The recent Asia Fever race in Malaysia saw Xray’s Jason Nugroho walking away with the win in the Nitro Truggy class. The TQ holder would sweep the half hour long A-main by talking the win some three laps in front of SWorkz’s Scott Yang and Eric Xiao while also scoring the fastest lap of the race.
Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]
The 2018 Asia Fever race was held at The Dirt Bureau track in Malaysia this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Malaysian driver, Danny K. took the TQ, however he was not able to convert the position into a victory. Instead it was Meen Vejrak from Thailand who would sweep the A-main, taking the win a lap in front of Paphon Chanyasak from Thailand as another Thai driver, Game Mongkolphan rounded out the top 3 another lap down. Josh Pain from Australia and Adrian Wicaksono from Indonesia would complete the top 5 results.
Image: Meen Vejrak
The opening round of the Argentinian National 1/8th Off-road Championship was held at the Speed Paradise track recently. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class Agustin Cutini would take the TQ honours, however it was Nicolas Bregante with the win in the main final from Lucas Pons 2nd and Sebastian Recio 3rd. Over in the Pro Nitro Truggy class Nicolas took the TQ and win for a clean sweep in front of Agustin Cutini and Ramiro Davico in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
View the Pro Nitro Truggy podium here
The third round of this year’s Danish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Skive track recently. The weekend started off sunny and warm which made for dusty and bumpy track conditions. In the E-Buggy class it was Pelle Culmsee who TQ’d three of the four rounds for the overall TQ in front of Jan Larsen. In the opening two mains Pelle was able to build a gap on the field and he would take wins with a lap margin for the overall win from Jan Larsen 2nd and Aske Repute 3rd.
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OC/RC Raceway of Huntington Beach, California played host for round 4 of this year’s JBRL Electric Series this past weekend. The event offered the usual array of Modified and Stock classes and in 2WD Open Buggy it was young Ron Devoll (Team Associated) with the win from AE teammate, Jake Mayo in 2nd and Mason Eppley who would end the day on the 3rd spot. The win in 4WD Open Buggy went to Team Associated’s Jake Mayo from Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo on the runner-up spot. Dylan Nelson would round out the top 3 podium result for TLR.
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Round 2 of the Oder Pomerania Cup was held at the RC Speedracer club in Bernau near Berlin, Germany. The schedule for the weekend was free practice on Saturday followed by the opening round of qualifiers with three more qualifiers on Sunday and double finals. Bartosz Zalewski took the overall 1/8th E-Buggy TQ after the qualifiers that were held in quite slippery conditions due to light rain. In the double A-mains it was again Bartosz who excelled and he took the overall from Steven Nortdorf 2nd and Thilo Schittko 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Last weekend saw the running of the Greek 1/8th Buggy Championship at the newly established Speed Track Ready facility in Athens. In the 35-minutes main final Tassos Paparegas (Xray) battled it out with Giannis Papanikolaou (Kyosho) but later in the run Tassos was able to pull away for the win in front of Giannis on the runner-up spot. In 3rd, Yannis Perogiannakis (Mugen) rounded out the podium result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The fourth round of the Belgian Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the MAC Vlijmen track this past weekend. Going into this event Wesley Van Helmond knew that he only needed to finish 3rd in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes to wrap up the titles. In 2WD he took TQ and won legs 1 and 2 of the A-finals while in 4wd he qualified 2nd on the grid but again won legs 1 and 2 with some superb driving and overtakes to once again take the victory. Therefore he has wrapped up his 7th National Championship with one round still to go.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
