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May 29, 2018

Jessica Palsson sweeps South Swedish Cup Rd1

The opening round of this season’s South Swedish Cup was held at the Vetlanda Arena over the weekend. Building on her success at the recent second round of the Middle Swedish Cup, Kyosho’s Jessica Palsson again swept the competition, bringing home the TQ, overall win and best junior trophy. Starting from the 2 spot into the 30-minute A-main final she would ultimately leave pole position holder Hampus Berg (HB Racing) behind, bringing home the win some 23 seconds in front of Hampus as Pontus Larsson (Serpent) rounded out the top 3 results. Behind the three, Emil Magnusson (Kyosho) came in 4th and Jonas Dalensjö (HB Racing) made up the top 5.

Thanks to Jessica Palsson for the report.

May 29, 2018

Kevin Zwahlen wins at Swiss E-Buggy Nats Rd1

Round 1 of the Swiss 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals was held at the MNCJ Courgenay track last weekend. After the three qualifying rounds it was Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer with the overall TQ from Kevin Zwahlen (HB Racing) in 2nd, the latter scoring a single round TQ. In the finals Patrick was hampered by making too many mistakes which allowed local hero, Kevin Zwahlen to win A1 and A3 for the overall as Patrick had to settle for 2nd overall. Romeo Grass (Xray), who started from P3 into the triple A-mains, was able to conserve his qualifying position to round out the podium.

Thanks to Patrick Hofer for the report.

May 29, 2018

Sorjonen & Infanti win at WORS Tour Rd2

The second round of the WORS Tour was held at Kelowna RC in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Robert Sorjonen would secure the TQ in both the 1/10 4WD Modified Buggy and 1/8 E-Buggy classes and he would went on to win the 6-minute 4WD Mod main some seven seconds in front of runner-up, Mike Wetmore as Tyrell Wilkinson rounded out the top 3 result. Over in 1/8 E-Buggy Sorjonen wasn’t able to match his qualifying performance as it was Richard Infanti with the win a lap ahead of Robert after the 10-minute A-main encounter. Jason Mardon would come in 3rd, some 8.5 seconds behind Robert.

View the E-Buggy podium here

May 29, 2018

Wesley van Helmond doubles at Belgian Buggy Nats

The ORRA track in Arendonk played host to round 3 of the Belgian 1/10th Buggy Nationals last weekend. Wesley van Helmond had a bit of a troublesome 2WD qualifiers that were rain-hit but he would come out on top after the A-mains to take the day’s win from Nick Vranckx and Wouter Wynen 3rd. In 4WD Wesley would start from pole and despite scoring a DNF in A2 he was able to bring home another win with Nick Vranckx 2nd and David Dafke 3rd.

View the 4WD podium here

May 29, 2018

SRT BH927R & BH922R off-road servos

SRT have announced the soon release of their new 1/8th off-road specific BH927R and BH922R servos. The BH927R (0.07s/27.0kg-cm) is the high-torque variant while the BH922R (0.055s/22.0kg-cm) offers higher speeds. Both standard size servos were developed with competition 1/8th off-road racing in mind, however they are also usable in on-road and 1/10th applications. They base on the popular BH9027 and BH9022 servos but utilise more durable steel and titanium gears over the aluminium and titanium geartrain found in the four-digit servos. Also part of the packages are HV brushless motors and all-metal cases for speed, torque and durability.

View the BH922R servo here

May 28, 2018

Jarno Pijpers doubles at BuggyCup Rd2

The second round of the Dutch BuggyCup was held at the Mach One Helmond track this past weekend. In the Nitro Sportsman A-main TQ holder Jarno Pijpers (SWorkz/FX) started from the pit lane, however this did not stop him from bringing home a popular win despite a rain storm going down in the main final. Behind him, Rajco van der Sluijs (Tekno/Reds Racing) and Sander van Genechten (Xray/FX) came in 2nd and 3rd in the A-main final.

Continue reading the report here

May 28, 2018

Ari Heinonen wins Finnish Nitro Buggy Nats Rd1

Round 1 of 4 of this year’s Finnish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held in Turku in the South Western part of the country. Max Mört looked like the driver to beat in the Nitro Buggy class after taking a pretty dominant TQ, however problems in the semifinal meant he would miss the main final with Ari Heinonen (Mugen/Bullitt/JConcepts) taking profit of the situation, eventually winning the A-main from Joseph Quagraine (JQRacing/Reds Racing/JConcepts) 2nd and August Poutiainen (JQRacing/O.S./AKA) 3rd. Pekko Iivonen (JQRacing/SMJ/JConcepts) and Joonas Hyvärinen (JQRacing/SMJ/Pro-Line) rounded out the top 5 results.

Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]

May 28, 2018

Jamie Clancy takes win at HNMC Memorial Race

The Herts Nitro Model Club held their annual Memorial charity race this past weekend to honour Pete Steven, Stephen Brunsden and Bernard Wija while raising money for the good cause. Kevin Brunsden took the overall TQ in the Nitro Buggy class from Jamie Clancy 2nd and Callum Niblett 3rd. Kevin would start from pole position into the A-main final, however a small bobble on lap 1 had him fall back to 3rd and eventually he would also drop to 4th following a crash. Up front Jamie Clancy held the lead while Kevin was able to recover after switching to risky 10-minute stints. In the end Jamie took the win a lap ahead of Kevin Brunsden as Callum Niblett ended the final in 3rd.

Image: Kevin Brunsden