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September 4, 2012

Grainger & Musgrave take BTCC title

The last round of this year’s BTCC championship was held at Mendip Model Motor Racing Club track just outside the holiday resort of Weston-Super-Mare, a track we seem to end up at most years. The weather, when we got up Sunday morning was cloudy with some fine rain not enough to dampen the track but the day didn’t look to promising. At the drivers briefing it was decided that the format for the day would be 4 rounds of round by round qualifying the best 2 to count followed by 1 final.

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September 4, 2012

Simon Moss wins final BRCA 2WD round

The final round of the BRCA 2WD nationals took place at the Kidderminster track and it was Schumacher team driver Simon Moss who took TQ in rounds 1 and 3 by some three seconds over his closed rival. During round 4 of qualifying the weather took a turn for the worst and the track became totally flooded with no chance of a resumption in the racing. This meant that Simon, who had taken the overall TQ would win the meeting as the qualifying results would be carried over into the finals.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com] & oOple [oople.com]

September 4, 2012

Eric Dankel wins German 200mm nitro champs

Last weekend the German 1/10th 200mm nitro championship was held at the legendary track in Munster. The weather forecast promised rain for the practise days but dry weather for Saturday and Sunday. The Qualification started on Saturday morning, with the best round out of five counting. The whole weekend saw a close battle between Dirk Wischnewski and Eric Dankel, but Eric was slightly faster than Dirk and could secure the TQ spot in front of him. Just like the current EFRA rules there was no direct qualifying for the top 4 spots, and everybody had to go through the 30 minutes semi finals. The A final started after a small break and Dirk was leading the field followed by Eric and Toni Gruber. For the whole run Dirk and Eric battled for the lead with the better end for Eric who could profit from a couple of smaller mistakes from Dirk. At the end the two were only separated by 13 seconds with a strong Dominic Greiner finishing in 3rd position.

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September 3, 2012

Adrian Berntsen wins Norwegian champs

The 2012 Norwegian 1/8th on-road championship was hosted by OMK at the beautiful Hvervenbukta facility in Oslo. The race was held as a one day event only saw ten drivers attending. The schedule saw one round of controlled practice followed by three rounds of qualifying and a 45 minutes final. In practice it was Frode Rasch-Olsen who set the fastest laptime with a 12.432, followed by my Stig Berntsen (12.505), Adrian Berntsen (12.506) and Lars Haugen (12.624). As the qualification started Adrian upped his pace and even though he had a mistake that cost him 13 seconds on the last lap, he still set TQ in the first round with 34 laps in front of Stig Berntsen with 32 laps and Frode Rasch-Olsen with 32 laps.

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September 2, 2012

DJ Apolaro wins GLC Race

DJ Apolaro took his Novarossi powered and Matrix shoe’d Capricorn C02 to a TQ and win at the GLC Race in Ohio. Due to the high grip conditions DJ and his team mate Kenny Ives went for an aggressive tire change strategy and pushed the entire race with a qualifying setup. The polesetter was able to lead from the start and to make a little gap on Ralph with a larger gap on the rest of the field. After the first stop, Ralph went into problems allowing DJ to breath a little. Just after half way through the final the Capricorn pilot made his tire change and was able to extend the lead to more than two laps by the end.

Source: Matrix Tires [matrixtires.it]

September 2, 2012

Marcus Lindner wins Swedish Cup Rd6

The 6th round of the Swedish 1/8th on-road Cup took place at the fairly new track in Lidköping in the Western part of Sweden. The track was build a couple of years ago but up until now no rational races have been run at the challenging track that is located in the middle of a motor racing area. The track itself is a challenging combination of fast sweepers and slow corners and very narrow at times. Due to a bad weather forecast it was decided to cut the schedule to a one day event with fast qualifying rounds that were lead by Niklas Johansson in front of Marcus Lindner and Christofer Hedlung.

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September 1, 2012

Dave Brown wins Northern Regional Series Rd6

Round six of the Northern Regional Series 2012 took place at the Central Scotland Offroaders. Serpent driver Alastair Stevenson won round one of the qualification, with team mate Dave Brown winning rounds two and three for TQ. With their Serpent 811 truggies dialled in for the damp conditions, both drivers left the competition behind and battled it out for the lead of the 22 minute main. Dave took the win with Alastair just two seconds behind.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 31, 2012

Johnson & Knapp win @ ROAR Nationals

CRC and VBC team drivers Dave Johnson and Andrew Knapp went away with wins in their respective classes at the recent ROAR paved on-road Nationals. Andrew did the double by TQ’ing in both the 17.5T TC and 1/12th 17.5T class and also winning the latter with his CTC Gen-Xi car. In TC the pole setter ended up in third position leaving the win to VBC Wildfire team mate Dave Johnson.

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