The opening round of the Greek Xray Off-road Challenge was held at the Fanatix racing track. The schedule was pretty unusual for a nitro race with four qualifier and triple mains and at the end it was Geogre Vasiliadis (Xray) who took the win from George Abdel (Xray) and Dokos Panos (Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
JConcepts has announced that Malin Karlsen has joined their world-wide race team. Malin, a Norway native who just celebrated her 10th birthday, specializes in 1/10th and 1/8th off-road but really enjoys the fast paced circuits of astro-Turf and carpet. The recent winner of the 2015 Swedish 1/10 4WD National Series has already received high praise and accolades in Sweden where she routinely takes the top step on the podium in her favorite racing class. While attending the 1/8th European Championships in Sacile, Italy, Malin received an award from EFRA acknowledging achievement. JConcepts looks forward to working with Malin and father/mechanic Bent toward future racing goals while representing a host of proud sponsors. Malin and Bent state:
We are extremely happy to be given this opportunity to represent the JConcepts world-wide race team. We are confident that the support provided from such an accomplished manufacturer as JConcepts will be invaluable in Malin reaching her goals. We look forward to be working with the JConcepts racing team and would like to thank Jason and Allison for this opportunity.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
Revolution Design Racing Products have announced the signing of Germany’s Kim Einert to their factory team. The 18-years old girl is a steady performer both nationally and internationally and she will be attending various 1/8th Nitro Buggy, 1/8th E-Buggy and 1/10th Buggy races this year using RDRP tools and accessories to prepare her rides.
Source: RDRP [revolution-rc.com]
Round five of the BRCA 1/18th Buggy National Championship was held at Titchfield Off Road Club Hampshire this past weekend. The new track layout was long and very fast and with the incorporated jump sections, certainly another different great test for the competitors. The weekend started off with 2WD on Saturday and it was Neil Cragg who put his Team Associated buggy on pole position for the triple A-finals. Yokomo’s Lee Martin and Tom Cockerill came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The Nitro Fish Fun Race was held the multi surface track of the MAC Brombachsee in Germany. In the Nitro Buggy main final Alex Schlatterer (Xray) took the win from Xray teammate Andreas Heublein while Thorsten Geißler (Mugen) rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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Last weekend drivers from all over the Southeast headed down to Savannah, GA to one of the oldest tracks in the country, Phil Hurd Raceway, for the annual Summer Scorcher. With a little over 160 entries in several nitro and electric classes, it was shaping up to be a great event with a very fitting name. With the temperature reaching 97 degrees and a heat index of 103, it was hot.
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The recent fifth round of the Dutch Buggy Cup saw an early end due to heavy rain pouring down on race day. The weekend started off with nice weather on Saturday but rain on Sunday only allowed for two qualification rounds until the organisers had to call it a day. This meant the results of the qualifiers had to be taken to announce the winner and so the victory went to Jarno Pijpers (Xray/FX) form Anno Storm (JQ/O.S.) and Kevin Cornelis (Xray/FX).
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Round 4 of this year’s Portuguese 1/8th Buggy Nationals saw Ricardo Monteiro taking the win from Carlos Duraes. Goncalo Melo rounded out the top 3 result while Ricardo is currently leading the national series from Carlos with one round to go, taking the championship decision to the final race.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
