Last weekend the 4th round of the TRCCA was held in YiLan in Eastern Taiwan and over 70 drivers participated in this event. After 3 rounds of qualifying it was HongNor team driver Chen YuYuan driving his X3-Sabre that took the TQ spot. In the 30 minute A-Main, Chen continued carried forward his pace to lead from start to finish, taking the win with another HongNor team driver Dai YuanYi in 3rd place.
Source: HongNor [hongnor-racing.com]
Following this weekend’s EFRA AGM in Brussels, the European governing body have finalised the dates for next year’s European Championships. There will be no European Championships for EP touring car this year due to the Worlds being in the EFRA bloc, but there will be a Stock Euros in September in Spain. Other noteworthy items from the meeting include the reduction in weight for the 1/8th on road class which falls to 2400 grams while from 2013 the nitro content will be set to a maximum of 16% and the qualifying heats go back to 5 minutes with no refuelling allowed.
March 9-11 – 1/12th scale Euros – Oberaich, Austria
April 23-28 – 1/10th on road ‘B’ Euros – Monaco, Monaco
May 21-26 – 1/8th on road ‘B’ Euros – Thionville, France
June 5-9 – 1/8th off road ‘B’ Euros – Oberbüren, Switzerland
July 9-14 – 1/8th & 1/10th on road 40+ Euros – Lyon, France
July 9-14 – 1/10th EP off road Euros – Fehring, Austria
July 21-28 – 1/10th & 1/12th on road Worlds – Heemstede, Netherlands
August 1-5 – 1/8th on road ‘A’ Euros – VillaReal, Portugal
August 6-11 – 1/8th off road ‘A’ Euros – Fehring, Austria
August 13-18 – 1/10th on road ‘A’ Euros – Cassino, Italy
September 7-9 – 1/10th EP TC Stock Euros – Alcobenas, Spain
September 14-16 – 1/8th off road 40+ Euros – Camse, France
View the full calendar here (PDF).
The organisers of the Yokomo Asian Touring Series pilot race have confirmed that Euro Touring Series Champion and factory Yokomo/LRP driver Ronald Volker will be attending the event, which takes place from the 18th to the 20th of November. Held at the newly renovated Yatabe Arena in Tokyo, the race will attract the best drivers from Japan as well as a whole host of top international drivers, more of which will be confirmed in the coming days. The race will be open to Modified and Pro Stock, running hand out 17.5T Speedpassion motors, as well as a large number of support classes including an offroad race at the Arena’s indoor dirt track. For further information on this event, visit the official ATS site here.
With the 2012 IFMAR World Championships for 1/8th offroad in Argentina still over a year away, the venue for the 2014 running of the event has already been decided with Messina in Italy getting the vote. The decision was made at this weekend’s EFRA AGM which takes place in Brussels with Messina, located on the island of Sicily, getting the approval by a margin of 3 votes over runner up Germany. Messina previously held the IFMAR 1/8th onroad World Championships in 2005 the scene of Lamberto Collari’s 7th World title.
The 1st annual Sweep Challenge Carpet race was held at TQ Raceway in Chino California last weekend. There were 60 drivers that generated 12 qualifying heats for the event and track owner Sean Park did a great job of creating a layout on the 90ft X 45ft sub-floored track that fostered close racing in all the classes. The Sweep QTS-32 “Real Blue” tire was used as the control tire for the event and provided superior traction and consistent lap times for all the drivers throughout the day. The most exciting race of the day was the 17.5 Expert Touring Car class which saw local hot shoe Alex Navarrete have to start last after failing to complete a qualifying round and subsequently come back to finish in 1st place ahead of the class TQ, Francis Mejia. In the end TQ ran a flawless event and the drivers enjoyed a huge raffle with prizes provided by Sweep Racing Tires and all the other event sponsors.
One of the biggest race series in FL is the JConcepts SuperCup. The Series has an average of 130+ entries every race thanks to the great race director Mike Applegate. For this 3rd round of the SuperCup, it was hosted at New Red hobbies, Ocala FL. This indoor facility was the only track that has enough traction to run slick tires. But due to the last minute rule to keep competition fair, JConcepts decide to make this a “Non Slick” race. The Biggest Class of the entire SuperCup Series is the Short Course class. There about 75% of driver enter at least one short course class.
Continue reading the report here
The JMRCA touring car Sport class Nationals took place this past weekend at the Kawaba RC Plaza in Gunma. Weather for qualifying was cold but dry and following 6 rounds it was Tamiya driver Takahiro Namura that took the pole position ahead of Riyota Kikuchi driving an Xray, with Kazuma Morita also with a Tamiya in 3rd. As with almost all races this year rain was again to play a role with finals day hit by rain. Despite waiting for the weather to clear, which look likely, further rain fell and so the race was cancelled with the results based on the standings after qualifying. This decision gave Takahiro Namura the Sport class title for 2011.
Source: JMRCA [jmrca.jp] / Image: Masami
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Following the hugely successful opening round of the 2011/12 Yokomo Euro Touring Series, which saw victory for reigning Champion Ronald Volker for Yokomo and a first win for rising Xray star Zdenko Kunak, we now have all the A-main videos from both the Ride Modified and Xray Pro Stock classes now online.
You can view all videos and event coverage here
