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May 29, 2013

Grainger, Robson & Butterfield win at BTCC Rd2

Last weekend the BTCC rolled into Stafford for the second round of the series. The weather was once again fantastic as the team had ordered another day of warm British sunshine and even some sun cream made an appearance for some on the Saturday. Practice got underway and the lap times in qualifying were very close so everything was set for some great close racing action once again. After practice had finished, all the drivers were gathered for a drivers briefing by Stafford race director John Robson and also Schumacher’s Mark Musgrove and Chris Ashton. The order of the day was explained and also the usual information that people need to know. The race schedule to be used was going to be three rounds of qualifying and then two finals, with FTD being the qualifying format due to the great weather we was experiencing. So on to Qualifying we went, the cars were looking very fast around the Stafford circuit and one thing that was noticed was that there was very little difference in lap times between the Modified and 13.5 cars due to the layout and nature of the track, there were literally a few tenths between these cars.

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May 29, 2013

2013 Grass Roots Racing Series Rd5 – Report

For round 5 of the 2013 Grass Roots Racing Series Rob Jackson and Crew took over the Pro-Line Racing test track for the weekend and invited racers from all over to attend. For those of you not familiar with the Grass Roots Series it’s a 6 round series based out of Southern California that travels through three of the best outdoor tracks in the area. The event is held over a two day period focusing one day on nitro 1/8th scale while the other day is devoted to 1/10th scale electric short course and 1/8th scale electric Buggy. For this time around the nitro crew would kick things off on Saturday while the electric rigs would wrap things up on Sunday. This turned out to be a great thing as the bigger heavier 4WD cars would sweep a fresh layout that had just been built by Sik Track Designs the week before and had not had a chance to be run in yet. The track that was build was of the highest quality and was fairly straight forward yet challenging at the same time. There were a couple large doubles, a fast sweeper, rhythm sections, as well as one of the best whoop sections built to date in RC. It was really neat to see a track designer do such a great job accommodating multiple classes and being able to please them all.

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May 29, 2013

Olivier Bultynck wins Belgian TC nationals Rd3

The third round of the Belgian electric touring car nationals took place at the fast and bumpy track of RCR at Roeselare. The whole week before the race saw rain showers but come Saturday the weather cleared up and the driver faced a dry track. During the night rain started to fall again making for a slippery track surface at the beginning of the Sunday qualifiers but the track started to dry up fast. In the EFRA class it was Olivier Bultynck who took TQ in front of Thomas Stockman and Nick Joosens. Also Robin D’Hondt was trying to go fast with the electric guys and took the fourth spot on the grid.

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May 27, 2013

Loic Jasmin wins Rd3 in France

Last weekend at the Nantes track in the west of France the 3rd round of the French 1/10th TC nationals took place under perfect racing conditions. Qualifying in the modified class saw Yokomo driver and Worlds finalist Loic Jasmin take the pole position and in the final he would have a good battle with Xray driver Hugo Ragaut with Loic coming out on top with the win ahead of Ragaut in 2nd and Yokomo driver Maxime Favrelle in 3rd. In the stock 10.5 class Thomas Vigneron was the winner in front of Nicolas Schwendimann and Jerome Parmentier in 2nd and 3rd.

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May 27, 2013

Martin & Cragg score at EPR

The third round of the BRCA 1/10th buggy nationals took place at the Eden Park Raceway this past weekend. The weather plays a major role in Europe this Spring and the event’s Friday made no exceptions with plenty of the wet stuff pouring down bringing practice to a halt. Saturday however started bright and it was Schumacher’s Simon Moss who took TQ followed by Neil Cragg (Team Associated/Centro) and Lee Martin (Tamiya/Vega). The finals had the usual madness to offer and it was Lee Martin whose wins in A1 and A3 got him the overall win in the 2WD class followed by Simon Moss and Neil Cragg.

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May 27, 2013

Sven Stoffels wins RC LeMans Series Rd2

The second round of the RC LeMans series took place at the MACH Heemstede track in the Netherlands. Although the weather forecast predicted rain the race was run in dry conditions and after Sunday morning’s qualifying it was Sven Soffels who took TQ in front of Tobias Weist and Rene Fischer. The first A final saw a clean win by Sven with Frank Büsener and Marcel Ellissen in tow. In the second final Frank looked like the winner until the very last lap when both Rene and Marcel stormed past. Come A final number three Sven was up to his game again, he took off and never looked back taking the win with Rene and Frank in second and third place. These positions also meant the final standings of round number two.

Thanks for Frank Büsener for sending the report.

May 27, 2013

Team Wild 13 win 24h race in Luxembourg

Since 1999, ETS, EOS & ENS front man Uwe Rheinard has organized his legendary 24h race for 1:10 electric rc cars. Since the beginning Uwe trusted in the Tamiya-plastic-chassis, starting with FWD Chassis FF01 and up to today with the TT01 chassis. Only for one year the teams had to use a foreign car, but at the end it showed, that Tamiya chassis was the best choice. from the start teams from Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria and Luxembourg traveled to five different tracks in Germany to enjoy that awesome endurance-race. A maximum of 7 drivers in each team is allowed which means that every year from 112 up to 168 drivers travel hundreds of kilometers to be part of the longest night in the RC Car scene.

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May 27, 2013

Rheinard wins 2013 Reedy TC Race of Champions

The 2013 Reedy Touring car Race of Champions took place over the weekend at Norcal Hobbies near San Francisco. A very low entry meant only 14 driver competed in the invitational part this year, however there was a lot of talent in the field including last year’s winner Viktor Wilck, recent ETS Rd4 winner Marc Rheinard as well as Christopher Krapp making his first visit to the USA and Akio Sobue coming from Japan, as well as the main top guns from North America. The invite class is heads up racing over 8 rounds with your 2 worst scores dropped. 3-time World Champion Marc Rheinard was the class of the field, the former Reedy Race winner taking 5 wins to seal the 2013 title, while Tamiya team mates Viktor Wilck and Akio Sobue took 3 wins a piece to take 2nd and 3rd respectively and give Tamiya the complete podium. Christopher Krapp and Paul Lemieux completed the top 5.

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