Control Chaos Raceway of Palmdale, California hosted round 3 of the JBRL Electric Off-road Series last weekend. Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo took the overall TQ in 2WD Open Buggy and he also came out on top after the single 6-minute A-main event, taking the win a lap in front of the TLR duo of Sammy Moran and Brendon Larrowe.
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The 2019 Manufacturers Cup was held at Amain’s California-based Silver Dollar R/C Raceway last weekend, attracting most of the country’s swift off-road racers. Overall entries were over 200 and people were genuinely excited to run their cars on the killer track at Silver Dollar R/C Raceway. What a race it was in the Pro Nitro Buggy class as the two Arizona’s best went head to head. Mugen’s Ryan Maifield was dominant on day 1, but Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin up’d his game on Sunday and was able to beat out Maifield on the tie-breaker when it came down to best score. Since both drivers had identical results of two wins and one 2nd place finish, the tie-breaker came down to single fastest run with Spencer taking the win. Mugen’s Adam Drake came in 3rd with a total of 9 points.
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With full scale rally cars and cross karts as backdrop, Black Track RC held their first Mini RallyX Nordic Cup this past weekend at Motorsport Nordjylland, Denmark. Featuring the Traxxas Ford Fiesta ST Rally cars straight from the box, the cup is both affordable and challenging for drivers of any skill level as the class is locked to stock electronics including the transmitter. Erik Pedersen took a hard-fought TQ over Per Eriksen in the qualifying rounds and Dennis Falk taking a solid 3rd. It was a really close race in the first main but small mistakes from Pedersen gave Eriksen the win. In leg 2, Pedersen lost his rhythm letting Eriksen sail to the lead, which he held all the way to the checkered flag giving him the overall #1 spot and Pedersen 2nd. Dennis Falk kept his 3rd through out the mains leaving rookie drivers Søren Pedersen and young William Vinther battling for 4th and 5th. Between heats spectators got a chance at racing with the Traxxas cars as the club has seven kits they rent out at events to help promote the sport. At the end of the day the drives from both full scale and RC were celebrated at the podium. The club will be hosting the final round of the Danish nationals for 10th scale electric 2WD, 4WD and Stadium Truck in August.
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The second round of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the MACG Steiermark club last weekend. The weather made for some challenging racing conditions and in the end it was Dominic Vogl with the TQ and win in the Touring Modified class. Sascha Klug came in 2nd from Patrick Gollner on the 3 spot. In the Touring Stock class it was Philipp Stadler with the overall TQ, however after the triple A-mains it was Robin Riedmann with the overall win from Arno Webernig in 2nd and top qualifier Philipp in 3rd.
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Every year the HNMC runs a Members GP this is a free meeting to thank all the club members for their support. They used a different race format this meeting with 15-minute qualifiers and 30-minute finals for Nitro and 10-minute qualifiers for E-Buggy and Truggy and two leg 12-minute finals – this was run as FTQ. When the qualifiers were over, Kevin Brunsden took the TQ in Nitro Buggy, Richard Miller took TQ in E-Buggy and George Miller top qualified Truggy. In the Nitro Buggy main Kevin Brunsden took the win from Taro Cradock and Owen Luckin. Truggy was won by George Miller from Darren Roper and James Morl. Over in E-Buggy it was Ricky Copper from James Clarke and Rick Spiers.
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The third and final round of the EFRA GP Series was held at the iconic Türkheim track in Germany last weekend. The 1/10th 200mm Touring class was dominated by Serpent’s Dominic Greiner, who took the win in the 45-minute A-main with a margin of three laps on runner-up, Dario Balestri (Infinity). Xray’s Leo Arnold came in 3rd, some six seconds short of Dario’s time. Carmine Raiola and Patrick Nähr completed the top 5, some two laps behind the Leo. Overall in the championship it was Dario Balestri with the title from Infinity teammate, Carmine Raiola on the runner-up spot. Serpent’s Alex Thurston came in 3rd to round out the overall top 3 podium.
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The second round of the Dutch Buggy Cup was held at the Fivelcrossers track in Appingedam this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Wesley van Helmond with the overall TQ in front of Jarno Pijpers and Jordy Felder. The 30-minute main final then saw Jeffrey Halsema (Team Associated) taking the win a lap in front of JQRacing driver Oane Storm. Top qualifier Wesley van Helmond (SWorkz) had to settle for 3rd, some eight seconds behind Oane.
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DieHard RC of Snohomish, Washington held round 2 of their Summer Turf Series this past weekend. In the premier 2WD Modified Buggy class it was Team Associated driver Travis Schreven with the overall TQ with Schumacher’s Mikey Brown on the 2 spot and Serpent driver Colin Branch in 3rd. In the single 7-minute A-main it was an intense battle with several lead changes, but in the end Mikey would edge out Travis for the win by 1.6 seconds. Travis came in 2nd while Colin completed the top 3, only 1.7 seconds behind.
Image: Mikey Brown
