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September 8, 2010

Charlie Ware wins BRCA 4wd Juniors

The annual BRCA Junior/Veterans & F2 championship took place at the fabulous Coventry multi track facility next to Coventry Airport last weekend. Reigning champion and hot favourite Greg Williams took pole in every round with Charlie Ware hot on his wing to qualify 2nd on the grid. With 3 legged A finals this was going to be close. In leg 1 on the 2nd lap Greg went wide and Charlie saw the gap and nipped past to take the lead which he held until the flag with Greg only 1/10th of second behind him. The 2nd leg saw Greg and Charlie trade places until Greg showed his off road experience and held on for a convincing leg win. 3rd and final leg and all to play for. With Greg and Charlie both hoping for a win they seemed to forget about Ashley Caunt and let Ashley take the lead and win with Charlie 2nd and Greg 3rd. With all 3 driver tied on points it was down to best leg win, with Charlie taking the win with a time which would have won the F2 final. Charlie now joins an illustrious band of drivers who have won the event before him including Neil Cragg, Darren Bloomfield, Tom Yardy, Tony Truman but to name a few.

September 8, 2010

Billy Easton wins ROAR Region 4 race

Serpent are reporting on last weekend’s ROAR Region 4 race at RC International Speedways track in Florida, where they got a total of four S811 Cobras in the final and claiming a 1-2 result after the long 45 minutes race. It was Associated driver JR Mitch who started on pole but Billy Easton would dominate the final in style from the start winning by 5 laps from his team mate Sean Kersten in 2nd place, Ryan Eckert took third spot a further lap back.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 8, 2010

Bradley enjoys first Buggy win at Irish Nationals finale

The sixth & final round of the Irish 1:8 Off Road National Championships took place at the all astro turf surface Navan Nitro Nuts over the weekend where outgoing Truggy Champion Bradley Baird ended his debut season in Buggy with his first National race victory in the class. Having TQ’d the event the teenager suffered a flame out on the start line leaving him last but a superb recovery saw the Associated driver battle his way back up through the field. Setting the fastest lap of the race he finally took the lead when the Xray of Barkley Abernethy suffered an engine cut during the penultimate round of fuel stops to win by 2/3rd of a lap. Also driving an Xray, Alan Scroggie completed the podium bringing to a close another successful season of 1:8 Buggy racing in Ireland which saw Losi driver Michael Todd successfully defend his title.

Continue reading the report here

September 7, 2010

Dylan Rodriguez does double at Revelation Labor Day race

We received a brief report from yesterday’s Labor Day race at Revelation Raceway in Ontario CA, where it was hot and dusty but which didn’t stop the racers from coming out. Mugen driver Colby Poh TQ’d pro buggy followed by Adam Drake, Jeremy Kortz and Dylan Rodriguez. The legendary Adam Drake would go on to win the 30 minute A-main in gas buggy. In pro truggy and pro electric buggy it was Mugen driver Dylan Rodriguez who TQ’d both classes and would show great speed in both A-mains to take the double win.

September 7, 2010

Burch & Ciccarello win Great Lakes Challenge

The 12th running of the Great Lakes Challenge fuel on-road race was held the last week of August on the local club’s permanent track in Toledo, Ohio. Open to four different classes it attracted 140 entries making it the largest attended nitro on road race in the US this year. In the 1/10th Sedan class it was newly crowned World Champion Ralph Burch that took the win for Xray ahead of pole man Josh Cyrul driving the Shepherd and Andy Power in 3rd. Serpent driver Paul Ciccarello took the win from top qualifier Ralph Burch in the 1/8th scale 4wd open class, with Jason Conley finishing 3rd.

View the class podiums here

September 7, 2010

Olly Jefferies wins Schumacher BTCC finale

Fresh from winning the recent BRCA Halifax national, Olly Jefferies continued his wining ways by taking victory at this season’s Schumacher BTCC finale. Qualifying in changing conditions the Associated driver was quickest in every round of qualifying and set a new track record for the West London GP layout. He lined up ahead of young Tamiya star Elliott Harper and Schumacher’s Chris Grainger for the two leg finals. A clean sweep of both A finals gave Olly the overall victory and some valuable track time in preparation for the final BRCA national being held at West London in two weeks. Chris Grainger finished second ahead of his Schumacher team mate Colin Price. In the Pro stock class James Hart took the win for Schumacher with Malcolm Hall taking the stock class. Being the final round of the series the championship was decided in favor of Chris Grainger in Super Touring with James Hart taking the Pro Stock title and Zak Finlay was confirmed as stock class winner.

A full report can be found on the Schumacher site here.

Source: BRCA [brca-tc.co.uk]

September 7, 2010

Eric Dankel wins Trofeo Novarossi

The Trofeo Novarossi race took place last weekend at the Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter track in Fiorano. With a relatively low turn out of 65 drivers across 1/8th and 1/10th scale, there was nice weather and some great racing. In the 1/8th scale class it was Eric Dankel who took the TQ spot with his Novarossi powered Mugen. The German driver carried his pace into the final and won ahead of Christian Cavicchioli in 2nd and Andrea Lorenzi taking 3rd. In the 1/10th scale race it was Walter Ossola that was the top qualifier but problems in the race saw him finish well down the order. It was Manuel Antinori that took the victory with his Xray chassis in front of Mirko Fuganti in 2nd and Christian Costanzo 3rd.

View the final results and more photos here

September 6, 2010

Michal Orlowski & Piotr Okonski win Polish buggy Nats

Last weekend saw the final round of the Polish National Off-Road Championships run for 2wd and 4wd at the big clay off-road race track in Warsaw. The leader of the championship standing in the 2wd class, ETS Hobby class Champion Michal Orlowski, drove the newly released Tamiya TRF201 and took the race win on its Polish debut and with it the championship title. Second place was Patryk Rbarczyk Artur Kramza in 3rd, both drivers running the Associated B4. In the modified 4wd class Piotr Okonski, driving the TRF511, won the championship in front of another Tamiya driver Damina Zalewski. The final podium spot went to Associated B44 driver Artur Kramza.

View the 4wd podium here