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September 9, 2015

Belgian SCT Cup Rd5 – Report

Belgian SCT Cup Rd5 - Report

The MBV Kampenhout played host for the fifth round of the Belgian SCT Cup on their fun yet selective astro turf track. The day started off wet and slippery and the track would stay like this until the fourth qualifying round. In the Pro2 class, Laurent Halluin (Team Associated) would take three of the four qualifiers to grab the overall TQ with the only 12 laps run. Runner-up Nicolas Evens (TLR) scored one round TQ and two second places to obtain the 2 spot on the grid in front of Tom Pierard (TLR) who completed the top 3 result.

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September 8, 2015

Czech Electric On-road Championships – Report

The Summer portion of the Czech Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Blansko track in the central part of the Czech Republic. The Touring Car classes would use LRP’s G36 tyres and everyone was eager to get as many practice laps as possible and so already in Friday many drivers attended. The schedule was pretty similar to the Winter portion with two timed practice session followed by a reseeding and five qualification rounds all of which would be held on Saturday with Sunday being reserved for the mains only.

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September 8, 2015

Papachristos wins Greek National Cup

The Greek National Cup was held at the Fanatix Racing Track and this time a different qualifying format was used that saw three 20-minute qualifying rounds of which the sum of the six best consecutive laps counted. Based on this format Papachristos took the TQ from Nikolakopoulos and Mpakirtzis.

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September 8, 2015

Tom Yardy joins Schumacher

Schumacher Racing welcome top UK Off Road racer Tom Yardy to the team. Tom is an extremely accomplished racer finishing and excellent 4th in both 2WD and 4WD BRCA Championships last year with one race win at EPR. He has signed a multi-year deal and will also use Schumacher distributed brands, Hobbywing speed controls and motors, Intellect Batteries and Highest servos. Tom had this to say about the deal:

I’m delighted to be a part of the Schumacher team for 2016/17 – in my opinion they currently have the best cars on the market for European racing and I can’t wait to get them out on track. I’d like to thank Robin Schumacher, Mark Musgrove and Trish Neal for helping to make this move possible and I will do all I can to re-pay their faith in me.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

September 8, 2015

BRCA announce 2015/16 Formula control tyre

The BRCA GT Circuit section have announced the control tyre for the 2015/16 BRCA GT national series Formula class. At the 2015 EGM, the floor voted for the committee to find a suitable control tyre for the Formula national series, this needed to have a balance of price, performance, availability and fitment. The BRCA held an “open” testing event at Swifts Raceway on August 23rd for drivers of all abilities to turn up and run four different set of tyres from three manufactures. The BRCA asked the drivers to try not to focus on what may be the “fastest” tyre, but give feedback as to the feel and balance shift across the sets. As a result the GRP GFX10-S2 and GFX20-S2 with carbon aluminium effect wheels were chosen as the 2015/16 control tyre. The press release in full including some testing results can be found here.

September 8, 2015

2015/16 Essex Winter Series – Announcement

The organisers of the Essex Winter Series have announce the full details for the 2015/16 Championship. Now recognised as the premier on-road championship in the UK, the EWS will again be contested over five rounds on one of the largest carpet tracks in the world, all rounds running at the popular venue of Deanes Sports Centre, near Southend in the South East of the UK. Following a recording-breaking series last winter, the well-known EWS team have kept most of the successful formula the same. There will be two classes again, for Touring Cars with Modified motors, and Super Stock 13.5 blinky. Both classes will continue to run on the Ride REX30 tyre. Following a sell out in just seven minutes last year, the entry process has been altered slightly. Entries are now open, and will remain open until midday on Saturday 12 September. Entries will be capped at a maximum of 120, and if the event is oversubscribed then drivers will be placed onto the reserve list, with priority for entries given to those competing in the whole series and those who have supported EWS Events in the past. More details, rules, dates and the entry form can be found here.

September 8, 2015

Nico Schmid takes Swiss 4WD Buggy title

Round four of the Swiss Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the Obernau track this past weekend. In the 4WD A-mains Nico Schmid grabbed the win from Team Associated teammate Patrick Hofer to take the national title. Third in the 4WD class was Fabian Luca Widmer (Yokomo). With a fine sixth place Nico’s brother Florian took the 4WD Swiss Junior title.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

September 8, 2015

Ryan Lutz sweeps Labor Day Shootout

The Labour Day Shootout was held at A-Main’s Silver Dollar Raceway with a good turnout of drivers from the West Coast in attendance. The track sported some sections left over from the ROAR Nationals and yet a few changes to make it feel completely different. The traction was a bit higher than at the Nationals with no real glossy slick areas. Saturday was qualifying proceedings and in E-Buggy and Nitro Truggy it was Ryan Lutz who would take the overall TQs early by taking round TQs in the first and second qualifier. Nitro Buggy was a different affair though and it would come down to the third qualifier between Curtis Door and Ryan. Curtis had a bad first lap and Ryan just got caught in traffic and made a mistake which allowed Atondo to take the round. Overall though based on the tie-breaker Ryan would TQ over Door.

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