Hara won FEMCA nitro buggy title

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By Aaron Waldron
LiveRC.com

The Banana RC Track in Batam Island, Indonesia hosted the FEMCA 1/8-Scale Nitro Buggy Championship last weekend, with 96 drivers attending from Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Four-time and defending champion Kyle McBride earned TQ honors after each driver’s best four of six ten-minute qualifying rounds were counted, but a battery problem prevented him from competing for the win. In the end, it was 2008 world champion Atsushi Hara who drove a Mugen Seiki MBX8 to the title, with XRAY’s Jason Nugroho two laps back in second and McBride recovering for third.

Final results:

1. Atsushi Hara (Japan) - Mugen/O.S./Pro-Line
2. Jason Nugroho (Indonesia) - XRAY/Novarossi/Pro-Line
3. Kyle McBride (Australia) - Team Associated/Novarossi/Pro-Line
4. Witsarut Ruamlarp (Thailand) - Kyosho/Maxima/Pro-Line
5. Shin Adachi (Japan) - Serpent/O.S./JConcepts
6. Wataru Takashiro (Japan) - Kyosho/REDS/Pro-Line
7. Kenji Tsuruta (Japan) - Mugen/Ninja/Pro-Line
8. Yuichi Kanai (Japan) - Kyosho/REDS/Pro-Line
9. Chopin Yusuf (Indonesia) - TLR/O.S./Pro-Line
10. Shane O’Connor (New Zealand) - HB Racing/Maxima/Pro-Line
11. Ery Setiawan (Indonesia) - Kyosho/O.S./Pro-Line
12. Naoto Matsukura (Japan) - Mugen/O.S./Pro-Line
13. Faisal Ali (Indonesia) - Kyosho/O.S./Pro-Line
14. Andre Irawan (Indonesia) - Mugen/O.S./Pro-Line
15. Adrian Wicaksono (Indonesia) - Mugen/O.S./Pro-Line

Report details: RedRC, via Michael Nugroho
Photo: Jason Nugroho, via Facebook