The Ospy track played host to the second round of the Italian 1/8th Buggy National Championship this past weekend. Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro would make a clean sweep in the Expert category by taking the TQ and he wasn’t even stopped by the rainy conditions on the main final where he would take the win from Xray’s Marco Baruffolo 2nd and Mattia Polito (Kyosho) 3rd.
Source: Modellismo RC [modellismorc.net]
The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held this past weekend at the Radovan track, home of the recent Neobuggy race. The event saw the participation of some foreign drivers such as David Ronnefalk and Joseph Quagraine and it was David who would hold the upper hand after the qualifiers to take the overall TQ from Robert Batlle 2nd and Juan Carlos Canas 3rd. Great drama then stroke for David whose buggy’s tank volume was found to be too large although he hadn’t changed anything since the last couple of races. The 45-minute A-main was a pretty intense affair with lots of position changes, however at the front of the pack the lead between Robert Batlle and Juan Carlos only changed a couple of times and in the end, and despite a couple of mishaps, it was Robert who brought home a narrow 0.9s win from Juan Carlos, making it a Mugen 1-2 at the opening round of the Championship. Behind the two, the race for the final podium spot was on between Daniel Bernabe, Joao Figueiredo, Dani Batlle or Jorge Soler, however it was Kyosho’s Bryan Baldo who would snatch the final step on the podium with a great drive.
The third round of this year’s Dominican Republic 1/8th GT and 1/5th scale National Championships was held by the Dominican Association of Car Runners of Radio Control ADOCARC this past weekend in 1/8th GT and 1/5th scale Touring categories. The beautiful Santo Domingo track played host to the event and in the 1/8th GT class it was Antonio Taveras with the win from runner-up, Diego Medina. Elvin Alba would round out the podium as top qualifier, Alex Wachsmann did not make the A-main top 3.
The third round of the Italian North-East GT regionals was held at the technical track of Rivoli recently. At the start of the single speed class Fabio Callegari would jump into the lead that he would hold onto until the checkered flag to take the day’s win from Egidio Bellon 2nd and Stefano Lajo 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 1 of the 2018 Xray Racing Series Slovenia took place at a new track to the calendar, the Pista Verde Fener in Italy. A lot of drivers made use of Saturday’s practice in order to get some laps under their belt following the winter indoor season. The EP categories were run using mandatory Hudy hand-out tyres, Hobbywing motor and Hudy additive while in 1/8th track a mixed set of rules is used with drivers who compete in the championship having to use Contact tyres while all other can use free tyres and additives. Following two controlled practice runs on Sunday everyone jumped straight into the qualifying action. In the 1/8th IC Track class the overall TQ went to ARC’s Mattia Collavo while the best control tyre pilot was Xray’s Jernej Vuga Štendler. In the Touring 13.5T Stock class it was Gabriel Benvenuti (Xray) with the TQ from Alessandro Arisi (Yokomo) and Lovro Šušteršič (ARC). Over in Formula 21.5T Andrea Ghilotti (Xray) snatched the TQ from Andrea Grigoletto (Roche) and Flavio Brun.
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The second round of the Italian North-East GT regionals was held recently and it was Fabio Callegari with the win in the single speed class. Egidio Bellon came in 2nd as Marco Modolo rounded out the top 3 results.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Reds Racing have announced the addition of UK’s Jamie Clancy to their team for the 2018 and 2019 racing season. Jamie will be using Reds Racing engines and accessories during his campaign and he had the following to say:
I am very excited to race for Reds Racing for the seasons ahead, thanks to Marco and Mario for this opportunity to race for such a great team with great engines and accessories.
Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]
The second round of the Italian Large Scale On-road Championship was held in Gubbio last weekend. Alessio Mazzeo would bring home the win in the 30-minutes Expert Touring A-main from Edoardo Repetti in 2nd and Nicola Marrone 3rd. Andrea Catalani and Ambrogio would round out the top 5 result.
Source: Tourex [tourex-competition.com]
