Last weekend saw the heavy weight racers from Singapore and Malaysia congregate to race at the inaugural Minyak Beku Agrotourism Resort Race (MBA CUP). The inaugural race for this venue is also a very unique venue as the track is right in the Resort compound, right beside the sandy beach. The weather was very good from the morning with the sunny sky shining down on the track right until the end of the day.
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The organisers of this year’s European Electric touring car championships, which takes place in Traiskirchen, Austria in August, were in touch to tell everyone about the EFRA GP / official warmup event which will be run from the 27th to the 29th of May. Your standard warmup event, it will be run to EFRA rules and will give those racers planning to compete in the main event in summer some track time prior to the event. Entry is open and you can find more information at the official event site here.
Viper R/C Solutions have added Cactus Classic champion and Worlds finalist, Billy Fischer, to their expanding team of top level drivers. Working with Billy since before the 2011 Cactus Classic, his professionalism and attention to detail is a tremendous asset to their race and development teams and they “look forward to working with Billy for a long time to come”. Billy said “I’m very excited to work with Viper R/C Solutions for the 2011 season and beyond. The products are great, and there’s nothing easier than the ProGauge for their line of ESC’s. It makes adjusting your Viper ESC much easier to deal with!”
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Viper R/C Solutions have announced that Paul Sinclair, Chief Engineer and Team Manager of X-Factory has signed to use VTX speed controls, and VST brushless motors and accessories. With many years of technical design work in the radio control industry, Paul’s experience will be of great benefit to the Viper team. He will be using Viper products in his X-6 Squared, X-60 and Prototype 4wd at all major off road events in the US and around the world. Already after an early shakedown test Paul reported “Love the throttle and brake ‘feel’, it was very easy to adapt to and drive. Just a nice power delivery, smooth and yet power out of the corners.”
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The 2011 Norwegian Electric touring Championship was held in Spydeberg recently, a venue that has played host to a lot of races during this indoor season and Adrian Berntsen sent us this report. For a long time before this event, it looked liked it wouldn’t be any Norwegian championship for the 1:10 Touring Car classes since there was only 10 drivers signed up for the race in each, while the Norwegian Federation rule was a minimum of 15 drivers signing up to make it a official Norwegian Championship. Luckily for both 1:10 Modified class and 1:10 Stock class, the Norwegian Federation allowed a minimum of 10 drivers to still make it an official Norwegian Championship. In the 1/12th scale class this was no problem at all, as approximately 30 drivers signed up, including three Swedish drivers who made their way across the border. This was because they were extremely satisfied with the arrangement of the Nordic Championship earlier this season.
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The Nordic Championships for electric offroad will take place this year on the newly resurfaced Astroturf track in Odense, Denmark. Taking place from the 2nd to the 5th of June, the race is of course open to both 2wd and 4wd and drivers wishing to attend must have a national license. Run to EFRA rules, the race uses a controlled tire, Schumacher mini-pin yellow for both front and rear in 4wd and only the rear in 2wd. Entry is now open and closes on the 20th of May and you can find more information on the official event site here.
The second round of the hugely popular Schumacher BTCC series took place over the weekend with a massive entry of 157 drivers, possibly a BTCC record. The newly resurfaced West London track was the venue and with the weather being very kind to us again in the UK it was a cracking weekends racing. The battle at the top in Modified class saw Olly Jefferies, and Schumacher’s Chris Grainger and Matt White going at it hard all weekend with Alan Bickerstaff over from Northern Ireland for the weekend also in the mix. Olly Took the TQ from Matt, who was having an excellent day with Chris in third. With some excellent finals and not much luck for Chris, Olly took the win from Matt and Alan. Chris has now hopefully got his bad luck out of the way before the BRCA National in 2 weeks’ time having dominated all the races so far this season.
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Norwegian club Radøy RC would like to welcome all racers to attend the 2011 Efra GP for 1/10 offroad on their track from the 24th to the 26th of June. The track is Marås Raceway and it is located just 50 minutes from Bergen city. The race is of course open to 2wd and 4wd buggies and all drivers need to hold a paid national license for 2011, with the race run according to the EFRA rulebook 2011. It is a 3m wide astroturf track and the rear tires are controlled, which will be the Schumacher Minispike 2, while the front tires are open in both classes. Entry is now open and you find out more information here.
