The 4th Annual Pan Car Masters will be held from the 29th to 31st of May 2020 at the MRTM Lostallo track in Switzerland. Classes run include Pro10 Modified, Pro10 Stock 10.5T Blinky, Pro10 Classic 13.5T Blinky, Formula 1, Formula 1 Classique as well as 1/8th 4S and 1/8th Stock Pan Car. Full details, rules and more can now be found here.
Round one of the 2019/20 BRCA LMP12 Nationals took place in Eastbourne last weekend. A healthy entry of 60 drivers took part in the weekend’s racing which bodes well for the season ahead. The Eastbourne club has the largest track layout of the season and this year they laid a fast and flowing circuit which was extremely good to drive. As per previous years organisation of the event and the onsite catering kept racers happy all weekend. This year’s BRCA nationals will be even more important with many drivers preparing for the 2020 IFMAR World Championships being held in the UK in January 2020. Saturday is traditionally stock racing day and this year a new class running 17.5 turn motors with blinky speed controllers has been introduced. Alongside this is the 13.5 blinky class which is split into a F1 and F2 Championship.
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The Coupe de France 1/8th E-Buggy race was hosted by the MRCPM club in Les Pennes-Mirabeau, France this past weekend. Jerome Aigoin would take two of the four qualifiers for the overall TQ from Yannick Aigoin in 2nd and Thomas Musso in 3rd, the later two also scored a round TQ each. After the five A-main events in it was still Xray’s Jerome Aigoin on top with Yannick Aigoin (Xray) coming in 2nd overall. Kyosho’s Rayan Medjoubi came in 3rd to round out the top 3 result.
Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]
Revelation Raceway of Ontario, California played host to the 2nd annual Sidewinder Fall Championship last weekend, drawing nearly 75 entries. In the Open Nitro Buggy class it was Tekno RC’s Joe Bornhorst with the overall TQ and also the win in the 30-minute A-main event, leaving behind JQRacing’s own JQ in 2nd, a lap down while Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo had to settle for 3rd overall, 0.8 seconds behind JQ. Over in Open E-Buggy it was again Joe Bornhorst with the overall TQ and win as 8th place qualifier, Javier Perez came in 2nd an runner-up after the qualifiers, Vince Stolo ended the day in 3rd overall.
Image: Carlos Arredondo
The Falun RC Club hosted the opening round of the Swedish Winter Indoor Cup in 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes this past weekend. The race was booked out in minutes, making for a good and competitive turnout of drivers. In 2WD Modified Buggy it was Elias Johansson with the overall TQ from Wilhelm Skjöldebrand on the runner-up spot. In A-mains 1 and 2 it was again Elias who would hold the upper hand, taking the overall win early and with a leg to spare, leaving behind Viktor Östling in 2nd and Lukas Larsson in 3rd.
Fast Forward from Austria have released first information on their new FF7.2F front-wheel drive conversion kit for the Team Associated TC7.2 touring car. The set will allow to convert the 4WD TC7.2 into a FWD touring car with the overall design offering a very centralised weight balance for improved cornering thanks to front-mid motor location, a new rail-type steering and a mid-ship mounted main gear and layshaft. Included in the kit will be the 2.25mm carbon fibre main chassis, 2.0mm carbon fibre upper deck, 3.5mm rear shock tower, a 7075 alloy servo mount, all steering components, front battery tab, diff pulley spacer as well as the belt, and nuts and bolts. Required for the conversion are a Team Associated TC7.2 kit as a donor car or the respective missing suspension and drivetrain parts. The FF7.2F is available for pre-order now and it will become available from mid-November.
Vejle in Denmark played host to round 2 of the Danish DRCMU electric on-road series this past weekend. In the Touring Modified class it was Kevin Nielsen (Xray), who attended his first ever Modified race, with the clean sweep in the triple qualifiers, taking the overall TQ from Patrick Hornum (Awesomatix) in 2nd and Patrick Danielsen (Xray) in 3rd. The A-mains then again saw Kevin leading the way in all three legs for the overall win from Patrick Hornum 2nd and Patrick Danielsen in 3rd.
Jin Sawada survived a big scare in the early stages of the 8-minute main final when the Japanese driver rolled his IF14, to come back and win the 2nd round of the OneTen series hosted by RCI V2 in Shanghai. Losing almost half a lap on the small technical track, the incident dropped the pole man down to 4th and left Rocket Zhang in the lead. Fighting his way back to the front, Jin managed to get back into the lead with two and a half minutes to go and would go on to extend his lead to over 5 seconds by the end of the race. Rocket would hold on for 2nd with Motor King completing the top 3. Discussing the incident, Sawada put it down to running with more power, thanks to the increased voltage, and lower than normal traction. Losing the back of the car slightly it clipped the small yellow curbs, sending his car into the wall and needing to be marshalled. Following the crash, he said his car was feeling really good and he could go about his recovery drive, which he admitted added some excitement to what was a rather processional race.
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