The Covid-19 Breakout Race 2020 was hosted by the Goldfeilds Radio Control Model Car Club of Kalgoorlie, Australia this past weekend. The event was held in a single Nitro Buggy class and saw JQRacing’s Aaron Dexter taking the TQ and win, some three laps in front of Team Associated driver, Kyle Francis. Harry Simms (Mugen) came in 3rd, another 22 seconds behind Kyle.
Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]
Round 3 of the NORC series was held at the Arena33 outdoor astroturf track in Andernach this past weekend. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class, that attracted nearly 30 entries it was Schumacher’s Jörn Neumann with the overall TQ and he also came out on top in all three A-main events, to take the overall win from Marcel Schneider (Team Associated) in 2nd and Max Montermann (Yokomo) in 3rd. Over in 4WD Modified Buggy, attracting nearly 20 entries, it was again Jörn with the sweep of overall TQ and win, leaving behind Moritz Lauterbach (Schumacher) in 2nd and Max Montermann in 3rd.
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As the racing action finally starts to resume in some parts of Europe, it was the NitroBuggy track in Genzone, Italy that hosted the Trofeo Estate race with some of the country’s fastest off-road racers in attendance. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Xray’s Marco Baruffolo with the win from SWorkz driver, Leo Valence in 2nd while HB Racing driver, Gabriel Astorino came in 3rd overall.
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The Greve RC Center in Denmark held round 2 of the Danish 1/8th Off-road Nationals this past weekend. The schedule for Saturday saw the running of the E-Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes and in E-Buggy it was Pelle Culmsee (SWorkz) with the overall TQ after winning three of the four qualifying rounds. The triple A-mains again saw Pelle leading the way and with wins in all three legs he brought home the win from Mikkel Vesterled (JQRacing) in 2nd and Thomas Hansen (SWorkz) in 3rd. Over in the Nitro Truggy class it was Peter Harder with the TQ and win, leaving behind Steffen Culmsee in 2nd, a lap down as Nikolai Lamberts completed the top 3 podium result.
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Thunder Road Hobbies of Moline, Illinois held round 1 of their Summer Off-road Series this past weekend, attracting close to 50 entries. In the Nitro Buggy A-main it was Jared Wiggins with the overall TQ and also the win, some two laps in front of Julian Malevanets in 2nd. “KBone” would round out the top 3 another lap down. Over in E-Buggy it was again Jared Wiggins with the overall TQ and win, leaving behind Rob Morney in 2nd and Tony Burton in 3rd.
Round 1 of the Swiss Nitro Buggy Nationals was held at the ORCM Montagny track this past weekend. The event attracted drivers from Italy, France and of course Switzerland with Italy’s EFRA European Champion, Riccardo Berton (Infinity) leading the way both in the Expert class qualifying and the main final. Patrick Hofer (HB Racing) came in 2nd overall from HB Racing’s Jeremy Pittet in 3rd. Jerome Sartel and Joachim Kallen completed the top 5 result.
Image: Riccardo Berton
Round 2 of the RC Pro Series North was held at Shaw’s RC Track in Ardmore, Oklahoma last weekend with 62 drivers and over 100 entries. Pro Nitro Buggy was TQ’ed by Agama driver, Brandon Rose, however it was Tyler Hooks (Tekno) with the overall from Brandon in 2nd and Micah Smith (Tekno) in 3rd. Dillon Caldwell (HB Racing) came in 4th overall while Aaron Royston (Tekno) completed the top 5 results.
The opening round of the German Elektro Cup Nord series was held at the Modellsport Münsterland track in Nörstel, North Rhine-Westfalia this past weekend. The Mugen duo of Burak and Berkan Kilic battled to out for the overall win with the better end for top qualifier Burak, who brought home the wins in A1 and A2 of the 1/8th E-Buggy class while Berkan cemented his runner-up spot with a win in A3. SWorkz’s Sophie Müller came in 3rd overall.
Image: Modellsport Münsterland [modellsport-muensterland.de]
