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September 9, 2019

Nähr secures first ENS win at Season Finale

Patrick Nähr has secured his first ENS career win, the Shepherd driver leading a 1-2 finish for his team at the season finale in Ettlingen, Germany. Only returning to competitive racing this season after a break due to work commitments, Nähr would have a great battle with Melvin Diekmann as the German duo each looked to lay claim on their first ever win of the championship. As the race concluded Diekmann, who led for quite sometime, had the faster car but trying to make a pass on the penultimate lap he made contact with his team-mate. Waiting for Nähr’s car to be returned to the track he himself went off the track putting an end to what was building up to be a thrilling finish to the sixth season of the ENS. Qualifying 3rd and 4th respectively, Nähr & Diekmann found themselves at the front after an unfortunate incident between Top Qualifier Jilles Groskamp and Thilo Tödtmann. Having engine issues in the warm-up, Groskamp started the race ok with Tödtmann on his bumper but the engine flamed out 3-minutes into the race and with nowhere to go Tödtmann ran into the rear of it causing a pivot ball to come off. Both would rejoin and Tödtmann challenged for the podium on the final lap but missed out to Leo Arnold while Groskamp got 6th.

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September 9, 2019

Marco Baruffolo wins at Italian Buggy Nats Rd3

Last weekend’s Italian ACI 1/8th Buggy Nationals held at the Ongaro Ring not only saw Davide Ongaro taking the win in the Expert Nitro Buggy class, it was also Xray’s Marco Baruffolo with the win in 1/8th E-Buggy. When the dust had settled after the triple A-mains Marco walked away with the wins in A2 and A3 for the overall from Tekno RC’s Alex Zanchettin in 2nd and Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 9, 2019

SIGP Sunpadow Int’l On-Road GP – Announcement

The 2019 SIGP Sunpadow International RC Car On-Road Grand Prix & Hobbywing Cup Touring Car Open Race will be held at the Chinese Xiamen ARC International Track from the 21st to the 24th of November. Classes run include Touring Modified, Pro Stock and Sport as well as 1/8th IC Track, 1/8th GT and 1/5th scale Electric Motorcycle. Full details and registration can be found on the official website here.

September 9, 2019

Tyler Jones doubles at OEOSS Rd5

Round 5 of the OEOSS Series was held at Jax Trax in Union City, Indiana this past weekend. The event attracted over 80 entries and in 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was TLR’s Tyler Jones with the overall TQ and win from Mugen’s Collin Weatherholt on the 2 spot, the latter ending the 20-minute A-main event some 40 second behind the winner. Team Associated’s Matt Cline came in 3rd, another 6.6 seconds down.

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September 9, 2019

Jörn Neumann takes German 2WD Mod Buggy title

The 2019 German 2WD Buggy Nationals were held at the Arena33 in Andernach over the weekend. The event saw 43 entries for the 2WD Modified Buggy class that was top qualified by Marcel Schneider with Jörn Neumann coming in 2nd after the tie-breaker. Tom Maquel ended the qualifiers on the 3 spot from Moritz Lautenbach in 4th. The opening of the three A-main event then again saw Marcel and Jörn on the top 2 spots but it was Jörn who sealed the bag with wins in A2 and A3, leaving behind Marcel Schneider in 2nd while 5th place qualifier, Luca Rau came in 3rd to round out the podium.

Image: Jörn Neumann

September 9, 2019

Davide Ongaro wins at Italian 1/8th Buggy Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the Italian ACI 1/8th Buggy Championship was held at the Ongaro Ring this past weekend. The event was cut short a day due to the weather forecast and in the end it was Team Associated’s 1/8th Buggy World Champion, Davide Ongaro with the TQ and win in the Expert class, leaving behind Xray’s Marco Baruffolo in 2nd. Kyosho’s Mattia Polito came in 3rd to round out the Expert class podium result.

Image: Davide Ongaro

September 9, 2019

Elliott Boots crowned 2019 BRCA Rally X champion

The fifth and final round of the BRCA 1/8th Rally X Nationals was held at the Slough track this past weekend. SWorkz’s Elliott Boots was in control of things all weekend, taking the TQ, win and with it the overall championship in style. Infinity’s Lee Martin came in 2nd at the season finale from Team Associated’s Jamie Clancy in 3rd. Overall in the championship and behind Elliott it was Jamie Clancy with the vice-championship from Agama’s Jonathan Skidmore, who suffered clutch issues in the A-main final but with an 11th place he still was able to secure an overall top 3 result.

Image: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

September 6, 2019

Kurzbuch Top Qualifier at ENS Finale

Euro Nitro Series Champion Simon Kurzbuch will see out his successful 2019 campaign by starting the final race of the season at Ettlingen in Germany from pole position. The Shepherd driver secured his 15th ENS career TQ by taking the fourth & final qualifier as his only remaining challenger Carmine Raiola posted the third fastest time, over 2-seconds down on the Swiss ace. Raiola’s team-mate Dario Balestri would push Kurzbuch hard in Q4 heading his rival a number of times before traffic ended the Italian’s chances. Ending up tied on points, Raiola’s Q1 TQ run gives him second over his Infinity team-mate who will start third. Winner of the season opener in Italy, Dominic Greiner will start the scheduled 45-minute final from P4 with Serpent’s new 989 ahead of the ARC of former ENS race winner John Ermen with Jeffrey Rietveld completing the top half of the grid.

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