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]
Leinfelden in Germany played host to the BAWÜ Cup this past weekend and it was SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier with the win in both the Nitro Buggy and Electric Truggy classes. The Mugen duo of Stefan Byesse and Luca Schmid would round out the Nitro Buggy top 3 while Udo Öhler and Andreas Rüüp (both SWorkz) completed the Electric Truggy podium. Elsewhere in the E-Buggy class it was Morris Voldenauer (SWorkz) with the win from Patrick Müller (Mugen) and Victor Gabriel (Kyosho).
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Clanfield RC played host to round three of the SRS this past weekend. Agama’s Jon Hazlewood took the TQ in the Nitro Buggy class with SWorkz’s Kevin Brundsen on the 2 spot. When the flag dropped and the final was over it was however Kevin with the win from Jon in 2nd as Agama’s Callum Niblett rounded out the podium result in 3rd.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
The Summer Race event was hosted by the Spanish Cartt club in Fuencarral this past weekend and it was Alberto Garcia with TQ and the win in the 30-minute Nitro Buggy main final. Ivan Ramirez came in 2nd some three laps down as Pablo Izquierdo completed the top 3 results.
Source: Alpha [alpha-rc.com]
The third round of the Czech 1/10th Off-road Nationals took place last weekend at the Rychvald astro turf track in the Czech Republic. After races on carpet and dirt this was the third different track surface for the championship so far. Friday’s free practice would be held in good weather conditions but overnight rain would flood the track on Saturday morning and many racers thought the race would be cancelled. However most drivers voted to carry on with racing and the local club did a great job in preparing the track to be at least possible to drive on. In the 2WD class Kaja Novotny used his spare dirt spec buggy which was the jackpot as he was able to lap almost the whole field in each qualifying run.
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The MACSQ track in Saint-Quentin, France played host to round 4 of this year’s French 1/8th Nitro Off-road Nationals. After the qualifiers it was Xray’s Yannick Aigoin with the TQ and it was also Yannick who grabbed the pole position for the main final after coming out fastest in the semifinals. In the 45-minute main final a fierce battle for the overall was on between Yannick and his brother Jerome while TLR’s Renaud Savoya was also in the mix. In the end Yannick would hold the upper hand to take home the win in front of Jerome Aigoin (Xray) as Renaud had to settle for 3rd overall.
Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]
The second round of Austrian 1/8 Nitro Off-road Nationals was held at the A-Team Graz club this past weekend. Martin Wollanka (SWorkz/Picco/TPro) took the TQ and win in front of Dominic Bauer (Mugen/Novarossi/Pro-Line) and Jürgen Trieb (SWorkz/SPower/TPro). Martin now also leads the championship after winning the opening two races. In the 40+ category local driver Christian Hubert (SWorkz/Reds Racing/TPro) walked away with the win as Georg Horninger(SWorkz/MW Picco/TPro) and Heinz Müller (SWorkz/MW Picco/TPro) completed a clean SWorkz/TPro podium.
