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September 4, 2023

MonacoRC Race Of Champions – 2023 Announcement

Monaco RC has announced that the third edition of their Race Of Champions will be held in Italy, in Lucca, at the A.S.D. Minicar Lucca track on September 30/October 1st, 2023. The circuit is located just a short walk from the famous walls that surround the historic centre of Lucca. The recently renovated track and the new fine-grain asphalt ensure optimal grip. Various layouts are available, and for the MonacoRC Race Of Champions, the most technical one has been chosen. The race will take place over two days and will feature Touring Car Mod, Touring Car Stock 13.5 EFRA, Touring Car Stock N22, and FWD categories with the Formula category also being considered. There will be 4 qualifying rounds by round and 3 finals – on Saturday, after two qualifiers, there will be a Sprint Race with a separate award ceremony followed by dinner on the track and our impressive raffle.

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September 4, 2023

Orlowski dominates ETS Andernach

Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski put in a dominant performance to take the win at the third round of the Euro Touring Series in Andernach, Germany. Winner of the season opener in the Netherlands but absent from Round 2 in Austria due to offroad commitments at the 1:10 European Championships, the Polish driver returned to onroad and picked up where he left off. In qualifying he totally dominated topping all 4 rounds at Arena33 to secure the TQ ahead of the Mugen of Ronald Volker and Awesomatix of Round 2 winner Marc Rheinard. In the finals Orlowski’s form continued and in A2 he secured his third ETS career win. Winning A3, Volker would secure second overall with Rheinard completing the podium ahead of Eric Dankel. In Pro stock it was also a win for the Top Qualifier with Lukas Ellerbrock taking victory over Olivier Bultynck and Round 2 winner Adam Iszay.

Image: Michal Orlowski [Facebook]

August 30, 2023

Lee, Nicolson, Moore & Saligupta for FEMCA C/ship

After an absence from the calendar due to Covid, the return of the FEMCA 1:10 Electric Touring Car Championship in 2023 has already attracted a number of Asia’s leading drivers with Nicolas Lee, Simon Nicolson, Andy Moore and Chavit Saligupta confirmed as early entries for the November 23-26th event. With Europe having the EFRA European Championships and North America having the ROAR Nationals, the FEMCA Championships are Asia’s biggest prize with Huge RC in Bangkok, Thailand, the host track of the ISTC competition this year. The unique indoor asphalt track is run by former ISTC World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya and is a previous World Championship host when it was the venue for the 2014 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship. With both the Modified and 13.5T restricted to a maximum of 30 drivers each, Yokomo will be counting on World Championship Finalist Lee and multiple Australian Champion Nicolson for success in Mod while former World Champion Moore and 2023 TITC finalist Saligupta lead the challenge from Infinity. Already drivers from Australia, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand have registered for the four day championship which will be run on a Sweep Racing ‘FEMCA 2023’ spec tyre.

Source: Huge RC Circuit [Facebook]

August 29, 2023

MOD Live Media Worlds broadcast team announcement

With less than 2-weeks to go until the IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championship gets underway at Hobby Action RC Raceway in Chandler, Arizona, our friends over at MOD Live Media has announced the voices of their live broadcast from the event. As the official live broadcast partner of these World Championships, MOD Live Media founder Matt Olson has brought together Richard Lake, Zachary Rogers and Wayne Ashmore who bring a wide array of knowledge with their combined 90+ years in the hobby. Olson is confident each of these announcers will bring a certain flare, style, and uniqueness that will add some fun as well as insight to the broadcast. While MOD’s video cameras will stream all the track action live, Red RC will be in Arizona too having teamed up with Ruddog Racing to bring our readers in-dept reports and images to tell the stories of how the 4WD and 2WD titles are decided.

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August 28, 2023

Tommy Hall does double at Scotty Ernst UK Showdown

The Scotty Ernst UK Showdown saw Tommy Hall do the buggy double at the inaugural running of the 1:10 Offroad event. The famed American race announcer brought his Showdown to the UK’s legendary Robin Hood Raceway where the astro turf track played to its advantage with any rain not stopping play at the Schumacher Racing supported event. Capitalising on the British Bank Holiday weekend, the 3-day event saw Sunday’s main action decide the 2WD Champion with the 4WD and Stadium Truck battles fought on Monday. In 2WD Buggy, it was Team Associated’s Tommy Hall who took the TQ before the former European Champion went on to win the final ahead of the Schumacher pairing of Ben Smith and Lee Martin. In 4WD, it was the second of the Hall brother’s Jamie who would TQ ahead of Martin with Tommy P3 after four rounds. In the triple finals however it was Tommy, the newly crowned British National Champion, who took the first two A-Mains to completed the perfect weekend with Jamie securing P2 with the win in A3 as Martin again completed the podium in third. In Stadium Truck the finals produced three different winners with 2WD Buggy runner-up Smith taking the overall victory from Martin for a Schumacher 1-2 ahead of Jamie and Tommy Hall.

Image: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

August 23, 2023

BRCA 4WD Onroad Nationals R4 Cotswold – Report

For the fourth round of the BRCA 4WD Onroad National Championship it was down to the Cotswold track at Kemble Airfield. Weather forecast was looking okay for the weekend, however practice on Saturday was hit by some unexpected rain and the same happened again on Sunday. The first round saw newly crowned Modified Champion, Kyle Branson with his Xray X-4 set the pace with a quick 19-lapper, from team-mate Harley Eldridge, with Andy Murray’s Schumacher Mi8 in third. Q2 saw Kyle again fastest from Chris Grainger’s Schumacher Mi8 and Alex Thurston’s Yokomo BD-12 was third. The third round saw Alex take the fastest time with a 20 lapper from Kyle, Xray’s Peter Eagles and Grainger in fourth but overall it was Kyle who was the Top Qualifier from Alex, Chris and Harley. In the finals, the first leg was a bit wet but that didn’t stop Kyle taking the win with 15 laps from Chris and Andy. A2 was nice & dry and it was again Kyle taking the win this time with 20 laps from Peter, Alex and Chris. For the third leg, the rain had properly come down and continued through the final with the cars throwing up plumes of spray. But this wasn’t going to deter Kyle, who made in a hat-trick of wins from Chris in second and young Daniel Robins in third. So it was Kyle who took the overall win, making it four out of four in the championship, with Chris in the runner-up spot with Peter taking with the final podium spot.

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August 23, 2023

Kobbevik doubles at R4 Norwegian Nationals

Schumacher’s Daniel Kobbevik claimed a double win at the fourth round of the Norwegian 1:10 Offroad Nationals which took place in Bergen last weekend. Moved to the West Coast venue after issues with originally scheduled venue, Saturday’s 2WD action presented driver with weather from all four seasons. Despite the challenges, Kobbevik would take the TQ ahead of fellow Schumacher driver Halvor Gran and the Team Associated of Adrian Sognestad. Continuing that form into the triple finals he would take the win with the podium order being as they line-up on the grid. Sunday’s 4wD would be a repeat performance from Kobbevik as he took all four qualifying rounds with his LRP powered Schumacher CAT L1R. Starting from pole ahead of Sognestad, he would complete the perfect weekend with victory in A1 & A2 and leaving his rivals to battle it out for the other two podium placings in A3, a battle Gran would win for another Schumacher 1-2. Peter Stein completed the podium.

Image: Magne Kobbevik

August 22, 2023

12th Scale International Grand Prix – Announcement

ACI Sport, the Italian motorsport and R/C Car Racing Federation, in cooperation with RC Landia, the indoor track located in Scandiano Italy, is pleased to announce the ’12th scale International Grand Prix’ which is scheduled to take place on 3-5 November 2023. The race will cater three classes: 1:12 Open, 1:12 Spec and GT12 (traditional BRCA rules) and will be run on new CRC carpet delivered to the track for the upcoming indoor season. The Grand Prix will be hosted over 3-days with drivers getting ample track time over a schedule that will consist of 4 rounds of Free Practice, 1 Round of Seeding Practice, 6 rounds of Qualifying and 3 Finals. The race is limited to 80 places on a first come, first served basis with the full race information pack available here.

Source: ACI Sport [acisport.it]