The 3rd round of the KS Challenge was held at the Kolin RC track in the three classes of 1/10th Electric Open, 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy. In the 1/8th Electric class Kaja Novotny (Team Durango) took the win from the Serpent duo of Vaclav Broz in 2nd place and 3rd placed Jiri Garbaczewski.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Flowood R/C Indoor Park will be hosting their 6th Annual Bring The Heat Race September 11th to 13th. Adam and Ronda Drake, along with Ryan Lutz will be returning to FRC and Richard “King Richard” Saxton will be making his first appearance at what is the biggest event held at FRC each year. The number of entries will be limited to the first 300 paid to allow for enough track time for each driver. The race will be run in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy, E-Buggy, E-Truggy and 1/10th SC classes and more information is available here.
Virtual RC have released another video comparing their latest virtual track, the 2015 Silver Dollar Raceway, and the real Silver Dollar Raceway, home of the 2015 ROAR Fuel Offroad Nationals. The comparison video shows Ryan Lutz driving his Tekno NB48.3 buggy “against” 2014 VRC Short Course Truck World Champion Chris Sturdy from Australia, driving the Intercept NX8-R buggy.
Last weekend round four of the South German 1/8th Off-road regionals, a qualifying round for the German Nationals, was held at the MRC Senden track. In the final of the E-Buggy class Micha Widmaier came out successful in front of Hannes Käufler in 2nd and Luca Rau in 3rd place. Jonas Bauer and Stefan Byesse rounded out the top 5 result.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The third round of the Swiss 1/8th Buggy Nationals were held in Gland in the French-language part of Switzerland. In the main final Patrick Hofer came out successful after having a difficult qualification with engine troubles. Going through the quarter finals and coming out 2nd fastest in his semi final Patrick eventually took the win from Jeremy Pittet and Jean-Marc Betticher.
Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]
The Intertrack Challenge was held recently held in Svaty Jur, Slovakia. The win in the 1/8th E-Buggy class after the triple 10 minute A-mains went to Stefan Lutka who suffered from an electronic failure in the opening leg and only came in 2nd in A2 but a flawless run, despite pressure Rolo Feketevizi, allowed Stefan to grab the day’s win. Feketevizi ended the race on the runner-up spot while Juriga rounded out the top 3 result.
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Round four of the 2015 JBRL Electric Series was hosted by OC/RC Raceway in Huntington Beach. As usual this Southern California based racing series attracted both local talent as well as nationally and internationally experienced drivers to race in several Modified and Stock categories and in the premier class of 2WD Modified Buggy it was Kevin Motter (TLR) who came out successful from Cody Turner (Team Associated) in 2nd and Jimmy Barnett (Team Associated) in 3rd.
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The second round of the Irish 1/8th Off-road Nationals took place last weekend at the AstroTurf track of NIMCC. The track itself is challenging as it is pretty tight, twisty and full on with a pretty quick lap time of below 30 seconds. Qualifying and the weather was playing its part with sun and showers and although it dried very quickly half the track was bone dry the while the other half stayed slick. Alan Scroggie set the pace followed by Gary Baird, Barkley Abernethy and Aaron Vance. For the finals it was the same story with the weather, with clouds in the sky Mini Pins where a no and most in the main final decided to go out with Spirals bolted to their cars so the first few minutes where interesting until everyone got used to the grip level. Alan had an issue and had to retire by the first round of pit stops which left Gary to take up the lead which he did not come close to relinquishing. Barkley had a flame out at the 10 minute mark and spent 35 minutes clawing his way back up to 2nd. Aaron Vance cut a few times and promoted Colin Whelan to a well deserved 3rd while Gary Baird had a cool 45 minute drive to a deserving win in difficult conditions.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
