The opening round of the Cordobes Championship was held in Rio Cuarto on a bumpy low-grip track. In the Buggy Masters category is was Nicolas Bregante who walked away with the win while in Buggy Open is was Matias Caraballido who took the winning honours. Buggy Junior saw the win of Sebastian Krampotic while the Truggy Junior class was taken by Nico Marco.
The Swedish On-road Nationals were recently hosted by the Wäxjö MS club and held in several electric and nitro on-road classes. In 1/10th Electric Touring it was Viktor Wilck who topped three out of four qualifying rounds to take the TQ position in front of Markus Hellqvist and Fabian Vernersson. In the finals Wilck could easily win the first two A-main legs to take the overall victory. Hellqvist would finish second with upcoming driver Fabian completing the podium.
The 10 drivers that will battle it out for the honours of becoming the Nitro Touring Car World Champion is decided with the line-up including one former champion in Meen Vejrak, the 2012 Champion coming through the second of the two 30-minute Semi finals. The seventh running of the World Championship, where for the first time two drivers directly qualified for the final, joining Top Qualifier Dario Balestri and Super Pole winner Alessio Mazzeo are only two 2014 Finalists in Vejrak and Dominic Greiner. The 2014 Top Qualifier, Greiner would book his place in the 1-hour final with a win over Bruno Coelho and Carmine Riola in the first encounter. In the second, Simon Kurzbuch controlled the race throughout to book the 1:8 World Champions first 1:10 Final start. The Shepherd driver would take a comfortable win over 2010 Top Qualifier Robert Pietsch with Vejrak seeing off a last lap charge from Takaaki Shimo to complete the Top 3. Shimo would still make the final, together with Semi B fourth place finisher Kyle Branson, the British driver surviving a last lap spin to claim the last spot with the second fastest time of the non Top 3 finishers. Dramas for those that didn’t progress include a flame-out during his tyre stop for Team Infinity’s Jilles Groskamp. The 2012 Electric Touring Car World Champion said afterwards, ‘unbelievable, the bad luck continues. I felt I was driving a controlled race’. Team-mate and 2012 Top Qualifier Teemu Leino would crash out of his Semi while battling for second spot.
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Reedy have announced the second annual Reedy Outdoor Off-Road Championships hosted by Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California from November 18th to 20th. With an old school feel and watered track, the event made its debut last year to the praise of many. Classes run are the proven mix of Modified and Stock Buggy, Stadium Truck and Short Course Truck and more information as well as the entry form are available here.
Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois, will be playing host to the Futaba Electric Challenge from September 16th to 18th. Friday, September 16 will be used as an open practice day, so drivers can get their vehicles dialed-in to both the outdoor and indoor tracks. Saturday’s events are scheduled for the outdoor track but will be moved to the indoor track in case of inclement weather. Points earned on Saturday will be combined with points earned on Sunday to determine final standings. Classes run are E-Buggy, Stock and Modified 2WD and 4WD buggy, Stock 2WD short course, Modified 2WD and 4WD short course as well as Stock 2WD buggy, truck and rookie. Included are also two “Dash for Cash” events; one for 1/8 scale Buggy and a second in the class with the largest number of entrants. For more details please visit the event’s website here.
The 7th running of the Nitro Touring Car World Championship is down to the final 22 with most significant driver to bump up from the 1/4 finals being 2014 runner up Yuya Sashashi. The Serpent driver bumps up on to the back of the Semi B final grid after finishing third 3-seconds behind Capricorn driver & pole sitter Kyle Branson who in turn was 3-seconds back on the 1/4 B Final winning Team Infinity of Carmine Raiola. Unfortunately for 2014 Finalists JJ Wang his attempt at the third bump up felt short as he finished 4th, half a lap back on Sashashi. In the 1/4 A Final Toni Gruber would book his place in the Semis going one better than in 2014 as he took the win ahead of 2010 Worlds runner up Takehiro Terauchi. There was dramatic finish to the second of the encounters as 1/8 final winner David Loppini ran out of fuel on the last lap while holding third, gifting Dirk Wischnewski the final spot in the Semis.
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Nitro Touring Car will get a new World Champion this evening as defending champion Alexander Hagberg’s race came to a end on the 1/8 Finals this morning in Gubbio. Struggling from the start of the event, never featuring strongly on the time sheets, the Xray driver would qualify 34th putting him second on the grid for the Semi B final. With pole sitter Alessio Agostinelli flaming out on the restart, a timing issuing forcing the race to be stopped after the original 09:00 start, Hagberg took the lead of the race and looked in control. However 12 laps in to the 20-minute final, the Swede’s race was to come to an end as Joe Kerry excited the pitlane and made contact with Hagberg. With the contact resulting in a chunked rear tyre Hagberg would have to pit to change the tyre bringing an end to his chances of progressing. Having struggled like Hagberg in qualifying and bumped up to the 1/8 final after winning yesterday evening’s 1/16 final ahead of Paolo Morganti, JJ Wang would again take the win ahead of his fellow US driver to progress to the 1/4 final. Australia’s Jeff Hamon would secure what should have been the final bump up spot after holding off the recovering Agostinelli, who after setting the fastest lap of the race, was less than 2-seconds back but after the race Morganti was disqualified for a bodyshell infringement.
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The organisers of the inaugural 2016 Dragon Stone Asian Nitro Buggy Championship in Luoyang City, China, have announced the addition of RC Concept’s Jerome Treignier to the ever growing field of drivers and supporters. Jerome will be available for technical support with additional high-class confirmations awaited soon. More information about the race can be found on the event’s Facebook page here.
