The 1st annual Fall Brawl was held at Hal’s Hobby Warehouse Raceway in El Paso, Texas over the weekend. Mugen’s Adam Drake went on to TQ and win both the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy classes with Casey Peck and Ronda Drake rounding out the Nitro Buggy podium for a full Mugen sweep.
Thanks to Adam Drake for the update.
After six months of asphalt racing during the Summer season, the opening round the competitive 2018/19 Mibosport Cup indoor racing series was held with more than 200 entries last weekend. As usual the race is held in electric on-road and off-road classes with the on-road track remaining without changes. On the other hand the off-road track was slightly modified with new jumps and a banked turn, offering multiple layouts for the season. Racing-wise and in Touring Modified, Zdeno Kunak found himself on the top of the ranking list from early practice on. From there he made a clean sweep as he was able to secure wins in all qualifying round and also in the opening two A-mains. Matej Sulc starting from 3rd on the grid and left behind Kuba Simurda for 3rd. Oliver came in 4th in the tie-breaker with Kuba while Andreas Stiebler rounded out the top 5.
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The 2018 Team Associated Race, hosted by world-renowned Trackside Hobbies & Raceway, is the Midwest’s premier off-road race that many racers wait all year long for. This year, the popular race saw 330 entries and almost 90 entries in just 17.5 Stock Buggy alone showcasing some amazing talent in all categories. In 2WD Modified and earning the overall TQ after four tough rounds of qualifying was Team Associated’s Cole Tollard. The other young driver that seemed to want it just as much as Cole was AE’s Broc Champlin, as the two future stars battled it out over three intense mains with Cole winning A1 and Broc Champlin taking A2. A3 saw a fantastic race between the top 3 drivers for the entire five minutes. With Cole Tollard being picture perfect in all of A3, Cole crossed the line taking a very well earned win for the hometown crew. Broc put in a valiant charge and showed great speed finishing 2nd with Dustin Evans 3rd overall.
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The Sidewinder Fall Championship was held at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, California this past weekend. In Open Nitro Buggy it was Colin Herzig with the win in the 30-minute A-main from Tyler Brown 2nd, making it a HB Racing 1-2. Dakotah Phend would round out the top 3 podium result for Team Losi Racing. Over in 1/8th Open E-Buggy it was Kyosho America team manager Zack Rogers was able to grab the TQ and win. JQRacing’s J Smoker came in 2nd, TLR’s Brian Kinney ended the race on the 3 spot.
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This past weekend Ledbury held the first of its Winter Series races and also the first round to count towards the joint Ledbury/Brookthorpe inter club series. The event was well attended. A mixture of 43 nitro, ebuggy and truggy drivers turned up on an initially foggy Sunday morning. Thankfully, the fog lifted giving the track blue skies and sunshine for the majority of the day. Team Associated driver Jon Howells took TQ, having taken three from four rounds. Tekno driver Jake Knight would line up 2nd with CML driver Lloyd Pitt 3rd. On to the main event, Lloyd Pitt had a great start to take the lead, and maintained that for the first part of the race. Jon Howells then regained control to pull away from Lloyd. Back in third and fourth Jake Knight and Chris Lovell were having a good battle until Jake was taken out by back markers allowing Chris to chase down second. He managed to catch and pass Lloyd with only a couple of laps remaining, so Jon took the win, Chris was 2nd and Lloyd 3rd.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
The FastRace Trophy was held at the Italian Balocco track this past weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro with the TQ and win in the 30-minute A-main event. Young Leonardo Valente (SWorkz) came in 2nd, some two laps down, while Kyosho’s Mattia Polito rounded out the top 3 results some 2.5s behind Leonardo.
Source: AKA Europe [racing-experience.fr]
The opening round of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin last weekend. The event was held in several electric off-road and on-road classes and in 2WD Mod Buggy it was a pretty close affair between Martin Bayer and Kaja Novotny and eventually the overall TQ went to Martin. Kaja was starting from the 2 spot with Max Gotzl on the 3 spot on the grid. In the A-mains it was smooth sailing for Martin who brought home the win from Kaja 2nd – the latter having the pace for more but mishaps did prevent him from challenging Martin. Max Gotzl completed the podium in 3rd for an all-Xray 1-2-3 after some close fights with Matus Benetin and Bartek Kramza.
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Last weekend saw the running of the opening round of the Swedish Winter Indoor RB series held in Eskilstuna. The fairly small track was laid out with some old school on-road carpet, making for lower-than-normal traction levels as they are experienced on EOS-style carpet. In the 4WD Buggy class it was Xray’s Alexander Landen with the overall TQ after winning the opening two rounds. As overtaking on the small track was very difficult the pole position would proof to be a real advantage and Alexander was able to bring home the win in A1 with a tone-to-tone win.
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