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August 28, 2023

Tommy Hall does double at Scotty Ernst UK Showdown

The Scotty Ernst UK Showdown saw Tommy Hall do the buggy double at the inaugural running of the 1:10 Offroad event. The famed American race announcer brought his Showdown to the UK’s legendary Robin Hood Raceway where the astro turf track played to its advantage with any rain not stopping play at the Schumacher Racing supported event. Capitalising on the British Bank Holiday weekend, the 3-day event saw Sunday’s main action decide the 2WD Champion with the 4WD and Stadium Truck battles fought on Monday. In 2WD Buggy, it was Team Associated’s Tommy Hall who took the TQ before the former European Champion went on to win the final ahead of the Schumacher pairing of Ben Smith and Lee Martin. In 4WD, it was the second of the Hall brother’s Jamie who would TQ ahead of Martin with Tommy P3 after four rounds. In the triple finals however it was Tommy, the newly crowned British National Champion, who took the first two A-Mains to completed the perfect weekend with Jamie securing P2 with the win in A3 as Martin again completed the podium in third. In Stadium Truck the finals produced three different winners with 2WD Buggy runner-up Smith taking the overall victory from Martin for a Schumacher 1-2 ahead of Jamie and Tommy Hall.

Image: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

August 23, 2023

12-year-old Thilo Baldes win German Nitro Championship

Thilo Baldes is the new German National Onroad Champion in the 1:8 Nitro Class 2. With his Reds Racing powered Shepherd Velox V8.2, the 12-year-old talent from Adenau near the famous Nürburgring won the 45-minute final race at the German Nationals in Kirchhain in central Germany with a concentrated and faultless performance. In the heat battle at temperatures around 35 degrees, Baldes relegated Julian Krajuszek (Mugen), who is the same age, to second place on the 230-metre racetrack and thus also secured the title of German Junior Champion in Class 2. Third place on the podium in the performance class 2 went to Sebastian Steck (Capricorn).

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August 23, 2023

Densford & MacDonald complete ROAR Committee

ROAR, the sanctioning body for RC racing in the United States & Canada, has announced the completion of its Executive Committee with the appointments of Brent Densford as Competition Director and Lance MacDonald as Promotions Director. Under the guidance of new President Clayton Young, ROAR appears to be on a much overdue positive trajectory and the latest appointments should be a boost to national championship racing and the bobby in general. Densford is the owner of Beach RC while MacDonald has vast experience in race organisation and so their combined experience and knowledge should assist ROAR in being more more proactive in the promotion of the hobby as opposed to just being a rule enforcer.

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August 23, 2023

BRCA 4WD Onroad Nationals R4 Cotswold – Report

For the fourth round of the BRCA 4WD Onroad National Championship it was down to the Cotswold track at Kemble Airfield. Weather forecast was looking okay for the weekend, however practice on Saturday was hit by some unexpected rain and the same happened again on Sunday. The first round saw newly crowned Modified Champion, Kyle Branson with his Xray X-4 set the pace with a quick 19-lapper, from team-mate Harley Eldridge, with Andy Murray’s Schumacher Mi8 in third. Q2 saw Kyle again fastest from Chris Grainger’s Schumacher Mi8 and Alex Thurston’s Yokomo BD-12 was third. The third round saw Alex take the fastest time with a 20 lapper from Kyle, Xray’s Peter Eagles and Grainger in fourth but overall it was Kyle who was the Top Qualifier from Alex, Chris and Harley. In the finals, the first leg was a bit wet but that didn’t stop Kyle taking the win with 15 laps from Chris and Andy. A2 was nice & dry and it was again Kyle taking the win this time with 20 laps from Peter, Alex and Chris. For the third leg, the rain had properly come down and continued through the final with the cars throwing up plumes of spray. But this wasn’t going to deter Kyle, who made in a hat-trick of wins from Chris in second and young Daniel Robins in third. So it was Kyle who took the overall win, making it four out of four in the championship, with Chris in the runner-up spot with Peter taking with the final podium spot.

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August 23, 2023

Kobbevik doubles at R4 Norwegian Nationals

Schumacher’s Daniel Kobbevik claimed a double win at the fourth round of the Norwegian 1:10 Offroad Nationals which took place in Bergen last weekend. Moved to the West Coast venue after issues with originally scheduled venue, Saturday’s 2WD action presented driver with weather from all four seasons. Despite the challenges, Kobbevik would take the TQ ahead of fellow Schumacher driver Halvor Gran and the Team Associated of Adrian Sognestad. Continuing that form into the triple finals he would take the win with the podium order being as they line-up on the grid. Sunday’s 4wD would be a repeat performance from Kobbevik as he took all four qualifying rounds with his LRP powered Schumacher CAT L1R. Starting from pole ahead of Sognestad, he would complete the perfect weekend with victory in A1 & A2 and leaving his rivals to battle it out for the other two podium placings in A3, a battle Gran would win for another Schumacher 1-2. Peter Stein completed the podium.

Image: Magne Kobbevik

August 22, 2023

Kilic brothers 1-2 at German Nationals, Berkan Champion

Mugen Seiki’s Kilic brothers claimed yet another 1-2 at the German 1:8 Buggy Nationals with Berkan this time edging out Burak to become the champion for the first time. Racing at the MSC Ring in Braunschweig, Burak was chasing his third National title but in qualifying it was younger brother Berkan who would take the TQ after 5 rounds of qualifying from the defending champion. In the 45-minute final, there would be an intense battle at the front with the Sworkz of Joern Neumann joining the family rivalry, Berkan took the win by just 7/10ths of a second from Burkan. Setting the fastest lap of the race Neumann would complete the Top 3.

Source – Kilic Brothers RC [facebook.com]

August 22, 2023

Losam wins Hong Kong GP Onroad Championship

Serpent driver Lo Losam took the 1:8 win at the Hong Kong GP Onroad Championship which took place at the country’s well known Tom Racing Circuit. Hosted by the Hong Kong Model Car Association, the event would be effected by rain on the Saturday with the original schedule of 5 rounds of qualifying reduced to 3 with two to count. Losam’s first race with the Serpent 990, with factory driver Jeff Hamon providing him with set-up advice over the phone, the 20-year-old would go fastest in the first two rounds to lock in the overall TQ while the Mugen of Chu Williams would take the Super Pole shoot out to secure P2 on the grid. With the race attracting an entry from none other than legendary race announcer & recent 1:8 Onroad racing convert Scotty Ernst, in the 1-hour Main final Losam would have some issues at the start leaving him in P7. Within 3-minutes however he was back in the front where he would stay until the end winning by 4-laps from Williams with the Capricorn of 亞森 completing the podium.

Image: Kenny Ng [Facebook]

August 21, 2023

Greiner defends German National title

Capricorn’s Dominic Greiner successfully defended his 1:8 Onroad German National title over the weekend taking victory over Lars Hoppe and Merlin Depta. Hosted at the track of MSC Kichlain in the centre of the country and with more than 50 drivers in attendance, it would be the Shepherd of Hoppe who would take the overall TQ from Greiner and the Capricorn of recent European Championship Top Qualifier Toni Gruber. The 45-minute final would see multiple European Champion Greiner take the win by one lap from Hoppe with Depta, winner of the Semi A Final, taking his Capricorn from P5 on the grid to 3rd after Gruber hit problems during the race.

Image: Lars Hoppe [facebook]