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May 6, 2019

Carsten Keller wins West German Buggy regionals Rd1

The opening round of the West German 1/8th Off-road regionals, qualifying races for the Nationals, was held at the Stoppelhopser Oberhausen track over the weekend. Mugen’s Carsten Keller would sweep the Nitro Buggy class by taking the win with a 1-lap margin after the 30-minute A-main encounter. Kyosho’s Philipp Lütgert came in 2nd, a lap down as Mugen driver Jan Sievert ended the race on the 3 spot, some three seconds down on Jan. Maik Wiesweg in 4th and Kim Einert in 5th rounded out the top 5.

Source: Mugen [mugen.eu]

May 6, 2019

Mack & Wischnewski win at German Nationals qualifier

The Minicar Club Wiesbaden played host to a round of the Central German Nitro On-road regionals this past weekend. In 1/8th IC Track class 1 it was Infinity’s Oliver Mack with the TQ and win from Shepherd’s Toni Gruber while Serpent’s Philip Sting rounded out the top 3 result after the 30-minute main final.

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May 5, 2019

Davide Ongaro sweeps RCGP opener

The opening round of the newly-founded RCGP series was held in Manila, Philippines this past weekend. The event is held in the RCGP Pro and RC2 Open classes with the latter being open to non-sponsored drivers while the RCGP category is intended for Pro teams of one to two drivers. The RCGP class is also separated into two races per weekend with race 1 being swept by Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro who took the TQ and overall win from the HB Racing duo of David Ronnefalk and Cole Ogden. Mugen’s Robert Batlle came in 4th from Infinity’s Kyle McBride in 5th. JQ Racing’s Max Mort, SWorkz’s Juan Carlos Canas and Infinity’s Lee Martin completed the top 8 results.

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May 5, 2019

Pontus Larsson wins at Middle Swedish Cup Rd1

The first round of the Middle Swedish Cup was held in Skövde this weekend. The race attracted nearly 60 entries for the premier 1/8th Nitro Buggy class and it was Pontus Larsson (Serpent/Bullitt) with the clean sweep and overall TQ after the qualifiers. Jessica Palsson (Kyosho/O.S.) came in 2nd from Emil Magnusson (Kyosho/Picco) in 3rd. In the 30-minute main final Pontus, who had a troubles start into the main final, and Jessica came out on top, doing the extra lap with the two being separated by 12 seconds on the finish line while Emil same in 3rd, a lap down. Elias Johansson (HB Racing/Team Orion) and Hampus Berg (HB Racing/Team Orion) would make up the top 5 result.

Image: Jessica Palsson

May 5, 2019

Westenfelder & Jannik win at GT Euro warm-up

The GT Euro warm-up race was held in Leipzig, Germany this weekend. In the Nitro GT class it was SWorkz/Picco’s Uli Westenfelder with the win from Holger Schmidt (Serpent/O.S.) in 2nd while Denis Mlivic (JQRacing/Alpha) completed the top 3 result. Over in the 4S GTE category it was Jochen Jannik (HB Racing) with the win from Uli Wstenfelder (SWorkz) as Armin Junge (Mugen) completed the podium result.

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May 3, 2019

Rino Lino TQs & wins at Miami Grand Prix

Homestead in Florida played host to the 2019 Miami Grand Prix last weekend. Racing was on in several nitro on-road classes and in GT8 it was IGT8’s Rino Lino with the overall TQ and also the win in 45-minute A-main final. Lazaro Alonso, despite not completely recovered from an accident and having to drive sitting on a chair, raced hard and strong and finished in 2nd place while Avery Pierce rounded out the top 3 for an all-IGT8 podium.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]

May 2, 2019

DJ Apolaro wins at Miami Grand Prix

Last weekend the 2019 Miami Grand Prix was held in Homestead, Florida. In the 1/8th class final DJ Apolaro, starting from the 3 spot, kept the pace at the beginning and had a good battle with Roniel Regalado. With Paolo having an early issue and Gianni as well, it was really between Ronnie and DJ. After the first pit stop cycle, Apolaro’s pitman, Ricardo Garri did a great job and they took over the lead. DJ would exchange leading over the next couple of pit stops and at the half way point he started to separate himself from the pack. The others did their tyre change but DJ did not as he planned to stick with a single set of tyres. This gave him a 2-lap lead and he never looked back to take the win. Roniel Regalado would take 2nd two laps back and Poalo Mortganti rounded out the top 3 for the last podium spot.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

May 1, 2019

Vincent Meertens wins French Buggy Nats Rd2 warm-up

The ARCF42 track near Lyon played host to the warm-up for round 2 of the French Buggy nationals last weekend. In the qualifiers it was Vincent Meertens with the overall TQ and he would also coming out fastest in the semifinals to start the 45-minute main final from pole position. When the dust had settled it was again Vincent on top after some close fights with Eliot Marcon on the 2 spot. Julien Surget would round out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]