This past weekend the best drivers from Russia attended the first round of the Russian 1/8th Buggy National Championships at the Corrtez track in Yekaterinburg, Pervouralsk. The event set a record for the number of participants in the 1/8th E-buggy class as well as a record for hot weather for this area with a temperature reaching 36 degrees Celsius. The Nitro Buggy class saw a victory of David Ishkhanyan (Mugen Seiki), followed by Dmitry Gribov in second and Maxim Bersenev in third.
In the 1/8 E-buggy class, after a series of technical problems with electronics, Andrey Trunov (Kyosho) managed to grab the win from Alexander Kosmakov in 2nd, while Dmitry Karpenko rounded out the top 3 result.
Nitro Buggy final results:
- David Ishkhanyan
- Dmitry Gribov
- Maxim Bersenev
- Viktor Altushkin
- Georgy Plamodyanov
- Sergey Zhuikov
- Alexander Demyanenko
- Vladimir Zvorsky
- Alexander Novichkov
- Mikhail Larin
E-buggy final results:
- Andrey Torunov
- Alexander Kosmakov
- Dmitry Karpenko
- Alexander Mihaylichenko
- Aleksandr Borodin
- Alexey Zebold
- Pavel Karengin
- Maxim Zebold
- Mikhail Gofshteyn
- Georgy Knyazev
Thanks to Viktor Altushkin for the report.