Round two of the Bali Regional Buggy Championships was recently held at the Wilson track in Bali. In the 60 minute main final Willy Santana would take the overall win from Damar in second and Yoko Soemarto in third. Agung and Yulis would round out the top 5 result.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
The opening round of the Jakarta Regional series was held in Graha Bintaro over the weekend. Xray’s Jason Nugroho took the TQ after the qualifiers and he would also bring home the win in the main final with his Novarossi-powered ride. John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) came in second while Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) completed the top 3 podium result. Behind the three Chopin Yusuf (TLR/Novarossi) and Rama Tribudiman (Team Associated/O.S.) rounded out the top 5.
Source: Jason Nugroho
The opening round of the BRCA 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held this past weekend at the Deerdale track. The main final saw a close fight between Kyosho’s Elliott Boots, Agama’s Darren Bloomfield and Mugen driver Lee Martin. Neil Cragg (Team Associated) at first broke away from the three but he suffered issues early in the race, allowing Elliott to grab the day’s win in difficult track and weather conditions with high winds from Bloomfield and Martin.
Source: Elliott Boots
The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy championship was held this past weekend at the Silla track in Valencia. 10-times national champion, Robert Batlle (Mugen) would take the TQ but hot on his heals was young Juan Carlos Canas (Mugen) who would take the 2 spot after the qualifiers from Mugen team mate Oscar Baldo. After the semis, Robert would still be on top to go from pole position into the A-main with the Mugen duo of Oscar and Bryan Baldo claiming the positions behind the Spanish record champion. The final then was a lively affair for Robert who at first lost a couple of positions due to a flame out but he reclaimed the lead to take the day’s win from Bryan Baldo while Portugal’s Ricardo Monteiro (TLR) grabbed the final podium spot.
Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of France National Champion, Leo Arnold to their team. The young French talent will use the company’s tyres in his upcoming campaign that will include attendances at the National Championships as well as all big races without hand out tyre rules.
Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]
The grand final of Xray’s X-Race series will be held on the weekend of the 8th of May at the iconic Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. The event will see the running of a variety of classes including Touring Modified, Touring Stock 17.5T, Formula, 1/10th Pan Car as well as 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro on-road with full details as well as sign-up being available here.
The opening round of the Brazilian On-road Championships was held at the Mini Autodromo do Tamboril in Recife. In the 1/10th 200mm Race class Shepherd racer Rafael Alvez would take the win from Leandro Campos (Mugen) and Flavio Elias (Capricorn) while in the Sport class Marcio Salvagno (Shepherd) came out fastest in the final from the Capricorn duo of Rafael Vieira and Otavio Neto in second and third respectively.
Thanks to Eduardo Dulac for the report.
Shepherd have announced the signing of former Tamiya European and Vice-World Champion, Kai-Oliver Guttschau to their team. After taking a break from the hobby for a couple of years, Kai-O jumped back into action at the Mülheim-Kährlich round of the ETS where Shepherd showed the first pre-production prototypes of the Velox F1. The forthcoming round of the ETS in Austria will be Kai-O’s first official race with the Velox F1 and additionally the former 1/10th Nitro German Vice-Champion plans to pilot Shepherd’s Velox V10 200mm car at selected events. Kai-O had the following to say about the deal:
Finally we came together and I’m sure that the cooperation with the guys from Team Shepherd will be outstanding. The quality and the performance of the Velox F1 is very impressive and I’m looking forward to attend some exciting races.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
