Welcome to the 2017 Season 2 1:8 electric Buggies Spec class, covering 4 1/2 months of exciting r/c racing. Of the 6 events the 4 best results will count for the Series championship. In case of ties the best 5th, 6th result will decide about the position.
The Spec and Modified classes are ran in alternate weeks on the same track!

Each events has 2 rounds of racing:
QUALIFYING - Saturday till Wednesday
MAIN FINALS - Wednesday till Monday

The event will be split up based on racer classes Pro, Sport and Club.

2017 SEASON 2 CALENDAR
Round 1: NEO13
Round 2: Rhein-Main
Round 3: Pattaya
Round 4: Silver Dollar 2
Round 5: Barco
Round 6: Buenos Aires


Enjoy the Series!

26.09.2017

Report by JP racing videos

2017 SEASON 2 1:8 NITRO BUGGIES SPEC ROUND 3 IBR Padova

PRO level

Silver Dollar 2 hosted the 4th round race of 1:8 electric buggy spec serie. This track is mentioned as a track what has great flow but its enough technical to separate men from boys.
But we had top drivers joined to this event and these talents would handle this perfectly.
At qualifying round Canadian Andrew Bucar setted the pace with 31.065 average. Andrea Giordano was close, only 1 second away from Bucar`s pace. Behind Giordano, Ely Rojas was third and Tommaso Andreuccetti fourth fastest. Rojas was 9 seconds and Andreuccetti 9.5 seconds behind TQ driver Next places were Anger, Kirkholm, Yeung and Hillman on eight position.
This qualifying was really tight, from Rojas at third place to Hillman in eight place, was only 2.3 seconds distance. Marko Laitinen from Finland drove to ninth place and last but not least, Gary Crowell earned last place for the main. Gary had 14 seconds gap to Bucar in first place.

When horn shouted for the main, Giordano from second grid took the lightning start and took the lead. It was well known that Andrea knewed this track and was tough to beat in here. But it was really tight racing, as Bucar, Kirkholm, Anger, and Rojas were chasing. Hillman dropped from this chasing group by little mistake in first lap.
And allready in second lap, Kirkholm made his move and flipped his car and now chasing group had only three drivers. After 4 minutes driving, pack was still close, Giordano was first, Bucar and Anger had very similar pace in second and third place. Rojas had little bit dropped from top pace, but was still in good attacking place, in fourth.
In lap nine Bucar and Anger had managed to close up Giordano`s runaway and were right on his tale. And immediatly in this particular lap, when they were coming last jumps of the lap, Giordano made mistake. This mistake dropped him to third place and Bucar and Anger took the lead.
Last minutes we saw great battle between Bucar and Anger, they had same pace and mistakes werent allowed. But Anger was stronger and got better rhytm in last laps. This great consistent and precise rhytm secured his win in here, and indeed it was well deserved. Bucar had to settle to second place, only 0.7 seconds behind. Hillman who started from 8th grid, had some struggles in early stage of the final, crossed the line in third place, 6 seconds after winner. Actually, looking Robert`s last laps, he was fastest driver at the track but those early struggles ruined his chances for the win.


After Giordano`s mistake, it was either Anger or Bucar. Pace was very same.

SPORT level

SPORT level qualifying was as tight as PRO level qualy. Finnish driver Ilmari Ullakko was fastest, 1.2 seconds behind at second place was Belgian driver Dan Haaling. Third fastest was Daniele Berni from taly. Berni`s gap was 2.7 seconds to TQ place.
Race was Haaling and Ullakko show. This Belgian and Finnish drivers had great race of the victory and margins were really tiny. From 11th lap Ullakko`s pace bit dropped and Haaling got time to breath. And this battle ended at lap 14, when Ullakko made his mistake. This 34 second lap was just too much against Haaling. Haaling crossed the line in first place, 6.5 seconds before Ullakko.
Berni who started from third grid, wasnt in rhytm at race. Too much mistakes, but he managed to secure his position. He was over 20 seconds from winner pace.


Haaling succeeded in the finals

CLUB level

Croatian Tonci Polic was on his on at CLUB level. He won the race with 20 seconds margin to Austrian Philipp Kropf. Kropf was second and Japanese driver Isla Pesca third. Kropf and Pesca both had huge struggles with this track. But finally they distance at finishline was only 0.183 seconds.


Tonci Polic was overwhelming at CLUB level

FINAL RESULTS

PRO

1|Gaetan ANGER|FR|16|08:22.546 2|Andrew Bucar|CA|16|08:23.203 3|Robert Hillman|SE|16|08:28.486 4|Tommaso Andreuccetti|IT|16|08:30.357 5|Andrea Giordano|IT|15|08:00.591 6|Marshall Kirkholm|US|15|08:00.703 7|Carson Yeung|HK|15|08:04.766 8|Ely Rojas|US|15|08:07.606 9|Gary Crowell|US|15|08:15.437 10|Marko Laitinen|FI|DNF

SPORT

1|Daan Haling|BE|16|08:35.478 2|Ilmari Ullakko|FI|15|08:06.548 3|Daniele Berni|IT|15|08:21.231 4|Nuno Lourenco|PT|15|08:23.489 5|Anibal Menezes|ZA|15|08:24.423 6|Pasi Vainionperä|FI|15|08:27.117 7|Madyoyo Man|AU|15|08:27.397 8|Frank Wagner|DE|15|08:29.760 9|Corey Tadd|US|15|08:31.020 10|Alessio Mordini|IT|15|08:34.775

CLUB

1|Tonci Polic|HR|15|08:27.454 2|Philipp Kropf|AT|14|08:14.369 3|isla pesca|JP|14|08:14.552 4|Libor Nejdl|CZ|14|08:21.829 5|Karl heinz Johann|DE|14|08:30.162 6|Rahmine Amine|DZ|14|08:31.032 7|Kanokphan Tangsupwattana|TH|14|08:31.360 8|Peter Elphinstone|CA|14|08:32.191 9|Wolfgang Schober|AT|13|08:02.903 10|Rene Zarth|DE|13|08:21.408

SEASON STANDINGS AFTER 4 ROUNDS

PRO level

1|Ely Rojas|304 2|Marshall Kirkholm|292 3|Carson Yeung|275 4|Jabin Carlton|270 5|Gary Crowell|264 6|Valeriy Kornilov|249 7|Gaetan ANGER|238 8|Tommaso Andreuccetti|224 9|Matthias Steininger|197 10|David Diaz|176

SPORT level

1|Anibal Menezes|294 2|Frank Wagner|286 3|Nuno Lourenco|272 4|Steven Patterson|252 5|Madyoyo Man|249 6|Daan Haling|240 7|Daniele Berni|218 8|Corey Tadd|205 9|Gary Sundman|203 10|Pasi Vainionperä|200

CLUB level

1|isla pesca|282 2|Karl heinz Johann|247 3|Patrick Mitrevics|227 4|Adrien Prieto|226 5|Yuriy Tantsura|226 6|Libor Nejdl|222 7|Brad Dalbec|191 8|Robert Dean|183 9|Tim Sekutowski|175 10|Peter Elphinstone|172

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