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March 14, 2018

2018 Speed King Tour Rd1 – Report

The sixth season of the Japanese Speed King Tour kicked off at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track in the Aichi prefecture last weekend. The event offered Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Oval class racing and saw the Super Pole format being used for the Mod class, a special 1-lap race that sees the top 5 after the third qualifying round battle it out for the overall TQ spot. The 1-lap time attack race was won by ARC driver Yusuke Goto while the TQ after Q3, Infinity’s Akio Sobue, had to settle for a lower starting position.

Continue reading the report here

March 14, 2018

Monaco RC sign brand ambassadors Hagberg & Coelho

New online RC boutique Monaco RC have announced that they are teaming up with Xray’s Alexander Hagberg and Bruno Coelho. The two IFMAR World Champions will not only be the 2018 brand ambassadors for the new company founded by Francesco Martini, but will also share their extensive product and set-up knowledge in order to maximise the customer’s on and off track experience.

Source: Monaco RC [monacorc.com]

March 14, 2018

Malaysian Electric National League Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Malaysian Electric National League was held at The Dirt Bureau RC Raceway, in 3StonePark, Malaysia. For the first time in Malaysia, this race was an open round to encourage participants from neighbouring countries to qualify on a Malaysian Ticket for the IFMAR World Championships. Although the track seemed visually simple, racers commented that it was all a deception as the technicalities were in the tricky combination jumps, pronounced chicanes, corners and table tops and a tempting long jump at the end of the back straights. The 2WD Modified class heats was a close race between current championship leader, Jade Lim (Team Associated), Jody Long (Xray) and Kelvin Yong (PR Racing) who won a heat each but it was Jade Lim who secured the TQ.

Continue reading the report here

March 13, 2018

Murray double at opening BRCA GT12 weekend

This past weekend saw the 1st and 2nd Round of the BRCA GT12 Nationals at the Eastbourne club. Split over the two days this year a great entry of 75 drivers on each day saw the best GT12 drivers going at it. It was a great weekend for the Schumacher Team and Andy Murray in particular. Andy managed to TQ and win both days in fairly dominant fashion for the close nature of GT12 racing. The Zen of Ollie Payne pushed Andy hard but would end up second with Adam Catchpole taking the podium in third.

View the final results here

March 13, 2018

Carlsson takes Middle Swedish Indoor cup

The last round of the Middle Swedish Indoor cup was held in Falun, Sweden recently. It was a fairly big flowing track with tricky grip conditions for all drivers attending the race. In the Superstock class it was Daniel Carlsson (Team Associated) who took TQ with Per Lindqvist (Team Associated) in second and Rasmus Karlsson (Schumacher) in third. The first final saw a tone to tone win from Daniel under hard pressure from Per in the first few minutes, after Per made a mistake he had to settle for second. Second final Daniel made a huge mistake in the third corner losing it all to last position. After that Per had a fairly easy cruise for the win. Last final would set the podium, Daniel opened up safe and built a gap and stretched it out to around 4 seconds over the line where he took the victory, Per finished second and Rasmus Karlsson third after a hard battle to the line with Nathan Parker (Serpent). The overall cup was also decided at this final race of the season and it was Daniel Carlsson who took the overall victory in front of Per Lindqvist and Rasmus Karlsson.

Thanks to Daniel Carlsson for the report.

March 12, 2018

Yardy & Williams take Silverstone Winter Series

At the final round of the Silverstone Winter Series Tom Yardy took a comfortable 2WD win with his Schumacher KC and wrapped up the championship, ahead of team mates Danny McGee and Jack Neal. James Harrold won 4WD but a 2nd place for Greg Williams was enough for him to take the title, ahead of James, and Ian Mellish. Richard Miller won the truck championship ahead of Russel Lee and Daniel Gardner. Schumacher drivers Ben Pugh and Ben Smith won the 2WD under 16’s and under 13’s respectively while Tommy Hall won the 4WD juniors. Daniel Gardner and Oliver Nattress won the truck under 16’s and under 13’s.

View the other podiums here

March 12, 2018

Stavanger Open Cup Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Stavanger Open Cup was hosted by the Stavanger Modelcar Club last weekend. Offering different tracks such an offroad track laid out with EOS carpet and an onroad track laid out with ETS carpet, the facility also includes a drift track. For round 2 close to 40 cars signed in to race in the seven different classes of 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and Truck as well as 13.5T Touring, 21.5T Touring Junior and M-Chassis. Being a 2 days event, the drivers were offered amble track time, one seeding practice was held followed by four qualifiers and triple A-mains.

Continue reading the report here

March 11, 2018

Loic Jasmin joins Awesomatix

Awesomatix have announced the signing of French Modified driver Loic Jasmin to their Factory Team. The former IFMAR World Championship finalist and 7-times French national champion will be a great addition to the always growing Awesomatix brand and team. He will attend at all major races including all ETS rounds, EFRA European Championship in Austria and IFMAR World Championship in South Africa. Loic has following to say about his change:

I’d like to thank Max and Oleg for the great opportunity to join the Awesomatix Factory Team. I felt it was the time for a change and Awesomatix was the only team I wanted to join. The previous and last results proved their car is one of the best on the market and their professionalism and continued R&D show this is a team to watch in the near future. I’m really looking forward to start working with my new teammates and achieve many good results for the team, my first race being the French Nats round 1 by the end of March. I’d also like to thank Team Yokomo for the wonderful last 7 years together and I wish them all the best for the upcoming season.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]