The technical Västerorts track played host to round 1 of the Swedish 1/10th Off-road Summer Cup. HB Racing’s Elias Johansson was in full control of the proceedings, taking the TQs and wins in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes. Martin Johansson Nielsen (Xray) came in 2nd in 2WD while Markus Andreasson (Xray) rounded out the top 3 result. Over in 4WD Buggy the top 3 order would be as in 2WD with Elias taking then from Martin and Markus.
The second round of the BRCATruggy and E8 Buggy Nationals was held at the Northern Club North West Nitro just outside of Preston, Lancashire. With the forecast looking a little iffy to say the least only 37 drivers made the trip to the track. This gave the organisers a simple four heats per round – two Truggy heats and two E-Buggy heats. With the rain being on and off in the morning everyone knew it was going to make interesting conditions on the track. The racing started with two rounds of timed practice. During this stage of the meeting the drivers were finding the track difficult with the constant change in the conditions. After practice was over the race went into the three rounds of qualifying in the same heat order as the practice rounds. During the qualifying stage the weather was changing constantly. This made the track conditions changing constantly too with different levels of grip in every race. This were obviously shown in the lap times for the races. Jamie Clancy would take the TQ with his Team Associated Truggy, Jonathan Skidmore (Agama) took 2nd overall and Mitchell Booth (Tekno) took 3rd overall. In E-Buggy it was Jonathan Skidmore again take the TQ again with his Agama, Jonathan’s brother William who also drives for Agama took 2nd place overall and Simon Reeves took 3rd place overall.
The ARCF 42 club of Saint Etienne, France played host to a round of the French 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals. The event saw the running of the Elite and National category drivers in a single class, hence the name of the race: The Big One. TLR’s Renaud Savoya was the man to beat in qualifying, making a clean sweep in all qualifiers to take the overall TQ. In the main final it was again Renaud who would excel, taking the win with a 1-lap margin from Xray’s Yannick Aigoin while Team Associated’s Tom Robin came in 3rd to round out the podium. Kyosho’s Rayan Medjoubi and veteran racer Adrien Bertin (HB Racing) completed the top 5 results.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
The popular outdoor tarmac track of A.S.D. Rivoli Racing, located near the shores of Lake Garda, played host to the fourth round of the Italian GT12 Series 2019. With the weather finally cooperating after several rainy weekends in a row, race conditions were perfect with air temperatures reaching 33°C, while track temperatures soared to 53°C during the finals. With a win still proving elusive in the 2019 edition of the Series, Mattia Dall’Oca was more determined than ever taking control of the field already from Q1 and achieving, by the end of the day, the trifecta of pole position, fastest lap and race win. Beside Mattia, the three Qualification rounds held during the morning saw Luca Tassinari showing a strong pace which was ultimately worth P2 on the A-mains’ grid, closely followed by Alessandro Rampini.
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Last weekend the second round of the Polish Off-road Nationals was held in Murowana Goslina, right next to the city of Poznan. Lots of rain before the week of the event meant the club’s track crew had to work hard to prepare a race-worthy surface and layout, but ultimately everything worked out very well with the track meeting the high demands of the racers. The slightly wet track grooved in nicely during Friday’s practice session and remained in perfectly dust-free, high traction and unbroken condition during the whole racing weekend, ensuring great competition without being too sensitive to car and tyre setups. Racing-wise and in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Bartek Zalewski with the TQ and win from Donat Bula and Tomasz Gadnicki.
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The Toowoomba RC club hosted the annual King of the Mountain 2-day race meet this past weekend. This year the club partnered with the White Ribbon Event to raise awareness about domestic violence. With over 60 entries the event was as popular as always. After 3 rounds of qualifying Team Associated driver Alex Bernadzik took the TQ and after the 30-minute A-main Alex finished in 1st place, with Mugen driver Aaron Stringer taking 2nd, and rounding out the podium was Mugen driver Jackson Beale in 3rd.
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The Swedish town of Trollhättan held round 2 of the Middle Swedish 1/8th Off-road Cup last weekend. Pontus Larsson came out on top after the qualifiers, despite struggling with the car a little bit. After winning the semifinals Pontus would start from Pole Position into the final but he would make a mistake on the opening lap which dropped him to 2nd. Keeping his head down he quickly got past the leader and from there he never looked back to take the win with a 2-lap margin and a new track record. Kristian Johansson came in 2nd from 3rd placed Micke Svensson, the latter a further two laps back.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The Texas-based Sun City Raceway held the MDA Tri State Championships this past weekend. The Open E-Buggy A-main was won by 2nd place qualifiers, Chris Boice thanks to taking A1 and A3. A2 winner, Camden Lime came in 2nd overall from Scotty Brewer in 3rd. Iram Torres and Iram Torres completed the top 5 results.
