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May 4, 2011

Schumacher BTCC series Rd2 report

The second round of the hugely popular Schumacher BTCC series took place over the weekend with a massive entry of 157 drivers, possibly a BTCC record. The newly resurfaced West London track was the venue and with the weather being very kind to us again in the UK it was a cracking weekends racing. The battle at the top in Modified class saw Olly Jefferies, and Schumacher’s Chris Grainger and Matt White going at it hard all weekend with Alan Bickerstaff over from Northern Ireland for the weekend also in the mix. Olly Took the TQ from Matt, who was having an excellent day with Chris in third. With some excellent finals and not much luck for Chris, Olly took the win from Matt and Alan. Chris has now hopefully got his bad luck out of the way before the BRCA National in 2 weeks’ time having dominated all the races so far this season.

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May 4, 2011

Norwegian 1/10th offroad EFRA GP – Announcement

Norwegian club Radøy RC would like to welcome all racers to attend the 2011 Efra GP for 1/10 offroad on their track from the 24th to the 26th of June. The track is Marås Raceway and it is located just 50 minutes from Bergen city. The race is of course open to 2wd and 4wd buggies and all drivers need to hold a paid national license for 2011, with the race run according to the EFRA rulebook 2011. It is a 3m wide astroturf track and the rear tires are controlled, which will be the Schumacher Minispike 2, while the front tires are open in both classes. Entry is now open and you find out more information here.

May 3, 2011

Rick V wins again in Rd2 of Dutch Nationals

The second round of the Dutch 1/8th national championship was held on the very bumpy track at REAL80 in Groningen. With the free practice already started on Friday you could see many people struggling to find the right setup but on Sunday most drivers had found it. Luckily the weather was perfect so there was no need to expect rain. After the first round of qualifying in the NK class it was Steven Cuypers surprising everyone by taking the lead but in the next round it was Rick V taking over at the top and he never relinquished it, ending on pole followed by Steven Cuypers, John Ermen and Arie Manten. At the start Rick struggled for grip but after just 2 laps it came back and he could get his head down. John Ermen was kicked out to the grass and had to climb up from behind. After the 30 minutes it was Rick V taking the win followed by Steven Cuypers and John Ermen on 3rd, the same 3 drivers that were on podium in the last race.

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May 3, 2011

Cody King does double at JBRL Rd1

Current IFMAR World Champion Cody King attended the first round of the 2011 JBRL at ARC Raceway in Temecula, CA, USA just 3 days after arriving back from the Neo11 race in England. As the 2010 JBRL Buggy and Truggy Champion, Cody didn’t miss a beat starting off 2011 with a TQ in buggy and winning both Buggy and Truggy by a wide margin. Cody trounced the field in Truggy and in Buggy had an early challenge by JQ’s Chad Bradley and held off a late push by Team Losi’s Matt Castellano near the end to take the buggy win with Mugen driver Travis Amezcua taking 3rd. With the ROAR Nationals just a matter of weeks away, and the ARC surface similar to the Nationals venue, this looks to be a logical warm-up leading into the biggest race of the year for US drivers. JBRL Round 2 is just 2 weeks away, right across town at Revelation Raceway, The Drakes home turf. It should be interesting to see what happens there with drastically different track conditions compared to ARC.

May 3, 2011

Bowie Ginting dominates EP TC Rd3 in Indonesia

The 3rd round of Indonesian 1/10 EP National Championship was held on Winners69 track, which is located in Miko Mall, Bandung. The race was open to 1/10 Stock Touring 11.5 and front wheel drive classes and the track surface was indoor carpet with an average best lap of 9 seconds with a 1/10 TC stock car. In the 1/10 Stock Touring class, it was provisional standings leader Bowie Ginting that toped qualifying taking his Xray to the TQ spot with the only 33 lappers of the day on 5.03. Second went to Chandra Yosef, who brought his Xray around 32 laps @ 5.03, while last year’s National Champion Teddy Syach put his Tamiya on 3rd place, 2 seconds behind Chandra. Dimas Ardian (Hot Bodies) and Rama Tribudiman (Tamiya) completed the top 5 qualifying result. While in FWD class, Ade drove his TOP Sabre to the TQ Position with the only 28 lapper on the class.

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May 3, 2011

European Nitro Challenge – Announcement

Bring back the fun. This is the slogan of the the first European Nitro Challenge held at the world-famous Hockenheim Formula 1 circuit presented by Shepherd Micro Racing in cooperation with Mugen, Serpent, Kyosho, Xray, Motonica and Capricorn. From the 23rd to the 26th of June some of the worlds best drivers will join the race to compete against each other. The race will be open to 4 different classes, 1/8 On-road Open, 1/8 On-road Hobby Cup, 1/10 On-road Open & 1/10 On-road Hobby Cup. The open classes are for racers that want to run against the top team drivers of the participating companies. For the Hobby Cup class Novarossi basic engines with a fixed pipe/manifold combination are mandatory: N21-5T for the 1/8th scale class, N12T1 for the 1/10 scale class. These engines are available for special prices throughout every race partner. Track support from all participating companies will be available and on Saturday evening a banquet takes place in the nearby Hockenheim Ring Hotel (only 200m from the track). Tickets for the buffet are available for €17. After the dinner the party continues with music and drinks. Expect some of the best drivers of the world including several European and World Champions.

Source: Nitro Challenge [nitro-challenge.eu]

May 3, 2011

Klausner heads experienced podium at MORAC Graz

Last weekend saw the first club race of MORAC Graz on their new rebuilt track. Open to several classes including 1:5, 1:8 & 1:10 gas onroad, the event attracted drivers from Hungary, Slovenia and Austria. In 1:8 we saw great battle between reigning Slovenian champion Mihelic Nejc and reigning Austrian champion Michael Klausner for the Top Qualifier spot. Klausner was doing much faster lap times, setting a new track record of 16,259 sec compared to the previous time of 16.589 sec by Marco Müller, but didn’t manage to run 5 minutes without a fuel stop, so it was Motonica racer Mihelic Nejc that took the pole position ahead of the Mugen pairing of Michael Selner and Michael Klausner in 2nd and 3rd. At the very last qualifying heat it started to rain, getting very heavy a few minutes later. After a longer break the finals were started in several classes, but not all drivers wanted to run on the wet track, so in 1:8 they got the very experienced podium of 44 year old Michael Selner with the win, ahead of 64 year old Ewald Prochaska in 2nd and 47 year old Wolfgang Luttenberger in 3rd.

Source: MORAC Graz [morac-graz.at]

May 2, 2011

Trofeo Picco – Announcement

Picco in Italy were in touch to promote their 11th edition of the Trofeo Picco which will take place on the 2nd to the 3rd of July. The race for 1/8th scale and 1/10th scale 200mm will be held at the super fast Mini Racing Ayrton Senna track in Melzo close to Milan. The event will consist of three 4 minute qualifiers followed by finals and there will be a prize lottery during the event. For more information you can visit the track site here.

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]