The 2019 XRS Poland Procircuit race will be held on the weekend of the 14th of July at the Wlodawa track in Poland. Classes run will be Nitro Buggy, E-Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Truggy as well as an open class with Procircuit Sprinter soft compound tyres being the control tyre for the buggy classes. The race will be held on a smooth clay surface “US style” track and full information as well as sign-up can be found on social media here.
The MRSC Amberg track played host to round 2 of the South German IC Track regionals last weekend. Alex Dill would walk away with the win in the 1/10th 200mm class from John Knight on the 2 spot. Matthias Bareuther came in 3rd to round out the podium result.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Last weekend the 3rd round of the North German 1/10th 200mm Nitro regionals was hosted by the AMC Hildesheim e.V. last weekend. With two days of sunshine all drivers could enjoy plenty of track time on a well prepared track, however low traction and high tyre wear made it a challenge for everybody to find a good balance. In the 1/10th 200mm class it was Shepherd’s Rico Kröber who took TQ after four rounds of qualification in front of Tim Benson (Serpent) and Jakub Rozycki (Xray).
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The fourth round of the Madrid 1/8th Buggy Regionals was held at the Automodelismo Tarancon track last weekend with nearly 30 drivers in attendance. Oscar Navarro and Juanma Guillen battled it out for the TQ with the better end for Oscar who also brought home the win in the 45-minute A-main final. Some 21 seconds behind it was Dani Vega on the runner-up spot while Miguel Reyes completed the top 3 podium result some four laps down on Oscar and Dani.
Image: Dani Vega
The Japanese JMRCA 1/12th scale National Championships were held at the world-famous Yatabe Arena this past weekend. Run in Modified and Stock classes it was Yokomo’s Toto Ebukuro with the overall win in the Modified category from Toshi Yanagisawa with the vice-championship. Destiny’s Kazuki Yamashita would come in 3rd to round out the podium.
Source: Mon-Tech [mon-techracing.net]
The Turkish Buyukcekmece track held their track opening race last weekend with some of the countries fastest 1/8th off-road drivers making for some tight racing. In 1/8th E-Buggy it was Xray’s Alain Sarafyan with the TQ and also the overall victory as Mugen’s Ilker Alarcin and TLR’s Kadir Kahramaner came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 4th round of the Lap Paradise Off-Road League was held at the Lap Paradise RC Raceway in Malaysia last weekend. Danial Miswan was in control of things all weekend, taking the overall Nitro Buggy TQ after the qualifiers and also bringing home the win in the 60-minute A-main event a lap in front of Adam Fikri on the runner-up spot. Kent Sung came in 3rd to round out the podium another two laps as as Terrence Lim and Faris Amir completed the top 5 results.
Source: SRT [srt-rc.com]
Round 3 of the 4WD South East Regional Series was held at the Barham track last weekend. In the en it was Ed Karry with the wins in A2 and A3 for the overall from Nathan Ralls with 1-3-7 finishes in 2nd. David Poulter scored three straight 2nd place finishes but had to settle for 3rd overall after the tie-breaker with Nathan.
Image: David Poulter
