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September 30, 2022

MRC Longwy Winter Series/GP3F – Announcement

Prominent French electric onroad club MRC Longwy has announced details of its popular Winter Series. Boasting recent ETS winner Lucas Urbain and fellow international racer Loic Jasmin among its membership, it has also confirmed the date of its famous international GP3F event. The Winter Series is known to attract many international factory drivers while the GP3F has become one of the big events on the annual international touring car calendar. Run over four rounds, the Winter Series has categories for Rookie, FWD, Stock 17.5, Stock 13.5 & Modified and with entries limited to 120 drivers per meeting. With 2023 marking the 18th edition of the GP3F, the dates has been confirmed for January 21-22 although the club are still awaiting final confirmation of the hall

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September 27, 2022

2022 EWS International – Announcement

The well-known EWS team have announced the details of their EWS International event. After an enforced break for a couple of years due to the COVID restrictions, the popular race will return over the weekend of 18-20 November 2022. Taking place on at their usual indoor venue in the south-east of the UK, the race will see classes for Modified and Stock (17.5) Touring, plus Front Wheel Drive and Tamiya Junior-E. As in previous years, the top drivers from the UK will face competition from many of Europe’s best racers, with drivers including World Champions Ronald Volker and Marc Rheinard already confirmed to attend. As always, the EWS team will prepare a world-class track and popular announcer Oli Meggitt will be on the mic to direct the races. This year, a tweak to the time schedule will allow more practice time for those who are only able to attend Saturday onwards, in an effort to provide an option for those drivers looking to save costs or with limited time. Entries for the race open at 19:30 UK time (20:30 CET) on Thursday 29 September via MyRCM, and will be limited.

Source: EWS [ewsevents.co.uk]

September 27, 2022

Urbain wins at ETS RD4 in Luxembourg – Report

Last weekend, ETS RD4 took place at the Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg” in Luxembourg. A fantastic onroad racetrack that attracted 150 ETS racers to sign up for the event. The weekend of racing was amazing, and luckily the weather was stable and dry. In the Matrix Modified class, Lucas Urbain took his first ever race win at the Euro Touring Series and joined the circle of winners. He took the very important pole position in qualifying and won the first two A-Mains from start to finish. It was a perfect weekend for the French Awesomatix driver who was showing an amazing performance on track! Behind the race winner, Marc Rheinard and Ronald Völker took second and third place overall. Yannic Prümper finished fourth, and Jan Ratheisky completed the top 5 in the Matrix Modified class at ETS RD4.

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September 26, 2022

Kyle Branson is British Touring Car Champion

Fresh from making his ISTC World Championship debut in Italy a week earlier weekend, Kyle Branson has just claimed his first BRCA British National Electric Touring Car Championship title. The Xray team driver secured the title with his 3rd win of the season at the Halifax track where he also claimed the TQ honours and set a new track lap record in the process. With 2 wins to his credit having taken back to back wins at Rounds 4 & 5, Schumacher’s Zak Smith would finish 2nd overall. The championship podium would be completed the Awesomatix of multiple former Champion Chris Grainger.

Image: Kyle Branson [facebook.com]

September 25, 2022

Euro Buggy Masters – Announcement

Furulunds RC-Club invites 1:10 Offroad racers to a unique opportunity to drive a one-off bespoke indoor track and take part in the ‘Euro Buggy Masters’ on November 5/6, 2022. The home club of EFRA Ambassador & international racer Jessica Pålsson, it is located in Furulund in the south-west of Sweden near Malmö and Copenhagen. With its members racing both nationally & internationally they are now looking to welcome racer to Sweden. The event will cater for 2WD Modified, 2WD Stock, 4WD Modified and Truck Stadium. Taking place in the city’s sports hall, the ‘EBM’ track will be built using completely new EOS carpet to create a completely new bespoke track layout. This will give all drivers the same track time and opportunity for a close and fair racing.

Source: Furulund RCK [frck.se]

September 18, 2022

Coelho defies ‘the haters’ with successful World Title defence in Italy

Having waited 4-years, Bruno Coelho has successful defended his ISTC World Championship Title with yet another dominant drive in A-Main No.2 in Gubbio, Italy. Topping the time sheets from the first time cars hit the track on Wednesday and right through the event, Coelho again won A2 from Christopher Krapp to become to retain the crown he won in South Africa in 2018. A driver who has faced much allegations regarding his speed advantage on this track, the Portuguese driver took shot at his detractors saying, ‘It is a huge relief not only for the World Title but almost for all “the haters” who are not able to understand the hard work behind this result’. Winning A3 from 9th place starter Marc Rheinard, Christopher Krapp would finally get his much deserved first World Championship podium finish with the Top 3 for the 11th running of the championship being completed by Akio Sobue.

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September 18, 2022

Coelho cruises to A1 win at World Championship

Bruno Coelho has cruised to victory in the opening A-Main of the ISTC World Championship in Gubbio, Italy. The one delay in proceedings at the 11th running of the championship had no effect on the pace show by the defending Champion in qualifying. Taking all 6 qualifiers, from the pole position Coelho was able to pull clear of his rivals, the closest of those being No.2 Christopher Krapp, Krapp in turn had a big advantage of Akio Sobue who finished third ahead of Ronald Volker, who came through from 8th on the grid.

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September 17, 2022

Bad weather pushes finals to Sunday at ISTC WC

Bad weather has pushed the running of the finals at the ISTC World Championship to Sunday. Originally scheduled for running today (Saturday), a team managers meeting this morning got agreement that due to bad weather in the area that the controversial ‘Rain Day’ would be used to complete the 11th running of the Electric Touring Car World Championship.

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