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June 23, 2021

Spashett & Fletcher take Rd2 of BRCA 1/8th nats

This past weekend saw the 2nd round of the BRCA 1/8 on-road section National Series hosted by Adur Model Car Club on the English south coast. All week racers were weather watching as the weekend forecast was for rain for most of the weekend, but what do those forecasters know. On Saturday the racers were greeted with a dry track, slightly overcast, but dry. Open practice started with and the set up process got underway for what is the smallest and arguably most technically difficult circuit we visit through the season. Timed practise mid afternoon showed what was in store for the race with only 1/10’s of a second separating the top 4 (Thurston, Wood, Spashett, Snell) in IC on their fastest lap. In the Electric class Billy Fletcher was again showing his pace but the surprise of day was Mark Green running electric for the first time was close behind. The day stayed dry and after timed practise the track was once again open for free practise for the drivers to fine tune their cars ahead of ‘race day’.

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June 18, 2021

KARS On-Road Championship Rd1 – Report

Last weekend the first round of the KARS On-Road Championship 2021 was held at the new INJE R/C Circuit in Gangwon-do, South Korea. The facility is run by KARS owner Ki Heung Kim and 50 drivers in total attended the event. In the 1/8 expert class it was Shepherd driver Jaekook Yoo how claimed the pole position. But in the main final it was guest Shepherd driver EC Kim who crossed the finishing line in first position in front of Gyeongseon Lee (Mugen) with Dongbeom Lee (Shepherd) completing the podium. In the 1/10 touring class the TQ was claimed by Museong Kook (Xray), but he couldn’t convert the pole position into a victory as well. Jeongu Hyun (Kyosho) saw the checkered flag in first position followed be pole-setter Museong Kook with Jeongho Kim (Shepherd) taking the final podium step. The third class was for 1/8 beginner drivers. It was Jihun Kim (ARC) who took the pole-position for the final, but again he couldn’t convert it into a victory. Gyeongtae Kim (Mugen) claimed the victory in front of Yeoreum Park (Mugen) and pole-setter Jihun Kim in 3rd position. In the 1/8 GT class it was 14-year old Nayeon Lee (IGT8) taking the pole-position and finally the pole-setter was able to take the victory as well. She was joined on the podium by Gyeongmin Kim (IGT8) in 2nd and Seonghyo Lee (IGT8) in 3rd position.

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June 17, 2021

Kurzbuch wins Swiss nationals Rd2

Last weekend the 2nd round of the Swiss nitro on-road nationals took place in Schaffhausen in the very north of Switzerland. Already in qualifying Simon Kurzbuch showed his dominance and won the first three rounds to claim the pole-position for the 45min final. In the final everything went as planned and Simon crossed the finishing nearly 3 laps in front Silvio Hächler with Luca Martinelli completing the podium another 5 laps down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 16, 2021

Bruno Coelho double at inaugural GTS race

Last weekend was the first race of the new-for-2021 GT Series (GTS) at the fantastic Vallelunga RC track in Italy. With a lot of drivers attending the event from mid week to test and learn the track it was building up to be a great race. The Xray team had a strong team present with Bruno Coelho and Martin Bayer heading the entry, and from qualifying onwards Coelho was dominant, taking the TQ spot in both Nitro and Electric with his GTX and GTXE respectively. In the finals it was more of the same as the Portuguese driver took the wins in both classes ahead of team mate Bayer in both, with SWorkz racers Leonardo Valente in 3rd in Nitro while Natanaele Senesi took his Serpent to the final podium spot in the EP class.

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June 15, 2021

Kypak Touring race, Finland – Report

KyPak Touring Race was the first touring car race of 2021 in Finland, and it was hosted last weekend by the KyPak Circuit in Kouvola. Founded in 1990 KyPak (Kymenlaakso’s Model Racing Club) is the oldest club solely focused on model car racing in Finland. The club has great facilities for both outdoor and indoor onroad racing and dedicated staff for hosting RC Racing events for over four decades now. This said, the KyPak Touring Race was nothing short of great. Everyone was eager to get back to racing after a long hiatus in RC racing in Finland. The race itself was held in two classes, Modified Touring and 21.5T Stock Touring. The KyPak Circuit is a great venue with very smooth tarmac and a very technical layout. It bathed in sunny June with temperatures as high as 25 degrees Celsius and with very little cloud cover and small gusts of wind. It was a perfect day for RC racing.

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June 15, 2021

Hepp & Bernhardt wins at Nitro West Masters Rd1

Last weekend the first race of the 2021 Nitro West Masters took place at the Mck Dormagen track with 45 drivers in attendance. For Shepherd it was a great event with victories in two classes and the most cars of all competitors by far with 42% of the drivers were using a Shepherd car. In the 1/8th scale class Tobias Hepp showed a great performance with his Velox V8.2 all weekend long. Starting from P2 Tobi managed to take over the lead at the 2nd round of pitstops and never looked back although he was the only driver who didn’t change tyres in the final. Tobi crossed the finishing line two laps in front of Melvin Diekmann and Daniel Tönnessen took the final podium step another lap down. In the 1/10 standard class it was Shepherd racer Arndt Bernhardt with the TQ and the victory. Arndt saw the checkered flag about one lap in front of Bernd Hasselbring in second with Carsten Diekmann completing the podium another 10 laps down.

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June 14, 2021

ACI Sport Italian EP Onroad Championship Rd2 – Report

The second round of the 2021 Italian Championships for 1/10th scale EP classes took place at the outdoor asphalt track of Minicar Fontanellato. A great turnout saw drivers very busy for the 2-day race which catered Touring Car classes and Formula. In TC Modified, Gabriele Berselli (Awesomatix) took the win after a very close battle with Mattia Collina (Schumacher) who finished second ahead of Andrea Ghilotti (Awesomatix).

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June 14, 2021

Jefferies & Finlay take Rd1 of BRCA TC Nats

After missing out on a race series in 2020 the BRCA National touring car series got back underway this weekend with the first round of 2021 hosted by the Eastbourne club on the south coast. Numbers were a little down on previous years but with covid restrictions still in place this season is likely to have an unusual feel to it as drivers ease themselves slowly back to the track. Aiming for a fifth consecutive modified title Olly Jefferies made a dream start taking TQ ahead of Chris Grainger, but one the stars of qualifying was Ben Moorey, the local driver upsetting the established order with the fastest time in round three of modified qualifying, a result that put him third on the grid for the A final.

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