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August 12, 2014

2014/15 Essex Winter Series – Announcement

2014/15 Essex Winter Series - Announcement

The organisers of the Essex Winter Series are pleased to announce that the UK’s most popular Touring Car series will return later this year. Building on the success of last year, which saw the whole series sell out in record time, the organisers have released the details of the 2014-2015 championship. After discussions with drivers from across the series, the organising team have made a few changes for this season. For 2014-2015, EWS is pleased to announce that the new Ride REX30 will be the control tire. After seeing the success of the tire at the ETS championship and at the 2014 International Carpet Challenge the organisers hosted last year, Essex Winter Series is very happy to welcome Ride to the series.

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August 11, 2014

Jemison claims 2wd oOple Invernational win

Last weekend was the oOple Invernational race held at Robinhood raceway in the UK on their unique clay track. The event has become very popular in it’s short time on the race calendar with racers and their family’s and it’s easy to see why! The race finds the perfect balance of some serious racing on the track but lots of fun off the track on Friday and Saturday evenings. Friday consisted of open practice starting at 11:30am which went well on the perfectly presented track until around 4pm when the rain arrived! The covers were pulled over the track in a Wimbledon style fashion whilst the torrential rain passed over. Unfortunately the water managed to find it’s way onto the track in a few places and ruined the hard work that had been put in. The track team and several racers worked very hard to get the track useable again and practice re-started only for the rain to return so they called it a day at that.

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August 11, 2014

Olly Jefferies wins Rd5 to take 2014 National title

Olly Jefferies wins final to take 2014 National title

The fifth and final round of the 2014 BRCA Touring Car championship was held at the Mendip track this past weekend situated a stones throw away from the popular UK holiday town of Weston-Super-Mare. Going in to this round both championships were wide open with Olly Jefferies, Chris Grainger, Colin price and Elliot Harper battling it out in the Super Touring class and Zak Finlay, Lee Price and Chris Gunter going for it in the Pro Stock class. The weather forecast for the weekend was not going to be kind to the drivers and the conditions proved to be very difficult for all drivers with sudden rain falling on the track regularly meaning some rounds of qualifying were better for the higher heats and some rounds better for the lower heats.

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August 9, 2014

Ronnefalk successfully defends title

David Ronnefalk has successfully defended his 1:8 Offroad European Championship title with a convincing victory in Sand am Main. Having set the benchmark all week at the German event, the Kyosho star took an easy win over the Xray of Martin Wollanka but a mistake on the opening lap meant the Swede didn’t have it as easy as was expected. Making a mistake on the opening lap when on the run up the hill he landed his Orion powered MP9 on the track marker this allowed Darren Bloomfield to the front of the 1-hour main which also saw the Xray’s of Martin Bayer and Renaud Savoya lead for a time the 12-car field. After an entertaining opening 15-minutes Ronnefalk got back to the front and finding the composed form he has shown all week pulled clear to resume control. With first time finalist Wollanka securing a surprise second and his team-mate Renaud Savoya retiring from 3rd with a clutch bearing failure with 5-minutes to go the race for the final podium placing would be fought out by former Champions Darren Bloomfield and Robert Batlle. In the end it was Agama’s Bloomfield who came out on top with Batlle who found himself last at the end of the opening lap having to settle for fourth.