The recent fifth round of the Silverstone Winter Series saw Tom Yardy walking away with the TQ and win in the hotly contested 2WD class. In the final he was pushed hard by Charlie Ware. The two collided halfway through and Charlie showed great sportsmanship by giving the lead back to Tom who then held on to win by a tenth of a second, with Dave Poulter in 3rd.
Round four of the Model Indoor Oss race series was recently held and it saw Jarno Pijpers taking the TQ in the 2WD Buggy class. Jarno then also took the win in the opening final but mistakes in A2 promoted Wouter Wijnen into the lead that he could hold onto until the checkered flag. The third and final main would then decide for the day’s win and holding his nerves together allowed Jarno to come out on top and to take overall victory from Wouter Wijnen in second and Steve Lamberts in third.
The Austrian town of Mistelbach near Vienna played host to the Austrian Indoor Nationals. The event was held in a total of five electric on-road classes and it attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers. In the premier class of Touring Modified Patrick Gollner would take a dominant overall TQ after coming out fastest in four of the five qualifiers and he would also sweep the A-mains by winning all three legs. Sascha Klug would take the runner-up spot after some nice racing with Patrick while Christian Fraunschuh completed the top 3 result.
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The fifth and final round of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. With a new scoring system in place this year, the results of this event would be crucial to decide the champions. The Modified Touring title fight was a straight battle between Elliott Harper, winner of the first three events, and Olly Jefferies, who took the win at round 4. Olly got proceedings and his Hobbywing debut off to the best start, topping the opening qualifier with his Xray, ahead of Elliott and the Team Associated trio of Matthew White, Chris Grainger and Alan Bickerstaff. Q2 moved Elliott to the top with his LRP-powered Schumacher setting the fastest time, Olly second and Alan third. Elliott topped the third round, ahead of Olly, Chris, Matthew and Yokomo youngster Harley Eldridge. The final qualifier saw a titanic battle to decide pole position, with the two contenders never separated by more than a few tenths of a second. Elliott snatched the win, and with it the pole position, by just one tenth of a second in front of Olly. This moved Elliott one step closer to the title, giving him a five-point lead ahead of the single leg A-final.
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The fourth round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was hosted by Waxjo MS and held in the small town of Alvesta. Even though the track is quite small, it offered a very nice flow with a lot of speed and traction. In the Touring Modified class local talent Markus Hellquist (Xray) would top the qualifiers ahead of his club mate Erik Ström (Xray) and third placed Daniel Carlsson (Team Associoated), less than a second behind. In the Formula class Fredrik von Elling (Xray) took an uncontested TQ ahead of Raymond Oskarsson (Xray). Günter von Elling (Xray) secured the 3 spot on the grid a couple of second behind.
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Round five of the Lestr Cup was held this past weekend. In the 2WD class, Xray’s Kaja Novotny started with a TQ in round one but contacts with slower drivers in Q2 and a DNF in Q3 only meant a P2 spot on the grid behind young Milan Mudra (Xray) and in front of Jiri Mara (Serpent). In the 4WD class things looked a bit different and Kaja made a clean sweep to grab the pole position from Milan Mudra and Zdenek Miksovsky (all Xray).
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Round four of the Finnish Winter Jumps Series was held at the new Äänekoski track in central Finland. The race day started with a domination of local Schumacher driver, Touko Silpola. He was the fastest driver in the practice rounds and in two of the four qualifying rounds as well. As Karri Salmela (Team Associated) got used to the track he got closer and closer to Touko and finally he was the fastest guy on the track. The battle behind Karri for the 2nd place was a really tight one. Touko Silpola, Jarno Siltanen and Juho Rajaniemi all had a shot on the podium and at the end Juho and Jarno would make up the podium behind Karri.
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The inaugural GT12 World Championship was held this past weekend in front of a large public audience in Milton Keynes’ main shopping centre, The Centre:MK. The Reedy Race style event saw the drivers compete in 10 races with 8 to count towards the overall championship. The battle raged at the top between David Spashett, Ollie Payne and Michal Orlowski. All three drivers would have a perfect score of 8 wins each so the deciding factor would be the fastest race time over the weekend. Spashett was looking in pole position to take it with a blindingly quick time in the last race of Saturday in perfect track conditions and starting towards the front of the grid. The deciding race for Michal was his last one, starting from 8th on the grid, nobody really thought it was possible to beat Spashett’s time.
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