The recent Four Race was held in Italy and it saw national frontrunner, Marco Baruffolo (Xray) taking the TQ and win in the Nitro Buggy class. Three laps down Agama’s Giovanni Camamo came in 2nd from Mugen driver Andrea Di Cecco in 3rd.
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The Austrian MORAC Ring held a club race this past weekend and in the 1/8th IC Track class it was Tomáš Lipták who came out on top after the double 20-minute A-main finals. Branislav Panák and Erich Scharler would round out the top 3. Over in the single 30-minutes 200mm main final it was Oliver Havránek with the overall win from Filip Obora and Igor Lipták.
Round 4 of the BRCA IC Track National Championship was held at the Brookline track and was held as the British Open GP together with the 1/10th 200mm GP class. The latter saw Alex Thurston taking the overall TQ honours after winning Q1 and Q2. In the final Alex had a clean start with him, Kyle Branson and Mark Green having a great race up front until a marshall put a back marker back on the track just before the straight meaning that Alex would come along and smash into him flat out. The crash crushed his car’s body, broke his bumper and damaged a front shock and the following pitstop meant that he was out of the equation for the win. Alex lost a good amount of laps, however with a borrowed shock from a retired teammate he was able to at least score a 3rd place finish to snatch valuable points as Mark Green came in 2nd and Kyle Branson took the win.
Image: Alex Thurston
Round 2 of the Tyrolean Championship was hosted by the RCCÖ club and held in Umhausen. Like the previous round the race was held in four electric on-road classes and in the Touring Modified category, that attracted a total of six entries all of which were in a position to win or at least finish on the podium, it was Thomas Rinner with error-free runs that award him the overall win from Aaron Tursky 2nd and Markus Fleischmann 3rd.
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The fourth round of the Czech Open series took place last weekend in Mlada Boleslav. Jiri Mara (SWorkz) and Kaja Novotny (Xray) traded TQs in the Nitro Buggy qualifying and in the end it was Jiri who won the final qualifier by a few tenths of a second for the overall TQ. In the main final it was again Jiri on top of the field while Kaja had problems to follow, mainly because of damages his buggy suffered from after a centre driveshaft pin came loose in his semi final. A quick repair allowed him to take part in the final, starting from P3, however Kaja wasn’t able to push his buggy but after a somewhat chaotic final, he was still able to finish on the runner-up spot and in front of Jiri Benes.
For round 3 of this year’s JBRL Nitro Series racers travelled to the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California. Mugen’s Adam Drake would sweep the Expert Nitro Buggy, Open Truggy and Open E-Buggy classes to make a perfect sweep. Anthony Westergaard (HB Racing) and Carlos Arredondo (Tekno) came in 2nd and 3rd in the Expert Buggy class while Carlos Arredondo and Cole Jenson (HB Racing) rounded out the Open Truggy podium. Finally in the Open E-Buggy class it was Anthony Westergaard on the runner-up spot from Steve Harris (Tekno) 3rd.
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Round three of the BRCA 1/10th Formula National Championship was held at the Aldershot track this past weekend. Andy Murray and Ben Cosgrove, the latter being hindered by not be able to show up for Saturday’s practice rounds, battled it out for the overall TQ in qualifying. Ultimately it was Ben with the TQ and pole position thanks to winning the tie-breaker. In the opening A-main Ben made a mistake about three laps in running too low and rolling mid sweeper dropping him back to 4th. He managed to catch and pass Luke Lee in the sweeper the next lap and then Andy and James Wright were tangled together when Cosgrove arrived at the next corner. From then on Ben backed off and took a relaxed leg win. Leg 2 then was a very simple race from the front with a controlled pace so Ben Cosgrove (Xray) took the leg win and with it the overall with Luke Lee (Xray) and Stephen Lander (Capricorn) coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Thanks to Ben Cosgrove for the report.
The third round of the 2018 South-African ORE 1/12th National Championship series was held at the Welkom RC Arena. In the 1/12 Modified class and after missing round 2 due to his host responsibilities at the pre-worlds, local Xray driver Antonio Caroli showed good early pace during practice with Marius van Niekerk, Shaun Schutte, Willie du Plooy and Wayne Joelson also running good fast laps. Ultimately it was Antonio Caroli who managed to secure TQ with Marius van Niekerk and Willie du Plooy starting from 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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