The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th On-road Nationals was held at the Automodelismo Autet club in Valencia last weekend. In the 1/8th IC Track class it was Victor Gonzalez with the TQ from Nacho Lopez in 2nd. In the 45-minute A-main however it was Nacho who would lead the way, taking the win some five laps in front of Luis Cayetano Delgado and Juan Miguel Delgado. TQ holder victor had to settle for 10th overall.
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The opening round of the Portuguese 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Guarda track this past weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Kyosho’s Joao Figueiredo with the overall TQ from Serpent’s Carlos Duraes in 2nd and Mugen’s Ricardo Monteiro in 3rd. In the 45-minute the three would battle it out for the top 3 positions again and in the end the order would stay the same as in the qualifiers with Joao taking the win from Carlos 2nd and Ricardo 3rd.
Gimpo in South Korea played host to the 2019 FEMCA Nitro Buggy Championship this past weekend. Mugen’s Shin Adachi took home the title from top qualifier Paphon Chanyasak. Ryan Lee came in 3rd overall to round out the podium for SWorkz. Si Minsu and Atsushi Hara came in 4th and 5th respectively and in front of 6th placed Kevin Lee and 7th placed Adrian Wicaksono. Veteran racer Yuichi Kanai ended the 45-minute encounter on the 8th spot, Meen V. came in 9th, Wataru Takashiro finished on the 10th spot and Jeon Hanyeong and Jason Nugroho completed the A-main result.
Image: Paphon Chanyasak
The opening round of the 2019 BRCA Truck and E-Buggy Nationals was held at the Herts Nitro Model Club this past weekend. In the 30-minute Truggy final it was Team Associated’s Jamie Clancy with the win a lap in front of Agama’s Jon Hazlewood. Tekno RC driver Mitchell Booth came in 3rd some 15 seconds shy of Jon. Over in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was AE’s Lewis Jones with the win from AE’s Mike Lewis in 2nd as HB Racing’s Simon Reeves rounded out the top 3 podium result.
Dominic Greiner has taken a hard fought win in the opening round of the ENS this afternoon in Italy. Better known for his 1/10th exploits, the Serpent driver pulled off a major upset, utilising a well executed tire and fuel strategy to get the better of multiple ENS Champion Simon Kurzbuch. A late flameout by Dario Balestri took the Infinity driver out of contention while mixing it at the front, ending up in 5th, allowing veteran racer Alberto Picco to pick up the pieces and claim 3rd. Coming home 4th, Lamberto Collari looked set early on to throw a curveball to his competitors by going 5 minutes between fuel stops, only to come short on the in lap of his 2nd stop. Having been stuck behind Carmine Raiola early in the 30 minute main, once passed Greiner had to set about catching the leading pair of Kurzbuch and Balestri, and was helped by doing 4 minutes between stops, his OS engine not as thirsty as the Novarossi based power units of those ahead. With all those up front on the same basic tire strategy, changing just the outside tires first and then all four, by the end of the race Greiner’s tires were done and with Kurzbuch catching him fast he said ‘I had to remain calm as I knew I had only one minute to go’. His first podium in the 1/8th class at ENS, the German praised the improvements made to his Serpent 988 over the winter and is looking forward to a competitive season.
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Teemu Leino has taken the win today in the 1/10th scale class at the opening round of the Euro Nitro Series in Bologna after rain caused a long delay in the day’s proceedings. The Finn took the victory from a hard charging Alessio Mazzeo, with pole man Leo Arnold having to settle for the final podium spot in 3rd after the he ran out of tires at the very end of the race. Thilo Todtmann would take 4th for Shepherd with Jilles Groskamp finishing up in 5th. Asked about his race win the Infinity driver simply said ‘the race was good’, noting that they changed their planned tire strategy during the race, going from an outside only tire stop to a full tire stop, after he felt that the track was more abrasive following the morning rain. Very pleased with the performance of his IF15, Leino was also quick to credit the very fast fuel and tire stops by his pitman Felix for him being able to take the lead in the 30 minute final. Running in 3rd for a very long time, his tire strategy played out in the final 5 minutes as he was able to pass both Mazzeo and Arnold within 1 lap of each other and go onto win the race even though he too began to run out of tires at the very end.
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The opening round of the 2019 JBRL Nitro Series was held at SoCal Nitro Raceway in Victorville, California this past weekend. The event attracted over 165 entries and in the competitive Expert Nitro Buggy class it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the overall TQ after the qualifiers. In the 20-minute A-main the race for the win was on between Adam and Team Associated’s Richard Saxton with the latter taking a narrow win some 1.5 seconds in front of Adam. HB Racing’s Cole Jenson would round out the top 3 podium result.
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The popular Rhein–Main-Circuit in Bischofsheim, Germany held the annual International Warm-up Race this past weekend. The event started off wet but in the end things would turn out nicely. As usual the race attracted some of Europe’s fastest 1/8th off-road racers and it was SWorkz’s Jörn Neumann who would make the sweep to win both the Nitro and Electric classes from the TQ spot. In Nitro it was Mugen’s Carsten Keller on the runner-up spot while SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier completed the top 3 podium result. Over in the E-Buggy class and behind winner Neumann, it was Micha Widmaier on the runner-up spot as Carsten Keller came in 3rd overall.
