Sivan crowned Israeli 1:8 Nitro Buggy Champion – Report

Yaniv Sivan is the 2023 Israeli 1:8 Nitro Buggy Champion, the title being decided at the final round of the seven championship at Omer Ring racing track near Tel-Aviv.  After 6 races the situation in the championship was that Sivan was leading the championship by 4 points, Harel Senderov in second had to win the seventh race to win the championship.  The 35 min A-final started while Yaniv Sivan (TQ) with his Kyosho MP10 TKI3 opened a 15 secs gap on Second place Harel Senderov with his Mugen MBX8R which had early battle with Ido Carmon on second spot.  However, when Yaniv’s car exit the first pit stop another car was lowered in the same time and crashed at him, Yaniv lost valuable time and the gap went down to 5 secs.  Nevertheless, Yaniv managed to keep the gap safe till 15 min to the end of the race Yaniv Sivan made a mistake at far downhill and Harel passed him.  The two drivers battled for the first back and forth till one and half minutes to the end Harel Senderov crashed at the end of the straight and Yaniv Sivan passed him but still the gap between them was less than a second. On the last Yaniv Sivan managed to hold the first position and passed the start finish line first and become the 2023 Israeli 1:8 Nitro Buggy Champion.  In  eBuggy Senderov took the title from Round 7 winner Yoni Cozac.

Nitro 1:8 Buggy Championship results top 8 drivers (5 best from 7 races count)
1. Yaniv Sivan – 496 Kyosho/Reds/Hot Race
2. Harel Senderov – 495 Mugen/Alpha/Jconcept
3. Boris Melnik – 479 Associated/Alpha/Jconcept
4. Amit Bublil – 478 Associated/Alpha/Jconcept
5. Gal Kenan – 474 Mugen/Alpha/Jconcept
6. Gil Harush – 471 Kyosho/OS/Pro-Line
7. Ziv Magnezi – 467 Kyosho/Reds/6MIK
8. Guy Ben Arush – 466 Kyosho/OS/6MIK

Race #7 Top 3 Nitro
1. Yaniv Sivan
2. Harel Senderov
3. Ido Carmon

Electric 1:8 buggy Championship results top 5 drivers
1. Harel Senderov – 500 Mugen
2. Yoni Cozac – 494 Mugen
3. Maor Navon – 488 Kyosho
4. Haim Ari – 475 Kyosho
5. Guy Almog – 475 TLR

Race #7 Top 3 Electric
1. Yoni Cozac
2. Maor Navon
3. Guy Almog

Thanks to Yaniv Sivan from Rczone for report