The Hudy Racing Arena, host of the 2019 IFMAR 1/10th Electric Off-road World Championships will hold a warm-up race on the weekend of the 26th of May. Hold in 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes the race will allow a first taste of the conditions at the indoor dirt track and sign-up is already available here.
The MACH One Helmond club in Helmond, The Netherlands will hold their fifth annual Kickoff race on the weekend of the 21st of April. The event will be held on the club’s redesigned track that now features a stair down and double trouble section and it will be held in 1/8th nitro and electric buggy classes. The race will see direct qualifying for the TQ holders as well as a Super Pole event for the next four fastest drivers and full information and sign-up can be found here.
Marc Rheinard has taken the win in the opening round of triple A-mains here at PYC. The Infinity driver could take advantage of his new tires to work his way passed Akio and then Nicholas, with a very nice pass down the inside. Akio’s race would implode early on as battling with very low traction he hit the curb coming onto the straight and went into the wall. This would pop off his shock and he would retire. Behind the top 2, Jin Sawada and Naoki Akiyama completed the top 4 after a very nice battle following an earlier incident that had dropped both down the order. Marc summed up his win as ‘so far so good’ the multiple WC admitting that he was on ‘new tires while the others were all on old’. Once passed Akio, he closed on Nico and made an ‘ok pass’ and now with the others needing to use their 3rd set of tires for the 2nd main, Marc will decide when to use his 3rd and final set of handout Sweep tires.
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Hobbywing have announced the Italian 1/8th off-road frontrunner, Marco Baruffolo to their factory team. The Italian national champion and multi-time EFRA European Championship A-finalist will power his 1/8th and 1/10th scale Xray rides using Hobbywing speed controllers and motors and he has the following to say:
I am very happy to take part of Hobbywing team and I am really happy about the ESC and motors!
Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]
The 2019 SIGP Offroad race was held last weekend at the ARC International Race Track in Xiamen, China. The annual event has grown bigger and bigger each year with the 2019 edition having attracted more than 200 drivers to compete at Sunpadow’s world class venue. Newly-signed Agama driver Ryan Lutz, 2018 SIGP double champion, made a very strong comeback, taking the overall TQ in both the Nitro and Electric Buggy classes. But come the finals day, another SIGP double champion, Jörn Neumann, would dominate the proceedings. The SWorkz driver won the first two rounds of the E-Buggy A-main to grabbed his first title of the day in front of Ryan Lutz and Kyosho’s Wataru Takashiro. Then he had another fantastic run in the 45-minutes Nitro Buggy main to claim another double championship as Ryan Lutz came in 2nd and JQRacing’s own Joseph Quagraine completed the top 3.
The past weekend saw the fifth and final round of the new indoor carpet series at Essex Carpet Clash in the south of England. With a lot of people now looking to venture outside with the summer season approaching, it was great to see so many drivers attending and seeing out the series. With both the 4WD and 2WD championship already won, it was always going to be who could better their score and move up the rankings. This round saw 4WD champion Ed Kerry switch class opening up the top step for another racer. Mark Lewis, who has been strong throughout the series took advance of this by taking all 4 rounds of qualifying and continued to do the same in the finals, making it an unbeatable days drive for him. Lee Hedges who has also shown his pace this season, tried his best to battle for the top spot but could only manage to be second best on this day, finishing 2nd in each run. Darren Lewis and Jordan Coleman would have great rounds and equalling on points, only to be determined on the count-back and fastest qualifying time, where Darren would line up 3rd ahead of Jordan. Darren managed to hold his grid position for the 3 leg finals and is where he finished up so the final standing were 1st Mark Lewis, 2nd Lee Hedges, 3rd Darren Lewis.
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The 2019 edition of the The Ice Breaker race was held at Indy RC World in Garland, Texas last weekend. The event drew nearly 390 entries and in Pro Nitro Buggy it was Tekno RC’s Jared Tebo with the win from top qualifier Joe Bornhorst (Tekno), who crossed the line there laps behind. In 3rd and another lap down it was Mugen’s Adam Drake who would round out the podium.
The 2019 Portuguese Open race was held at the Freixedas last weekend, attracting many of the country’s 1/8th off-road drivers. João Figueiredo was in control of things in the sole 1/8th Nitro Buggy class, taking the overall TQ over Carlos Duraes and also coming out on top in the 45-minute main final, taking the win in front of João André Rodrigues on the runner-up spot and Pedro Gomes in 3rd.
Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]
