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March 18, 2014

Ashton takes GT12 national title

The 6th and final round of the 2013/14 BRCA National Series was held at what some consider the home of 1/12th scale racing, the Shirley Park Leisure Centre, Clay Cross, Chesterfield. In the GT12 championships both the Saturday and Sunday title was still up for grabs. The Saturday title could be won by either defending champion Chris Ashton or his Schumacher team mate Jamie McDonagh. Round 1 saw the Mardave of Jonathan Dixey set the fastest time with the Schumacher of Jamie McDonagh setting the next quickest time but with his car failing scrutineering, this would move Chris Ashton up to 2nd place and Alex Thurston into 3rd. Round 2 saw Chris Ashton move to the top of the time sheets with Jonathan Dixey dropping to 2nd place and Matt Lax into 3rd.

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March 18, 2014

2014 Danish Indoor Junior Club titles – Report

2014 Danish Indoor Junior Club Championship

The Brondby Racing Club held the last of 5 races to crown the 2014 Indoor Junior Club champions. The championship is run in a Touring Car Modified, Super Stock and Stock class and saw Stefan Finnich taking the overall title from Lars Holm and Mesut Ocak. Michael Johnson and Nicolai Lindegaar completed the top 5 of the Modified class. In Super Stock, Patrick Danielsen brought home the overall win in front of Claus Ryeskov and Casper Morgan. Christian Lehm and Willy Lehmann ended the series in 4th and 5th respectively. In the Stock class Jack Helge Sorensen was crowned the 2014 champion, Jannick Jacobsen and Jeppe Svendsen finished 2nd and 3rd. John Clausen and Michael Kilbinger Hansen completed the top 5.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 18, 2014

John Michael doubles at March Madness race

The March Madness race at The RC Pit saw John Michael taking the win in Pro Buggy following an exciting first part of the race. While being in front he got hung up on a pipe where there was no marshal which allowed the 2nd and 3rd driver to catch up and John fell back to 2nd place. 4 laps later John regained the lead and he was able to take the win. Griffin Hanna finished 2nd. In E-buggy John Michael followed closely to the leader Griffin Hanna for the first 4 minutes of the race. Once the leader made a mistake John Michael got past and stretched out his lead over the next 6 minutes to take the win.

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March 18, 2014

Walleser & Wegmann win at BaWue Cup

A round of the South German BaWue Cup took place in Singen last weekend. In the GT+ class Philip Walleser dominated qualifying and later on he took the win from Björn Keller and Michael Zipfel. In the Touring Car Modified class Markus Wegmann brought home the win starting from pole position. Philip Walleser came in second while Peter Deggelmann completed the top 3 result.

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March 17, 2014

Elliott Boots takes BRCA E-Buggy nationals Rd1

The first round of the BRCA Truggy and E-Buggy nationals took place at the Herts Nitro Model Club last weekend. In the E-Buggy class Lee Martin (Mugen) took the TQ from Elliott Boots (Kyosho). Jack Embling (Mugen) came in third while Simon Willetts (Mugen) and Simon Reeves (TLR) completed the top 5. In the A-final Elliott passed Lee after he had a coming together with another driver in the first few laps. Elliott then kept his cool and drove his own race and won by about 10 seconds having to drive smoothly to get to the end due to the long A-main and worrying about battery capacity. Lee Martin came in second, Jack Embling finished third some 20 seconds down.

Source: Elliott Boots [elliott-boots.com]

March 17, 2014

Maifield pulls off 4 in a row at Cactus Classic

Ryan Maifield has pulled off a fourth consecutive 4WD Buggy title at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic, taking second in the deciding third A-Main behind Top Qualifier Joern Neumann securing him the overall win at SRS Raceway in Scottsdale, Arizona. Finishing third in A3, having run ahead of Maifield for 5-laps, HB’s Ty Tessmann claimed the overall runner-up spot with newly crowned 2WD Buggy Champion Dakotah Phend completing the podium on the event’s final visit to the popular location which since 1993 has been home to America’s longest running offroad race.

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March 17, 2014

Mikael Johansson wins VBC indoor cup

Last weekend the final round of the famous Swedish VBC off-road indoor cup took place at Team Associated Sweden’s own track. The cup is based on 5 races, with the best 3 to count. In the 2WD class Mikael Johansson had a very mixed qualifying and finals with A1 being a bit of a disaster followed by a flawless run in the second leg. In the final A-main he got involved in a big start crash and he lost a good amount of time but following some fast laps he started to race Niclas Mansson and with one minute left Niclas did a mistake allowing Mikael to pass and to take the second victory handing him the day’s win. With two round wins and a second place Mikael also took the overall championship in front of Oskar Levin and Niclas Mansson.

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March 17, 2014

Griffin Hanna wins at March Madness

The March Madness race in Lugoff, South Carolina attracted nearly 140 drivers. The race format saw two 5 minute qualifiers followed by a 10 minute main. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class Serpent driver Griffin Hanna set TQ in the first round with the only 9 lap run. The track started to really groove up for the second round and Griffin beat his TQ run by 7 seconds. In the main Griffin took off and never looked back taking the win from John Michael McGinty and Chales Yates who completed the podium.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]