The second round of the Swedish 1/8th Off-road Cup was held this past weekend. HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk would take the TQ in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class and he would continue to dominate in the 45-minute main final by bringing home the win almost two laps in front of Markus Sandberg (Mugen). Kyosho’s Jessica Palsson would complete the podium result in third, another lap down.
Image: David Ronnefalk
This past weekend Nor-Cal Hobbies was over run with contestants coming from all across California battling for a chance to win a coveted boxing belt at the 8th running of the Northern California Off-Road Championships – The Nor-Cal Champs. The course was a challenge for both Spec and modified class drivers. The Spec drivers had to deal with a challenging right side drop down, with back section that only Modified drivers could only triple. After two days of qualifying and a fierce triple A main format, Mason Eppley from Tekno set the track record of 13.9. Derek Stepanson (TLR) won 2WD Modified and 2WD Short Course. Matt Olson (MIP) also took home two belts from the 4×4 Short Course Classes and 1/8th E-Buggy. Rudy Rico (Team Associated) took the 2WD 17.5 Expert Buggy while Rob Russel (Team Powers) took a belt in 40+ 17.5 Buggy and got a 2nd in Expert. Finally Newcomer Julian Jimenez took the 13.5 Stadium Truck belt.
Xray have announced the signing of young swedish talent, Alexander Landen to their junior racing program. The 10-years old will race 1/10th electric off-road at events such as the EOS, the WBC races, the Swedish National Cup and more and he has the following to say about the deal:
I am very happy for this opportunity and I am of course very proud. I have been running Xray cars for the last 2 years with a great success. The quality and attention to details in the products are top notch and the performance and reliability of the products are superior. With the recent release of the new 2WD platform we believe the Xray overall package currently is the strongest in the 1/10 off road racing market on all surfaces. Therefore this seems as a perfect time to join a very successful team and I will do my best to represent the team.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
PR Racing UK and Inside Line Racing have announced that top UK RC driver John Spencer is joining the team to run the 4WD PRSB401 buggy. John is well known on the European RC racing scene being a BRCA National A-finalist and multiple European top 20 finisher. As the DMS Racing shop manager he has loads of day to day experience to offer to the PR UK team and racers in general regarding set ups and improving your lap times.
Source: Inside Line Models [insidelinemodels.com]
The recent third round of the Dutch Buggy Cup was held at the Oberhausen track in Germany. The Nitro Buggy main final saw a battle for the win between Wesley van Helmond (TLR) and Jarno Pijpers (Xray), the latter coming from the 7 spot on the grid. Both made mistakes at one or the other point but a flame out after a crash cost Jarno dearly so he had to settle for second behind Wesley while Marcel Müller (Team Associated) rounded out the top 3 result.
Last weekend the third round of the Austrian Nationals was held at the dirt track TSA Krieglach. The weather forecast for the race day was not so good and the rain stopped the race after three rounds of qualifying. Schumacher’s Peter Pinisch took the win in both classes with the fastest time of the day. The Team Associated duo of Stefan Pfeifhofer and Lucas Grainer would side-line Peter on the 2WD podium while Hupo Hönigl (Xray) and Marcel Rekettye completed the 4WD top 3 result.
Round two of the Victorian Drivers Series was held at the regional club on Mildura, around 550km northwest of Melbourne. Over 140 entries were received for the event, including close to 20 in the under 16 junior class, the first to be held at the famous club’s new facility which their members ha. With a very large red clay track with a unique diagonal centre straight, and winter desert climate giving freezing mornings and sunny afternoons, the event was a challenge for all racers. The surface was very cold and slick in the mornings but grooved up through the day, making tyre choice critical. With the large entries the meeting was run over 3 days, practice Friday and Saturday morning, qualifying Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, finals Sunday afternoon.
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The Cup of Urals was held at the Corrtezz Raceway in Ekaterinburg, Russia, about 2000km away from Moscow. More than 50 drivers from the Urals and Siberia signed in for the event that was held in challenging weather conditions with wind, sun and rain. Moscow-based Ilya Plakhotnik would take the win in the 45-minute Nitro Buggy A-main, coming from the 2 spot on the grid. Ilya would take the lead in the opening stages of the final, defending the position for the remainder of the race to bring home the win.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
