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September 3, 2020

HNMC GP2020 – Race report

The HNMC GP2020 took place over the recent bank holiday weekend with the club able to host the race during the Covid-19 closures having worked closely with the BRCA on safety solutions to make it happen. The format has remained the same for last three years with Saturday having controlled practice, Sunday is for qualifying with finals on Monday. Saturday was a damp day with drivers in heat 9 and 10 deciding not to run as it was so wet. On to qualifying and in Nitro Buggy Callum Niblett took the top spot with Jamie Clancy and Simon Reeves taking rounds 3 and 5 to end up 2nd and 3rd. Truggy would see James Baxter from Richard Cousins and John Niall in 3rd, while in E-buggy it was Michael Lightfoot from Darren Hayden-Ball with Mike Cradock. Evening fun was had with the longest distance travelled with one full tank of fuel. The winner was Glenn Smith, 2nd went to Toby Nicoll, while Craig Russell was 3rd, the top 2 completing 16 laps each, well off the record held by Karl Jackson of 18 laps back in 2018.

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September 2, 2020

Rihard Lainemäe double at Estonian Nats Rd3

The third round of the 2020 Estonian Offroad Racing Series took place at LaitseRallipark, the one day event consisting of morning free practice, 4 qualification runs followed by a single 10-minute sprint final. After Qualifying it was Rainer Ressar in Nitro Buggy and Karl Martinson in eBuggy taking the top spot, with Rihard Lainmeäe taking a close 2nd in both classes. The finals saw the track evolve to very high grip but also very bumpy, which made the conditions even more difficult and made for very interesting racing. Rihard Lainemäe would win both finals followed in nitro buggy by Rainer Ressar in 2nd and Reimo Kosk 3rd and by Martinson and Marko Kivisild in eBuggy.

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September 1, 2020

Miguel & Nascimento win at CRB Cup Rd2

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the CRB Cup take place in Lisbon, Portugal. Despite restrictions a solid number of drivers turned up in both touring and formula to enjoy a clean, sugar watered track and a beautiful sunny day. In TC, Rodrigo Ferreira (Awesomatix) drove brilliantly and took the TQ spot. During the finals, there was some amazing head to head competition, but in the end Hugo Miguel (Serpent) took the win followed by Rodrigo Ferreira and Rui Rodrigues (Xray).

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August 31, 2020

TRCA Offroad Series Rd3 – Report

Last weekend saw the third round of the TRCA offroad series at the beautiful and unique track of Titan RC Arena in Warsaw, Poland. The event was open to Modified and Stock Buggy classes as well as Truck Pro and mini classes and every driver was able to take part in a lottery. 2wd modified qualifying was dominated by young Xray driver Bartek Kramza followed by Sebastian Migal. A1 and A2 then again went in Bartek’s favour as he brought home the win in both legs to take the overall from Sebastian in 2nd. Jeremi Kramża (Schumacher) came in 3rd to round out the podium.

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August 27, 2020

2020 Schumacher GP Italy – Announcement

Schumacher have announced the 2020 edition of the Schumacher GP Italy. Held at the 4th of October at the popular RC Landia track in Scandiano, renowned for hosting the popular annual Charity Race and host for the upcoming EFRA GT12 European cup in November. The event will act as a warm up race to that event, with GT12 among the classes catered for, but the event will also see LMP, Touring Car and FWD classes run. More details can be found here (PDF) with sign-up available here.

August 26, 2020

Maxim Laverychev wins Russian double header race

The 2020 Russian Cup and Russian Championship was a double header race that took place at the Lemar Modelsport track recently. Due to the Coronavirus the race wasn’t so well attended, but racing was tight an in the end it was Maxim Laverychev with the win in the Modified Touring classes of both the Russian Cup and the Russian Championship with both races run on the same weekend. Ilya Plakhotnik came in 2nd overall in the Russian Cup while Andrey Samoylenko rounded out the top 3.

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August 26, 2020

Bartek Zambrzycki wins at Polish Off-road Nats Rd4

Round 4 of the Polish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held in Wlodowa last weekend. The event took place on what is considered the country’s largest and most challenging off-road track with the weather – hot and dry on Friday and Saturday and cold and wet on Sunday – further adding to the mix. It was Bartek Zambrzycki (Agama) who showed maximum adaptability to the changing conditions, securing the TQ as well as the win after the shortened 22-minute A-main. Tomek Gadnicki (Xray) came in 2nd overall from Igor Goderski (Mugen) in 3rd.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

August 26, 2020

Flavio Elias wins at Brazilian GP On-road opener

The opening round of the Brazilian nitro on-road nationals took place in Americana recently. In the 1/8th IC Track class it was multi-time national champion, Flavio Elias with the overall TQ and he also brought home the win in the 40-minute A-main event. Eduardo Dulac came in 2nd overall, some 15 seconds behind Elias as Samuel Prato came in 3rd overall, already some eleven laps down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]