Xray have announced the date and details for their Challenge Grand Final that will be he held on the weekend of the 10th of May at the outdoor track of the Hudy Racing Arena. Held in several classes including Touring Car Modified and 17.5T Stock, Formula, 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro On-Road the race is open for anybody with more information being available here.
Last weekend the Galician regional championship started in Vilagarcia, on a much faster and more enjoyable layout than last year. On Sunday morning the qualifying began and Cristian Villar showed great performance from early on, taking the TQ with a lap record in the two qualifying runs, taking the TQ 9 seconds ahead of the second place driver. In the semifinal A he would dominate again and with a much higher pace he crossed the finish line with a 30 seconds gap on the next driver. In the main final Cristian again won in dominant fashion, taking the day’s win some 2 laps on front of Jose Porto.
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Shepherd have announced the re-signing of former European Champion B, multiple German Championship and multiple European Championship finalist Patrick Nähr. It will be the 5th season with Shepherd for the talented German driver who finished 9th at the last Euro A in Valencia. After joining only two ENS races last year Patrick plans to attend all of this year’s events as well as the German Nationals in Leipzig and the European Championship in Izmir. Patrick had the following to say:
I’m very happy to be a part of the Shepherd Team in 2015 after 4 very successful years with them. Since my Euro B title in 2011 the Velox V10 was constantly improved which allowed me to reach the top10 of the Euros A in the last 2 years. I’m looking forward to attending the Euros in Izmir, all ENS races and the German nationals together with the rest of team as we are always having a great time. I would like to thank Patrick Schäfer, his family and the whole Shepherd crew for this possibility.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Round 2 of the Malaysia National League was held at 3 Stone Park and it saw a total of 72 racers in attendance from Malaysia, Australia, Switzerland and Indonesia. The race was divided into the two classes of Pro and Semi Pro and the race format was five rounds of 10 minutes qualifying with three best rounds to count followed Christmas tree finals. The Pro International class was won by Ben Panic in front of Jason Nugroho and Didier Perrin while in the Semi Pro class Danny Kato came out successful from Riffat H and Ryan Stocek.
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The opening round of the 2015 Indonesia Buggy Nationals was held at the MRCC track in Medan, North Sumatra. Adrian Wicaksono took the TQ but in the 60 minute final it was Jason Nugroho who came out successful in front of Adrian Wicaksono and Stanley Wangsanegara. Reza Rakasiwi and Chopin rounded out the top 5 result.
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The first round of the Danish 1/8th Off-Road nationals attracted a total of around 90 drivers from Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Norway to compete in Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and Electric Buggy classes. The track layout was very challenging and fun to race with a combination of a very big jump and difficult landing section on the straight, an “American wupti section” and some tight and flowing corners and sweepers. In Nitro Buggy it was the Xray duo of Mike Gosvig and Peter Harder who were fighting hard throughout all qualification rounds. Mike won the first round with 0.2 seconds on Peter and the second round with a 2 second margin. In round three Peter was leading until the last lap when a crash on the big jump handed Mike the win and a well-deserved TQ. In the last qualifier Peter turned the fastest lap of the day and scored the fastest qualification run to have him start from pole in the semifinal B. Mike and Peter then went on to win their respective semifinals to have them line up up front for the main final.
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Flowood R/C Indoor Park hosted the second Annual Jamie Rogers Memorial Race this past weekend. The layout designed by Marc Beck provided some very interesting and intense racing. The “whoop” section was a challenge for everyone at some point and became a great equalizer. 10 classes with 150 entries raced for 1st thru 5th and TQ and in the Expert Nitro Buggy class Cole Ogden TQ’d but finished 2nd behind Blake Boggs. Drew Surgeon took 3rd, Kevin McCoy 4th and Blake Jefferson 5th.
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The first round of the Portuguese 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals saw Ricardo Monteiro (TLR) taking the win from Serpent’s Carlos Duraes. Goncalo Melo (TLR) came in 3rd while multi-time National Champion Miguel Matias (Xray) rounded out the top 4.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
