November 11, 2021

2022 Charity Race – Announcement

The eleventh edition of the popular Charity Race will be held at the RC Landia indoor carpet track in Scandiano, Italy from Team La Gang and their historical partners Mon-Tech Racing, Tonisport and Scorpion Power on the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd of January 2022. The race will see the running of Touring Modified, Touring Stock EFRA, 1/12th Pan Car, GT12 and FWD. Beside the fastest Italian electric on-road racers, European Pro drivers have announced their attendance. Due to the Covid EU Rules we will limit the pit space and the entries to 100 drivers with the first Pro drivers having already signed up. The race will be held on CRC carpet using Volante tyres for the touring cars, Ride ETS tyres for FWD and Contact handout tyres for GT12. Like the years before, Team La Gang will hold a charity lottery for the good cause. Registration for the race will start on the 15th of November at 21:00 on Myrcm.

Source: Team La Gang [teamlagang.it]


October 26, 2021

Orlowski crowned GT12 European Champion

This past weekend saw Italy hosting the GT12 European Championship at the beautiful indoor facility of RC Landia in Scandiano. The race was held under the auspices of ACI Sport, the Italian Federation of R/C Model Cars and member of the FIA, and saw a solid participation of competitors from several countries. The race was run with the traditional BRCA regulation for GT12, the most popular in many countries such as the UK and Italy with specific GT12 model cars homologated for the class, 1s batteries, 13.5T motors, no timing ESC and homologated body shells. Furthermore, the choice of the organisers was oriented towards the use of control tires for the class and control additive.

Continue reading the report here


October 4, 2021

Redovan to host 2022 IFMAR Nitro Buggy Worlds

EFRA have announced on social media that following a late meeting with IFMAR this past weekend, they can confirm that the 2022 1/8th offroad World Championships will be held at the Redovan track in Spain. FAMAR was to be next in line to host the World Championships, in Brazil in 2020 but the worldwide pandemic prevented that from happening and now EFRA have stepped in to host the event next year after what will be a 4 year break. The Redovan track has previously host European Championships, the final Neo race, as well as countless National championship events and is known for its very long and technical layout, perfect to test the best drivers in the World.


October 2, 2021

2022 Dirt Nitro Challenge – Announcement

Joey Christensen has been in touch to let us know about the 2022 DNC which will be held the Southern California Fairgrounds in Perris, California at the New The Dirt at Perris track from the 23rd to 27th of February. There will be a warm up race in early January as well (dates are coming) and they are currently offering an early DNC entry discount for a limited number of entries while they last. It is already looking like this year’s DNC will be the biggest one yet with many of the European drivers to be in attendance which will make it that much more exciting. ‘We are pumped to have a permanent home for the DNC and have been working hard to make sure that the Biggest off road R/C race in the world is the best one yet!’

Source: The Dirt [thedirt.us]


September 21, 2021

Coelho victorious at ETS Rd3 in the Netherlands

The third round of ETS Season #14 2021/22 took place on the ground of the AMCA Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. With 200 entries in the six ETS racing classes, the event started with a free practice day on Thursday and a good weather forecast for the whole weekend. As always at the ETS, the race included 4 rounds of qualifying followed by triple mains for everybody. Everything was prepared in a perfect way by the AMCA Apeldoorn and the amazing racetrack was awaiting all drivers. In the Matrix Modified class it was Xray’s Bruno Coelho who was able to win three rounds of qualifying with his teammate Alexander Hagberg taking the other round. With Coelho being on pole, Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Völker scored three second places which let him start second on the grid in front of Yokomo`s Yannic Prümper (3), Xray`s Alexander Hagberg (4) and Awesomatix driver Marc Rheinard (5). The field of modified drivers was on a super high level once again and the fight for the A-Main spots was as close as possible in between some hundreds of a second.

Continue reading the race report here


September 13, 2021

Kurzbuch & Loppini win 2021 Trofeo Construttori

Last weekend the prestigious Trofeo Construttori was held at the famous Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter Fiorano track with some of the world’s best drivers in attendance. Team Shepherd took the victory and the constructors title in both major classes making it a perfect weekend for the German manufacturer. Simon Kurzbuch RC had some difficulties in qualifying and lined up 5th in the grid of the final. But in the main his performance was on point and during the race he climbed up the ranking step by step until he was in first position. After 30min of high class racing Simon took the victory in front of Lamberto Collari and Mirko Salemi in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the 1/10th class Shepherd factory driver David Loppini was able to win 3 out of 4 qualifiers and claimed the pole-position for the main final. Starting from the front David was able to pull away immediately and after 30min he crossed the finishing line in first position in front of Alessandro Balboni in 2nd and Valerio Righi in 3rd position.

View the 1/10th podium here


September 6, 2021

BRCA 1/8 Circuit Halifax Rd5 – Report

The British weather played a big part in the latest round of the 1/8 Circuit series hosted at the newly resurfaced Halifax circuit in the north of the UK recently. A bumper entry was in for the weekend’s racing with both nitro and electric classes competing. The electric class gaining popularity again with many newcomers and returning drivers attracted to the class. Saturday saw heavy rain with most drivers not going onto the track for timed practice. Sunday started similarly with rain fall and standing water on the track, it was to be a day of tricky conditions and a mostly damp track which never really fully dried. Qualifying was to come down to one round where conditions were somewhat better so pressure was on drivers to ensure they got a respectable time in.

Continue reading the report here


August 18, 2021

Venue & date change for GTS Race #2

The organisers of the GTS series have announced a venue and date change for their 2nd race of 2021. Originally set to take place in Leno in September, the venue has been changed to the World famous Gubbio track in central Italy from the 2nd to 3rd of October. Following a successful first event at the Autodromo di Vallelunga in June in which Bruno Coelho took the double for Xray, the 2nd and final race of the year is expected to draw an even bigger entry as travel restrictions continue to be lifted.

Source: GTS [gts.events]


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