The OngaroRing held their season opener race at their outdoor track in Sacile this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy F1 category it was Team Associated/LRP’s Davide Ongaro with the overall win from Kyosho/Novarossi’s Mattia Polito on the 2 spot. Mugen’s Marco Ravaglia would put his VSEngine powers ride on the 3 spot overall.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
The Automodellistico 5 Colli club in Gubbio, Italy played host to round 1 of the Italian ACI Nitro On-road Championships this past weekend. Held in 1/8th and 1/10th classes the 1/8th A category, sporting the fastest national drivers, saw Infinity’s Lamberto Collari taking the overall TQ from Capricorn’s Mirko Salemi and Lamberto would also snatch the overall win in the 45-minute main final, leaving behind ARC’s Jonathan Gandin in 2nd and Alberto Picco in 3rd.
Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]
The Ospy Team track in Gussago, Italy played host to the opening round of the Four Race Trophy this past weekend. The event attracted some of the region’s fastest 1/8th off-road racers and it was UK’s Elliott Boots who swept the race using his new SWorkz ride, taking the TQ and win from his SWorkz teammate, Leonardo Valente on the runner-up spot. TLR’s Felix Koegler would round out the top 3 podium result after the 30-minute main final.
Image: Elliott Boots
The MACH One Helmond club in Helmond, The Netherlands will hold their fifth annual Kickoff race on the weekend of the 21st of April. The event will be held on the club’s redesigned track that now features a stair down and double trouble section and it will be held in 1/8th nitro and electric buggy classes. The race will see direct qualifying for the TQ holders as well as a Super Pole event for the next four fastest drivers and full information and sign-up can be found here.
The fourth round of the Xray Racing Series Greece was held at the Fanatix Racing Track in Athens recently. Cold but sunny weather made for good racing conditions and in the fast Touring Modified class it was Dimitris Ioannidis with the win, however he was hotly contested by Sotiris Diamadis who decided to run only the Modified class in order to fully concentrate on the battle up front. Ultimately he had to settle for 2nd and in front of Chris Kidis in 3rd.
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Last weekend, the first round of the French 1/10th 200mm Nitro Championship took place in Angouleme, in the western part of France. Over 70 drivers made the trip to compete on the low to medium-bite track that offered a fast layout and a technical chicane just before the main straight. In the qualifiers it was a close battle between Leo Arnold and Quentin Leroux for the TQ spot. In the end Leo took the TQ spot by only 0.1s on Quentin Leroux. For the 45-minute final it was the same story and a close battle was seen during the first 15 minutes between these two drivers but ultimately Leo Arnold (Xray) took the win with a 2 laps margin in front of the Capricorn duo of Kevin Rasquin in 2nd and Thomas Guillon in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 2019 SIGP Offroad race was held last weekend at the ARC International Race Track in Xiamen, China. The annual event has grown bigger and bigger each year with the 2019 edition having attracted more than 200 drivers to compete at Sunpadow’s world class venue. Newly-signed Agama driver Ryan Lutz, 2018 SIGP double champion, made a very strong comeback, taking the overall TQ in both the Nitro and Electric Buggy classes. But come the finals day, another SIGP double champion, Jörn Neumann, would dominate the proceedings. The SWorkz driver won the first two rounds of the E-Buggy A-main to grabbed his first title of the day in front of Ryan Lutz and Kyosho’s Wataru Takashiro. Then he had another fantastic run in the 45-minutes Nitro Buggy main to claim another double championship as Ryan Lutz came in 2nd and JQRacing’s own Joseph Quagraine completed the top 3.
The 2019 edition of the The Ice Breaker race was held at Indy RC World in Garland, Texas last weekend. The event drew nearly 390 entries and in Pro Nitro Buggy it was Tekno RC’s Jared Tebo with the win from top qualifier Joe Bornhorst (Tekno), who crossed the line there laps behind. In 3rd and another lap down it was Mugen’s Adam Drake who would round out the podium.
