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September 6, 2011

Andy Moore clinches BTCC series victory

Last weekend saw the 2011 BTCC summer championship come to a close at the fantastically fast Mendip circuit. The 5 round series which has been massively successful this year and has seen entries of between 130 to 150 drivers at each event, running on the Sorex 32RY control tyre. Going into the final meeting of the year there was still plenty to play for in terms of overall championship positions. Olly Jefferies and Andy Moore could both take the win in the modified class with good results. Zack Smith, Ryan Edwards and James Hart were all in with a shout in Pro stock and Rob West and Zack Finlay would battle in out the 13.5T class. All these guys were ready and raring for this event.

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September 5, 2011

Volker takes win as Matsukura takes title in Japan

The JMRCA Japanese Electric touring car Nationals took place last weekend in the Okayama prefecture. Originally, the race was scheduled to run from Friday to Sunday, however a hurricane developed off the southern-most coast of Japan, eventually tracking northward hitting the tracks location on Friday. The event was unfortunately rained out until Sunday, where the JMRCA decided to run 1 controlled practice and 4 qualifying rounds to determine the winner in both Super Expert (modified) and Open (stock 13.5T) classes. Winner for the last two years, Ronald Volker ended up TQing, and taking the overall win for a third time as no finals were to be run. Naoto Matsuskura finished second, but was crowned the new Japanese National Champion as only Japanese citizens can take the National title. Xray driver Takayuki Inoue rounded out the top 3 just as he did last year.

View the final results here

September 3, 2011

Euro Touring Series announce 2011/2012 schedule

Having crowned the 2010/11 champions just weeks ago, the organisers of the Euro Touring Series have announced the schedule for season number 5. Coming off the back of a very successful fourth series, that saw over 630 drivers register points, the ETS will once again be run over six rounds and visit six different countries, two of which are new to the championship.

View the full 2010/11 calendar here.

September 2, 2011

Tessmann wins 4wd & 1/8EP at Surf City Classic

Last weekend Ty Tessmann attended the Surf City Classic race in southern California and was entered in invite 2wd, invite 4wd and invite 1/8 electric buggy. The Tessmann team sent us this report. Practice went very well for Ty, we established a good baseline setup for all three cars and felt confident going into qualifying on Saturday. Overnight the track dried out so by Saturday morning the locals determined that slicks would be the best tire to run, though traction came up very quickly throwing a bit of a twist into things. First up for Ty was the 2wd invite class, even though Ty’s car wasn’t quite perfect he qualified a respectable 3rd in the first round, he TQ’d the first round of invite 4wd and TQ’d the first round of invite 1/8 electric. It was obvious though that our setups needed to be changed, the traction was much higher than it had been the day before during practice. Every round we made setup changes to the car to keep him on pace. In 2wd we struggled with setup but Ty managed to qualify 5th overall, in 4wd Ty TQ’d every round putting him on the pole for the main Sunday, 1/8 electric went the same way with Ty tq’ing every round and starting on the pole.

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September 1, 2011

Reedy Offroad Race of Champions – Announcement

The 2012 Reedy International offroad Race of Champions will once again be held at West Coast R/C Raceway in La Mirada, California on January 26th – 29th. Entries open September 1st at Noon PST on www.RCSignup.com and with 200 spots for the open classes and 30 Invitational drivers, spaces are limited. The event continues its traditional 2wd Open and 4wd Open class along with the Invitational 2wd/4wd format. To allow everyone an opportunity to be a part of this historic event, a lottery drawing will be conducted on October 21st with the first 200 open class entries selected securing a place in the event. Entry fees are due for the selected entries and Invitational drivers by November 20th.

More information can be found here

September 1, 2011

Video – BRCA TC National Rd4

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RC Racing TV have their video online from a sunny, dry and pivotal round 4 of the British National Electric TC championships from the Aldershot Circuit featuring race action, news, views and interviews.

August 31, 2011

Kervola wins Rd2 of Finnish EP Offroad Nats

The weekend of the 21st August saw the 2nd round of the Finnish Championships series being held at Kiiminki. Team Durango DEX410 buggies took the overall TQ spot with Janne Aspinen leading the charge closely followed by fellow Team Durango racer Harri Kervola in 2nd. The A-Main was taken by Harri Kervola as he took the opening and 3rd leg to claim the overall victory. Janne Aspinen took the 2nd spot on the podium for a Team Durango 1-2 finish with Henry Salmen in 3rd.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

August 31, 2011

Acorn Racing sign Dominic Quek

Acorn Racing have announced the signing of young Singapore talent, Dominic Quek, to its team. 9 year-old Dominic started RC racing at the age of 4½ years and used to racing against much older competitors, Dominic has exhibited his ability to compete despite his young age. He has traveled to take part in several international races, including the Czech round of the Euro Touring Series in 2010, the Reedy International Race of Champions in 2010 and 2011, and the 2009 Tamiya Asia Cup Finals in Bangkok, Thailand. As a relatively young company in the RC world competing against more established RC brands, Acorn Racing identifies with Dominic’s achievements and his “can-do” spirit and look forward to accelerating the next stage of his development with all of Acorn Racing Race Equipment.

Source: Acorn Racing [acornracing.com]