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March 19, 2018

Bowie Ginting wins Indonesian Touring Nats Rd1

The opening round of Indonesian 1/10 Electric On-road National Championship was held at the Giant Arena Circuit in South Borneo. A huge 75×40 meters asphalt track, inside an asphalt mixing facility, attracted 50 racers who joined the primary Modified class in medium high traction conditions. Racing-wise it was the defending national champion, Bowie Ginting, who scored an early two TQ points to secure himself the pole position while Suwardi Suliandy took the 3rd round to start from 2nd on the grid followed by Chandra Yosef on P3. In the mains it was again Bowie who led the proceedings, taking the overall victory from Yosef and Suliandy.

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March 19, 2018

Micha Widmaier doubles in Leonberg

The annual 1/10th Electric Off-road race in Leonberg, Germany was held recently and it was SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier with the double TQ in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes. Winning all six A-main events secured Micha a double win for a clean sweep with Yokomo’s Aaron Münster taking the runner-up spots in both classes. Team C’s Sven Zünd would round out the 2WD podium while Xray’s Ales Schmitt completed the 4WD top 3.

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March 18, 2018

Lutz dominates EP Buggy in China

Completely dominating the Electric Buggy class here at the SIGP in Xiamen, southern China, Ryan Lutz took all qualifiers and the first two of 3 A-mains to wrap up the overall win early. In a league of his own, the winning margin after 5 minutes for the Tekno driver over 2nd place Yusuke Sugiura was 11 seconds in the first main, and 7 seconds over Sunpadow backed Kaja Novotny in the 3rd main. With the US driver sitting out A3, Sugiura would take the win in the final A-main to secure the runner up spot, while a disappointed Kaja took the final spot on the podium in 3rd place. Chen Guanxian, Jonathan Yeung and Chinese National Champion Hu Weiping would complete the top 6.

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March 17, 2018

Davis crowned FEMCA 1:8 Onroad Champion

Jesse Davis is the new FEMCA 1:8 Onroad Champion, the popular Australian leading an all Infinity podium at the Asian Championships that was this year hosted by the Tom Racing Circuit in Hong Kong. Focusing their efforts on 1:8 for the event, the World Champion manufacturer got the weekend off to a strong start with Naoto Matsukura taking his IF18 to the fastest time in the opening qualifier. The Japanese star went on to rule proceedings taking 4 of the 5 rounds of qualifying with team-mate Davis the only other driver to post a TQ run. With Matsukura Top Qualifier, Davis joined him as a direct qualifier for the final by winning Super Pole. Taking victory in his Semi Final, Takaaki Shimo joined them for what was to prove a tough 45-minute final. With multiple lead changes between the Infinity trio, at the end it was Davis who came out on top 3.5-seconds in front of Shimo. Having to make a late tyre stop while holding the lead, Matsukura completed the podium a further 6-seconds back.

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March 17, 2018

Double pole for Ryan Lutz in Xiamen

Confirming what everyone suspected following Rd1 of Practice, Ryan Lutz has taken the top qualifying spot in Nitro Buggy in Xiamen, China. Despite not improving on his Q1 time the Tekno driver continued to better his best lap time each round to end with a 33.542. Yusuke Sugiura would take the final round just ahead of Lutz but a number of mistakes meant he also didn’t improve his result. Wataru Takashiro ended in 3rd overall with his Q2 time, having a difficult time with traction rolling in the final round. The biggest improvement for the round came from both Kaja Novotny, who secured himself 4th overall, and Chen Guanxian who took 5th, both drivers have 12 plus second gain.

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March 17, 2018

Ryan Lutz TQs EP Buggy in China

Ryan Lutz is the top qualifier of EP Buggy at the 2018 SIGP in Xiamen, China having taken Q2 which along with taking Q1 locks in pole position for Sunday’s triple A-mains. Putting in a blistering run on the ARC International Raceway, the Tekno driver took 4 seconds off his Q1 time and set the outright track record with a 32.904 second lap, the only driver to drop below 34 seconds in qualifying. It was a familiar order behind with Kyosho driver Yusuke Sugiura taking 2nd place, with Kaja Novotny a further 11 seconds back in 3rd with Chen Guanxian and Shin Dongcheol completing the top 5.

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March 17, 2018

Nitro Buggy Top 3 reversed as Takashiro takes Q3

In round 2 of Nitro Buggy qualifying the top 3 drivers remained the same, however the order was reversed with Kyosho driver Wataru Takashiro taking the round but remains in 3rd overall with a time that is still 14 seconds off TQ Ryan Lutz. Japanese team mate Yusuke Sugiura was second, just 1 second back with Lutz having a difficult start to his qualifier with a number of mistakes dropping him way back. Zhan Wei would take 4th while Kaja Novotny finally starting to come to terms with the low grip surface to round out the top 5.

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March 17, 2018

Q1 in Xiamen goes to Ryan Lutz

Ryan Lutz has continued on in qualifying from where he left off in practice by taking the opening round of Nitro Buggy qualifying by 6 seconds with a consistent run under overcast skies. It was a familiar story in 2nd and 3rd with the Japanese Kyosho pairing of Yusuke Sugiura and Wataru Takashiro, the latter some 25 seconds back after making too many mistakes with was a difficult to drive car. Felix Law, who is back racing 1/8th offroad after a 12 month break would end up 4th just ahead of Kyosho returnee Zhan Wei in 5th.

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