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July 22, 2019

Ari Heinonen sweeps Finnish 1/8th Buggy Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the Finnish 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held at Fullspeed RC in Vantaa, Finland this past weekend. Ari Heinonen took the overall TQ after winning two of the three qualifying rounds from Lauri Ruotsalainen, who also took a round TQ. In the 45-minute A-main event it was again Ari who would prevail, taking the win some twelve seconds in front of Markku Honkanen on the runner-up spot. A lap down Simo Ahoniemi would complete the top 3 result, finishing on the same lap as 4th placed Tomi Salonen and 5th placed Lauri Ruotsalainen.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]

July 22, 2019

Wang & Tyler win at Sven Böhringer Family Reunion

Timezone Raceway of Battle Ground, Washington played host to the annual Sven Böhringer Family Reunion race, attracting over 150 entries in the six cases of 1/8th Masters, 1/8th Open, GT8, 1/10th 200mm Nitro, Touring Modified and Touring 17.5T Stock. In Touring Modified, drawing nearly 30 entries, it was Xray‘s JJ Wang with the overall TQ some 0.019s in front of Xray teammate, Korey Harbke. After the triple A-main events it was still JJ on top, thanks to winning A2 and A3 for the overall as Korey had to settle for 2nd with 1-2-5 finishes. 8th place qualifier, Yokomo‘s Randy Caster came in 3rd to round out the podium.

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July 22, 2019

Schreffler & Mazzara win at Hot Race Challenge

Barnstormers Raceway of Chester, New York recently played host to the Hot Race Challenge, attracting a total of 200 entries. In 1/8th E-Buggy it was HB Racing’s Jason Schreffler with the overall win from Xray’s Jared Phair on the 2 spot. Mugen’s Bryan Kata came in 3rd to round out the podium. Over in E-Truggy it was Mugen’s Anthony Mazzara with the overall from Jared Phair 2nd and Bryan Kata 3rd.

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July 22, 2019

Austrian Electric Off-road Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Austrian 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the ERT Steyregg club, host of the recent EOS round a couple of weeks ago. Wet weather greatly affected the weekend, however thanks to racing on astro turf the drivers would still be able to get some practice and the qualifiers in until the organisers decided to call it a day due to really heavy rain that made running the finals impossible.

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July 22, 2019

ROAR 1/8 EP Off-road & 4WD SCT Nationals – Report

The 2019 ROAR 1/8th Electric Off-road & 4WD Short Course Nationals were held at Adrenaline RC Raceway in Winchester, Virginia this past weekend. The ROAR National Championships is the biggest race of the year and just having wrapped up the 1/8th Fuel Nationals earlier in Hutto, Texas, it was time for the 2019 ROAR E-Nationals featuring most of the same top drivers competing for E-Buggy, E-Truggy, 4×4 SCT, and Masters E-Buggy National championships. Of course, the heavy hitters were in attendance which is always going to make for a good show. This year’s track was hosted by Adrenaline R/C. The layout made use of the track space and was a very nicely put together layout that mixed fun and challenge. The racing was going to be very close on a tight layout like this and the mains definitely showed that. Regardless, the fastest drivers seem to always find another gear when they need it and at this race, the usual suspects were still there.

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July 22, 2019

Kurzbuch secures 4th ENS title with another Aigen win

Simon Kurzbuch has secured the 2019 Euro Nitro Series title after claiming his fifth consecutive win at the hillside Aigen track in Austria. Travelling to the third round of the Euro Nitro Series on the back of his first win of the season at Round 2 in the Netherlands, the Shepherd driver collected maximum points taking the TQ and win ahead of reigning champion Dario Balestri. With the demise of Dominic Greiner, who came into the weekend just 1-point off the Swiss ace, Kurzbuch becomes Champion of the ENS for a fourth time. In the Round 3 encounter, it was the Infinity pairing of Balestri and Carmine Raiola who were the only ones to trouble Kurzbuch in the 45-minute Saturday night final. Raiola was to lead for a time until he hit traffic, literally, and had to pit for body repairs. With Kurzbuch and Balestri having the same tyre strategy but in reverse order, the latter going for all four tyres in the first stop and just the outside in the second, as the race came to a close it looked like we might see a repeat of the thrilling finish to the 1:10 A-Main. In the end Kurzbuch calculated things perfectly crossing the line 9/10ths of a second in front of his long standing rival while Raiola came home third to complete the podium. Off the podium, Toni Gruber would finish 4th ahead of Merlin Depta with Rick Vrielijnck rounding out the Top 6.

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July 22, 2019

Leino lifts ENS title with 3 out 3 wins

Teemu Leino is the 2019 Euro Nitro Series Champion, the 2016 champion securing back to back 1:10 titles today for Infinity with a thrilling win over team-mate & outgoing Champion Jilles Groskamp. Securing the TQ in Austria with a dominant performance in all four qualifiers, the Finn looked like he was going to continue that form in the final but in the final 5-minutes Groskamp made an impressive charge for one of the closest finishes in ENS history. With Leino holding a steady 2-second gap for much of the race, last year’s Aigen winner hunted him down bringing the gap down to 2/10th as they crossed the line. Having won the opening two rounds of the Championship in Italy and the Netherlands, Leino third consecutive win secures him the title with the perfect campaign. While the two Infinity drivers the class of the field, it was Shepherd’s Melvin Diekmann who completed the Round 3 podium after battle with team-mate Thilo Tödtmann ended when he hit gearbox issues. France’s Quentin Leroux had a good race coming from P8 to 4th over the 45-minutes ahead of Rico Kröber who had bumped up to the 12th and final spot on the A-Main from the B-Final.

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July 22, 2019

Jörn Neumann takes German E-Buggy title

The iconic Bischofsheim track played host to the German 1/8th Electric Buggy Nationals this past weekend. When the dust had settled after the triple A-main events it was multi-time German National Champion, SWorkz’s Jörn Neumann with the overall win thanks to coming out on top in A1 and A3 for the overall title from Agama’s Burak Kilic, who took the win in A2. Mugen driver Aaron Rönick came in 3rd to round out the podium in front of Agama’s Berkan Kilic in 4th and SWorkz driver Micha Widmaier in 5th.

Image: Markus Reise