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May 11, 2009

Euro Touring Series – Round 4

The Much More backed Euro Touring Series roars back into action after a near 2 month break following the successful running of round 3 in Warsaw, Poland. The Championship visits the famous Apeldoorn track in the Netherlands for round 4 on the 29th to 31st of May and with entry currently open, we have already attracted some of Europe’s top racers with Jilles Groskamp, Viktor Wilck, Steen Graversen, as well as round 3 winner Yannic Pruemper already placing their entry. For more information about the event and where it takes place go to the Series page on our site here.

Racers can enter round 4 of the ETS by going to rcracecontrol.com.

May 9, 2009

Belgian Mini-Z National Series

Organisers of the new Belgian Mini-Z National Series were in touch to tell us more about the series that has seen Mini-Z clubs in Belgium get together to form the Championship. Right now the calendar consists of 6 events, held at the different Mini-Z clubs throughout the countey and it will be open to racers in 3 classes, Expert, Standard and LM. The opening race of the series has already taken place back in March with the next round being run next weekend in Brugge, going on till next December, with a break in the summer. For more information about the series visit the event site here.

May 9, 2009

Schumacher Indoor Winter Series season review

Winter was creeping up on us very quickly after a great summer outdoors a few of the Newbury RC club members put a suggestion forward for there to be some Indoor off-road racing on the Fridays the touring cars were not racing, this seemed like a great idea to the committee. With great enthusiasm Richard Saunders one of the clubs off roaders took him self off to MK-RACING to talk to Marc Knight the owner about how we could get some support in the way of prizes, after some pulling of strings Marc At MK Racing managed to get some tyres from Schumacher Racing and put in a few sets him self giving the club 12 sets of Schumacher mini pin tyres to give out as raffle prizes. The Schumacher indoor winter series was born.

May 7, 2009

Team Durango success at German Regional races

Team Durango have been in touch to tell us about their latest race victories of the soon to be released DEX410 4WD electric buggy. As reported earlier this week they not only won the 4WD Stock class at last weekends North German regional race in Burgdorf but also finished first and second on the Potsdam race track near Berlin. Durango designer Gerd Strenge finished second in the Modified class while TD team driver Mirko Morgenstern secured himself the race win in the East German regional race. Both used Speed Passion motors, speedos and LiPo batteries to power their rides. In the South of Germany Team Durango team driver Martin Achter won on the very competitive 4WD Modified class over Ralf Missel and Bernhard Bachmann. All of them used the pre-production prototype of the DEX410 buggy who is undergoing the final testing stages as we type.

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May 7, 2009

LRP Micro Madness Report

Last weekend saw the inaugural running of ‘LRP Micro Madness’. This new event on the micro off road calendar took place at the popular High Wycombe club, which features a permanent track and pitting area inside a converted warehouse unit in Buckinghamshire, UK. The event was sponsored by SMD and LRP and attracted a healthy entry of 46 drivers. Most of the UK’s top micro off road drivers were in attendance including the top 3 drivers from the 2008/9 BRCA nationals.

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May 5, 2009

Luxembourg EFRA GP / Euros Warm-up race

The organisers of the 2009 Luxembourg EFRA GP for electric touring car, the official Euros Warmup race, have been in contact to promote the event. Taking place on the 26th to 28th of June, 2 weeks after the previously mentioned International race, the event will be run as per EFRA rules. You will have the possibility by prior reservation to get ‘EC’ tyres at the track, but as there will only be a limited quantity, please use the registration form to make the reservation. Also note that due to paddock limitations the number of drivers for the GP is limited to 100 and drivers with an international EFRA license take precedence over non-EFRA licensed drivers at EFRA Grand Prix in event of over subscription.

For full information visit the event site here.

May 5, 2009

Thomaes & Vekemans win Belgian Nats Rd2

After the first round held on a technical indoor track, the 2nd round was hosted by the MRCZ outdoor track. Again, the track was very technical and demanding for the drivers, but weather was not on the drivers side at the beginning of the day as Q1 had to be run on a wet/drying track. Around 11.30 am, the sun started to shine and stayed for the rest of the day. In the EFRA class Benoit Thomaes took the TQ spot, 4 seconds ahead of Olivier Buyltink and Nick Joossens, while in the Superstock class it was again G.Vekemans who took the first spot. Benoit Thomaes went on to take the EFRA class win, controlling the race ahead of Buyltink and Joossens, while in the Superstock class G.Vekemans took the win in front of N.Logie and Stephane Roufosse.

Thanks to Benoit Thomaes for the report.

May 4, 2009

North German EP Off-Road Regional Rd1

The season opener of the Northern German electric off-road regional races took place at the MAC Burgdorf near Hannover. The semi-permanent grass track was once again very well prepared for the near 40 attendees. The weather was fine all weekend but just in time for the finals on Sunday afternoon everything changed to the worst and heavy thunderstorms caused an early end after the first round of finals. Only the 4WD Modified and 2WD Stock class were able to run a second round, the remainder of the finals were swapped away by heavy rain.Young René Sagawe (AE) dominated the 2WD Stock finals followed by Sven Jacobi (AE) and Pascal Sturm (AE) who came in third. 4WD Stock was won by Eberhard Beck (Team Durango) in front of Tom Bujara and Ursus Lieder (Yokomo). 2WD Modified was dominated by Mirco Johne (X Factory) who won over Marcel Felzmann (LOSI) and Red RC’s Sebastian Sürstedt (X Factory).

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