The Western Australian Challenge Cup was held at the MORBC 1/8th Buggy Worlds track recently with Aaron Dexter taking the TQ and in in the Nitro Buggy class. 2nd place qualifier, Harry Simms came in 2nd while 4th place qualifiers, Fabio Silvi completed the top 3 podium result.
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The second round of the Swiss IC Track Championship was held at the iconic Lostallo track this past weekend. Saturday’s qualification was held in mixed weather conditions with the day starting off dry but becoming a wet affair during the lunch break. In the 1/8th class it was Luca Martinelli with the TQ from Mattia Pesenti, Ales Haydekr and Jürg Nydegger. The final then saw Mattia Pesenti leading the field in the opening stages, however a crash with another driver at the 12-minute mark disturbed his race as he had to change tyres. A few minutes later Mattia was already chasing Luca Martinelli for the lead but a longer than expected tyre change 18 minutes to the end was another set back for Pesenti. Mattia then tried his best to close in on the leader again but he would run out of tyres and had to settle for 2nd overall behind Luca Martinelli. Rudi Scherrer came in 3rd to round out the podium.
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This bank holiday weekend saw the popular Nitro X Cross series at East Shrewsbury BRC. On Sunday the top 3 in Nitro Buggy were Graham Alsop (HB Racing), Matt Lewis (Team Associated) and Mike Lewis (Team Associated) and Monday the top 3 were Graham Alsop, Mike Lewis and Lewis Jones (Team Associated). The series returns in a few weeks time at JC Raceway on the 29th and 30th of June.
Round 2 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, California last weekend. The Expert Nitro Buggy class was TQ’d by Mugen’s Adam Drake, however in the 20-minute A-main final it was 9th place qualifier, Xray’s Jake Mayo who would excel, taking the win some 12 seconds in front of Adam while Tekno’s Steve Harris completed the top 3 podium result, another 5.6 seconds down.
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Simon Kurzbuch has taken the win at Round 2 of the 2019 Infinity Euro Nitro Series, but it was anything but easy as the three time ENS Champion seemed unlikely to even make the podium in the first half of the race. Qualifying fourth on the grid after admitting that he had struggled on Saturday, Kurzbuch initially circulated in fourth place, fighting with Dominic Greiner, who had bumped up from the B Final, as the race out front initially seemed to be a fight between the top three qualifiers of Dario Balestri, Robert Pietsch and Carmine Raiola. Deciding only to make one four tyre change at the half way point, as the other top runners chose two full changes, the Swiss driver confirmed that he knew he “couldn’t go at the pace of Balestri and Raiola, so we decided to make one less fuel stop [by running longer between stops] and making only one tyre change”.
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After taking the win at the season opening race in Bologna last month, Teemu Leino took a firm step towards the 2019 ENS 1/10th scale title by adding victory this weekend in Rucphen. The Finnish driver crossed the line first despite running a different tyre strategy to his rivals, benefiting from mistakes and issues for his main challengers. Making two tyre stops – the first to change just right side tyres after 9 minutes of the race and the second to change all four around two-thirds distance – he took the win over Leo Arnold and ENS returnee Patrick Nahr. The victory also ties Leino for the most wins in the ENS 1/10th scale class, him now sharing the honour with Dominic Greiner with 5 victories in the prestigious series.
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The opening round of the OÖ Cup was held in Lambrechten, Austria this past weekend in several 1/8th off-road classes. In the Nitro Buggy category it was Daniel Gumpoltsberger with the overall TQ, tie on points with Michael Langgruber. In the 30-minute main final however it was 7th place qualifier, Andreas Mayr (Kyosho) with the overall win, two laps in front of SWorkz driver, Michael Langgruber. HB Racing’s Daniel Gumpoltsberger came in 3rd, another lap down.
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The AMC Hamm club held round 2 of the West German Nitro On-road regionals this past weekend. The qualifiers of the faster 1/8th IC Track class 1 were dominated by Mugen’s Christian Wurst who took the overall TQ with a lap margin from Karl-Heinz Meister in the 2 spot. In the main final Christian lead the field from the start until the end and took the win a lap in front of Emil Kostadinov and Daniel Toennessen in 2nd and 3rd respectively, making it an all-Mugen podium.
