Round 7 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California last weekend. While Ryan Maifield walked away with the win in the Expert Buggy class it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with with win in Open Truggy, leaving behind TLR’s Anthony Westergaard in 2nd and Kyosho driver, Stephen Bess in 3rd.
Tacoma RC Raceway of Tacoma, Washington hosed the 2019 Northwest Gold Cup last weekend, attracting nearly 175 entries for the Modified and Stock 1/10th scale off-road classes. In the highly contested 4WD and 2WD Modified Buggy classes it was Harley Yoshii (Yokomo/Muchmore/JConcepts) with the double overall TQ and win. In 4WD the win didn’t came easy though as Harley suffered a DNF in A2, however with 1st place finishes in A1 and A3 Yoshii sealed the bag to take the overall from Dalton Pierce (Yokomo/Muchmore/JConcepts) 2nd and Tyler Miller (Team Associated/Reedy/JConcepts) in 3rd. Over in 2WD Modified Buggy Harley made a clean sweep in A1 and A2 for the early overall as Mikey Brown (Team Associated/Muchmore/JConcepts) and Dalton Pierce (Yokomo/Muchmore/JConcepts) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The 2019 IFMAR Large Scale World Championship was held in Villa Real, Portugal last week. The organising club AMVR ensured perfect conditions for the 85 pilots that gathered from 19 countries. The TQ went to Markus Feldmann with the Superpole being won by Alessio Mazzeo. The A-main final saw a lot of position changes in the first half of the race, however it was Marko Grigic who opted for a very late pit stop in the first half and from there he never looked back to take the win after the 60-minute race, becoming the first Croatian IFMAR World Champion. Alessio Mazzeo came in 2nd, some ten seconds behind as Marko Weigerding rounded out the top 3 a lap down.
The city of Piding in the southern part of Germany played host to the 9th RT Pegasus Masters last weekend. The event was held in several electric on-road classes including Touring Modified, Stock and FWD classes. In Touring Modified it was Tim Wahl with the overall TQ after a nearly clean sweep in the qualifiers, winning four of the five qualifiers, leaving behind Q3 top qualifier Marco Kaufmann in 2nd. The finals then saw another dominant performance of Tim who left behind Simon Lauter in 2nd as Marco Kaufmann ended in 3rd overall.
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The 5th and final round of the Swiss Electric On-road Nationals was held at the AMCS track in Schaffhausen recently. In the SwissGT pan car class it was Roger Eifler with the overall TQ and also the win in all A-main finals, making it a clean sweep. A2 and A3 saw Andi Frattaroli and Roland Wild in exciting slipstream battles for the runner-up spot with Andi ultimately holding the upper hand over Roland. Already Swiss SwissGT champion going into round 5, Roger cemented his dominant performance this year by also winning the season finale.
Thanks to Roger Eifler for the report.
The 2019 Edition of the Annual International Indoor Championships were held at 702 RC Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend. As usual the event attracted both national and international drivers with this year’s race drawing over 170 entries. In the Modified Touring class it was Alexander Hagberg who would lead the way but 2nd place qualifier Brandon Clements was putting on a formidable challenge. Able to see Hagberg just a few turns ahead of him, Clements threw down excellent and super consistent runs being 4-tenths of each other to score him a solid overall second place. The rest of the pack had assorted finishing positions and times that it had to go to the scoring cards with Drew Ellis emerging as the overall as the overall all third place finisher.
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The 2019/2020 Essex Winter Series kicked off this weekend. With the championship continuing to be one of the most popular and prestigious races around, the competition was high and a few small tweaks to the series had positive responses from drivers across the board. In the Modified class, it was Elliott Harper who was out to defend his series title from last year and he kicked off qualifying by setting the best time, two and a half seconds ahead of Kyle Branson, with Matthew White and Chris Grainger just half a second further back and Paul Pinkney rounding out the top five. It seemed like it would take something special to stop Elliott dominating the race, but an element of luck is always needed and his luck ran out in Q2. After leading for over four minutes, he got caught up on a track marker that had moved, taking him out of the round.
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Round 7 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California this past weekend. The event attracted over 160 entries and in the Expert Buggy A-main it was Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo with the overall TQ. The joy wouldn’t last long though as Carlos scored a DNF, allowing 2nd place qualifier, Mugen’s Ryan Maifield to take the win a narrow 1.8 seconds in front of fellow Mugen racer, Adam Drake. TLR’s Anthony Westergaard would round out the top 3 result a lap behind the top 2.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
