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March 9, 2016

Esmail Apandi doubles at Singapore Buggy Nats Rd2

Singapore’s 2016 Electric Buggy National Series returned to Urban PlaySpace’s astro turf track for round 2 this past weekend. A small but quality field of racers signed up to challenge themselves on the technical high-grip track. In the 2WD class, round 1 winner Esmail Apandi showed he remained the man to beat as he TQed rounds 1 and 2 of qualifying to secure the overall TQ spot, ahead of Dominic Quek in 2nd, while fast improving Eugene Goh secured the 3rd spot on the grid.

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March 8, 2016

Manuel Carlos wins at Portuguese on-road opener

The opening round of the 2016 Portuguese National On-road Championship was held at the Armaia track in windy and rainy conditions. In the 1/10th 200mm class the TQ went to Pedro Grandao but in the shortened 20 minute main final it was Manuel Carlos who came out successful despite a brake failure due to a linkage screw coming off. The podium result was completed by Tomás Andrade in third.

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March 8, 2016

Nico Risser sweeps French LCML race

The French LCML race was held this past weekend and it saw Sebastien Wartelle (Xray) sweeping the qualifying in the 2WD and 4WD buggy classes. The finals were a different affair though with Xray’s Nico Risser coming out successful in both categories. Sebastien had to settle for second both in 2WD and 4WD. The 2WD podium was completed by Christophe Dupuis while Kristof Dehert rounded out the top 3 in the 4WD category.

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March 8, 2016

Christopher Krapp wins at TOS West Division Rd2

The second round of the West Division Tonisport Onroad Series was held at the carpet indoor track of the MAC Adenau club in Germany. The event was run in the usual array of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula classes and it saw Tamiya’s Christopher Krapp taking the win in Touring Modified from Serpent driver Thimo Weissbauer and HB pilot Ingo Herschbach.

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March 8, 2016

Nikos Georgiadis wins at Greek XWS Rd4

The fourth round of the Greek Xray Winter Series was held at the FRT track in Athens in the three classes of Touring Modified, Formula and 1/10th Pan Car. Especially the Touring class was a super close affair in qualifying with Thilo Tödtmann and Nikos Georgiadis battling it out for the TQ spot. Nikos looked like he would grab the pole position for the A-mains until Thilo took profit of servo issues Nikos experienced in the final qualifier. Behind the two Batas would line up in third on the grid.

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March 8, 2016

2015/16 Rug Racers Rd5 – Report

The fifth round of the 2015/16 Rug Racers series also marked the end of the season, with the now famous or rather infamous lollipop throwing ceremony at the end of the day, and the championship in some classes being open till the very last round. In Touring Open Modified the series had been fortunate to have some of the best Touring drivers in the country, showing them all how to drive a really fast car really well, none more so of course than the current UK touring car champion Elliott Harper, who may be fast on track but also showed his quickness on the scrutineering table as well, after he went at the ride height checker with a Vernier after someone passed comment to him that it was marginal, he proved it wasn’t. Another of the young stars, Harley Eldridge, made 2nd her own, although Brian Eldridge did nab 2nd in round 3 but Harley still went one better to take 1st.

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March 8, 2016

Norwegian Touring Car Championship – Report

Last weekend saw the running of the Norwegian Touring Car Champinship in the small town of Kvinesdal in the South of the country. The race was held on a purpose-built track laid out with the new CRC carpet and using a highspeed layout with some technical bits. The championship is held in a Touring Modified class but also sees the running of a 13.5T Stock support class. In the Touring Modified category Nikolai Haaheim would set the pace from the first lap, being fastest in practice. He would carry his pace through to qualifying, dominating it by TQing all five rounds with his VBC. ARC driver Helge Johannesen was struggelig with setup, but improving through qualifying secured him the 2 spot on the grid in front of Tom Erik Haaversen (Xray).

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March 8, 2016

BRCA GT Nationals Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the BRCA GT national series was held last weekend by Newbury RC Club, A large quite technical track greeted the drivers on Saturday morning, a new challenge for some of the drivers this round was the ETS carpet used. GT10 got underway with Adam Catchpole fast out the blocks but a few errors would see TQ in round 1 go to Rory Hobkirk closely followed by Adam, similar story in round 2 as Mark Barford would set the quickest time. Adam finally found his rhythm in rounds 3 and 4 setting the quickest times in both with a gap to second place of 7.7 seconds.

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