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Round 2 of the SRS Championship was held in Kent, UK this past weekend. Team Associated’s Jamie Clancy would walk away with the win in the Nitro Buggy class from SWorkz driver Kevin Brunsden on the runner-up spot. Agama’s Jon Hazlewood rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

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The second round of the NRW Cup was held at the MACH-One track in Helmond, The Netherlands this past weekend. The event was held in good weather conditions and attracted some of the regions’s fastest 1/8th off-road drivers. In the Nitro Top category Jarno Pijpers was the man to beat and after a nice battle with Jeffrey Halsema for the last ten laps of the half-hour long A-main final, he would eventually take the day’s win with Jeffrey coming on the 2 spot. Rene van Schaijk came in 3rd, already two laps down.

Over in the Nitro Hobby class it was Sergio Freni with the win, some six seconds in front of Dominik Sistenich. Another 18 seconds behind John Sniekers completed the top 3 result.

Over in the E-Buggy class Sander van Genechten took the overall TQ and after the triple A-mains he would still be on top, thanks to winning A1 and A2 for the overall victory. Nikola Roso took A3 to cement his overall runner-up spot from Sascha Hellemeister in 3rd.

Thanks to John Sniekers for the report.

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Shay’s RC Park in Burghill, Ohio held their Spring Break Out race this past weekend with nearly 90 entries for the 1/8th off-road and 1/10th 4×4 Mod SCT classes. In the premiere Nitro Buggy category it was HB Racing’s Spencer Heckert with the TQ and win from Paul Ciccarello (Xray) on the 2 spot, a lap behind. A further lap down after the 20-minute A-main event was Serpent’s Adam Johnson in 3rd.

In the Pro E-Buggy class it was again Spencer Heckert with the TQ and win from Paul Ciccarello in 2nd. Like in Nitro Buggy it was Adam Johnson with the final podium spot.

Images: Shay’s RC Park

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The MARCV track in Vierzon, France played host to round 3 of the 1/8th E-Buggy Championship this past weekend. The overall TQ went to TLR’s Jerome Sartel, however after the A-mains it was Team Associated’s Cyrille Baldini with the overall win from Jerome on the 2 spot. Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel would complete the top 3 podium result coming from 8th on the grid following a somewhat difficult qualifying.

Image: Jean-Pierrick Sartel

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T-Works have introduced new aluminium suspension mounts and a steering plate for the Kyosho Inferno MP10 buggy. Starting with the suspension hangers, the parts are machined from high-quality 7075-T6 alloy and they come black anodised and with machined silver edge details for looks. Available are all four suspension mounts for the front and the rear of the buggy. Also new is an aluminium steering plate that offers four different inner steering Ackermann positions to fine-tune the buggy’s steering characteristics. Like the suspension mounts the steering plate is machined from aircraft-grade 7075-T6 alloy.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

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The third round of the Huge RC Challenge was held at the Huge RC Circuit indoor asphalt track in Bangkok, Thailand this past weekend. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class it was former IFMAR ISTC World Champion, Surikarn C. with the overall TQ and also the win in the 7-minute main final. Purisek J. came in 2nd, five seconds behind while Tanat Best I. completed the top 3 another three seconds down. Yingyos Y. and Chatgul K. rounded out the top 5 podium result.

Image: Surikarn C.

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Round 3 of the Trofeo Ciudad de Alcobendas was held at the ARCA track in Madrid, Spain over the weekend. In the 1/8th Electric Track class it was Jose Alberto Gonzalez with the overall TQ from Carlos Fernandez on the 2 spot. After the triple 4-minute A-mains it was again Jose Alberto who would hold the upper hand, taking the win from Gonzalo Garcia in 2nd and Carlos Fernandez in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

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The FAMAR South American On-road Championships were held in Americana, Brazil recently and in the 1/8th IC Track Pro class it was Mugen’s Flavio Elias with the TQ, win and overall title. Fabricio Zamperetti came in 2nd in the 40-minute A-main final, two laps behind Flavio. Kazuo Ohara would round out the podium for an all-Mugen top 3.

Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]

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The KRC Off-Road Circuit in Tokushima, Japan hosted the O.S. Off-Road Challenge this past weekend with some of the country’s fastest nitro off-road racers in attendance. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class it was Mugen’s Yusuke Sugiura with he overall win from Kyosho’s Kazuya Tanaka in 2nd and Mugen’s Kenji Tsuruta in 3rd overall.

Image: Yusuke Sugiura

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The Canberra club recently hosted round 2 of the Xray Racing Series Australia. Unfortunately the 2019 edition of the club’s round was to end in the same way as 2018 – with rain. The weather looked great at the start of the day, unfortunately as the progressed showers threatened, finally arriving just as the finals started. With the race meeting cancelled the organisers declared the results on the three rounds of completed qualifying. Before the rain, racing in all classes was close with only a few seconds separating the top three drivers in most classes. Alex Ilievski posted his fastest time in round three to take the overall win in Touring Stock 13.5, Nathan Tanti posted his quickest time in round two allowing him to secure 2nd place from an inconsistent Mark Wallin who finished 3rd.

Ray Zarb posted the quickest times in the second and third rounds of Touring Stock 21.5, granting him the win as Gerard Elias managed to post his fastest time in round three to take the 2nd place overall just 2 seconds behind Ray while Phillip Merrick finished in 3rd place just two seconds behind Gerard.

Attracting the who is who of the local RC scene the pace in the 1/12th Stock class was close and fast. Multiple Australian 13.5 Champion Alex Ilievski dominated by winning all three rounds of qualifying to secure the win, Mark Wallin finished in 2nd place with Dan Maher 3rd.

A small field arrived at the Kamah track to compete in the Formula Tamiya Truck class. Sydney sider Andrew Curless stamped is authority on the class with a win in round one that was fast enough to take TQ. Local TT specialist Daniel Hamers piloted his Truck to 2nd place while Dean Kaufman rounded out the podium in 3rd place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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