The Thornhill Racing Circuit of Hutto, Texas saw the running of the Thornhill Team Cup this past weekend. In the 1/8th Expert E-Truggy it was Brian Henn with the overall TQ after the qualifiers and he would also hold onto the wins in both A-main legs to grab the overall title from Austin Bauer 2nd and Jason Hill 3rd, making it an all-Team-Associated top 3.
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This past weekend the HPI-Challenge Carpet Masters were held at the Arena33 in Andernach, Germany with 135 racers attending in the five classes of 13.5T Touring, 17.5T Touring, LMP, Classic and Rookie. In 13.5T Touring it was the Awesomatix trio of Max Mächler, Ingo Herschbach and Marcel Geiger who made up the top 3 after the A-mains with Henrik Heitsch (ARC) and Özer Yürüm (Awesomatix) completing the top 5.
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The 2018 EFRA 1/12th scale European Championships were held at the Racing Arena Limburg this past weekend. With nearly 150 entries the event was very well attended, making for competitive racing in both the Modified and Stock classes and ultimately it was Alexander Hagberg with the overall TQ from Olly Jefferies in the Modified class as Ollie Payne snatched the TQ in the Stock category from Michal Orlowski. In Modified Alexander Hagberg broke away at the start of the first leg, with Olly Jefferies running around a second behind him initially. This continued for six minutes, till Alex clipped a bot dot in the race control chicane, sending him into the barriers and an eventual retirement. This allowed Olly through to take the leg win, with Ollie Payne and Michel Orlowski continuing their battle from the stock class behind him. Ollie prevailed to take second with Michel third.
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The first round of the 2018 BRCA Clubman Championship took place at West London on this past Sunday. After the previous days dry practice session drivers were greeted by a wet track for race day so the Shimizu rain tyres were the order of the day for the TC classes instead of the new Sweep control tyre TC has this year. A new grooved Sweep rain tyre for the Formula cars was introduced this year which proved to be a great improvement on the previous year’s slicks in the wet. With one round of practice completed for people to test how waterproofed or not their cars were and to acclimatise to the conditions round by round qualifying got under way. The 13.5 Open class was a challenge in the very wet conditions all day long with quite a few drivers turning the boost and turbos off and running in Blinky mode for the day to try and increase the traction. Aaron Rose took the top honours in round 1 from Andrew Robson and Daniel Moorey. Round 2 and it was Andrew Robson at the top from Aaron and third was Chris Lovley. Round 3 and it was Dominic Carters turn at the top followed by that busy man running 2 classes Damian Giddins and Stuart Rand finally finding some pace to finish third. The last round and Aaron made it two wins from four to take a fine TQ. A 2nd for Dominic and a 3rd for Andrew left us with the top ten looking like this:
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The final round of the Northwest Indoor Series was held this past weekend and it was Yokomo’s Tanner Day who swept both the 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy finals. In the 2WD Mod class Yokomo’s Jackson Andres came in 2nd, tie on points with Team Associated’s Harley Yoshii, who rounded out the top 3 podium result. Over in 4WD it was Harley Yoshii on the runner-up spot as Yokomo team manager Joe Pillars completed the top 3 podium.
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The first round of the BRCA 1/8th circuit championships was held at the Cotswolds track. Saturday’s practice started at around 10am when a couple of racers started braving out the track, clearing puddles. Lap times were not great because of the conditions but people were actually happy to be able to be on the track and everyone veered into the afternoon without much drama. The track was now dry and cars looked faster and faster. The big unknown was how cars would react with additive on the tyres and there were mixed opinions, with some deciding not to use any. Did it make a difference? Some say it did, some say there is no point. The usual culprits seemed to be leading the way, Mark Green, Andy Hastings, Neal King, Tim Wood to name but a few. David Spashett, last year’s runner up, was absent but Alex Thurston was back in nitro after two very successful years in 8th electric. It would be rather interesting to see on the Sunday how people would actually get on with their new cars in race conditions. After the sound of blistering lap times – for the conditions – the day was over and it was time to try and warm up for most racers. The afternoon had been dry but the wind chill created quite a cold feeling.
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The Big Barn Shootout was held in Chilliwack, BC this past weekend and it was Xray’s Ty Tessmann who dominated the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy classes. Ty would secure the overall TQ in both categories and he also came out on top in the 30-minute Nitro Buggy main and the opening two E-Buggy A-mains legs to take a double win with Team Associated’s Peter Tozser and HB Racing’s Carson Phipps completing the Nitro Buggy podium as the Team Associated duo of Nick Wautlet and Mike Dana coming in 2nd and 3rd in the E-Buggy class.
The 2017/18 VRS-Micro Touring Series was held from October to April at the Vestfold RC Center in south east Norway in 1/28th scale Modified and Stock classes. The series is run on ETS-style carpet using RC Atomic and GL-Racing cars with a total of 25 racers attending in the free-kV Modified and 3500kV Stock categories. Going into the final round five drivers were battling for the overall championship with 12-years young Team Atomic Norway driver Olav Dahle being the fastest driver through the season, taking a total of four wins in the series. And with a win in the final race he would also seal the overall championship from Torbjørn Jørgensen (Atomic) and Atomic driver Tommy Lønn.
