The final round of the Andalusian Off-road Championship was recently held in Malaga. In the main final Luis Ignacio Candel (Xray), coming from the 2 spot on the grid, jumped into the lead and he would never look back to take the win from Juanma Vera Vargas (Mugen). Agustin Illanes (Mugen) in third would round out the podium.
The final round of the Swiss Nitro On-road Nationals was held in Lostallo. With round TQs in the first and third qualifier as well as a second place behind Simon Kurzbuch (Shepherd) in the fourth qualifier Mattia Pesenti (Xray) was able to take the overall TQ in the 1/8th class from Luca Martinelli (ARC). Simon came in third while the ARC duo of Christophe Pethoud and Thomas Henzi completed the top 5 after the qualifiers.
The final round of the Spanish Nitro Touring B Championships would decide over the overall title with Miguel Leiva, Antonio J. Gonzalez, and Jonathan Carrillo all having the chance to grab the championship title. Jonathan would run into problems in the main final and was ruled out for the fight for the championship, while Miguel Leiva lead the race with Antonio J, Gonzalez and Agustin Rodriguez behind him. Antonio would lead at some point but a mistake cost him several positions and so Miguel Leiva would come in first to take the championship with Antonio J. Gonzalez taking the vice-championship title.
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The final round of the Madrid Nitro Buggy regional championship was held at the Tarancon track. Oscar Navarro would take the TQ after the qualifiers but it was Javier Pombo who came out fastest after the semifinals to start from pole position into the main final. The A-main would then see Oscar Navarro taking an early lead and he would keep it until the end to take the win from Javier Pombo and Ignacio Gutierrez in second and third respectively. With the win Oscar also secured himself the overall regional championship.
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Round four of the TORC Championship was held in Bumod Bursa, Turkey in rather cool weather conditions compared to the previous round. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class Mustafa Alp put himself directly into the final thanks to TQing three qualifiers. At the start of the main final Mustafa took off with no problems and he quickly opened a gap to his competitors. Some 25 minutes into the race he came in for a scheduled stop for tyres and at the end Mustafa brought home the win after a very clean run and with an 8 laps margin on runner-up Halit Korpe who suffered from several flameouts during the race. Mert Ekinci would round out the top 3 result.
The 12th annual Sidewinder Nitro Explosion was held at Heritage R/C Park this past weekend. The event was heavily affected by rain, causing several delays but at the end it was Cody King (Kyosho) who came out successful both in the Expert Buggy and Expert Truggy classes. Drew Moller (HB) would grab the runner-up spot in the Buggy class from Mugen racer Steve Harris. In the Expert Truck class Adam Drake (Mugen) would finish second behind Cody while Tekno RC’s Billy Fischer rounded out the top 3 result. Elsewhere in the 1/8th E-Buggy class would see a tie-breaker after the triple A-mains between Drew Moller (HB) and Lucas Sanford (Kyosho) with the better end for Drew while Tanner Denney (Team Associated) would complete the top 3 result.
The fifth and final round of the Mauritius Nitro On-road Championship was organised by the Mighty Model Club and held at the Winner’s Speedway. In the 1/10th 200mm class, Clarel Lacour took the TQ and he looked like he would bring home the win in the main final also as he was the only driver to complete 19 laps runs in qualifying. In the final though it was Giovanni Arekion who jumped into the lead at the start followed by Clarel Lacour, John Allas and the rookie Olivier Lebon. John Allas and Olivier Lebon didn’t had the pace to match with Giovanni and Clarel as they went for a different tyre strategy and so Giovanni and Clarel battled for the win in the 30 minute final with Clarel coming out successful following a last lap move on Giovanni. John Allas would round out the podium and with the third place he would score enough points to take the overall championship title from Clarel Lacour and Giovanni Arekion.
The Big Bend Shootout 2015 was held at the Capital City Raceway this past weekend. TLR’s Cole Ogden made a clean sweep by taking the day’s wins in the 1/8th Pro Nitro Buggy and Truggy classes to round out a perfect weekend. In the Buggy category Eddy Cordoba (HB) would grab the runner-up spot from Elliot Chandler (Serpent) while the Truggy main again had Eddy Cordoba coming in second, this time in front of HB teammate Alfredo Arrieta.
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