The 2017 edition of the International Indoor Championships was held at the Westgate Resort and Casino, for the second consecutive time. As usual the event attracted the the fastest electric on-road racers from the US as well as a lot of guests from abroad and in the premier Touring Modified class it was Germany’s Ronald Völker with the win from Sweden’s Alexander Hagberg and Japan’s Naoko Akiyama.
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The opening round of the 2017/18 Middle Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Orebro, Sweden this past weekend. The track was technical and provided medium high traction throughout the race day. In the Touring Modified class Magnus Vässmar took a convincing TQ by securing all rounds of qualifying with his Muchmore-powered Schumacher car. Daniel Carlsson and his Hobbywing-propelled Team Associated would line up second on the A-Main grid followed by Rasmus Karlsson (Schumacher/Muchmore). The finals got underway and Magnus took A1 with a tone-to-tone victory and with a 1-lap margin. Daniel took the runner-up spot in front of Andreas Johansson. In A2 Magnus had a DNF due to a clash with a backmarker which would leave the overall result open for A3 to decide as Daniel won A2 in front of Rasmus. In A3 Magnus took the overall win courtesy of a tone-to-tone win in front of Daniel and Rasmus and this would also be the overall top 3 result.
Thanks to Magnus Vässmar for the report.
Last weekend Palm Desert Raceway hosted round 7 of the JBRL Nitro Series on a fresh layout that was put in the week before by Joey Christensen from The Dirt. The turnout was 130 entries and Adam Drake was the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truck, and Electric Buggy. However it was Cole Ogden with the win in the Nitro Buggy class while Drake was able to bring home the wins in Nitro Truck and E-Buggy. Elsewhere Robert Wickham won the 40+ Buggy class and Daniel Harms won Sportsman Truck.
The 2017-2018 Essex Winter Series Presented By Infinity got underway this weekend. Once again, a full capacity entry provided a busy and competitive day of racing, as a an all-new track layout greeted the drivers to kick off one of the largest on-road series in Europe. Olly Jefferies, the winner of last year’s season-closing EWS International got off to the best start, topping the opening round of qualifying ahead of defending series champion Elliott Harper. Kyle Branson, the only driver to have beaten Olly in the UK so far in 2017, also remained in contention and took third in the round ahead of Chris Grainger. The top three were covered by just 7-tenths of a second after five minutes, highlighting how close the competition could be this season.
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Round 8 of the 1/8th onroad National championship saw drivers travel to the Wombwell circuit for the second time this year. For those arriving on the Saturday for practice we were treated to a great buffet, thanks to Nicola Wood and Claire Carr, in celebration of Kath and Phil Carrs’ 70th birthday, which also featured a cake in Team Carr colours. The previous week had seen some of the UK drivers competing in the Worlds in France and after speaking with Wayne Briggs it sounded like all of those involved really enjoyed the experience.
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The first round of the Middle Swedish Indoor cup was held last Saturday in Örebro, Sweden. The track was tight and medium grip and a big challenge to all drivers. In Superstock it was Rasmus Karlsson who took TQ with 0,5sec ahead of Daniel Carlsson and in third spot Andreas Johansson. The finals saw some really good fights and Daniel Carlsson was able to win the first two finals to secure the overall win in the first race of the season. Rasmus Karlsson won the last A-main and put down a new lap record at the same time. Alexander Johansson was the best Debutant and got a nice price.
A sunny but chilly Sunday set the stage for the penultimate round of the 2017 Jokerteam GT12 Championship. Despite track temperatures barely reaching 20°C during the day, grip conditions were optimal thanks to the track’s treatment that the organisation was able to perform the day before the race. During the morning’s qualification rounds it was a tight battle between Mattia Dall’Oca (Team Schumacher) and Johnny Orsolin (Jokerteam) with the former coming out on top and locking the TQ spot with a blistering run in Q3. Johnny settled for 2nd on the grid ahead of Claudio Giovanelli (Jokerteam).
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After the success of the opening round of the Arrowmax Asia Race Cup in Malaysia, round 2 would be even better. With 8 heats in total, the race was threatened by rain all day long, however the schedule was followed to a tee as the organisers wanted to finish as much racing as possible just in case the heavens did open up. After four rounds of qualifying it was Azri Amri who secured the TQ position in the Boosted 13.5T class, while in the Dash Pro-Stock Class it was round 1 TQ and winner Dino Sidhu who again grabbed the TQ honor. In the Dash 21.5T Formula Class, it was Eric Ang who would prevail and go on and start the final in pole position.
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