Round 5 of the BRCA Truggy and E8 Buggy Nationals was held at the Slough track over the weekend. SWorkz’s Jack Embling brought home the win in the 30-minute Nitro Truggy A-main final to take this year’s overall title from Agama’s Jon Hazlewood on the runner-up spot. Team Associated’s Matt Lewis would round out the overall top 3.
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]
The 3rd round of Czech Championship saw Tomas Liptak taking the pole position in the 1/8th Nitro class while Michal Abrahamek walked away with the pole in the 200mm Nitro Touring category. The race on Saturday would start a little bit later due the overnight rain but the remainder of the day would went smoothly. In the 30-minute long 1/8th class final things would start to become tense in the closing stages when Tomas Liptak was chased by Martin Zvara after Tomas had a crash with another car. In the end he would take the win only four seconds in front of Martin. Miroslav Jurenka would complete the top 3 podium result.
View the Nitro Touring top 3 result here
Nemo Racing and Piranha Racing Fuels have announced that National, European and World Champion driver Neil Cragg joined their team. The Team Associated factory driver has chosen their 25% fully synthetic blend to power his nitro fleet. Nemo Racing and Piranha Racing Fuels are looking forward to work with Neil for the remainder of this season and beyond.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
The Norwegian National 1/10 IC Track Championship was held at the Valdres track last weekend. The track is known as one of the most beautiful and challenging tracks in Norway with its 4 meter elevation differences and tight turns. Anders Mikkelsen started from the 3rd position into the A-main and right after the start Mikkelsen got up to 2nd and chased down the leader for the next six minutes before he managed to get by to take over the lead. From that moment on, he kept the lead for the remainder of the race, taking the win with a comfortable margin in front of Christian Hovden and Petter Solvberg to become the 2018 Norwegian 1/10 IC Champion.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Round 7 of the BRCA 1/8th Circuit National Championship was held at the Cotswold track over the weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro class and after qualifying on P6, Daniel Blake could finally bring home his first win at a 1/8 Circuit National race. Overtaking many of the top-class drivers during the rain affected final, Daniel took the win with a comfortable lead of three laps in front of teammate Tim Wood while Chris Snell completed the podium in 3rd place.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Round 5 of the 2018 JBRL Nitro Series was held at Empire RC in Brentwood, California this past weekend. The event had a great turnout with 160 entries and Mugen’s Adam Drake was in control all day as he took the overall TQs in Nitro Buggy, Electric Buggy and Open Truggy. Drake then also went on to sweep the A-mains as in Expert Buggy Adam would take the win with a lap margin over Team Associated’s Kyle Layton in 2nd and Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo rounded out the top 3.
JP GIMAR have officially announced the signing of German frontrunner Thilo Tödtmann to their team. The multi-time ENS podium finisher,
U.S. Nitro Worldcup winner, reigning FEMCA Champion and multiple European Championship finalist will be using the Italian brand’s nitro engines during his upcoming campaign that will include all major national and international races. Thilo has the following to say about the deal:
From my heart I would like to thank the Picco brothers for their cooperation over the past year and a half. I am looking forward to team up with with JP Gimar and Giovanni Crea in person. His dedication and most importantly his passion for racing is something that impressed me from the first day and I think we have a great future ahead of us.
Source: JP GIMAR [facebook.com]
VCRC Raceway of Terre Haute, Indiana hosted round 2 of the Joe Buck Points Series this past weekend. Tyler Jones was in control of things in both the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy classes as he grabbed the overall TQ and wins in both categories. Brad Dewey would come in 2nd in the 20-minute Nitro Buggy A-main as Gary Studt rounded out the top 3 results. The 10-minute E-Buggy A-main was pretty much a blueprint of the Nitro main with Tyler taking the win from Brad and Gary.
