After a wet summer, the Herts Nitro Model Club’s winter series kicked off with round one in the sunshine with temperatures touching 24-degrees Celsius. The track again was at its very best and was going to lead to close fast racing as almost 70 racers took part and a great start to the winter. Qualifying in nitro buggy went to Jack Embling with his Mugen as E-buggy pole went to the TLR of Simon Reeves as Richard Cousins’s Kyosho topped the truggy class.
In the finals, the E-buggy win went to Simon Reeves ahead of Nigel Morris and Philip Michael.
Richard Cousins converted pole to a win in truggy as Colin Drummond took second and James Morl third. The first of the nitro buggy finals went to Peter Bird from Mike Hedges and Nigel Dedman. The D final was won by Mark Thomas as Jonathan Warburton took second and third was Tehannan Cradock. Billy Fletcher was first in the C final beating Mark Thomas and Keith Harris. The B final was packed with normal A finalists and it was Mike Cradock winning this final from Garry Brace and Janos Nagy.

The A final was won by Jon Hazlewood ahead of Simon Reeves and Oliver Currie. The full results can be found here.The next race is the second round of the winter series on 3 November and you can book in here.

Source: HNMC