Due to the ongoing World-wide Corona pandemic, the EFRA has announced the cancellation of all European Championships for 2020. This means that, following the cancellations of the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring, Large Scale On-road and Off-road, was well as the Nitro Buggy and IC Track Euros, also the 2020 40+ IC Track and 40+ 1/8th Off-road events will not take place this year. Full information about the situation can be found on the EFRA website here.
Mike’s Gulf Coast Raceway of Porter, Texas held their Saturday Night Club Race last weekend, attracting nearly 75 entries. The race was held in single Open Nitro Buggy, Electric Buggy, and Nitro/Electric Truggy classes as well as a single Novice category and in Open Nitro Buggy it was Dillon Caldwell with the overall TQ and he would also come out on top in the single 15-minute A-main event, leaving behind Cody Babbitt in 2nd and Micah Smith in 3rd.
The MOD 5th & 8th Scale Champs were held at the Fear Farm track this past weekend, attracting nearly 150 entries for the 1/5th and 1/8th scale off-road classes. In 1/8th Pro Buggy and when the dust had settled, it was Mugen’s Ryan Maifield with the overall win, leaving behind Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin and Mugen’s Tanner Denney who completed the top 3.
Image: Ryan Maifield
With the Corona virus situation impacting racing around the world, many planned events have had to be cancelled or postponed. After carefully monitoring the situation throughout Europe, and talking to host venues and government officials in various countries, the organisers of the ETS, EOS and ENS championships have been able to put together a revised schedule of races for the rest of 2020. Of course, these still do remain provisional as the rules and restrictions change on a regular basis and any further updates will be communicated to racers closer to each event date.
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The Jax Trax RC Raceway of Union City, Indiana held round 1 of their Saturday Series this past weekend, attracting nearly 90 entries for the 1/8th off-road and 1/10th Pro4 classes. In the premier Nitro Buggy class it was Agama’s Tyler Jones with the overall TQ and the young man would also come out swinging after the 20-minute A-main event as he lead from tone to tone to take the win from Mugen’s Collin Weatherholt in 2nd and Tekno RC’s Brandon Hogan in 3rd.
Image: Tyler Jones
The Taiwanese city of Tainan hosted an 1/8th GT Nitro race this past weekend. When the dust had settled after the A-main event it was Lam Cheung Tat with the overall win from Hisang on the runner-up spot. Lin Zhifeng came in 3rd overall to round out the podium result.
Source: Hong Nor [hongnor-racing.com]
Thornhill Racing Circuit of Hutto, Texas held a well-attended club race this past weekend, pretty much the only allowed form of racing these days. The event attracted over 100 entries including some of the country’s fastest off-road racers. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Ethan Lefebvre (Xray) with the overall TQ from Jared Tebo (Tekno) in 2nd. The 30-minute A-main final however brought a somewhat different result with 5th place qualifier, Tekno RC’s Jared Wiggins taking the win by about three seconds from 6th place qualifier, Dillon Caldwell (HB Racing) on the runner-up spot. Top qualifier, Ethan Lefebvre had to recover from being dead-last about mid-race due to fuel problems, but he ultimately managed to round out the top 3 result.
The Aeromodelismo Ticofly club of Costa Rica hosted a round of the Clay’s Hobby Shop RC Racing series last weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class Mugen’s Elias Chavez, who qualified 7th overall, took the win in the 30-minute A-main event from 3rd place qualifier, Lazaro Milian (Serpent) in 2nd. Top qualifier Ricardo Saborio (SWorkz) came in 3rd to round out the podium result.
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