The 2019 HB Racing European Race Days will be held from April 5th to 7th at the ARCF42 club near Lyon, France. The event is open to all drivers piloting HB Racing 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggies and a set of HB Racing Megabite yellow compound tyres will be included in the entry. The weekend will kick off on Friday, with Saturday and Sunday being the race days. Sign-up opens on January 15th and more information will soon be available here.
Round 6 of the HNMC Winter Series was held last weekend in freezing weather conditions. Conditions on Sunday would be damp and slippery all day with most racers using Ultra soft tyres. Just over 40 diehard club racers made the trip and the Nitro Buggy TQ went to Graham Alsop, while Erik Lykke came out on top in E-Buggy and Warabie Tatejoki wrapped up the Truggy TQ. In the 20-minute Nitro Buggy A-final it was Graham Alsop with the in from Lewis Johns and Kevin Brunsden. The 12-minute E-Buggy main went to Erik Lykke from Darren Hayden-Ball and Holger Lykke while the 20-minute Truggy main was won by Warabie Tatekoji from Darren Ropper and Brin Tourle.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
The Ontario, California based Revelation Raceway held the Kyosho Toys For Tots race this past weekend. Over 100 entries made for plenty of great racing and in the premier Open Nitro Buggy class it was Kyosho’s Ricardo Berton, who flew in from Italy, with the TQ and win in front of HB Racing’s Tyler Brown and Anthony Westergaard. Over in the 1/8th E-Buggy A-main it was top qualifier, Kyosho’s Zachary Rogers with the win from Mugen racer Radcliffe Brill and Kyosho’s Wayne Crowder.
The Phil Hurd Raceway of Savannah, Georgia played host to round 5 of the Force Series this past weekend. In the Expert Nitro Buggy A-main it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the win, after qualifying on the 5th spot, as Serpent’s Billy Easton came in 2nd overall, some 15s back. Rob Lupo would round out the top 3 some three laps down.
Source: Flash Point [flashpointrc.com]
The Ledbury track recently held round 3 of its Answer RC Winter Series. Only 29 drivers attended but it was a quality field, with Team Associated drivers Mike Lewis, Matt Lewis and Jon Howells in attendance. National A finalist Mike Lewis took all four qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ, the HB Racing E-buggy of Chris Lovell was 2nd, with AE drivers Jon Howells 3rd and Mike Lewis 4th. On to the main event, Mike and Jon were having a great battle for the lead and pulling away from the field until Jon made a few small errors being enough for Mike to get away. Chris, having a bad start held 3rd up until the 20th lap until he was passed by a very quick Matt Lewis. Ultimately it was Mike Lewis with the win from Jon Howells and Matt Lewis, making it an AE 1-2-3.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
Thornhill Racing Circuit held the ROAR Region 9 championship last weekend. Ethan Lefebvre took the TQ in both classes in Q1, however Q2 saw Tyler Hooks taking the TQ in Q2 of Expert Nitro Buggy while Rocco Margiotta came out on top in Nitro Truggy. Q3 of Nitro Buggy saw Tyler and Ethan having a very close battle through the hole qualifier but Ethan was able to just take the win and overall TQ and he was also able to top qualify the Nitro Truck class. In the mains Ethan was able to get clean starts in both and lead both from start to finish to give him a double Region 9 Championship. Tyler Hooks and Rocco Margiotta would come in 2nd and 3rd respectively in Expert Nitro Buggy as Rocco Margiotta and Miguel Villalobos rounded out the Truggy podium result.
View the Nitro Truggy podium here
Shepherd have announced the signing of top international nitro on-road racer Toni Gruber to their 2019 factory team line-up. The 22-year old German already looks back on a successful career with a European championship title, multiple national titles as well as multiple Euro Nitro Series podium finishes under his belt. Starting 2019 Toni will use the Velox V8 and the Velox V10 platforms at all major national and international events including the EFRA GP series, the ENS series, Euros, Worlds and other selected events. Furthermore Toni will bring in his experience in the Shepherd development team to test and develop new parts in cooperation with the existing team. Toni had the following to say about the deal:
First of all I want to thank WRC for the last 2 years. In the past we achieved great goals and claimed many wins. But in 2019 I will start with a new step in my rc racing career and I am really happy that Team Shepherd gives me the opportunity and their trust to drive for their factory team. My team and I are looking forward to many victories and we will bring our all experience in the team to help them grow.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Deans Discount Hobbies of New Port Richey, Florida held the DDH and the Drake 2 race this past weekend. In the Expert Nitro Buggy class it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the TQ and Adam would also come out on top of the 15-minute A-main event, taking the win a lap ahead of Christian Bruck (Serpent) as Serpent’s Billy Easton rounded out the top 3 results.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
