The fourth round of the French 200mm National Championship was hosted by the A2tech club this past weekend. Xray’s Leo Arnold was in control of things all day as he took the pole position for the final, the win and also the overall championship title with one round to spare. Shepherd’s Basile Concialdi came in 2nd, some three laps down as Michael Derderian (Xray) rounded out the top 3 podium result.
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The second round of the BRCA 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held in Blackpool this past weekend. After an intense qualifying with and with Graham Alsop, Neil Cragg, Elliott Boots and Lee Martin all scoring round TQs it was HB Racing’s Graham Alsop with the overall TQ after TQing Q1 and Q5. After the semifinals however it was Kyosho’s Elliott Boots with the pole position for the A-main as Team Associated’s Neil Cragg and Infinity’s Lee Martin lined up in 2nd and 3rd from Graham Alsop 4th. At the end of the 45-minute A-main it was again Elliott on the top spot from Neil Cragg 2nd, a lap behind as Agama’s Jonathan Skidmore rounded out the top 3 another lap down. Graham Alsop ended the day on the 4 spot in front of Lewis Jones 5th.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
The first round of the Finnish 1/10th Buggy Championship was held in the sunny city of Vaasa, Finland. The Vaasa track is famous for hosting the IFMAR 2011 Worlds and the track was in perfect condition and with the weather being nice it was a perfect weekend of RC racing. The race standard in the Finnish Championship is very high with some of the fastest drivers of Europe attending. In the 2WD class which was run on Saturday, Joona Haatanen, Joel Valander, Karri Salmela and Mikko Luopajärvi all showed incredible speed and the competition was tough. Joona managed to combine his pace with amazing consistency and had a perfect qualifying taking the TQ in all of the four rounds. Behind Joona, Joel started from the 2nd spot, Karri from the 3rd and Mikko from P4.
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The BRCA 1/10th Off-Road National Series made its way down south for round 3 last weekend, at the TORCH Model Car Club in Titchfield, near Southampton. As with the previous rounds, a full entry of 120 drivers was present over the two days of 2WD and 4WD competition, with blue skies and high temperatures setting the scene for some fast paced action on the astroturf track. On Saturday’s 2WD portion of the event and despite the warm weather, traction was in relatively short supply during practice as many drivers struggled to find consistency on the challenging layout. No such issues however for Yokomo’s Lee Martin. Always tough to beat at the TORCH facility, Martin would set the pace in all four qualifiers to claim the bonus TQ point early. Championship rival and defending National Champion Neil Cragg would put his Associated 2nd on the grid with Martin’s team mate Tom Cockerill rounding out the top 3, though Martin’s gap over the field looked ominous.
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Round 3 of this year’s Speed King Tour was held at the RC Stadium Sodegaura outdoor tarmac track in the Chiba prefecture last weekend in Touring Modified and Stock classes as well as the popular Oval category. In the Modified class’ Super Pole session, Infinity driver Akio Sobue took the TQ and pole position for the A-main final after being already fastest after the regular qualifiers. Rush driver Hayato Ishioka came in 2nd to round out the front row of the grid. In the 5-minutes Modified A-main final, Akio laid down a perfect race, bringing home the win from tone to tone. Hayato finished 2nd with his Kyosho and privateer Naoki Akiyama obtained the final spot on the podium.
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Round four of the BRCA 1/8 Circuit Nationals took place down in Kent at the Brookland circuit in a joint meeting with the 1/10 section, around 80 drivers were competing which made for a good atmosphere. The Brookland circuit layout is made up of big straights and hairpins with a chicane in the middle meaning horsepower and good fuel consumption is very important. For this year the circuit was partly resurfaced and much better than the previous years although still quite unforgiving if you touched the high kerbs. Temperatures were high with sunshine throughout the weekend, qualifying used the round by round system for this event with Mark Green (Serpent) taking pole position having found an engine to do five minutes without a fuel stop, ahead of Alex Thurston (Serpent), Tim Wood (Shepherd), Andy Hastings (Shepherd) and John Carr (Shepherd). For the 30-minute final many of the key front runners had technical issues allowing Mark to win by three laps from John Carr and Neal King (Capricorn).
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The Philippines-based Bacolod Ceres Speedway recently played host to round one of the Xray Racing Series South East Asia. Racers from all over the country attended the race that was held in 13.5T and 17.5T Touring classes. Rain delayed the start, however that also meant racers would avoid the hot asphalt conditions, equalling faster lap times and even closer qualifiers. In the 13.5 class, Taka Yuichiro would take commanding 1st place finishes while Paolo Rojas would take 2nd and Gabby Vargas would take 3rd. In the 3rd round, Paolo Rojas would lead the qualifier over Taka but a small error would eventually cost him the position and awarded the overall TQ to Taka, after having taking 1st in three of the four qualifiers. In the last qualifying heat, Gabby Vargas would make a few set up changes to edge out Paolo Rojas which would prove sufficient to place him in 2nd on the grid over Paolo who finished 2nd in each heat.
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For the 2018/19 season of the XRS UK the popular series is going to have some improvements including a change of a venue. The races will be held on a large 30x16m indoor ETS carpet track with a large pitting area and in a heated, centrally located location. Saturday is race day and the series kicks off on the 13th of October at the Newbury RCC in Newbury, UK. More information can be found here.
