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June 27, 2018

Tim Wood wins BRCA 1/8th Track Nats Rd5

Round 5 of the BRCA 1/8th Track National Championship was held at the Mendip track last weekend. In 1/8th Nitro On-road and after the finals had to be restarted due to an accident involving personal injury, Tim Wood carefully started into the main final. Since no tyre change was planned on his Shepherd car, but his opponent, Serpent’s Alex Thurston went for a tyre change, the outcome of the race should be decided in the late stage of the race. But due to a gearbox damage Alex lost valuable time so Tim was able to drive home a safe victory. The second place went to Alex, the final podium spot went to Clive Connolly. Neal King (Shepherd) just missed the podium crossing the finishing line in 4th position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 27, 2018

Nejc Mihelič TQs & wins Slovenian 1/8 On-road champs

The Slovenian 1/8th Nitro On-road Championship was held at the Tolmin track last weekend. Perfect weather conditions made for some nice days of racing. Nejc Mihelič took the TQ after the qualifiers followed by Dobnikar Aleš and Šetina Anže. Due to huge tyre wear the final was divided into two 15-minutes legs and a points system was used to determine the overall positions with both legs counting. Ultimately it was Nejc Mihelič (ARC) won both of the finals in front of Valentin Mis (ARC) and Dobnikar Aleš (ARC).

Thanks to Nejc Mihelič for the report.

June 26, 2018

Meen V. successful at Asia Fever race

The 2018 Asia Fever race was held at The Dirt Bureau track in Malaysia this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Malaysian driver, Danny K. took the TQ, however he was not able to convert the position into a victory. Instead it was Meen Vejrak from Thailand who would sweep the A-main, taking the win a lap in front of Paphon Chanyasak from Thailand as another Thai driver, Game Mongkolphan rounded out the top 3 another lap down. Josh Pain from Australia and Adrian Wicaksono from Indonesia would complete the top 5 results.

Image: Meen Vejrak

June 26, 2018

Nicolas Bregante doubles at Argentinian Nats opener

The opening round of the Argentinian National 1/8th Off-road Championship was held at the Speed Paradise track recently. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class Agustin Cutini would take the TQ honours, however it was Nicolas Bregante with the win in the main final from Lucas Pons 2nd and Sebastian Recio 3rd. Over in the Pro Nitro Truggy class Nicolas took the TQ and win for a clean sweep in front of Agustin Cutini and Ramiro Davico in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

View the Pro Nitro Truggy podium here

June 26, 2018

Pelle Culmsee trifecta at Danish 1/8th Nats Rd3

The third round of this year’s Danish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Skive track recently. The weekend started off sunny and warm which made for dusty and bumpy track conditions. In the E-Buggy class it was Pelle Culmsee who TQ’d three of the four rounds for the overall TQ in front of Jan Larsen. In the opening two mains Pelle was able to build a gap on the field and he would take wins with a lap margin for the overall win from Jan Larsen 2nd and Aske Repute 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

June 26, 2018

Tassos Paparegas wins Greek 1/8th Buggy Nats

Last weekend saw the running of the Greek 1/8th Buggy Championship at the newly established Speed Track Ready facility in Athens. In the 35-minutes main final Tassos Paparegas (Xray) battled it out with Giannis Papanikolaou (Kyosho) but later in the run Tassos was able to pull away for the win in front of Giannis on the runner-up spot. In 3rd, Yannis Perogiannakis (Mugen) rounded out the podium result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 26, 2018

Widmaier & Voldenauer win at BAWÜ Cup

Leinfelden in Germany played host to the BAWÜ Cup this past weekend and it was SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier with the win in both the Nitro Buggy and Electric Truggy classes. The Mugen duo of Stefan Byesse and Luca Schmid would round out the Nitro Buggy top 3 while Udo Öhler and Andreas Rüüp (both SWorkz) completed the Electric Truggy podium. Elsewhere in the E-Buggy class it was Morris Voldenauer (SWorkz) with the win from Patrick Müller (Mugen) and Victor Gabriel (Kyosho).

View the E-Truggy and E-Buggy podiums here

June 25, 2018

DJ Apolaro teams up with Hot Race Tires

Former U.S. ROAR National Champion and Nitro On-road contender DJ Apolaro, has joined up with Italian manufacturer Hot Race Tires for the 2018/19 on-road racing season. DJ started off his new program by setting the TQ with a new track record and winning the 1/8th Open class at this past weekend’s KO Propo Nitro Grand Prix held at the new Steel City Raceway in Fontana, California. DJ had no test time with the tires leading up to the event, but was immediately pleased with the quality and performance once he finally was able to run.

Source: Hot Race Tires [hotracetyres.com]