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May 7, 2018

Joe Pillars dominates 2018 Northwest Stock Champs

The 2018 Northwest Stock Championships were held this past weekend at PDX RC Underground in Portland, Oregon. The race schedule saw open practice on Friday and three rounds of qualifying and triple A-main events on Saturday. In the 2WD Pro Stock Buggy class, Yokomo’s Joe Pillars would dominate qualifying by TQ’ing all three rounds and secure the overall TQ. Pillars then went onto take the commanding Wins in A-main 1 and 2, to take his first Championship of the weekend from Team Associated’s Jack Leighan 2nd and newly-signed Yokomo driver, Wes Cipriotti in 3rd.

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May 7, 2018

Layton, Turner & Zhao win at California Turf Cup

The 2018 California Turf Cup was hosted by Silver Dollar Raceway in Chico, California over the weekend. The event was held in the usual variety of Modified and Stock classes an the 2WD Open Buggy category it was Kyle Turner with the overall TQ thanks to winning round 1 and 2 as Q3 winner, Kyle Layton would secure the P2 spot on the grid. In 4WD Open Buggy it was also Kyle Turner with the TQ courtesy of coming out fastest in Q2 and Q3 while Q1 winner, Brian Strange had to settle for 2nd on the grid. In the very competitive 13.5 4WD class Patrick Zhao TQ’d from Julian Jimenez.

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May 7, 2018

Berkan Kilic wins at North German regionals Rd2

The Braunschweig track near Hanover played host to the second round of the North German 1/8th Off-road regionals this past weekend. The track was pretty challenging with its natural clay surface and a lot of small holes and most of the drivers already showed up on Saturday to make maximum use of the practice time. After the 20-minute semi finals on Sunday it was Berkan Kilic (Agama) with the TQ from Burak Kilic (Agama) on the 2 spot and Phillip Guschel (Xray) starting from P3. In the opening stages of the 40-minute A-main final Burak was able to get past Berkan and he even slightly separated from the field until he ran into mechanical issues that promoted Berkan into the lead again that he would hold onto until the checkered flag. Marcel Paul (Kyosho) would obtain the 2nd spot from Phillip Guschl 3rd. However as the latter was only a guest starter it was Ilias Reise (Agama) who would round out the podium result.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.

May 7, 2018

Ongaro & Hara win at 2018 Philippine Masters

The 2018 Philippine Masters was held at the Circulo Verde Race Track in Quezon City, Philippines over the weekend, attracting many World-class 1/8th off-road drivers from all over the planet. The nitro 1/8-scale event contests only buggies and truggies – no Sportsman, or other classes. In the one-hour Buggy final, it was Mugen Seiki’s Robert Batlle who put up a fierce early battle with Ronnefalk who was battling for the lead from his P3 position. The two drove clean and changed places often, but Batlle didn’t seem to have the same speed that carried him to TQ. Whether it was engine power, tire choice or other variable, Batlle just couldn’t hold his earlier lines and mistakes started to plague him sending him down the list of drivers.

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May 7, 2018

Orlowski & Savoya win at EFRA 1/10 Buggy warm-up

The Reims Enduro Model Car club in France hosted the EFRA 1/10 Buggy Euros warm-up race this past weekend at their indoor dirt track facility. The event was well attended, attracting many of Europe’s fast electric off-road drivers. The 2WD Modified Buggy class saw Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski sweeping the qualifiers to take the TQ from TLR’s Renaud Savoya 2nd and Yokomo’s Lee Martin 3rd. In the 4WD Mod Buggy class it was Renaud who excelled, TQing five of the six rounds gave him the pole for the A-mains from Michal Orlowski 2nd and Lee Martin 3rd.

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May 4, 2018

Pedro Gomes doubles at Spring Masters

The Indoor Spring Masters were held at the Indoor RC Oeste in Portugal recently with the facility offering a new track layout for the event. In 4WD Buggy it was Xray’s Pedro Gomes who took the TQ by winning all four qualifiers and in the finals it was again Pedro who came out on top. The remaining podium positions were hard fought for until the end as the final A-main would determine the top 2 and top 3 spots. In the end it was André Guerreiro (Team Associated) with the overall runner-up spot from Diogo Filipe (Xray) 3rd.

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May 3, 2018

Daniel Grobe wins at Thornhill Championship Series Rd4

Round 4 of the Thornhill Championship Series was held recently at the Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas. After having some issues in round one and two of E-Truggy qualifying it was Daniel Grobe who got together a brilliant drive in Q3 to secure the overall TQ with the only 9-lap run of the class. For the double A-mains, Daniel would get a clean start in A1, but an early mistake dropped him to 2nd as in turn Jason Hill made a mistake and Daniel got by, where he would control the pace, not push the truck to much, and would take the win. In A2, Daniel got off to a clean start again with no mistakes and he didn’t want to throw away a win, or crash hard, as Jason again made a mistake and he would over drive to chase Daniel down. Up front Daniel took another win for the overall as Jason Hill came in 2nd and Isaac Price ended the day in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 3, 2018

Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals Rd1 – Report

The first round of Czech 1/8 Off-road Nationals was held at the popular Kolin track in perfect weather conditions. In the Nitro Buggy class the battle for the overall TQ was on between Martin Bayer and Jiri Mara. In the end Martin eventually took the overall TQ with Jiri in 2nd and Kaja Novotny in 3rd. After the semifinals it was still Martin on top with Kaja lining up 2nd and Max Gotzl taking 3rd. Right from the tone the top 4 quickly got away but split into two duos at about the 10-minute mark. Up front Martin and Kaja fought for the win while Max and Jiri battled it out for the final podium spot. Ultimately to was Martin with the win from Kaja 2nd and Jiri beat Max for 3rd.

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