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October 20, 2016

2016/17 Serpent UK GT8 Cup – Announcement

Serpent have released all details for the UK-based 2016/17 Serpent GT8 Cup. The 5-race series starts on October 23rd with final round 5 taking place on February 5th. The grand final will then be held on the 12th of March with all races being hosted by the popular Halifax track. The series will see nitro and electric racing using Serpent’s Cobra GT cars and standard Novarossi pullstart engines for the nitro and open motors in the electric class. Pre-glued Dragon-RC tyres are mandatory for all categories. Full details and all dates can be found here.

October 20, 2016

Fiorano the stage for ENS title decider

The 2016 Euro Nitro Series comes to a conclusion this weekend (21-23rd Oct) with the famous Fiorano track in Italy as the stage for the 1:10 title decider. With Team Shepherd’s Simon Kurzbuch wrapping up the 1:8 title at Round 3 in Aigen, Austria, last month, the attention for the season finale is on who will be crowned the new 1:10 champion. With Electric World Championship commitments forcing him to miss the third round, reigning champion Jilles Groskamp can not retain his title but it is his Team Infinity team-mate Teemu Leino who goes into the season finale best placed to become champion. In total 5 drivers have a mathematical chance of being crowned champion but it is current points leader Dirk Wischnewski who provides the biggest challenge to Leino. Also a strong contender is inaugural ENS Champion Erik Dankel who sits second in the points and will be hoping to drop his 12th place Round 1 result. With outside title chances for World Champion Dominic Greiner and Bruno Coelho all of the contenders represent different manufacturers highlighting the competitiveness of the ENS championship.

Continue reading this announcement here

October 20, 2016

Wesley van Helmond takes Dutch Nitro Buggy title

The final round of the Dutch Nitro Buggy Championship was held at the Purmerend astro turf track. The qualifiers on Sunday started on a wet track but it would soon start to dry, meaning drivers would have to adapt the setups of their buggies quickly. At the end of the qualifying Agama’s Bart Mullink took the TQ from TLR driver Wesley van Helmond in second. Pre-event favourite Wesley had to get at least a fifth place finish in the main final to grab the overall championship but a broken clutch spring meant even an appearance in the main final was in question at the start of the semifinal. Thankfully another driver asked for a time-out so Wesley’s pit crew was able to change the spring but starting into the race Wesley had already lost two laps but putting his head down he was able to make up the time and to get a second place in the 20-minute finale. Starting from the 4 spot into the main final, Wesley quickly got into grips and he soon found himself in second place behind Jarno Piijpers. Wesley eventually got past Jarno later and he was able to open a 6-second gap on the field until he got hit by another car which bend a suspension pin of his car but he was able to proceed and even had the performance to challenge a storming Bart Mullink who was hot on his heels for the win. Changing positions several times Wesley and Bart would make it out for the win but ultimately Wesley would bring home the win after an intense race with Bart Mullink in second and Jordy Velder (Agama) in third. With five wins and three TQ spots, Wesley would then take the overall title in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class to add to his 2016 2WD championship title.

Thanks to Wesley van Helmond for the report.

October 19, 2016

Jiri Mara takes Czech Open finale

The ninth and final round of the Czech Open series was held in Kolin after heavy rain fall made the scheduled Radotin track unusable. Jiri Mara took the TQ in the muddy conditions from Kaja Novotny and Max Gotzl. In the main final both Jiri and Kaja quickly got away from the field and they both battled for the lead but a couple of errors from Kaja meant he had to led Jiri pull away, settling for second in front of teammate Max Gotzl.

View the final results here

October 19, 2016

BRCA 1/8th Circuit Nationals Rd9 – Report

With the racing season drawing to a close, the BRCA 1/8th Circuit section headed to the northern venue of Wombwell Model Car Club, with rain forecast on the Sunday. Saturday practice stayed dry with Tim Wood, Andy Hastings and Neal King looking very quick. Come Sunday all the dry practice would be irrelevant as the rain arrived, very few drivers went out to set times in the early rounds of qualifying, it wasn’t until round four when the track was starting to dry that all drivers went onto circuit to set their best times.

Continue reading the report here

October 18, 2016

ROAR announce 2017 calendar dates & tracks

ROAR have announced the dates and tracks for their National Championships for 2017. 360 V2 of New Rochelle, NY will play host to the Carpet Nationals from the 9th to 12th of March. The 1/8th Fuel Off-Road Nationals will be run from the 22nd to the 25th of June at the Stateline RC Raceway in Fremont, IN, while the 1/8th Electric Off-Road Nationals will be held at the Silver Dollar Raceway from July 20th through to the 23rd. The Track in Gaithersburg, MD will play host to the 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals from August 10th to 13th while the Nitro Paved On-road Nationals will be held at MRO in Lincoln, NE from September 28th to October 1st. Last but not least come the Electric Paved On-road Nationals from August 31st to September 3rd at Ncontrol in Dale, TX.

October 18, 2016

Michal Abrahamek takes Czech National 200mm title

The Czech 1/10th 200mm Nitro On-road Championship recently concluded with the fifth and final round. With three wins out of the five events it was Xray’s Michal Abrahamek to take the overall championship from Xray teammate Jiri Kral. KM Racing driver Michal Jansa would round out the overall top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 18, 2016

Dutch 1/8th On-road Championships Rd6 – Report

The sixth and final round of the Dutch 1/8th On-road Championship was held this past weekend at the RACO 2000 track in Utrecht. The weather forecast for Sunday was o.k. but Saturday’s practice was mostly washed away due to rain. With the NK and Nomac class titles pretty much decided the number of entries was a bit lower this time. In the NK class the 30-minute finale was won by Shepherd driver Arie Manten with 121 laps from Frank Baggen (ARC/120 laps) in second and Benny Ciere (ARC/119 laps) in third. In the Nomac class ARC’s Robbin Hertong came out fastest with 118 laps from Andy Muijres (ARC/111 laps) and Addie van de Ven (Serpent/110) in second and third respectively.

View the Nomac class podium here