The MOD 5th & 8th Scale Champs were held at the Fear Farm track this past weekend, attracting nearly 150 entries for the 1/5th and 1/8th scale off-road classes. In 1/8th Pro Buggy and when the dust had settled, it was Mugen’s Ryan Maifield with the overall win, leaving behind Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin and Mugen’s Tanner Denney who completed the top 3.
Image: Ryan Maifield
Shepherd have announced the return of South American nitro on-road front runner, Flavio Elias to their team. Back in 2015 the polite Brazilian managed to claim the South American Championship as well as a 4th place at the IFMAR World Championship together with Shepherd and now the cooperation has been renewed. Due to the worldwide Corona virus pandemic Flavio plans to attend only regional and national races in 2020 with the main goal being the Worlds in Japan in 2021. Flavio had the following to say about the deal:
It is with great pleasure and happiness that I return to this team, which gave me many joys and achievements. I want to thank Patrick and the whole Shepherd Team for this opportunity.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
With the Corona virus situation impacting racing around the world, many planned events have had to be cancelled or postponed. After carefully monitoring the situation throughout Europe, and talking to host venues and government officials in various countries, the organisers of the ETS, EOS and ENS championships have been able to put together a revised schedule of races for the rest of 2020. Of course, these still do remain provisional as the rules and restrictions change on a regular basis and any further updates will be communicated to racers closer to each event date.
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Soda City in Columbia, South Carolina hosted their annual King of the Road trophy race. The race was attended by drivers around the east coast as some states are still under stay at home orders. Though the attendance was down from prior years the racing was tight among some of the countries up and coming talent. The faculty provided an excellent environment for the racers from beginning to end. In 17.5 Touring Car it was Awesomatix’s John Dickson taking TQ over fellow Awesomatix drivers Brian Card and Clayton Young in the fastest class of the day. During the main event things were shuffled multiple times between all three Awesomatix drivers, but in the end it would be Card taking the win over Young. Dickson would bring it home 3rd completing a clean sweep of the podium for Awesomatix.
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The Jax Trax RC Raceway of Union City, Indiana held round 1 of their Saturday Series this past weekend, attracting nearly 90 entries for the 1/8th off-road and 1/10th Pro4 classes. In the premier Nitro Buggy class it was Agama’s Tyler Jones with the overall TQ and the young man would also come out swinging after the 20-minute A-main event as he lead from tone to tone to take the win from Mugen’s Collin Weatherholt in 2nd and Tekno RC’s Brandon Hogan in 3rd.
Image: Tyler Jones
SS Hobbies & Raceway of Tampa, Florida hosted a round of their SS Sunday Off-road Racing Series this past weekend. The event was held in several 1/10th scale electric classes and in 2WD Buggy it was Lee Setser with the win in the single 5-minute A-main event from John Lawson in 2nd, already a lap down, and Kenny Setser in 3rd, another 0.4 seconds behind.
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The Taiwanese city of Tainan hosted an 1/8th GT Nitro race this past weekend. When the dust had settled after the A-main event it was Lam Cheung Tat with the overall win from Hisang on the runner-up spot. Lin Zhifeng came in 3rd overall to round out the podium result.
Source: Hong Nor [hongnor-racing.com]
Thornhill Racing Circuit of Hutto, Texas held a well-attended club race this past weekend, pretty much the only allowed form of racing these days. The event attracted over 100 entries including some of the country’s fastest off-road racers. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Ethan Lefebvre (Xray) with the overall TQ from Jared Tebo (Tekno) in 2nd. The 30-minute A-main final however brought a somewhat different result with 5th place qualifier, Tekno RC’s Jared Wiggins taking the win by about three seconds from 6th place qualifier, Dillon Caldwell (HB Racing) on the runner-up spot. Top qualifier, Ethan Lefebvre had to recover from being dead-last about mid-race due to fuel problems, but he ultimately managed to round out the top 3 result.
