualifying rounds from Lauri Ruotsalainen, who also took a round TQ. In the 45-minute A-main event it was again Ari who would prevail, taking the win some twelve seconds in front of Markku Honkanen on the runner-up spot. A lap down Simo Ahoniemi would complete the top 3 result, finishing on the same lap as 4th placed Tomi Salonen and 5th placed Lauri Ruotsalainen.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]

July 22, 2019

Schreffler & Mazzara win at Hot Race Challenge

Barnstormers Raceway of Chester, New York recently played host to the Hot Race Challenge, attracting a total of 200 entries. In 1/8th E-Buggy it was HB Racing’s Jason Schreffler with the overall win from Xray’s Jared Phair on the 2 spot. Mugen’s Bryan Kata came in 3rd to round out the podium. Over in E-Truggy it was Mugen’s Anthony Mazzara with the overall from Jared Phair 2nd and Bryan Kata 3rd.

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July 22, 2019

Austrian Electric Off-road Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Austrian 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the ERT Steyregg club, host of the recent EOS round a couple of weeks ago. Wet weather greatly affected the weekend, however thanks to racing on astro turf the drivers would still be able to get some practice and the qualifiers in until the organisers decided to call it a day due to really heavy rain that made running the finals impossible.

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