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January 26, 2010

Harper wins first BRCA National for CRC

Last weekend the cream of Britains 12th scale racers made the trip down to Devon for round 4 of this years BRCA nationals at Plymouth. The Plymouth club always host a top notch event and as a result the meeting is always well attended despite being a drive of over 4 hours away for many. On Saturday in the stock class Elliott Harper took TQ and went on to comfortable win the A final by more than half a lap. This was the first time that a CRC car had won a UK national. Second went to Chris Kerswell driving a V-Dezign. Chris initially gave chase and attempted to challenge Elliott, but soon realised that he lacked the pace required and settled for a strong second place finish. The battle for 3rd was an intense one with several drivers all holding the position at various points in the race. Mark Stiles eventually came through from 8th on the grid to complete the podium for V-Dezign.

Continue reading the report & view final videos here

January 26, 2010

Ryan Maifield takes Truggy at Winter MW Champs

Kicking off 2010 in style, the CRCRC club creates a 2-week home to some of the world’s fastest drivers competing for that first win of the New Year at the Annual Winter Midwest Championships. In the 1/8th buggy class Ryan chose the JConcepts Bar Codes in blue compound to take the TQ spot in qualifying and the Double Dees V2 tire for the 45 minute A-main and ended the race 3rd, behind Jared Tebo in 2nd and eventual winner Jesse Robbers. In the 1/8th truck division, Ryan put his RC8T-CE out front early in the A-main, running on the Sevens tire in blue compound, and had it on 100% attack mode for the entire race, finishing a lap ahead of Jesse Robbers in 2nd and Jared Tebo in 3rd.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

January 25, 2010

Neil Cragg victorious at SNRC winter series

CML are reporting on the latest round of the SNRC winter series that was graced by the attendance of a few of the top national drivers, aiming to do battle with the fast local drivers on this challenging track. The Stoke track is a good blend of fast and technical sections with quite a few jumps to test the drivers ability. As is to be expected in winter the track was damp early doors and the obligatory Hobao Angle spike tyres were heavily in evidence.

Continue reading the report here

January 25, 2010

Yannick Aigoin wins Ultimate Racing Cup

The Ultimate Racing Cup took place last weekend in Barcelona close to the Olympic stadium and it was a fantastic and exciting race until the last minute. The qualifying saw the Mugen of Patxi Peñas take the pole position just ahead of Associated team driver Robert Batlle, who was making his Novarossi debut at this race. The former European Champion got the best of everyone in the semis, taking the win to line up first in the main final, in front of Yannick Aigoin, Patxi Peñas and Dani Bernabe. The final saw Patxi Peñas lead for more than half of the race but in the last minutes, Yannick Aigoin take the lead and pull out a safe gap, to win ahead of Patxi Peña in 2nd, with Bergonzoni driver Javi Puche claiming 3rd spot.

Source: Mugen Spain [mugen.es]

January 23, 2010

Euro Indoor TC event site online

The organisers of the 2010 EFRA European Indoor touring car Championships in Mäntsälä, Finland have contacted us to let us know that the event site is now line. Your standard event page, it includes all the details you need to know if you are attending the event including hotel, travel and competitor information.

You can visit the official event site here.

January 23, 2010

Keven Herbert does double at NEGS Rd3

Keven Herbert reports on the third leg of the NEGS (Northeast Grand Slam Series) was held the weekend of January 16-17 in at Tri-State Hobbies in Cincinnati, Ohio. Having missed the second leg of the series, I had some extra pressure to do well now that I had already used my one throw-out. Friday was practice all day and early on I was very happy with both my TC5R and 12R5.1. Along with Paul Ciccarello, I was setting some of the fastest lap times in both Pro Rubber class and Pro 1/12 Class. Chris Goetz was also showing some early speed and was turning some fast laps with his Schumacher car in the rubber class.

Continue reading the report here

January 22, 2010

Tim Smith wins 4th annual Colonel’s Classic

The 4th annual Colonel’s Classic was held this past weekend at Phil Hurd Raceway in Savannah, GA and has quickly become the premier kickoff race in the southeast for each new year. Friday’s practice was very nice with dry weather which provided a great look at who had their race face on this weekend. Only one round of qualifying was completed before the rain came which pushed the remaining qualifier and mains to Sunday. The Phil Hurd race crew was able to get the track back to running condition very quickly and qualifying resumed on Sunday, Tim Smith was able to put himself into the main qualifying 6th. At the start of the main he was able to put his Xray 808, JConcepts equipped buggy to the lead on the opening lap. Around the 10 minute mark Alan Burton was able to make a charge for the lead, but Tim was able to quickly increase his gap to take the win with Shane Ogden in 2nd and Alan Burton finishing in 3rd.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

January 22, 2010

Gary Guffey wins 2010 Chili Bowl Jr

Team Losi are reporting on the 2010 Chili Bowl Jr. dirt oval race, run in conjunction with the 24th Annual Chili Bowl which is the biggest Midget race in the world. With over 220 entries the Dirt Late Model class was the largest with 70 entries including many of the fastest racers in the country. The Team Losi L8ight model was used by different drivers to Top Qualify each of the three qualifying rounds. In the A-main Gary Guffey, Jason Hudson and Matt Murphy made it a 1-2-3 Losi sweep to finish off the week long race event. In addition to the great drive by the Texan, Gary Guffey, was the drive by Matt Murphy who raced his way into the A-Main getting a third place finish after bumping up from the C and B mains by finishing at the front.

Source: Losi [losi.com]