The Pitlane Hobby Grand Prix was held in Puerto Rico last weekend. Samuel Zayas took the TQ in the GT8 class, however it was Fernando Mendez who would walk away with the win as Samuel had to settle for 2nd overall. In 3rd Juan Chalas rounded out an all-IGT8 podium.
Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]
The 8th Annual JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout was hosted by Fastlane Raceway in Blue Springs, Missouri last weekend. Always a popular race and this year the WIS attracted some of the best racers in the region like super talented Mason Fuller, Tom Rinderknecht Tyler Keel, Alex Vanderbeek, Nick Gibson, Michael Twilling, Dave Alberico, and Rico Karstens. The grip is always good at Fastlane Raceway and this year’s layout for the WIS was even better. Overall, the layout was fun but not too difficult and allowed great racing in all class. TLR’s Mason Fuller and Team Associated’s Tom Rinderknecht had an epic battle in the Invitational class. Both finished the 2WD portion tied in points while Mason edged out Tom by 2 points during the 4WD portion to take the overall invitational championship. Both drivers put on a ‘next level’ show as they scored no worse than a 2nd place finish.
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The first round of the 2018/19 Xray Racing Series Poland was held last weekend with about 130 drivers in attendance. For many it was the last chance to get some laps under their belt in preparation of the EOS round 2 that will be held this weekend in Warsaw. The track layout was pretty fast with nice jumps and the event attracted Poland’s super star racer, Michal Orlowski (Schumacher) along with Schumacher’s Tristam Neal. Without surprise the 2WD and 4WD Modified classes would then be dominated by Michal, who took the wins ahead of Yokomo’s Bartlomiej Zambrzycki and Xray’s Bartosz Zalewski.
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The second round of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend, with yet another sell-out entry creating a competitive and busy day. Olly Jefferies was out to extend his points lead after victory at the opening event of the series, but qualifying for the Modified class was opened up by Elliott Harper setting the pace with his Xray, ahead of recently crowned nitro onroad vice-world champion Kyle Branson (Capricorn) and Olly’s Schumacher. Alan Bickerstaff took his Associated to fourth in the round, ahead of Alex Thurston and Stefan Chodzynski. Elliott continued his form into the second qualifier, as Olly moved up to second and closed to within four-seconds of Elliott, with Alex taking a strong third in front of Stefan, with Belgian youngster Florian Joos, again making the trip over to the UK, in fifth.
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The opening round of the Winter Race Series was held at the RAP Carpet indoor track in Pianbosco, Italy. In the Touring Stock 13.5T class it was Nicola Di Palma with the win from Paolo Smorgon 2nd. Luigi Buffagni would round out the top 3 podium result, making it an Awesomatix 1-2-3.
Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]
This past weekend saw the latest round of the NXC Winter Series held at NWN near Blackpool. In 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was Chris Sharpe-Simkiss with the win from 2nd placed Ben Billing. Alan Ward would round out the top 3 podium result.
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The second round of 2018/19 Mibosport Cup was held last weekend in Hrotovice, Czech Republic. The event attracted both national and international drivers of which over 200 made their entry. The most popular classes would be 2WD and 4WD Buggy along a very strong 43 entries for the increasingly popular Formula class. The weekend kicked off with free practice on Friday followed by timed practice and an hour of open practice on Saturday morning for all drivers that missed Friday’s action. In the premier Touring Modified class Oliver Havranek, Matej Sulc, Patrick Gollner and first round winner Zdenko Kunak looked quick from the get go. The biggest challenge was between Oliver and Matej. Oliver did make the pass on Matej in A1, but did not manage to score a good result in A2. Matej however grabbed the important victory in second final and at the end he was the lucky one to stand on the top of Modified ranking list. Patrick Gollner kept Zdenko behind and took at least the 3rd spot while Zdenko Kunak had to satisfy himself with 4th place overall. The top 5 was completed by Andreas Stiebler.
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Coyote Hobbies of Victorville, California held their 2018 Fall Classic Race this past weekend at their indoor dirt track facility. The event attracted over 170 entries and in 2WD Open Buggy it was Ron Devoll with the TQ after the qualifiers and the win in the 6-minute single A-main event. A lap down it was Jeremy Hase Jr., coming from the 8 spot on the grid, who snatched the runner-up spot some 4.5 seconds in front of Blake Champlin.
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