November 4, 2012

EFRA releases 2013 race calendar

EFRA releases 2012 race calendar

Following this weekend’s EFRA AGM in Brussels, the European governing body have finalised the dates for next year’s European Championships. A busy summer season with 3 ‘B’ championships, a 1/8th flat chassis Euros and 2 40+ titles along with the usual ‘A’ titles up for grabs. Other noteworthy items from the meeting all surround the 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm gas on road classes, where from 2013 all ECs in theses classes will be run using a controlled tire – one brand, one diameter and one hardness, to be handed to the driver as they go to the track. Full AGM details can be found here.

March 6-10 – 1/12th scale Euros – Oulu, Finland
May 20-25 – 1/8th on road ‘B’ Euros – Aigen/Schlägl, Austria
June 3-8 – 1/10th on road ‘B’ Euros – Gubbio, Italy
June 3-8 – 1/8th off road ‘B’ Euros – Sicily, Italy
June 8-13 – 1/8th on road Flat chassis Euros – Avignon, France
July 8-13 – 1/8th off road ‘A’ Euros – Reims, France
July 15-20 – 1/10th EP off road Euros – Valladolid, Spain
July 22-27 – 1/8th on road ‘A’ Euros – Halifax, UK
August 2-4 – 1/10th EP on road Euros – Torres Novas, Portugal
August 12-17 – 1/10th on road ‘A’ Euros – Kirchberg, Austria
September 13-15 – 1/8th off road 40+ Euros – Bistensee, Germany
September 16-21 – 1/8th & 1/10th on road 40+ Euros – La Turble, Monaco

View the full calendar here (PDF).

November 2, 2012

Xray Column – Making the T4, Part 1

The 64th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj gives us an insight into the design, prototyping and manufacture of their all new T4 touring car.

I had been feeling for some time that we would need to attempt a different approach in order to reduce traction rolling in extreme traction conditions, yet still be able to increase steering and improve corner speed. Before doing anything with the long proven suspension I first wanted to experiment with weight distribution, chassis flex and primarily CG. My theory was that lowering the CG would reduce roll, thereby increasing traction and corner speed. Now I needed to test that theory.

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Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 31, 2012

Belgian SCT Cup Rd5

The fifth and last round of the Belgian SCT Cup 2012 took place at the Blackcountry Arena’s indoor astroturf track in Charleroi. The club, which hosted one of the EOS races in 2011, has as always been very efficient in organising the race, and even offered a glass of champagne to everyone at the end. The 2WD class saw the most attendees this weekend with some fast guys like Jean-François Renard and Nicolas Hammerton in attendance. The first and second leg of qualification was won by Nicolas Evens which gave him the overall TQ. The third leg was a tough one with four fast guys fighting hard on the track, running all together for most of the 6 minutes. In the end Jean-François was the quickest in front of Vincent Brauns and Nicolas Hammerton. In the first A-final Vincent had an excellent run with his rear motor truck. He was able to secure a second place between the two Nicolas’s and their 22SCTs. Second final started by a huge pile-up allowing Nicolas Evens to have half a lap lead. Nicolas Hammerton and Jean-François Renard fought for second place and ended in that order, separated by 1.5 seconds only. Last final saw the same guys fighting for the victory, with Vincent taking the win.

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October 30, 2012

Heitor Nogueira wins Parana championship Rd6

The sixth round of the Parana State Championship was held at the track of Curitiba. Heitor Nogueira was the dominant driver all weekend with his Serpent Cobra GT and took both the first and second of the two 30 minutes final heats. In the final race he was able to finish some three laps ahead of the second placed driver.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 30, 2012

Mibosport Cup report

The first of eight races of the 2012/13 Mibosport Cup attracted over 130 drivers from 6 countries including some of Europe’s top drivers such as Martin Bayer, Rene Klockner, Dominic Vogl, René Trauner, Martin Hudy and Zdenko Kunák. The race was held in a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock 17.5T and Modified TC. In the TC Modified class 40 drivers fought for the victory and the battle for TQ was on between Martin Hudy, Zdenko Kunák, René Klockner and Dominic Vogl. In the final Martin Hudy was able to secure the top position on the podium followed by Zdenko Kunák and René Klockner.

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October 29, 2012

Simon Reeves goes Beta tires

UK TLR racer Simon Reeves is the latest addition to Beta Tyre’s team of talented racers. Simon is a strong force and an established racer with numerous national main final appearances bringing a vast amount of knowledge to the team. He will not only help with continued development of Beta tires and products but also assist racers trackside with tire choice and general help throughout his 2013 campaign.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

October 29, 2012

Hartson & Motter win at JBRL series finale

This year’s eights and final round of the Electric JBRL was held at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, CA. There were two rounds of rocket-round qualifying and one 6-minute main event, all run on Saturday. Racers showed up on Friday to get some practice for the racing on Saturday. As always, there was a good number of racers getting in some laps. The track layout was the same from the Reedy Truck Race a few weeks before and had good flow and great traction for how early in the event it was. Saturday morning brought overcast skies and slightly colder temperatures than the practice day before. But the weather didn’t seem to hamper the traction or racing. It looked to be another great day of racing if the rain managed to stay away. In the Truck Modified and 2WD Modified classes, Steven Hartson started second behind Mike Truhe. A patient Hartson shadowed Truhe for the entire Truck Modified main event only to finish a few tenths of a second behind at the finish line. In 2WD Modified, Hartson got around Truhe on the first lap and never looked back. The Team Associated driver lapped almost the entire field on route to a dominant performance.

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October 28, 2012

Evans wins Short Course ending Durango’s reign

Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans brought Durango’s domination of the 4WD Short Course class in the Euro Offroad Series to an exciting end as he claimed the overall win in the third and final A-Main at the 2012/13 season opener in Poznan, Poland, ahead of defending champion Joern Neumann.  Having won the class at the EOS pilot race in Sweden and all three rounds of the inaugural season of the series, the first sign that Team Durango’s reign was under treat came in qualifying when Evans used his Losi Ten-SCTE to TQ qualifying.  Predicted to be the best racing of the day the small grid of trucks didn’t disappoint with an epic battle in the first A-Main which saw Evans Orion powered truck take the win in a drag race to the finish line with Neumann, the American doing just enough to snatch the win from the German who had led the previous 9 laps.

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