Round 4 of this year’s central German division Tonisport Onroad Series was held at the Mannheim track last weekend. In the Touring Modified class Mugen’s Eric Dankel made a clean sweep, TQing all four qualifying rounds of qualifying and also coming out on top after the triple A-mains. Team Magic’s Patrick Gassauer ended the day on the 2 spot from Thomas Stenger 3rd.
The 2018 Silver State race was held at South Point Hotel Casino and Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada last weekend, attracting the creme de la creme of the US’s off-road pilots. This year’s Silver State was a totally new experience from year’s past. In many ways, you can say that it’s a version 2.0 or a refresh of a great race organized by Joey Christiansen and The Dirt crew that still has the familiar taste, but a whole new look. One of the reasons why the Silver State is so popular is the plain and simple fact that it’s held in Las Vegas, Nevada also known as City of Lights (or Sin City whichever you prefer). Keeping the tradition alive, Joey decided to keep the race in Vegas but came up with a great idea to have an 8th scale and 5th scale race simultaneously at the South Point Hotel Casino and Spa. To everyone’s pleasant surprise, Joey hit the jackpot.
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The 29th running of the Ciudad de Elda Grand Prix was held at the Tomas Monzo track in Vinolopo last weekend with a total of 26 drivers signing in for the event that also counted as part of the Alicante Championships. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Juan Guillermo Carrasco who took the win with 41 laps, followed by Hugo Ibáñez with 40 laps in 2nd place and Eldense Ismael Puche in 3rd, also with 40 laps in the 30-minute A-main final.
Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com] via cadenaser.com [cadenaser.com]
This past weekend the rounds 3 and 4 of the UK NitroXCross series were being held at Nene Valley. Round 3 on Saturday was won by Lewis Jones with a 1-lap margin from Graham Alsop 2nd and Mike Lewis 3rd. The latter would went on to win Sunday’s round 4 from round 3 winner, Lewis Jones in 2nd and Jon Howells 3rd.
Round 2 of the Schumacher BTCC series moved to sunny Stafford this weekend with Elliott Harper taking the win in Modified ending Olly Jefferies’ fine run of form. Elliott took the overall TQ ahead of Olly, winning three of the four qualifiers, local fast guy Zak Smith having a strong day qualified 3rd. In the final Elliott controlled the pace, Zak managed to get past Olly into 2nd and that’s how it remained.
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Round 1 of this year’s Norwegian 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the Bergen track in what is considered to be the rainiest region of the country. And indeed did the race kick off on the wet, however things got better during the weekend with the grip slowly coming up. The track layout used was tight and technical and together with the unpredictable weather the drivers were forced to be on their toes in terms of setup and tyres. The weekend kicked off on Saturday with the 2WD class and right from the start it was Xray’s Daniel Kobbevik who set the pace. After winning three of the four qualifiers he put his buggy on the pole position from Torbjorn Doler (Team Associated) on P2 as as Øystein Doler (Team Associated) came in 3rd.
The opening round of the South German Nitro On-road regionals, qualifying races for the German Nationals, was held at the Minidrom Köditz MCC Hof track over the weekend. In the 1/8 nitro class it was Maxi Vogl who set the pace, setting the only 12-second lap time at the difficult track and just missing the lap record by three hundredths of a second. At the start of the final Maxi easily pulled away and he originally planing to do a tyre change mid-race, but decided to save his tyres and as a result, he took the win with a two-lap margin in front of Bastian Gramlich and Armin Baier.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
This past weekend saw the opening round of the Summer Northern Regional Series at NDOR in Nottingham, UK. Young Kieran Cox took the TQ and the win in Nitro Buggy in front of Jack Hirst 2nd and Ash Owen 3rd. The next round will be held on the 17th of June at the Deerdale astro track.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
