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June 21, 2018

Queensland State Titles – Report

The 2018 1/10 Off-Road Queensland State Titles were held at Sunshine Coast’s Valley Raceway in Queensland, Australia last weekend. The event titles saw drivers from the local clubs and some drivers from NSW come to race on the Valley Raceway track on a lovely Queensland winter weekend. The club had done some changes to their layout, adding some of the 1/8 track jumps to the 1/10 layout, providing some great racing over the weekend. With the slippery track 2WD Mod was always going to be about smooth driving, from early on it was going to be the battle between the Australian champ, Christopher Sturdy and the 2017 state champ Alex Bernadzik, Christopher Sturdy taking Q1, Q2 and Q4 to take out the TQ with Alex in 2nd and Mitchell Pratt in 3rd. A1 and A2 was all Christopher Sturdy taking the title over Alex Bernadzik with Mitchell Pratt in 3rd.

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June 20, 2018

RC Lemans Series Rd4 – Report

The second part of this year’s RC Lemans Series season kicked off last weekend at the MCC Rhein Ahr club near Koblenz in Germany. The weather forecast for the weekend wasn’t very promising, however despite a short rain shower on Saturday evening the race would be held in dry conditions. A nicely prepared track with lots of grip welcomed the drivers, making for good racing conditions for everyone. In the LMP2 Stock class reigning Champion, Andreas Dick, in his first RC Lemans race this season, took the overall TQ about a second in front of Kai Asmer, both running 200mm cars. Mathijs Hermens from the Netherlands, local hero Max Johennken und Franz-Jakob Reinartz completed the top 5 after the qualifiers.

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June 19, 2018

Pontus Larsson TQs & wins Procircuit race

The Procircuit race was held in Sweden last weekend in several nitro and electric off-road classes. In 1/8th Nitro Buggy Pontus Larsson (Serpent) would sweep the qualifiers and he also dominated the main final, bringing home the win some three laps in front of local driver, Fredrick Cederberg (Mugen) as Micke Svensson (Serpent) rounded out the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 19, 2018

Valls & Martinez successful at Catalan Champs Rd3

The third round of this year’s Catalan Championship were held at the Montbrió track in Tarragona last weekend. The Nitro Buggy class saw Alex Valls walking away with the win some 15 seconds in front of Pol Hernando Ors on the runner-up spot. Dani Batlle completed the all-Mugen podium in 3rd. Over in the E-Buggy class it was Alex Martinez with the win from Jaume Figuls 2nd and Juanma Lerma in 3rd.

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June 19, 2018

Evans & Lewis win at NorCal Summer Series Rd2

Round 2 of the NorCal On-road Summer Series was held at Nor-Cal Hobbies last weekend. EJ Evans took the TQ in the Touring Modified class as Eric Vasutin came out fastest in Nitro Touring Car. In the single 5-minute Touring Mod A-main it was again EJ who lead the field with Lex Tyler finishing only 0.15 seconds behind in 2nd place. Aaron Lewis would round out the top 3 some further 5.7 seconds back.

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June 19, 2018

2018 ROAR Fuel Off-road Nationals – Report

The 2018 ROAR Fuel Nationals was held at Southside R/C Raceway in Lake City, Florida last week. With over 10 inches of rain on the days set aside to build the track, the crew at Southside were up against Mother Nature and Father Time, but they never gave up and were able to complete the build literally hours before scheduled open practice. The weather was hot and humid. It rained every day, but thanks to the crew at Southside, everyone were racing shortly after the rain delays and the track stayed very similar to how it was before the rain.

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June 18, 2018

Jean-Pierrick Sartel wins at French IC Buggy regional

The French Mini Auto Club Saint Quentinois held a regional 1/8th buggy race this past weekend and it was Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel with the TQ after the qualifiers and the win in the 30-minute main final. TLR’s Jerome Sartel would end the day on the 2 spot from HB Racing’s Malcolm Roquet in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 18, 2018

Matsukura & Branson win at EFRA GP Series

The MRTM Lostallo track hosted the third round of the EFRA GP series this past weekend. In the premier 1/8th Nitro class Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura scored his first 1/8th class win after an amazingly fast and faultless drive and perfect tyre strategy. Infinity’s Dario Balestri came in 2nd some five seconds behind his Japanese teammate as Shepherd’s Simon Kurzbuch rounded out the top 3 podium result. Lamberto Collari and Jesse Davis, both for Infinity, came in 4th and 5th respectively. Overall in the championship it was Simon Kurzbuch with the title from Dario Balestri in 2nd.

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