Flowood RC Indoor Park played host to the January-ish Jam last weekend. New Agama signing, Ryan Lutz was the man to beat in Expert Nitro Buggy, Expert Nitro Truggy and Expert E-Buggy as he took the overall TQs and also wins to round out a perfect weekend. In the 35-minute Expert Nitro Buggy A-main it was Kody Watson (Agama) on the 2 spot, some six laps behind Ryan as Team Associated’s Drew Spurgeon came in 3rd, another lap down.
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The world famous Snowbird Nationals was held once again at the Park Inn Resort in Kissimmee, Florida. A strong North American as well as international presence meant that the race would be as prestigious as ever and with more than 700 entries in total, it makes this one of the bigger events of the year in the US. Touring Modified was a pretty straight forward affair. After winning all qualifiers, Xray’s Alexander Hagberg also went on to win the main final, after a clean run in the A-final. Awesomatix’s Sam Isaacs came in 2nd from Destiny driver, Yugo Nagashima.
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Round 9 of the HNMC Winter Series was held last weekend in changing track conditions. The Friday before the event there was heavy snow, however the club was able to clean the track in an epic effort. Sunday would start off frozen then slippery onto damp/muddy then onto dry for the last finals, with the track gaining character throughout the day making it challenging for all the drivers. In qualifying Callum Niblett took the Nitro Buggy TQ, George Miller TQ’d Truggy and Darren Hayden-Ball was fastest in E-Buggy. In the 20-minute Buggy A-main, Callum would come out fastest some seven seconds in front of Lewis Jones while Kieran Cox rounded out the top 3 a lap down. Truggy saw Warabe Tatkoji taking the win from 2nd placed Jonathan Afshin and 3rd placed George Miller. Finally in E-Buggy it was Darren Hayden-Ball with the win from Erik Lykke and Keith Jackson.
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Rise Up HobbyTown of Palm Desert, California held the opening round of the SoCal Desert Series this past weekend. The race was held in several 1/10th electric modified and stock classes and in the 13.5T Wheeler class it was Nano Vandermolen with the overall TQ. In the single 6-minute A-main event however it was CJ Hernandez with the win, a narrow 0.450 seconds in front of TQ holder Nano. Victor Pitones would round out the podium in 3rd, some 21 seconds behind the top 2.
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Last week’s 2019 Snowbird Nationals saw the running of the growing GT12 class with CRC’s Brian Wynn taking the overall TQ after the qualifiers, leading the 29-car field. In the A-main, Charlie Menard, team leader for the Menard Factory Racing (MFR) effort, harassed Wynn, sneaking his CK25 past Brian to take the A-main victory. Charlie was super fast all weekend and despite having to put up with his pit buddies John Wiita and Kevin Van Ert for a full week, he was able to clear his mind and focus, taking the win in GT12. Colorado CRC teammate Mario Ficco mounted a broom to his CK25 making it a CRC sweep of the podium.
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Bruno Coelho has put his 4WD Euro Offroad Series campaign on track with victory at the third round in Daun, Germany. Coming into the weekend with a four points deficit to reigning champion Michal Orlowski, the Xray driver was gifted an early overall win after a dramatic final lap in A2. Starting from the TQ and having won A1, Coelho threw things wide open on the opening lap with an identical first lap error to that of 2WD Top Qualifier Orlowski in yesterday’s opening 2WD A-Main. At the table top, Coelho’s car jumped wide off the landing and ended up in the infield allowing four cars to go by. Recovering 2 of those places and suffering an error while attempting to challenge Orlowski for second, the Portuguese was settling for third but then as leader Joona Haatanen started his final lap be crashed at the corner jump breaking his car which was then collected by Orlowski allowing Coelho who had been some distance back to slip through for his second win of the day, again ahead of team-mate Daniel Kobbevik, and take his first EOS win since the penultimate round of last season’s championship in Wels, Austria. Those results would stand to young Kobbevik helping him secure his first podium double weekend while victory in A3 was enough for Orlowski to secure 2nd.
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The 2019 edition of the iconic Snowbird Nationals was held in Orlando, Florida last week. The race attracted the usual mix of national and international top drivers and in 1/12th GTP Modified it was Destiny’s Kazuki Yamashita from Japan, who took the overall TQ after the qualifiers in front of new Xray signing, Keven Hebert. In the single 8-minute A-main final Kazuki would hold the upper hand, taking the win from UK’s Ollie Payne (Roche) as Keven Hebert had to settle for 3rd overall. Xray’s Jan Ratheisky from Germany and multi-time Snowbird winner, Alexander Hagberg (Xray) would round out the top 5.
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The Palapenz track in Chiasso played host to the fourth round of the Swiss Indoor Championship this past weekend. The race was held in several 1/10th and 1/12th scale touring and pan car classes and in the popular Formula category, attracting nearly 30 entries, it was Simone Brocca with the pole position after the qualifiers from Marco Donadelli in 2nd and Luca Marinelli in 3rd. After the triple A-mains the top 3 would remain the same, with Simone taking the win from Marco and Luca.
