The 3rd round of the combined Belgium / Dutch championship was held on recently on the clay track of MAC Vlijmen in the Netherlands. In 4WD it was Stefan Mesker who took home the trophy with his X5 Squared, closely followed by touring car ace Nick Joosens, who is really getting more and more used to driving his CAT over the jumps and bumps of the off-road tracks he now faces. Local hero Tom van Drunen took home a well deserved 3rd place with his B44.
Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the Dutch 1/8th scale Nationals run at the MACH in Heemstede. Every Dutch national held on this track for the last 3 years were in wet conditions and this time around the weather forecast predicted the same again for Sunday. The forecast seemed to have been wrong and the day started with nice weather running all 3 rounds of heats in dry conditions. In the NK it was Rick V taking pole followed by Jordy Blok, John Ermen and the last direct finalist was new Shepherd driver Rik Veenma. In the NOMAC it was Gunther van Staey taking the pole followed by Steven Cuypers, Richard Keur and Nico Boeren.
CML are reporting on the 4th round of the BRCA 1/8th Off Road series that took place in very inclement weather at Shrewsbury over the weekend. The track was an ‘old style’ grass track with a layout new to every one on the day. There were a few jumps for the drivers to negotiate but the biggest challenge were the conditions. From the beginning of qualifying the rain set in, and it didn’t let up at all throughout qualifying. This potentially was going to make the qualifying more important because if the organisers were to call the meeting off after qualifying, the points would be awarded in that order.
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oOple finally have their report online from the 2nd round of the BRCA 1/10th off road national series, held at the all-grass Oswestry track in the midlands, UK. Round one of the series saw some new faces take wins but it was like a trip back in time at Oswestry as both reigning national champions took wins in their respective classes. Ellis Stafford, reigning 2WD champion again took the TQ but this time made it stick with a win in legs one and three of the A final to take his first win of the series. Lee Martin, again the 4WD reigning champion, also took the top qualifying spot and won legs one and three of the A final for the overall victory. Phil Sleigh currently leads the 2WD series whilst Tom Yardy leads 4WD – but with 4 more rounds to go things will certainly change around.
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Source: oOple [oople.com]
The 2nd round of the Belarusian Nitro Off-Road Championship took place last weekend in Minsk, Belarus. The event was open to two classes, buggy and truggy and was attended by 20 drivers in total. In the buggy class it was Dmitri Mosin that took the TQ spot, while in truggy Alexander Mosin was in top spot. In the buggy final, Ukrainian driver Andrey Talalov jumped into the lead after only a few minutes and was able to take hom the win by 4 laps ahead of Maxim Masalsky in 2nd and Vladimir Ceiko in 3rd. The truggy class was won by the pole man Alexander Mosin, with Kirill Verigo taking 2nd and Aleksey Mazur 3rd.
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The 3rd Round of the BRCA national series was held at the Wombwell circuit, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The weather forecast for the weekend was for clear blue sky and hot summer temperatures which made sure that the damp tires where never a consideration for once. During Saturday practice it was Mark Green again setting the pace from a close chasing pack of Andy North (Mugen), Neil Diver (Volex), Richard Hicklin, Tim Wood and Pete Hastings (Serpent). With time restrictions due to the local residents enforcement policy, it made practice less than usual and ensured a busy track throughout the day. It was however apparent that the track at the end of the straight was starting to break up over the bump and it was therefore decided by the committee to form a chicane to slow the cars down. This was to become a further challenge to the drivers with regards to learning how quick to go through it, further set up refinement to allow the car to quickly change direction and gear ratio changes due to the main straight becoming considerably smaller.
The opening round of the DRCMU Danish electric buggy National Championships took place recently in Aalborg, in the north of the country. In the Stock class Martin Kristensen, was almost without resistance after Jesper Rasmussen chose for new challenges in the modified class and then Sebastian Sørensen had problems with electronics just before the start and had to use its spare equipment and a borrowed motor and after that Sebastian didnt have the speed to catch up Martin and only incidents could put Martin out of the game.
The 3rd round of the BRCA series was the annual 2 day race held over the Bank Holiday weekend.This year was the first time that the event has been held at a permanent venue and it was the Ware track that played host. Fantastic weather prevailed over the 2 days and some great racing was to be had. The big Ware track certainly provided a challenge with its high and low speed sections, coupled with the inconsistent surface which was there to catch out the unwary.
