Last weekend the R/C Racers of Edmonton hosted the Oil City Dash. The event had a full day of practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday, and main events on Sunday. Mugen’s Adam Drake was the top qualifier in 1/8th Nitro Buggy and he went on to win the 45-minute final followed by Cory Drachenberg (Mugen) and Pete Tozzer (Team Associated).
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The 1/10th Buggy Israeli League was held recently and it was Guy Rinkevich who took wins in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. Yosi Abel obtained the runner-up spot in both categories while Tom Mushkatel rounded out the podium in 2WD and Avi Yadgar completed the podium result in the 4WD class.
The third round of the Jakarta Regional Buggy Championship was held at the Graha Raya track in Serpong, West Java. A total of 42 drivers attended the event and after the three rounds of qualifying it was Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) with the TQ position. After the 45-minute A-main things looked a bit different with Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) taking a very narrow win only some 1.3 seconds ahead of Adrian while Chopin Yusuf (TLR/Kabuto) rounded out the top 3 podium result.
The second round of the Argentinean ACAR Championship was recently held in the City of Bragado. In the Pro Buggy class it was Nicolas Bregante with the win from Matias Lence in 2nd and Gianni Lupacciolu 3rd. The Buggy Master class was won by Mauro Lence from Damian Montiel and Alejandro Di Meola while the Open Buggy win went to Federico Bonzas. The 1/8th E-Buggy victory went to Ivo Novelli from Kevin Negruzzi and Damian Montiel Finally in the Truggy class it was Gustavo Alberdi who snatched the top spot.
The recent third round of the Austrian 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the MAC Traiskirchen track. Different from the previous two rounds, this race was held on a super high traction track with the abrasive surface and sugar treatment making for close racing. Xray’s Hupo Hönigl would TQ the opening two rounds of 2WD while up and coming Lucas Grainer (Team Associated) came out fastest in Q3 and veteran racer Peter Pinisch (Team Associated) won Q4. Overall this meant Hupo would take the pole position for the triple 2WD A-mains.
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The 9th and final round of the Israeli League Nitro Series and the 5th round of the Electric Series were held last week at the Negev Speed racing track in super hot weather conditions. Kyosho’s Yaniv Sivan would take the TQ in both classes but in the Nitro Buggy main final it was Ofir Avitan (Mugen) who came out successful after Yaniv suffered two engine flameouts. Tal Siles (Mugen) came in 2nd while Yaniv at least managed to secure the final podium spot. Overall in the championship and with seven of the nine rounds counting it was Yaniv with the victory from Ofir Avitan and Ido Carmon.
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Round 3 of the Czech 1/10th Buggy Nationals was recently held in Velke Opatovice. The 2WD qualifiers saw Xray’s Kaja Novotny coming out on top in front of Ales Bidovsky (Xray) and Marek Schiller (PR) and in 4WD it was the same trio of Kaja, Ales and Marek that obtained the top 3 spots. In the 2WD mains though it was Ales who excelled after Kaja either made mistakes or got taken out. Overall Kaja was still able to bring home a 2nd place from Marek in 3rd.
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The 20th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout was held this past weekend at Hot Rod Hobbies and Raceways in Santa Clarita, California. Historically the event attracts the top teams and drivers from around the U.S. with the 2017 edition making no exception. The event was held in the usual mix of Modified and Stock off-road classes and in the premier 2WD Modified Buggy category it was Xray’s Ty Tessmann who took the TQ after the qualifiers and he would also come out on top of the field in the opening A-main but A2 and A3 belonged to Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated), coming from the 4 spot on the grid, after the wind played havoc on the drivers. With a constant performance Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin, who started from 3rd on the grid, obtained the runner-up spot while TQ holder Ty Tessmann had to settle for 3rd overall. Jared Tebo (Kyosho) in 4th and Dustin Evans (Team Associated) completed the top 5 result.
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