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June 8, 2015

Boots doubles at BRCA Truggy & E-Buggy National

This past weekend the BRCA Truggy and E-Buggy National was held at the new Wakefield track. The team had managed to turn at track from flat to a raceable venue in only 8 weeks with a tiny team of workers. With the track being very loose it was a different experience for the drivers and Elliott Boots was able to make the best of it by coming out fastest in the opening Truggy qualifier. The two other runs weren’t so great for Elliott, breaking the car in round 2 and being stuck in traffic in round 3 and this handed the Jack Embling the pole position for the finals which was further helped by some computer issues. At the start of the 30 minute Jack made a small error over the first jump section allowing Elliott to slip through. From that moment on the Boots controlled the remainder of the final and he was able to finish the main one lap ahead of the 2nd place driver.

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June 7, 2015

Martin & Matsukura take Worlds Warmup victories

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The warmup event for October’s IFMAR 1/10th electric offered World Championships is taking place at the World famous Yatabe Arena in Japan this weekend. Running alongside the Japanese National Championships the event has attracted a number of overseas drivers, there to test their equipment and skills on the newly readied astro turf surface. Following a day of 2wd practice and qualifying with a similar day for 4wd it was EOS Champion Lee Martin who took his Yokomo to the TQ position after 4 rounds in front of US Associated designer Kody Numedahl 2nd and former World Champion Neil Cragg in 3rd. In 4wd it was 4-time onroad World Champion Naoto Matsukura, driving for Kyosho, who ended qualifying on top with Kyosho team mates Yusuke Sugiura and current 2wd World Champion Jared Tebo in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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June 4, 2015

JConcepts Super Cup Spring Session Race 4 – Report

The JConcepts Super Cup Spring Session Race 4 was held in Sarasota, Florida at FZRC, a hidden treasure of golden (red) clay. After many trips to Marty Chilton’s track, all racers have learned it’s going to be a great time on his fast, flowing, groomed surface. Racers packed the track to full capacity Friday for practice and returned very early Saturday morning for the final minutes of practice before racing began. Jason Ruona took is 2WD Modified Buggy to start P1 after qualifying. JR Mitch nailed the setup on his car for the early evening mains making the pass on Ruona during lap 5 and raced into the sunset with the win. Jason took 2nd with Paul Wynn 3rd, Daimon Borkowicz 4th and Shon Harding 5th.

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June 3, 2015

Essex Summer Series 2015 – Announcement

The EWS events team, the organisers of the successful Essex Winter Series and International Carpet Challenge events in the UK, have announced that their outdoor Essex Summer Series race will return in 2015. Last year, the ESS took their race format and style of event to an outdoor track for the first time, and the team have again secured the use of the Adur Model Car Club facility on the South Coast, to stage the event again this year. The event, which will take place on the weekend of August 15th and 16th, will remain largely unchanged from last year. The event will start mid-morning on Saturday, meaning drivers do not need to travel on Friday evening to help reduce costs. A large marquee will again be used for pitting to create the typical EWS Events atmosphere. The event will consist of controlled practice, qualifying and three-leg finals, with classes for Modified and Super Stock 13.5 Blinky Touring Car, both running on the Sorex 32RY control tire, and new for 2015, a Formula 1 class running to the widely accepted ETS rules. All abilities of driver are welcomed, with the organisers also hoping to be able to announce a number of star international visitors to the event for this year to battle against the best in the UK. Entries are now open here, where further information is also available.

June 3, 2015

Jarno Pijpers joins Xray Junior Racing Programm

Xray have announced the signing of young and talented Jarno Pijpers to their Junior racing team. The 14-year Dutch racer has so far shown an exceptional talent in off-road racing and he will be racing the full line of Xray off-road cars in his upcoming campaign including the XB8, XB8E, XB4, and XB2. This is what Jarno has to say:

I am very pleased to be given this unmatched opportunity to join the junior Xray team and to represent the greatest RC car company. To be part of this team has been my dream since I started racing few years ago and it was Xray that was my first car. I am honored and also fully motivated to work as much as possible to improve my racing results. Thank you Xray for your trust in me.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 2, 2015

Owen wins electric class at Swindon Nitrocross Rd6

The recent sixth round of the Swindon Nitrocross saw Ashlee Owen taking the win in the E-Buggy class. Coming from the 3 spot on the grid Ashlee had a great start that allowed him to pull away from the pack early. He then made a mistake and briefly dropped back to 3rd position but from there he made a couple of passes and took a comfortable win by 21 seconds at the end of the 15 minute final. Chris Lovell came in 2nd while Mick Butler rounded out the top 3 result. Further down the field Sean Wiles and Mark Hicks rounded out the top 5.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 2, 2015

Schumacher BTCC Rd2 – Report

The superb and very fast venue of Mendip was the host of the second round of the Schumacher BTCC this past weekend. Many drivers turned up on Saturday for some track time with the weather being dry but cool all day. Come Sunday the weather changed with the track being wet with a few puddles on it. The organisers decided that there would be open practice running until 10AM to give the track plenty of chance to dry out. Also due to the entry being somewhat lower than usual, mainly due to many of the regular drivers attending the ETS race on the same weekend, it was decided that six rounds of qualifying and single mains would be held. The format therefore was three from six rounds to count on round by round qualifying. This was hugely welcomed by the racers who were in attendance, making for plenty of track time before the National in a couple of weeks. After the qualifiers and the single mains Kyle Branson came out successful in the Modified class from Chris Grainger and Stefan Chodzynski.

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June 2, 2015

Jerome Aigoin doubles at RCMBT Rd4

Round 4 of the RCMag Brushless Tour 2015 was held at the MRCL Longvic track in France. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin came out successful in front of Lorenzo Crolla (Xray) and Mugen driver Kevin Michaudet. In the 2WD Short Course class it was again Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho) who took the overall win, this time in front of runner-up Jean-Pierrick Sartel (TLR) and Armand Lantheaume (Team Associated).

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]