July 26, 2019

Antonia Kovalszki wins at SRCM track opening race

The SRCM track in Gyor, Hungary recently held their track opening race. After some thrilling qualifications in the E-Buggy class, Antonia Kovalszki managed to take the overall TQ while Robert Fekete started 2nd and Stefan Lutka 3rd. Antonia and Stefan had some entertaining battles for the top spot in all three finals and in the end it was Antonia Kovalszki who took the overall win in front of Stefan Lutka, while Zsombor Fekete came in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


July 26, 2019

Portuguese Electric On-road Championship Rd4 – Report

The fourth and penultimate round of the Portuguese Electric On-road Championship was held at the ARMAIA track last weekend, attracting 25 drivers for the Touring and twelve entries for the Formula classes. In Touring Car, Hugo Miguel would take the TQ, however in the A-finals Carlos Manuel (Capricorn) would find his way to the top taking the win in front of Hugo (Serpent) and Francisco (Xray). In Formula some intense racing with lots of overtaking was showcased. João Nascimento took the overall TQ but it was Paulo Bartolo (Serpent) with the overall win from the Xray duo of Luís Simões and João Nascimento.

View the Formula podium here


July 25, 2019

RC-Lemans Series Rd4 – Report

The AMC Hildesheim track near Hanover in the Northern part of Germany played host to round 4 of this year’s RC-Lemans Series last weekend. The weather was good all weekend except from a quite heavy rain shower on Saturday evening. The fast LMP1 class saw local hero and point standings leader Timo Schad leading the way in the qualifiers where he made a clean sweep to take the pole position for the triple A-mains from Tobias Weist on the 2 spot. Joachim Behnken, Reinder Wilms and Josip Bogdanovic followed behind while the swift Altmann duo of Kai and Tim were absent at round 4.

Continue reading the report here


July 25, 2019

Davide Ongaro crowned EFRA 2WD Euro Champ

The 2019 EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championships are taking place in Pinerolo, Italy this week. The event, held at the AgriModel Pista Off Road Jonny RC club, kicked off with the 2WD portion that attracted 75 entries. In qualifying round 1 and in heat 7 of 8 Neil Cragg would do the first 11 lap run in qualifying with the top seeded heat still to come. With a number of drivers having mistakes early on it would be Davide Ongaro who would come through to take control of the heat and be the second driver to set an 11 lap run with the quickest time in the round, Neil Cragg would be 2nd and Martin Bayer 3rd.

Continue reading the report here


July 24, 2019

HNMC Summer Series Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the Herts Nitro Model Club Summer Series was held last weekend. The congested calendar meant that this round clashed with the BRCA national but still almost 60 drivers attended the event. Qualifying would be the best three from four rounds with the Buggy TQ being Jay Williams, TQ in E-Buggy was Holger Lykke and the Truggy TQ went to George Miller. In the 20-minute Nitro Buggy A-main it was Wayne Buckhorn with the overall win some 20 seconds in front of John Niall. Jeremy Irving came in 3rd, only some two seconds behind John. E-Buggy saw Duncan Balgrove walking away with the win from Holger Lykke and Tony Verboom while in Truggy it was George Miller from John Afshin.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]


July 23, 2019

Branislav Panak wins at Timar Laszlo Memorial Race

The Timar Laszlo Memorial Race was held at the Morac-Ring track near Graz in Austria recently. The weekend kicked off with free practice on Friday with qualifying starting on Saturday noon with both days being affected by the weather. Xray’s Branislav Panak would lead qualifying in the damp and he also led the dry main final from tone to tone to take the win on Saturday some two laps in front of Anton Sloboda (Xray) while Filip Uher (Xray) came in 3rd another three laps down.

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July 23, 2019

Graham Hill wins at Border Wars Series Rd3

Round 3 of the Border Wars Series was held at LRC Raceway in Longmont, Colorado recently. The event is held in several nitro and electric off-road classes and in 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was Graham Hill with the clean sweep of overall TQ and win. Zeke Ballinger ended the 30-minute main final on the 2 spot, some five seconds behind the winner, as Sean Guthrie came in 3rd overall. Roman Gastelum and Jordan Davis would round out the top 5 result.

Source: Flashpoint R/C [flashpointrc.com]