Round 6 of the BuggyCup was held at the Raco2000 track in Utrecht, The Netherlands last weekend. In the Nitro Sportsman class it was Jeffrey Halsema (Team Associated/Maxima) with the win from Colin Meijer (Serpent/Reds Racing) in 2nd and Anne Storm (JQRacing/Bullitt) who would round out the podium in 3rd.
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LCRC Raceway of Oakland Mills, Pennsylvania held the 2019 East Coast Race Against Cancer last weekend, attracting over 400 entries. The Expert Nitro Buggy class was TQ’d by HB Racing’s Jason Schreffler, however in the 25-minute A-main event it was 2nd place qualifier, Tekno RC’s Joe Bornhorst with the win a lap in front of Tekno RC’s Jared Wiggins while Team Associated’s Jamie Greyek came in 3rd to round out the podium another eleven seconds behind. TQ Jason Schreffler had to settle for 4th overall.
Revelation Raceway held their September Club race last weekend, attracting nearly 60 entries. In Open Nitro Buggy it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the overall TQ and he also came out on top after the 20-minute A-main event, leaving behind Xray’s Tommy Montague in 2nd, a lap down. Only 5.6 seconds behind, it was Mugen’s Ronda Drake with a 3rd place finish to round out the podium result.
Source: Flash Point [flashpointrc.com]
Last weekend’s 2019 ROAR Nitro On-road Nationals, held at the Toledo One Eighth Racers, saw Capricorn’s DJ Apolaro walking away with the win in the 1/8th Open class. DJ snatched the overall TQ after the qualifiers and he also came out on top in the ultra-close 30-minute A-main event that had Paolo Morganti (Capricorn) finish in 2nd, only 6.6 seconds behind DJ while Serpent’s Joaquin Desoto came in 3rd to round out the top 3 just 0.052 seconds behind Paolo.
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The seventh round of the BRCA Clubmans series was held at the Bedworth track in the usual Touring Stock and Formula classes. Despite missing Saturday’s practice, it was Luke Lee who made a clean sweep in qualifying to take the overall TQ in the Formula class. Onto the finals and on pole with a clear track ahead of him, Luke didn’t look back in leg 1, as he managed to create a gap and keep it for the whole race. Leg 2 however was not so straight forward. A mistake on the opening laps dropped Luke down the field and he tried to work his way though, but a few cars were beginning to struggle with rear grip under braking so on a couple of occasions they touched resulting in Luke waiting for them to regain track position ahead of him. Eventually Luke worked his way through the field and with just a minute to go there was a big gap to the lead car but he pushed hard and on the penultimate lap he was nose to tail, and he made a hard move to get passed but pushed the leader into a slide so he conceded the place back. With just one lap to go Luke tried a few places to get passed but eventually just a couple of corners from the end he managed to find a way past and took the win by just 0.17 seconds. Behind him it was Michal Lee on the runner-up from Lee Owen in 3rd, completing an all-Xray top 3. With the win Luke also took the overall championship with the maximum points score.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 7 of this year’s Xray Racing Series Greece was held at the RC Maniacs track in Argos recently. Sunny weather made for excellent racing conditions and in the Touring Modified class it was Ioannidis Dimitris with the day’s win from Dimitriou Dimitris while Diamadis Sotiris came in 3rd to round out the all-Xray podium.
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The 2019 ROAR Nitro On-road Nationals were hosted by the Toledo One Eighth Racers this past weekend. In the 1/8th GT ROAR Spec class it was Paolo Morganti (IGT8/Novarossi) with the overall TQ from Joaquin Desoto Jr in 2nd. In the 20-minute A-main event it was again Paolo who would lead the way, taking the win and 2019 title some four laps in front of 7th place qualifier, Franco Desiderio (SWorkz/Picco) while 4th place qualifier, Massimo Fabiani (SWorkz/Picco) came in 3rd to to round out the podium another two laps down.
Source: Picco [teampicco.com]
The 2019 Super One 1/8th Off-road Festival was held at the Icheon R/C Raceway in Icheon, South Korea this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy Pro class it was Ryan Lee with the overall TQ, a lap in front of Dani Choi. The race however was held in challenging weather conditions and due to a lot of rain coming down during the second round of qualifying, the race had to be stopped and the Q1 results were taken to determine the winner. This meant Ryan would take the overall from Dani in 2nd while Seunghwan Ra came in 3rd to round out the podium.
Image: Dani Choi
