The 5th round of the Jakarta Regional Buggy championship was held at the Boya Racing Track in Tajur, Indonesia. The schedule saw three 10 minute qualifying rounds with the best two to count. Malik Hakinen (Kyosho/Novarossi) took TQ but at the end of the 45 minute final it was Kyosho/Novarossi driver Adrian W who took the winning honours in front of Malik Hakinen and Yusuf Chopin (HongNor/Novarossi).
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Last weekend the Spanish 1/8th Truggy nationals tool place. After not being able to participate in the practice rounds Serpent’s Alberto Garcia made the maximum out of the limited track time and TQ’d qualifying round 1 and 3 to take the overall TQ for the 60 minute final. In the first part of the A-main Alberto was in a hard battle with Javier Pombo but a mistake of the Mugen driver made way for Alberto who was then able to cruise to the overall victory. The runner-up spot went to Javier (Mugen) with Daniel Vega (Agama) completing the podium.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The Spanish 2WD Electric Buggy nationals took place at the RC Hobby Garden track in Sant Cugat. Qualifying on the challenging clay track saw Robert Battle taking the TQ honours from Juanma Lerma who TQ’s two of the five rounds. Carlos Pineda was in third position after the qualifiers and one of the few drivers who could really challenge Robert and Juanma. In the finals Robert made a clean sweep by winning A-final 1 and 2 handing him the 2013 2WD Buggy title early. Juanma Lerma only came in fifth position in A1 but recovered in A2 and A3 taking the runner-up spot in front of Carlos Pineda who completed the podium.
Image: RC Hobby Garden
The 2014 DHI Cup will be held from the weekend of the 10th to 12th of January 2014 in Odense, Denmark. As in previous years there will also be an off-road race run alongside the traditional touring car race. The classes will be Touring Car Modified and “blinky” 13.5T Super Stock with LRP motors. Off-Road will be run in 2WD and 4WD. The race will be under control of Hartmut Wenzel and David Church and registration opens Monday the 14th of October on myrcm.com. More information can be found here.
The first round of the hotly contested Silverstone Winter Series took place at the Silverstone Model Car Club. In the 2WD class Kyosho’s Elliott Boots took TQ and went on to win the A final with Kevin Lee and Nathan Waters completing the podium. Callum Niblett came in fourth with Tom Yardy and David Burton in tow.
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Argentina will not be hosting next year’s 1:10 200mm Nitro Touring Car World Championship. The decision was made this morning at the IFMAR AGM which is taking place at the 1:8 Onroad World Championships in Japan. With only a single application from a track not too far from venue of last year’s troubled 1:8 Offroad World Championship, the Pros & Cons of hosting the race near Buenos Aires were discussed with it decided that in the best interest of the class the race be relocated. With no FAMAR representative traveling to Japan to attend the AGM it was voted that the WC would be awarded to FEMCA. Hosts of last year’s Worlds in Thailand, where Meen Vejrak claimed the title, FEMCA accepted and will now start to gather applications from the 15 countries which they represent. 1:10 Nitro Touring Car is at a critical point with numbers struggling and moving the race should be viewed positively by the small number of manufacturers still supporting the class.
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For 2013 the ROAR Region 4 Off-Road Championships were held just outside of Orlando in Sanford, FL, at the popular Holeshot Raceway. Kris James and company put in the effort to ensure a great event with a technical inspection duo, constant track maintenance and race announcing courtesy of Lance MacDonald. The stage was set for a relatively serious event while roughly 160 entries filled the facility and parking lot for the once a year Florida showdown. Qualifying started briskly on Saturday morning with the 1st of 3 qualifiers to determine positioning for the main events. JR Mitch and Billy Easton were some of the fastest drivers during the first round of qualifying in the 2WD modified class and rose to the top each round showing consistency.
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The RB/Xray Cup took place at the SAMC club in La Motte Servolex in France. 65 drivers attended in 1/8 Buggy Open and Promo as well as 1/8 E-buggy. Friday allowed for a lot of track time but come Saturday the heaven opened its gates ruining most of the day. Fortunately the club was well prepared offering good lighting to continue running in the evening. The qualifiers and finals were run on Sunday in an electric race format with 6 minute qualification runs and three 10 minute finals. The short runs made for lots of action on the track and especially the Open class saw hard battles between Miguel Matias, Marco Baruffolo and Lorenzo Crolla. At the end the three came in in the aforementioned order handing Matias the Open class win. In Promo Tanguy Vandre took the winning honours in front of David Restani and Joel Santos. The E-buggy class saw Yannick Brozzini taking the win with Corentin Precoma and Youssef Lesbir in tow.
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