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October 23, 2018

Rain halts final practice at 1:10 World Championship

Rain halted the final round of practice at the 1:10 200mm World Championship in Florida. A heavy shower stopped proceedings at Homestead RC Raceway half way through what was to be the drivers fourth practice of the second official day of the event. Having also ran 4 rounds of practice yesterday, officially it is Mugen’s Robert Pietsch who has produced the fastest time of practice ahead of reigning World Champion Dominic Greiner and Jesse Davis. With overnight rain washing away traction built up during the International Practice Days and yesterday’s first round of official practice, today’s times were slower. After respraying the track with sugar water this morning it was Greiner who was fastest in the first round from 200mm rookie Naoto Matsukura. The Japanese driver went to the top in the next round ahead of team-mate Tadahiko Sahashi while what was to become the last run of the day for the leading drivers produced an Infinity 1-2-3 led by Lamberto Collari from Matsukura and Sahashi with Greiner fourth. For the day it was Matsukura’s FP6 time that was the fastest of the day registering a 53.890-seconds 3-consecutive lap time compared Pietsch’s 53.668 from the previous day’s rocket round FP4.

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October 22, 2018

Colin Herzig wins at Sidewinder Fall Championship

The Sidewinder Fall Championship was held at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, California this past weekend. In Open Nitro Buggy it was Colin Herzig with the win in the 30-minute A-main from Tyler Brown 2nd, making it a HB Racing 1-2. Dakotah Phend would round out the top 3 podium result for Team Losi Racing. Over in 1/8th Open E-Buggy it was Kyosho America team manager Zack Rogers was able to grab the TQ and win. JQRacing’s J Smoker came in 2nd, TLR’s Brian Kinney ended the race on the 3 spot.

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October 22, 2018

Jon Howells wins at Ledbury Winter Series Rd1

This past weekend Ledbury held the first of its Winter Series races and also the first round to count towards the joint Ledbury/Brookthorpe inter club series. The event was well attended. A mixture of 43 nitro, ebuggy and truggy drivers turned up on an initially foggy Sunday morning. Thankfully, the fog lifted giving the track blue skies and sunshine for the majority of the day. Team Associated driver Jon Howells took TQ, having taken three from four rounds. Tekno driver Jake Knight would line up 2nd with CML driver Lloyd Pitt 3rd. On to the main event, Lloyd Pitt had a great start to take the lead, and maintained that for the first part of the race. Jon Howells then regained control to pull away from Lloyd. Back in third and fourth Jake Knight and Chris Lovell were having a good battle until Jake was taken out by back markers allowing Chris to chase down second. He managed to catch and pass Lloyd with only a couple of laps remaining, so Jon took the win, Chris was 2nd and Lloyd 3rd.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

October 22, 2018

Davide Ongaro wins at FastRace Trophy

The FastRace Trophy was held at the Italian Balocco track this past weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro with the TQ and win in the 30-minute A-main event. Young Leonardo Valente (SWorkz) came in 2nd, some two laps down, while Kyosho’s Mattia Polito rounded out the top 3 results some 2.5s behind Leonardo.

Source: AKA Europe [racing-experience.fr]

October 19, 2018

APPA Championship Rd5 – Report

The 5th round of the 2018 APPA Championship was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil last weekend, attracting both nitro and electric drivers to compete in several classes. In 1/8th Nitro On-road it was Felix Floriano (Mugen/Gimar) with the win from Kazuo Ohara (Kyosho/O.S. Engines) and Roberto Nunes (Mugen/Novarossi).

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October 17, 2018

Juan Carlos Canas wins at Andalusian Champs Rd4

The fourth round of the Andalusian Championships was hosted by the San Jose de la Rinconda club and held at the Fernando Robles track last weekend. Mugen’s Juan Carlos Canas was on a high all weekend long, taking the overall TQ and win in the 45-minute A-main event. Francisco Hidalgo came in 2nd from Zacarias Villalba, who had a troubled A-main, starting from the 2 spot on the grid, but rewarded himself with the final podium spot.

Image: Attack RC [facebook.com]

October 17, 2018

Bakla & Stone win at NWS Pro-Line Challenge

The Australian ACT track recently played host to the NSW Pro-Line Challenge with the largest entry for the 2018 season. The event was held in several classes and using 10-minutes qualifiers and 45-minutes A-mains. Nitro Buggy was a 2-horse race, as Ari Bakla picked up TQ after winning all three Qualifiers, while local fast guy Shane Kelly had some super fast lap speed and was 2nd with Craig Laughton in 3rd. In the main Ari pulled a little gap but would be closed after the first pit stop, for the next 25 minutes Ari and Shane were never more than 2 to 3 seconds apart, switching the lead until Shane had a huge crash in one of the worst areas of the track for a marshal to get to. This gave Ari a large lead which he would protect and cross the line with the win from Shane Kelly 2nd and Craig Laughton 3rd.

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October 16, 2018

Jason Nugroho wins at C-Netic Year End Race

The C-Netic Year End Race was held at the C-Netic track in Surabaya, East Java with entries from Singapore, Jakarta, Bandung, Batam, Gresik, Banjarmasin as well as many local drivers. Jason Nugroho was on a high all weekend, taking the TQ after the qualifiers and pole position after the semis to start into the A-main from the 1 spot. The start then held some drama for Jason who flipped his buggy at the first corner which send him down to 18th. However due to a blistering pace he got back into the lead within ten minutes. From there he would be able to manage the gap on the field to bring home the win from Andre Irawan 2nd and Kenji Liono 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]