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November 5, 2018

Ongaro Top Seed at 1:8 Offroad Worlds

Davide Ongaro is the top seed at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Australia. The young Italian star produced the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the second of the day’s two controlled practice rounds to top the times from Ryan Maifield with Ty Tessmann completing the Top 3. Initially it was Tessmann, who ran early in the round, who set the pace bettering Dakotah Phend’s CP1 topping time by 1/10th of a second. Third fastest in CP1, Ongaro, who ran 9 heats after Tessmann, set a blistering new pace to go over 1-second quicker than the former World Champion. Two heats later saw the first serious challenge to that time as Maifield got to within 0.315 of the time to set the second fastest time of the day. Unable to better his CP1 time, Phend would end up 4th fastest ahead of Bruno Coelho, who also couldn’t better his opening time, with Robert Batlle completing the Top 6 ahead of the reigning World Champion David Ronnefalk.

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November 5, 2018

Burak Kilic doubles at IBR Padova Winter Cup

The annual IBR Padova Winter Cup was held this past weekend at the iconic Italian indoor off-road track in Carrara San Giorgio. The 3-day event was dominated by the Italian domestic drivers, however in the 45-minute Nitro Buggy A-main things turned and it was Germany’s Burak Kilic (Agama) with the win with his prototype 319 buggy in front of Max Hesse’s HoBao as Berkan Kilic rounded out the top 3, also driving an Agama 319 prototype. Over in the E-Buggy class it was again Burak who would hold the upper hand to take the win.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the update.

November 5, 2018

Tyler Jones doubles at Best Dawn Series Rd1

The opening round of the Best Dawn Series was held at EN Hobbies/Sparks RC Raceway in Columbus, Ohio this past weekend. TLR’s Tyler Jones was in control of the 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy action all weekend, taking the TQ and win in 2WD Mod in front of Yokomo’s JP Richards and HB Racing’s Spencer Heckert. The 4WD Mod Buggy class was TQ’d by JP Richards, however in the single 7-minute A-main it was Tyler Jones with another win as Spencer Heckert and JP Richards rounded out the top 3 results.

View the 4WD Mod podium here

November 5, 2018

Phend tops 1st Controlled Practice in Perth

With things finally getting official at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships after 6 free practice runs over 4 days, it was Dakotah Phend who topped the opening round of controlled practice in Perth, Australia. The TLR driver posted a best time of 1:39.697 for his fastest 3-consecutive laps to set the pace ahead of Xray’s Bruno Coelho. Running in the heat just before Phend, Coelho managed a time of 1:39.957 around the MORBC track with both drivers having an almost identical fastest lap. Running in Heat 13 of 18, Davide Ongaro would complete the Top 3 followed by Jared Tebo, Naoto Matsukura and Australia’s own Aaron Stringer. For reigning champion David Ronnefalk, who topped the final free practice yesterday, the first of the 2 seeding rounds would see him with the 7th fastest time, a full second down on Phend.

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November 1, 2018

Tasos Paparegas crowned Greek National Champion

The STR track played host to the final round of the Greek 1/8th Buggy National Championship last weekend. It was the deciding round of the championship and it was multi-time National Champion, Tasos Paparegas who was the man to beat all weekend. After taking the pole position he also took the win in the main final, scoring the fastest lap in the process. With the victory Tasos also took his seventh consecutive title. Giannis Perogiannis came in 2nd at the final round as Thanos Makropoylos rounded out the top 3.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 31, 2018

Jason Nugroho wins at Urban Community Park Rd4

The 4th round of the Urban Community Park series was held last weekend at the UCP Track in Cisauk, West Java. The track is located about 50km from Jakarta city and a total of 55 drivers from Jakarta, Medan, Bandung, Batam, Padang, Banjarmasin as well as local drivers attended the race. The schedule consisted of four rounds of 5-minutes qualifiers with the three best to count. Jason Nugroho didn’t had the best of starts as he missed the practice sessions going into the weekend, however he was able to bump-up from the B-main into the A-main and from the 11th position on the grid he soon took over the lead, after some ten minutes into the race, to bring home the win from Stanley Wangsanegara 2nd and Richard Suryo 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 30, 2018

Wesley van Helmond wins at Winter Is Coming race

The Winter Is Coming race was held at the Dutch Mach One track last weekend. The event was held in 1/8th Nitro and Electric classes and it saw SWorkz’s Jarno Pijpers taking the TQ in the Nitro Buggy class. In the 30-minute main final however it was SWorkz’s Wesley van Helmond who would hold the upper hand, taking the win a lap in front of Jeffrey Halsema (Serpent) as Colin Meijer (Serpent) rounded out the top 3 another lap down.

Source: Triton RC [tritonrc.com]

October 30, 2018

Kaja Novotny doubles at Lestr Cup opener

The opening round of the Lestr Cup series was held this past weekend. The race was held on a technical track with old school jumps and it was well accepted by the drivers. Kaja Novotny was the man to beat all weekend, taking Q1 and Q2 of 4WD for the overall TQ in front of Jiri Mara. Vaclav Broz completed the top 3 in the wheeler class. In 2WD Kaja was in a different league, taking a pretty easy TQ followed by Vaclav Broz who was in a 3-horse battle with Marcel Dostal and Jiri Mara for the runner-up spot. In 4WD and in preparation for the EOS, Kaja tried different setups in the finals with A1 being a bit difficult for Kaja. In the end it was a 5-minute sprint race with Jiri, however Kaja would hold the upper hand. For A2 and A3 Kaja was able to improve his Xray buggy which allowed him to take quite easy wins for the overall in front of Jiri Mara’s SWorkz and Vaclav Broz’s Xray.

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