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March 14, 2018

Tödtmann takes International FEMCA On-road title

Last week saw the FEMCA Asia On-road Championship taking place at Tom Racing Circuit in Hong Kong. The race was saw an exciting qualification in which two rounds had been won by Germany’s Thilo Tödtmann with Meen Meen taking the final three. After the qualification the super-pole took place and Thilo was able to lay down the fastest lap taking the second direct place in the main final. For the grand final Thilo opted not to change tyres while Meen started on small tyres planning to do a tyre change. At the beginning of the race Meen slowly pulled away from Thilo while Chau Man Chan blocked his position against Nicholas Lee and Felix Law further down the order. When his car’s tyres finally came in, Thilo was able to set the fastest lap of the race and the gap to Meen didn’t increase anymore, staying at about eight to ten seconds. Everybody was waiting for the showdown of Meen and Thilo battling it out in the second part of the race. Unfortunately a collision with a mechanic on the track ended Meen’s chances. With his main competitor having had to retire Thilo switched to cruise mode for the remaining 25 minutes and took the 2018 International FEMCA titel in front of Felix Law and Chau Man Chan.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

March 14, 2018

Malaysian Electric National League Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Malaysian Electric National League was held at The Dirt Bureau RC Raceway, in 3StonePark, Malaysia. For the first time in Malaysia, this race was an open round to encourage participants from neighbouring countries to qualify on a Malaysian Ticket for the IFMAR World Championships. Although the track seemed visually simple, racers commented that it was all a deception as the technicalities were in the tricky combination jumps, pronounced chicanes, corners and table tops and a tempting long jump at the end of the back straights. The 2WD Modified class heats was a close race between current championship leader, Jade Lim (Team Associated), Jody Long (Xray) and Kelvin Yong (PR Racing) who won a heat each but it was Jade Lim who secured the TQ.

Continue reading the report here

March 13, 2018

Murray double at opening BRCA GT12 weekend

This past weekend saw the 1st and 2nd Round of the BRCA GT12 Nationals at the Eastbourne club. Split over the two days this year a great entry of 75 drivers on each day saw the best GT12 drivers going at it. It was a great weekend for the Schumacher Team and Andy Murray in particular. Andy managed to TQ and win both days in fairly dominant fashion for the close nature of GT12 racing. The Zen of Ollie Payne pushed Andy hard but would end up second with Adam Catchpole taking the podium in third.

View the final results here

March 13, 2018

Carlsson takes Middle Swedish Indoor cup

The last round of the Middle Swedish Indoor cup was held in Falun, Sweden recently. It was a fairly big flowing track with tricky grip conditions for all drivers attending the race. In the Superstock class it was Daniel Carlsson (Team Associated) who took TQ with Per Lindqvist (Team Associated) in second and Rasmus Karlsson (Schumacher) in third. The first final saw a tone to tone win from Daniel under hard pressure from Per in the first few minutes, after Per made a mistake he had to settle for second. Second final Daniel made a huge mistake in the third corner losing it all to last position. After that Per had a fairly easy cruise for the win. Last final would set the podium, Daniel opened up safe and built a gap and stretched it out to around 4 seconds over the line where he took the victory, Per finished second and Rasmus Karlsson third after a hard battle to the line with Nathan Parker (Serpent). The overall cup was also decided at this final race of the season and it was Daniel Carlsson who took the overall victory in front of Per Lindqvist and Rasmus Karlsson.

Thanks to Daniel Carlsson for the report.

March 12, 2018

Yardy & Williams take Silverstone Winter Series

At the final round of the Silverstone Winter Series Tom Yardy took a comfortable 2WD win with his Schumacher KC and wrapped up the championship, ahead of team mates Danny McGee and Jack Neal. James Harrold won 4WD but a 2nd place for Greg Williams was enough for him to take the title, ahead of James, and Ian Mellish. Richard Miller won the truck championship ahead of Russel Lee and Daniel Gardner. Schumacher drivers Ben Pugh and Ben Smith won the 2WD under 16’s and under 13’s respectively while Tommy Hall won the 4WD juniors. Daniel Gardner and Oliver Nattress won the truck under 16’s and under 13’s.

View the other podiums here

March 12, 2018

Stavanger Open Cup Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Stavanger Open Cup was hosted by the Stavanger Modelcar Club last weekend. Offering different tracks such an offroad track laid out with EOS carpet and an onroad track laid out with ETS carpet, the facility also includes a drift track. For round 2 close to 40 cars signed in to race in the seven different classes of 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and Truck as well as 13.5T Touring, 21.5T Touring Junior and M-Chassis. Being a 2 days event, the drivers were offered amble track time, one seeding practice was held followed by four qualifiers and triple A-mains.

Continue reading the report here

March 9, 2018

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd6 – Report

The sixth and final round of the Xray Racing Series Germany was held at the Eifel-Ring at Leimbach, located close to the famous Nurburgring. It was already the fourth XRS appearance in two seasons on the original ETS carpet of this 111-meter track with its challenging mixture of a technical and a fast section. The hosting MAC Adenau club did a great job again and received 53 entries but some had to cancel mainly because of a cold. Lot of racers including five young talents joined the competition which started with ten hours of intense practice on Saturday. In the Touring Car Stock class, a 13.5T Xray motor was mandatory as well as hand-out tyres from Hudy or Volante. Racing was fully under control of Majuran Tharmalingam. The local hero took the TQ as well as all three wins in the A-mains to catch the overall victory. Joerg Baldes, who was 2nd in qualifying just one second behind Tharmalingam, snatched the runner-up spot, four hundredth of a second in front of Melvin Diekmann. Only the top three drivers completed 28 laps during the heats. In the mains Baldes and Diekmann showed thrilling bumper-to-bumper racing with Baldes taking 2nd twice closely followed by Diekmann while he had to retire from the second main due to a malfunctioning ESC. Behind young Marc Stuebben, Tobias Hoeffin finished 5th which was enough to become XRS Touring Stock champion for the second time.

Continue reading the report here

March 9, 2018

Masaki Kiyoi wins at RCI V2 New Year’s race

The recent New Year’s Cup was held at Shanghai’s RCI V2, kicking off the local racing season. Lots of drivers competed in this weekend race that held some stiff competition. China-based Japanese driver Masaki Kiyoi was dominant all weekend, setting the fastest lap times and showing great consistency and speed. Masaki would TQ the qualifying and in the first A-main, Masaki pulled away at the start of the race and never looked back. Winning the second A-main allowed Masaki to sit out the third and final main as he already secured the overall win after A2.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]