Last weekend saw the best racers in the USA attend the 2013 ROAR Carpet On Road Nationals held in Horsham Pennsylvania. In the Modified TC class Josh Cyrul, driving the new Team ARC R10 chassis, set the early TQ pace for drivers to chase. From the start of the buzzer Josh drove his ARC R10 to the finish line never looking back giving him his first 2013 TC Modified Roar National Title ahead of Ralph Burch and Andrew Ellis.
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Round 1 of the Spanish Nationals took place in Ferrol, at Naron´s track. It was the first time that the Nationals visited this track, so it was a new experience for all drivers. On Friday the track was wet in some areas and most drivers couldn’t test their cars until late the afternoon. Unfortunately, Saturday started with a completely wet surface and we suffered heavy rain all day long, so drivers started to work on their cars to preserve the electronic parts.
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CRC are reporting that North Dakota driver, Randy Grosse (RG1), took his Gen-X 10LE to a ROAR National title in the World GT class last weekend winning A2 and A3. Team mate Andrew Knapp took another ROAR National Championship taking the 1:12th scale 13.5 class with the CRC Xti car. The driver from Grand Rapids took the TQ spot as well totally dominating the event. His teammate RG1 also ran strong in 13.5 taking his CRC Xti to a 1-2 sweep.
Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]
David Spashett continued his near dominance of the 2012/13 BRCA 1/12th Scale Nationals at round 5 of the 6 event series in Stafford last weekend. In the 10.5 blinky stock class on Saturday, David took TQ by the slender margin of 0.2 seconds ahead of Team Associated/Reedy factory driver Olly Jefferies who made a one-off return to this years championship at Stafford. Mark Stiles lined up 3rd on the grid for the A final driving an LRP/Reedy powered CRC with Olly’s team mate Zak Smith and the Serpent of Chris Kerswell completing the top-5.
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Last weekend saw the 2013 Indoor Norwegian Championship was held at the new permanent indoor facility at Mustit Raceway in Moss. The race saw 59 drivers attending participating in 1:10 modified, 1:12th scale (modified) and the three support classes (1:10 World GT, 1:10 Pro Stock and Formula F1) After 5 rounds of qualifying with only the best run to count, Adrian Berntsen was able to take the TQ with 29 laps @ 5:00:248 in front of team mate Petter Berntsen who claimed 2nd spot on the grid with a 29 lap run @ 4:04:881. After some very close finishes with 1,5 seconds separating 3rd and 7th! position on the grid, Oskar Fjeld got himself the 3rd spot for the finals.
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The final round of the Belgium Winter Tropgy was held at the Black Country Arena last weekend. In the 4WD buggy class the title was up between Jean-Yves Konigs (Schumacher) and Cedric Nikell (Team Durango), both only separated by 8 points after four race weekends. None of the two drivers was able to secure the day’s race win but a fourth place just behind Cedric was enough for Jean-Yves to secure the championship title. Frederic Fontaine (Xray XB4) finished third overall behind Cedric with Jean-Michel Taijmans completing the top 4.
Thanks to Jean-Yves Konigs for sending the report.
Last weekend saw the final round of the Swedish VBC Cup that was arranged by Borås MRK. The main classes are 1/10 2WD and 4WD buggy who are driven on indoor carpet. The series was held over the course of six weekends with four rounds counting for the final rankings. The 2WD title was up between Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk and Team Associated/Advanced driver Niclas Månsson who were equal on points after the sixth round. The time keeper therefore decided to have a ‘Death Race’ between David and Niclas that was ultimately won by David handing him the overall series title in the 2WD class. David tried to copy his good pace for the 4WD final but struggled with setup meaning ‘only’ as second place on Sunday but the runner-up spot was good enough to win the 4WD class also meaning a clean sweep and therefore the ‘Supercup’ title for the young Swede.
Thanks to Pierre Ronnefalk for sending the report.
The 2nd round of the Chaos on the Coast Series hosted by Space Coast R/C went off without a hitch with 105 entries. The track was in great condition allowing the racers to take full advantage of the extreme traction producing some great side-by-side racing action. First round winner Brett Kingsbury was looking for a repeat, but the competition is heating up and making for some great battles. The 2WD Modified class saw Billy Easton and JConcepts driver Paul Wynn break away from the pack early, but a costly mistake by Billy ended his race early and Paul went on to win the 7min main with his JConcepts equipped B4.2 buggy; JConcepts driver Brett Kingsbury also finished a strong 3rd behind Ryan Johnson. Next up was 4WD mod and this was the Brett Kingsbury show as he went on to TQ and win by more than a lap on the field with his JConcepts equipped B44.2. Last class of the day was the Pro 2 SCT class and the day belonged to the youngster Chris Viesins. Chris took his JConcepts equipped TLR 22SCT from the TQ spot, straight to the top of the podium over 2nd place Rich Shaeffer and JConcepts team manager John Piant in 3rd.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
