The 1/10th Electric Off-road Portuguese Cup was held last weekend at the RC Oeste indoor carpet track. In the 2WD Buggy qualifiers, it was Xray’s Pedro Gomes who would take the TQ by winning three of the four qualifiers, closely followed by Kyosho’s Joao Figueiredo. In the final Pedro would bring home the overall after the first to finals, leaving behind Team Associated’s Nuno Casal Ribeiro in 2nd and Joao Figueiredo 3rd.
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This past weekend the 2019 Desert Classic was held at Chandler, Arizona’s Hobby Action R/C Raceway, one of the hotbeds for RC talent. Powered by some of the biggest names in the industry and multiple World Champions like Ryan Maifield, Spencer Rivkin, and legend Brian Kinwald to name a few. To be fast at Hobby Action, it requires the latest and greatest in tire prep and technologies. Some say “burning in your tires” all started in Arizona and this weekend witnessed the first major application of tire warmers for off-road use. Either way, things are on the cutting edge and the competitiveness is always among the highest in Arizona, but somehow the atmosphere is still super friendly and relaxed in the pits making it a weekend of great racing and quality family and friends time. Because of its large size, Hobby Action has one of the fastest paces to offroad racing anywhere in the world. The smooth surface combined with slick tires makes for an ultra-fast feeling of being on the edge and spinning out of control.
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The opening round of the French 1/8th E-Buggy National Championship was held at the EMC Reims indoor clay track last weekend. Over 100 drivers signed in and it was Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel who would be in control of things all day, sweeping the qualifiers for the overall TQ in front of HB Racing’s Romain Valter and Mugen’s Stephane Deroch. After the triple A-mains it was still JP on top to take the day’s win from Romain in 2nd. Stephane would round out the podium in 3rd and in front of Cyril Baldini and Felix Koegler.
Image: Stéphane Ménager
The JConcepts Super Cup Series headed to the west coast of Florida for race 3, Dean’s Discount Hobbies and Raceway would host and it was the series first time at Dean’s track in New Port Richey. With 105 entries, the organizers started on time and kept the normal, fast paced race program, completing the day just after 4pm which made it nice for those with a long drive home. Racing-wise and in the 2WD Mod Buggy class Daimon Borkowicz would qualify on top but would end up finishing 9th. Lee Setser would take over the top spot and never look back finishing 1st. AJ Marasco would go on to finish 2nd and Paul Wynn in 3rd.
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The RC Maniax Arena in Izumi near Osaka, Japan held their 6.5th Anniversary race this past weekend. The race saw the running of 4WD Modified and Stock classes and it had Kyosho’s Kohta Akimoto walking away with the TQ and win in the 4WD Mod Buggy class. Yusuke Sugiura came in 2nd for his new 1/10th chassis sponsors Yokomo as RC car icon, Masami Hirosaka, ended the race on the 3 spot to round out the podium.
Source: Kyosho [kyosho.com]
The Trofeo Enneti was held at the Club Automodellistico 5 Colli trac in Gubbio, Italy this past weekend. Run in 1/8th and 1/10th on-road classes the event attracted some of the country’s fastest on-road drivers and in 1/8th IC Track it was Dante Piersante with the overall TQ from Roberto De Cesare in 2nd. In the 30-minute main final Roberto was able to bring home the win some five seconds in front of Dante in 2nd as Gianmarco Di Febo completed the top 3 podium result some three laps down.
Image: Roberto De Cesare
42 drivers attended the final round of the Winter Series at a windy Brookthorpe track with all three steps on the overall Winter Series able to change. Jon Howells (Team Associated) took the initiative and first round of qualifying. Chris Lovell (HB Racing) took the 2nd and 3rd with Jon taking the final round, giving Jon overall TQ on countback. Onto the A-final Jon rolled it on the first corner with Chris rolling at on the next corner. Throughout the race both drivers had challenges which ended up with them together on the last lap. Chris Lovell managed to hold on for the win, with Jon Howells 2nd and an excellent drive by Will Day to take his first A-final podium. The results meant that Chris Lovell (HB Racing) won the series, with Jon Howells (Team Associated) 2nd and Jake Knight (Tekno) 3rd. In the juniors Will Day (TLR) took top spot, with Rowan Ainsbury (JQRacing) 2nd and Jake Westwood (TLR) 3rd.
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The 2019 ROAR Electric On-Road Carpet Nationals were hosted by ProLevel RC of Chesterfield, Missouri this past weekend. The event was held in the usual mix of rubber and foam tyre classes and in the premier Touring Modified category it was Sam Isaacs with the TQ and win from Kyle Klingforth in 2nd. Brandon Clements, Chris Adam and Keven Hebert all matched their qualifying positions to round out the top 5 results.
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