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March 17, 2018

Davis crowned FEMCA 1:8 Onroad Champion

Jesse Davis is the new FEMCA 1:8 Onroad Champion, the popular Australian leading an all Infinity podium at the Asian Championships that was this year hosted by the Tom Racing Circuit in Hong Kong. Focusing their efforts on 1:8 for the event, the World Champion manufacturer got the weekend off to a strong start with Naoto Matsukura taking his IF18 to the fastest time in the opening qualifier. The Japanese star went on to rule proceedings taking 4 of the 5 rounds of qualifying with team-mate Davis the only other driver to post a TQ run. With Matsukura Top Qualifier, Davis joined him as a direct qualifier for the final by winning Super Pole. Taking victory in his Semi Final, Takaaki Shimo joined them for what was to prove a tough 45-minute final. With multiple lead changes between the Infinity trio, at the end it was Davis who came out on top 3.5-seconds in front of Shimo. Having to make a late tyre stop while holding the lead, Matsukura completed the podium a further 6-seconds back.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

March 17, 2018

Double pole for Ryan Lutz in Xiamen

Confirming what everyone suspected following Rd1 of Practice, Ryan Lutz has taken the top qualifying spot in Nitro Buggy in Xiamen, China. Despite not improving on his Q1 time the Tekno driver continued to better his best lap time each round to end with a 33.542. Yusuke Sugiura would take the final round just ahead of Lutz but a number of mistakes meant he also didn’t improve his result. Wataru Takashiro ended in 3rd overall with his Q2 time, having a difficult time with traction rolling in the final round. The biggest improvement for the round came from both Kaja Novotny, who secured himself 4th overall, and Chen Guanxian who took 5th, both drivers have 12 plus second gain.

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March 17, 2018

Nitro Buggy Top 3 reversed as Takashiro takes Q3

In round 2 of Nitro Buggy qualifying the top 3 drivers remained the same, however the order was reversed with Kyosho driver Wataru Takashiro taking the round but remains in 3rd overall with a time that is still 14 seconds off TQ Ryan Lutz. Japanese team mate Yusuke Sugiura was second, just 1 second back with Lutz having a difficult start to his qualifier with a number of mistakes dropping him way back. Zhan Wei would take 4th while Kaja Novotny finally starting to come to terms with the low grip surface to round out the top 5.

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March 17, 2018

Q1 in Xiamen goes to Ryan Lutz

Ryan Lutz has continued on in qualifying from where he left off in practice by taking the opening round of Nitro Buggy qualifying by 6 seconds with a consistent run under overcast skies. It was a familiar story in 2nd and 3rd with the Japanese Kyosho pairing of Yusuke Sugiura and Wataru Takashiro, the latter some 25 seconds back after making too many mistakes with was a difficult to drive car. Felix Law, who is back racing 1/8th offroad after a 12 month break would end up 4th just ahead of Kyosho returnee Zhan Wei in 5th.

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March 16, 2018

Lutz is top seed going into Nitro qualifying in Xiamen

Ryan Lutz is the Nitro buggy top seed for Qualifying at the 2018 SIGP as he put in a blistering time to go nearly 2 seconds faster over 3 consecutive laps than 2nd placed Yusuke Sugiura. The US driver putting his time down to tweaks made to the car’s setup to make it harder, having felt that the setup he copied from Jonathan Yeung for Rd2 was too soft. Behind Sugiura in 2nd was fellow Japanese Kyosho driver Wataru Takashiro who finally found his rhythm to demote Hu Weiping who will rely on his CP1 time to seed 4th with Chen Guanxian, Jonathan Yeung and Kaja Novotny all improving in the 3rd round to complete the top 6.

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March 16, 2018

Southern Dirt Challenge – Announcement

The Cork Radio Control Car Club will play host to the Southern Dirt Challenge on the weekend of the 24th of June in Ballinhassig, Cork. Classes run are 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggy with the event kicking off on Saturday with practice from 12pm to 5pm followed by heats and finals on Sunday. More information can be found on the club’s website here, on social media here or by emailing the club at crccc@eircom.net.

March 16, 2018

Woodyard & Schimmel win Thunder Alley season opener

Thunder Alley Raceway of Wilson, North Carolina held their season opening race recently and in Nitro Buggy it was Brennan Schimmel with the overall TQ. At the start of the main final Austin Woodyard and Brennan Schimmel moved away from the pack and Brennan made a small bobble and Austin took the corner. Schimmel kept in touch for part of the race but had to do a extra pit and some trouble with lap traffic, meaning Austin would take the win from Brennan 2nd and Ken Rand 3rd. In Nitro Truggy it was again Brennan Schimmel with the TQ and at the start of the race he clipped a pipe and dropped to about 5th but he worked his way back up and battled with Michael Kramer for a few minutes and started to check out and go on the lap the field to take the overall win. from Michael Kraemer in 2nd and Leornard Murray in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 16, 2018

Sugiura heads Controlled Practice at 2018 SIGP

Controlled Practice is in full swing here in Xiamen, China and it is Japanese Kyosho driver Yusuke Sugiura who heads the Nitro times with an impressive 2nd round run that saw him move to the top of the times, leapfrogging Ryan Lutz, the American failing to improve after trying a complete setup change. Chinese National Champion Hu Weiping would remain in 3rd, who along with young Hong Kong driver Jonathan Yeung, failed to improve in the 2nd round as track conditions changed and the surface got more dusty.

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