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June 5, 2018

Kyle Branson wins at British Open GP

Round 4 of the BRCA IC Track National Championship was held at the Brookline track and was held as the British Open GP together with the 1/10th 200mm GP class. The latter saw Alex Thurston taking the overall TQ honours after winning Q1 and Q2. In the final Alex had a clean start with him, Kyle Branson and Mark Green having a great race up front until a marshall put a back marker back on the track just before the straight meaning that Alex would come along and smash into him flat out. The crash crushed his car’s body, broke his bumper and damaged a front shock and the following pitstop meant that he was out of the equation for the win. Alex lost a good amount of laps, however with a borrowed shock from a retired teammate he was able to at least score a 3rd place finish to snatch valuable points as Mark Green came in 2nd and Kyle Branson took the win.

Image: Alex Thurston

June 4, 2018

Jiri Mara TQs & wins at Czech Open Rd4

The fourth round of the Czech Open series took place last weekend in Mlada Boleslav. Jiri Mara (SWorkz) and Kaja Novotny (Xray) traded TQs in the Nitro Buggy qualifying and in the end it was Jiri who won the final qualifier by a few tenths of a second for the overall TQ. In the main final it was again Jiri on top of the field while Kaja had problems to follow, mainly because of damages his buggy suffered from after a centre driveshaft pin came loose in his semi final. A quick repair allowed him to take part in the final, starting from P3, however Kaja wasn’t able to push his buggy but after a somewhat chaotic final, he was still able to finish on the runner-up spot and in front of Jiri Benes.

View the final results here

June 4, 2018

Adam Drake trifecta at JBRL Nitro Series Rd3

For round 3 of this year’s JBRL Nitro Series racers travelled to the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California. Mugen’s Adam Drake would sweep the Expert Nitro Buggy, Open Truggy and Open E-Buggy classes to make a perfect sweep. Anthony Westergaard (HB Racing) and Carlos Arredondo (Tekno) came in 2nd and 3rd in the Expert Buggy class while Carlos Arredondo and Cole Jenson (HB Racing) rounded out the Open Truggy podium. Finally in the Open E-Buggy class it was Anthony Westergaard on the runner-up spot from Steve Harris (Tekno) 3rd.

View the Truggy and E-Buggy podium here

June 4, 2018

Bradley Baird wins Paddy Piston Race

The 2018 edition of the Paddy Piston Race was held at Banbridge and District Model Car Club over the weekend. Bradley Baird (JQRacing), who won the Truggy class ten years ago when it was called the GRP Challenge, took a popular TQ and win despite having to start from the pit lane after an engine change before the final. Graham Alsop in 2nd and Milan Dragojlovic in 3rd would round out the podium result for HB Racing as Jon Hazlewood (Agama) lead the best of the rest.

Image: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

June 4, 2018

Mibosport Summer Race – Report

The Mibosport Summer Race was held this past weekend in Blansko with 43 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, Stock LRP, Formula, Hobby and a Nitro class. The Touring Modified class was held in a Reedy-style system. During all six rounds it was a battle for the overall victory between Michal Bok, Radek Flek and Matěj Šulc. In the end Michal Bok was able to take the day’s win with Matěj and Radek in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Continue reading the report here

June 4, 2018

Maifield, Tessmann & Cavalieri win at Manufacturers Cup

The Amain Hobbies Manufacturers Cup was hosted by Silver Dollar Raceway in Chico, California over the weekend with some of the fastest U.S. racers making their entry to race in the usual array of 1/8th off-road classes. The Manufacturers Cup is always an exciting race that carries a different format much similar to the Reedy Race of Champions, where the Pro drivers compete in a series of heads-up racing and awarded points after finishing results for each round. The lowest point total taken from 3 of the 4 rounds decides the overall finishing order making each round an all-out race rather. Ryan Maifield was on another level in the Pro Nitro Buggy class as he delivered a perfect performance going 4 for 4 to win all rounds and took the overall without question. The Mugen ace was on top of the tire program selecting the right tire at the right time and got good starts to work his way up to the front. Once in the lead, Maifield put it in overdrive and secured his flawless weekend in Nitro Buggy with some amazing driving. Xray’s Ty Tessman secured 2 wins and locked up 2nd as Kyosho’s Jared Tebo finished on the podium in 3rd.

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June 4, 2018

Joe Bornhorst trifecta at Horizon RC Fest

The Horizon RC Fest was held this last weekend in Monticello, Illinois this past weekend with he event caring about everything radio controlled including planes, drones and cars. As part of the festivities Horizon Hobby held their TLR Cup for 1/8th scale off-road classes and it was Tekno RC’s Joe Bornhorst who would sweep the Pro Buggy, Truggy and E-Buggy classes. Pro Buggy and Truggy were TQ’ed by TLR’s Dakotah Phend, using what appear to be prototype 8ight 5.0 and 8ight-T 5.0 vehicles, however Bornhorst would ultimately walk away with the wins in Pro Buggy, Truggy and E-Buggy to round out a perfect weekend.

View the Truggy and E-Buggy podiums here

June 4, 2018

Jeffrey Rietveld wins at Dutch IC Track Nats Rd3

The third round of the Dutch IC Track National Championship was held at the MAC Heemstede track this past weekend. In the premier NK class it was Jeffrey Rietveld with the TQ after the qualifiers from Joey Sorber 2nd and Arie Manten 3rd. In the 30-minute main final Jeffrey was able to conserve his qualifying performance as he took a dominant win some four laps in front of Arie Manten in 2nd and Martin Zevenhoven in 3rd. Over in the slightly slower Nomac Cup it was Stanley Bauer with the win from Alex Everling 2nd and Ad Arents 3rd.

Image: Jeffrey Rietveld