The opening round of the Italian ACI Nitro On-road Championship was held in Vallelunga this past weekend. In the 1/8th Expert class it was Xray driver, Jonatan Gandin with the overall TQ after the qualifiers and also the win in the 45-minute main final, some 4.5 seconds in front of Infinity’s Francesco Tironi. Emanuele Adami (Xray) came in 3rd overall, two laps behind the top 2.
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The Nemo Raceway in Royal Leamington Spa, UK held their Race Two event this past weekend with about 50 drivers in attendance for the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy classes. Tommy Hall came out on top after the four rounds of qualifying, tie on points with Lee Martin while Lewis Jones ended the qualifiers in 3rd overall. Over in E-Buggy it was Kevin Brunsden with a clean sweep in the qualifiers as Scott Follington came in 2nd overall. The Nitro Buggy A-main then saw Agama driver Lee taking the win by 6.7 seconds in front of Lewis Jones (Team Associated) as Jamie Hall (Team Associated) came in 3rd overall, already a lap down after the 20-minute main.
The Brookthorpe club in the UK held a club race last weekend, attracting nearly 75 entries for the single mixed 1/8th Buggy class. Joni Skidmore (Mugen) took the overall TQ from SWorkz’s Elliott Boots in 2nd. Will Skidmore (Mugen) would come in 3rd overall from Mike Lewis (Team Associated) 4th and Jerome Sartel (SWorkz) 5th. Unfortunately and minutes before the A-main, heavy rain fell down and forced the organisers to cancel the main final meaning the results were decided off qualifying.
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The second round of the Madrid Regional 1/8th Off-road Championship was held at the Circuito de Fuencarral track this past weekend in nitro and electric classes. In the nitro category, that attracted 42 entries, it was young Daniel Pariente (SWorkz) with the overall TQ from Joan Espasa in 2nd. The 45-minute A-main event then saw Daniel and Alberto Garcia (Mugen) battling for the lead in the opening stages, however some six minutes into the race Daniel was able to establish himself in the lead that he would hold onto until the chequered flag to take the victory a lap in front of Adrian Pariente (SWorkz) while Alberto Garcia came in 3rd overall, another lap down.
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The MS Eskil club of Eskilstuna, Sweden hosted round 2 of the Swedish 1/8th Nitro Off-road Nationals this past weekend. The event saw nearly 70 entries and it was David Ronnefalk who swept the qualifying by taking all five rounds in style. Ellis Johansson came in 2nd from Victor Gunnarson in 3rd. The 45-minute A-main event again saw David Ronnefalk out in front on a more and more challenging track and after the first round of pit stops, David had found a good rhythm and was able to pull away and take the win with a lap margin from HB Racing teammate, Hampus Berg. Elias Johansson (HB Racing) came in 3rd overall another lap down to round out the podium in front of Victor Gunnarsson who lead the best of the rest for an all-HB-Racing top 4. Agama’s Jessica Palsson ended the race in 5th overall.
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Last weekend’s 2020 Psycho Nitro Blast was held in the city of White Pine in Tennessee, attracting 346 drivers and 744 entries. In Sportsman Nitro Truggy to was Mason Worley with the overall TQ and he also brought home the win in the 30-minute A-main event some 1.3 seconds in front of Brayden Billington. Jordan Jennings came in 3rd overall and in front of Travis Melton and D.J. Gannon, who completed the top 5 result.
Round 7 and 8 of the Swiss MC Best Series was held in Sitterdorf last weekend in perfect weather conditions. The event saw the running of 1/10th and 1/8th IC Track classes with round 7, being held on Saturday, being won by Ales Hajdekr who lead the 1/8th scale class from Ruedi Scherer and Beat Heiniger. Nick Zünd came in 4th overall.
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Round 1 of the Turkish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was hosted by the Lüleburgaz Yıldızlar RC track recently. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Alain Sarafyan who lead an Xray 1-2-3 with Can Soykal and Ömer Şahin coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Over in the E-Buggy class it was again Alain with the win as Bora Mumcu (TLR) and İlker Alarçin (Mugen) completed the top 3 result.
