Antros Lemesianos wins Cyprus Nitro Buggy opener

The opening round of the Cyprus Nitro Buggy Championship was held at the AG Metal Off Road Track in Limassol. In the A-main and after 45 dramatic minutes with head-to-head battles between last year’s champion, Andreas Thrasyvoulou and Antros Lemesianos, it was Antros who took the win with Andreas in second. Andeas Theodotou would round out the top 3 result.

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Yaniv Sivan successful at Israeli League Rd7

Round 7 of the Israeli League off-road series was recently held at the Negev Speed track. After four rounds of qualifying Ofir Avitan took the TQ honours and he also jumped into the lead at the start of the main final, immediately opening a gap on the field while Aviv Maymon, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, had to retire early with electrical issues. Meanwhile Yaniv Sivan, who had started from 3rd on the grid, was promoted into 2nd. About 30 minutes into the race, two major battles took place with Or Balulu and Ido Carmon fighting for the 3rd place while Yaniv Sivan and Ofir Avitan made it out for the lead. Ultimately Yaniv was able to close the gap to Ofir in the closing stages, eventually passing him on the final lap to take the win from Ofir in second and Or in third.

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Tribudiman wins Jakarta Regional Buggy Champ opener

The first round of this year’s Jakarta Regional Buggy Championship was held at the Graha Raya track in Serpong, West Java this past weekend. A total of 41 drivers attended the event and due to heavy rain the night before race day, the race would start delayed and the race director was also forced to change the race format from triple 10-minute qualifiers to a shortened triple 7-minute format with the two best rounds to count. After the qualifiers, John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) took the TQ honours but in the 45-minute A-main event, Rama Tribudiman (Team Associated/O.S.) would take the win followed by Indra Liono (Xray/SPower) in second and Adrian Sutanto (Kyosho/O.S.) in third while TQ holder John had to settle for fourth overall.

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Adam Drake doubles at SoCal Nitro Shootout

The 2017 SoCal Nitro Shootout was held at the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California over the weekend. The event attracted over 200 entries and had heads-up racing for qualifying. Adam Drake would come out fastest in the Nitro Buggy qualifiers while Cody King TQ’d the Nitro Truck class. In the 30-minute Nitro Buggy A-main Drake proved to be unbeatable, taking the win by nearly a lap over the field and he would also walk away with the win in the Nitro Truck class for a perfect sweep.

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Meen V. wins at Mugen Asia Cup 2017

The Mugen Asia Cup was held this past weekend at New RC in Bangkok, Thailand. Organised by RC Addict the event attracted both national and international drivers and in the hour-long Nitro Buggy A-main it was former 200mm Nitro On-road World Champion, Meen V. who took the win from another former World Champion, Atsushi Hara, while Mongkolphan Lomrose complete the top 3 podium result. In the Truggy class, Tanit Kachchapananda came out on top to grab the day’s win.

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Joao Figueiredo wins at Portuguese Nationals Rd1

The opening round of the Portuguese 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held at the Avanca track over the weekend. In Nitro Buggy Joao Figueiredo took the TQ after the qualifiers and he would also bring home the win in the 45-minute A-main from Carlos Duraes in second and Joao Monteiro in third. Multi-time national champion, Miguel Matias, had a pretty depressing weekend with a DNF in the main final after breaking an A-arm of his buggy in a bad landing.

Image: Joao Figueiredo

Lee Martin wins BRCA 1/8th Buggy Nationals Rd1

Round one of the BRCA 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at the NDOR astro turf track near Nottingham this past weekend. Kyosho’s Elliott Boots would take the overall TQ courtesy of three round TQs and a second place with Darren Bloomfield (Agama) placing himself on the 2 spot after the qualifiers. Elliott would start the 45-minute A-main from pole but in the end Infinity’s Lee Martin, who had a slow start into the weekend, would bring home the win at the season opener a narrow 5 seconds on front of Darren Bloomfield while Elliott had to settle for third, one lap short of Lee and Darren. Neil Cragg and Graham Alsop would round out the top 5 result another two laps down.

Image: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]