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October 27, 2017

Tim Wood crowned BRCA 1/8th IC Track Champion

The final round of the British IC Track Championship took place at the Cotswold circuit in central UK. Saturday Morning was damp, so cars hit the circuit for practice in the afternoon only. Noticeable quick cars were Green, Wood, Spashett, and Hastings. Sunday saw a fully dry track from the start. Four rounds of qualifying saw Mark Green take a superb TQ, but the title contenders lined up 2nd Spashett and 4th Wood. The start of the A-final saw a Green get away swiftly, with the title protagonists battling hard for 2nd. A close exciting race saw Wood’s Serpent hounding Spashett’s ARC and at the second round of pit stops, Tim’s mechanic Nicola performed the undercut – with a pitstop one lap early. This allowed Tim to squeeze past Dave into an exciting turn 1. After 30 minutes, the race result was declared as 1st Tim Wood, winning the 2017 British Championship from runner-up, Dave Spashett.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 27, 2017

Casal Ribeiro & Ramos win at Portuguese Cup

The 1/10th Electric Buggy Portuguese Cup was recently held at the RC Oeste indoor track in Torres Vedras, Portugal. In the 2WD class Nuno Casal Ribeiro and Pedro Gomes battled for the TQ with the better end for Nuno who took the pole position for the A-mains in the tie-breaker. In the finals it was again Nuno who held the upper hand to take the day’s win from Marco Timoteo 2nd and Pedro Gomes, who suffered some mishaps, in 3rd.

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October 26, 2017

ETS enters new decade in Vienna

After celebrating the completion of 10 seasons of world class racing back in July, the Yokomo Euro Touring Series is set to enter into a second decade of high profile competition as Vienna hosts the opening round of Season #11 this weekend (27-29 October). Taking place as part of the ‘Modellbau 2017’ model show in the Austrian Capital, the 58th race of the ETS also marks the 8th consecutive season of Yokomo being the title sponsor of the Uwe Rheinard and Scotty Ernst created championship with the Japanese manufacturer one of a number of teams looking to take on the domination of a certain Bruno Coelho. As back to back champion, Coelho enters into only his fourth season of the ETS as the pre-season favourite. Also champion of the Euro Offroad Series and the Euro Nitro Series, last season the Xray driver claimed a record 5 wins from 6 races and getting fed up of being in the shadow of the Portuguese driver his rivals are more determined than ever to change this over the coming season.

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October 26, 2017

Brazilian Nitro On-road National Champs Rd3 – Report

The 3rd and final round of the Brazilian Nitro On-road National Championship was held in Americana/SP, home of the 2015 IFMAR 1/8th World Championship. High temperatures during the day made for challenging conditions for men and machines. In the 1/8th Pro class it was Flavio Elias with the win from Kazuo Ohara and Samuel Prato.

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October 26, 2017

Xray Racing Series Poland – Rd2

The second round of the XRS/PLMS on-road series was held in Ścinawka Średnia with more than 60 drivers in attendance. In the fastest class of the weekend, Touring Modified, the number of entries was pretty low, however the quality of racing was second to none as the top 3 had some super close battles for the win with Martin Korinek ultimately bringing home the overall from runner-up, Jarosław Siwek and 3rd placed Jakub Michalski who rounded out an all-Xray top 3.

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October 26, 2017

19th annual Dirt Nitro Challenge – Registration open

The organisers of the Dirt Nitro Challenge have announced that the official registration for the 2018 edition is now open. With upgrades to the Fear Farm facility underway, the organisers have been given the green light for the upcoming event and they will also limit the number of 1/8th scale entries to ensure a reasonable nightly finish hour and guarantee quality advertised track time, meaning spots available will sell out fast. Sign-up for the 19th annual Nitro Challenge is now available here.

October 26, 2017

Belgian SCT Cup Rd6 – Report

Round 6 of the Belgian SCT Cup was held at the Off-road Racing RC Torhout club. The event marked the serie’s first visit at the venue whose 250 metres long astro turf track offers both technical and flatout sections, with some tricky jumps in between that require very precise driving. Due to rainy weather in the built up to the event, the track was still wet in the morning and it took until the afternoon to dry up, making tyre choice critical. In Pro2 qualifying, Géry Ledocq (Kyosho) took the TQ by winning all three rounds while Nicolas Evens (TLR) obtained the second spot of the grid despite some mechanical issues in the final run. Tom Vercarre (TLR) and Guillaume Laffut (TeamC) fought for P3 all morning long and eventually it was Tom who rounded out the top 3 results.

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October 25, 2017

Spanish National Series finale – Report

Madrid played host to the final round of the Spanish National Series. Going into the finale Javier Alonso, Marc Moix, Javi Ferrando and Carlos Ferrando all had their chance to get the title and it was Javier who set the early pace by TQing three of the qualifying rounds while Carlos locked the P2 spot on the grid after coming out fastest in the final two qualifiers. In the first main, Javier Alonso had a big crash at the beginning which let Carlos Ferrando pick up the lead and cruise to the finish line. In A2, Javier Alonso was on new tyres which gave him enough advantage to take the main easily so in the last leg, the title was at stake between Alonso and Ferrando. Both soon separated from the field and fought for the championship, which finally ended up in Carlos’ hands. The podium was completed by Javi Ferrando making a 1-2-3 for Xray.

View the final results here