Red RC » National

May 16, 2010

Grainger heads qualfiying at BRCA TC Rd1

The 2010 BRCA touring car nationals kicked off yesterday with day one of the Mendip national. Practice was followed by three rounds of qualifying with drivers counting their best three scores on a round by round basis. Defending champion and new dad Chris Grainger got off to a good start and the Schumacher driver holds the overnight lead in the modified class ahead of former World Champion Andy Moore for Hot Bodies in 2nd.

Continue reading the report here

May 15, 2010

JMRCA adopt control tire for 1/8th buggy Nats

In an interesting move the JMRCA have introduced a control tire for their 1/8th scale buggy Nationals that takes place in October this year. All competitors will be required to use either the Pro-Line Hole Shot or Pro-Line Inside Job. To our knowledge this is the first major National Championship that has adopted a control tire for gas off road, something that has been very successful in Electric touring for many years to keep costs down. A way for the future?

Source: JMRCA [jmrca.jp]

May 14, 2010

Olivier Bultynck dominates Mod at Belgian Rd3

Having covered the super stock class at the third round of the Belgian Nationals in Zwevegem, we now have the modified class report. In the EFRA class it was Olivier Bultynck who took the pole in front of Thomas Stockman and Manuel Henriet. In the first final, Olivier took a clean start and the lead with Stockman and Henriet following. Olivier was very fast and Thomas tried to follow but made a mistake that allowed Manuel to take over he chase but Olivier was gone. The battle for second place was hard and fair and saw Manuel also make a mistake. It was Rico Claeys who drove as second for a little while but Nick Joosens came back and took second place away from Rico. But Thomas was fighting back and overtook Nick. Olivier was far in front and took the win in front of Thomas and Nick.

Continue the report here

May 13, 2010

Vekemans wins Super Stock Rd3 in Belgium

Round 3 of the Belgian nationals took place at the MRCZ track in Zwevegem. In the Super stock class, run with 10.5T Speedpassion motors, it was last years champion Geoffrey Vekemans who was fastest in qualifying with his Schumacher, ahead of Werner Broekx and Stephane Roufosse. In the first final the win went to Werner, with Geoffrey in 2nd and Roufosse in 3rd. Leg 2 saw Werner try to follow Vekemans but it was almost impossible as he made no mistakes on his way to the leg win. In the 3rd and deciding leg it was again Geoffrey Vekemans who was un beatable and he won the leg from Stephane Roufosse to take the overall win ahead of Werner Broekx in 2nd and Stephane Roufosse taking 3rd.

May 12, 2010

Defending Champion Todd repeats Galway win

Ireland’s 1:8 Off Road National Championship took competitors to the west of the country where the Galway Model Car Club played host to the second round of the 2010 championship. As with the opening round in Navan it was defending champion Michael Todd who took TQ honours with his Nitrotec powered Losi. Behind him Alan Scroggie claimed an impressive 2nd on the grid with his Xray just ahead of Round 1 winner Mark Harron. In the 45-minute final Todd repeated his 2009 performance at the dusty clay track converting his number 1 starting position into victory heading home the OS engined Hot Bodies of Harron to leave the pair tied on points at the top of the championship standings. Completing the Top 3 and claiming his first Buggy podium was Truggy graduate Christopher McCauley, the teenager looking very strong at the controls of his Xray/Max combination. In the Truggy class Top Qualifier Neil Irwin took his Novarossi powered Xray to victory over the Losi/Max of Oisin O’Briain with Steven Mc Clements’ Mugen completing the Galway podium. The RCCAOI National Series moves to the north of Ireland on May 30th where the huge Banbridge & District Model Car Club track is the venue for third round of the 6 round championship.

View the final results here

May 12, 2010

Richard Volta takes Rd3 in France

Last weekend the 3rd round of the French Nationals was held at the Circuit Carole in Aulnay near Paris. In total 60 drivers attended the race, among them was former European B Champion and Team Shepherd driver Richard Volta. In qualifying he showed an excellent performance clocking the fastest lap and being the only driver to reach 25 laps. The final was a close affair. At the start Volta could defend his first position and increased his lead in the following minutes, but unfortunately after the tire change he had a collision and for the rest of the race his Velox was a little bit unstable. But he fought really hard and defended his lead until the finishing line. Christophe Louis followed on the second place only 0,7 sec behind, Gerald Colinet finished on 3rd place 2 laps down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 11, 2010

Simões & Silva take Rd2 in Portugal

Round 2 of the Portuguese EP TCC 2010 was run last week at the huge track of Maia, near Oporto. Qualification got underway with the track a little damp, but as the morning ended the track was dry and the finals were all in almost perfect conditions. Because of the weather some of the drivers chose not to take the trip to Maia, so only 22 drivers showed up. In the Stock class, it was Jorge Simões that took the TQ spot, followed by Bruno Castela and Bernardo Cosme. In the finals, Jorge converted his TQ into overall victory followed by Bruno Castela in 2nd and Bernardo Cosme in 3rd. In the Modified class, Helder Silva at his home track didn’t give a chance to anyone and got TQ and the overall win. Rúben Francisco got 2nd and Hugo Miguel was 3rd.

View the final results here

May 11, 2010

Schäfer & Weihert take victory in Wiesbaden

This past weekend the first German Championship Central Qualifier 2010 was held at the nice track of Wiesbaden, where the European Championship B will take place in 2011. The race attracted 45 drivers in total, among them were Shepherd factory driver Oliver Mack and Shepherd front man Patrick Schäfer. Both were starting in the 1/8th scale expert class as well as the 1/10th scale 200mm class.

Continue reading the report here