BRCA announce 2015/16 Formula control tyre

The BRCA GT Circuit section have announced the control tyre for the 2015/16 BRCA GT national series Formula class. At the 2015 EGM, the floor voted for the committee to find a suitable control tyre for the Formula national series, this needed to have a balance of price, performance, availability and fitment. The BRCA held an “open” testing event at Swifts Raceway on August 23rd for drivers of all abilities to turn up and run four different set of tyres from three manufactures. The BRCA asked the drivers to try not to focus on what may be the “fastest” tyre, but give feedback as to the feel and balance shift across the sets. As a result the GRP GFX10-S2 and GFX20-S2 with carbon aluminium effect wheels were chosen as the 2015/16 control tyre. The press release in full including some testing results can be found here.

2015/16 Essex Winter Series – Announcement

The organisers of the Essex Winter Series have announce the full details for the 2015/16 Championship. Now recognised as the premier on-road championship in the UK, the EWS will again be contested over five rounds on one of the largest carpet tracks in the world, all rounds running at the popular venue of Deanes Sports Centre, near Southend in the South East of the UK. Following a recording-breaking series last winter, the well-known EWS team have kept most of the successful formula the same. There will be two classes again, for Touring Cars with Modified motors, and Super Stock 13.5 blinky. Both classes will continue to run on the Ride REX30 tyre. Following a sell out in just seven minutes last year, the entry process has been altered slightly. Entries are now open, and will remain open until midday on Saturday 12 September. Entries will be capped at a maximum of 120, and if the event is oversubscribed then drivers will be placed onto the reserve list, with priority for entries given to those competing in the whole series and those who have supported EWS Events in the past. More details, rules, dates and the entry form can be found here.

2015 KO Propo GP – Report

The KO GP incorporating the final race of the Schumacher BTCC Championship took place at the West London track this last weekend. Well over 100 drivers took part in the three classes Modified, 13.5T boosted and 17.5T Blinky over two days of tough competition with the UK top drivers plus Schumacher’s young star Michal Orlowski from Poland. Unusually for West London the weather stayed dry all weekend with beautiful sunshine on Sunday. The Modified class was dominated by Elliott Harper taking a comfortable TQ with three TQ rounds from the five rounds of qualifying. Lining up behind Elliott was Olly Jefferies, Colin Price and Chris Grainger.

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Altmann & Klier win at German Pro10 Championships

The 26th International German Pro10 Championships were held at the MCC Rhein Ahr club in Bad Breisig over the weekend. A total of 33 drivers from France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Germany attended in the Modified and Stock classes. The event started out on Friday with open practice that, like the first two qualifiers on Saturday, was held in dry conditions. Unfortunately during the third qualifying round of the Stock class the heaven opened its gates and it was decided to run the third round of the Modified class on Sunday morning. Thankfully Sunday started out dry but it was pretty windy but that further helped to dry the track so the event would go ahead as planned. In the Modified class warm-up winner Tim Altmann made a clean sweep to grab the TQ from Patrick Miltat and Kai Altmann.

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Ginting & Izzah win at East Speedway pre-opening race

The East Speedway pre-opening race was held with a total of 45 racers attending in the 1/10th 13.5T Boosted, FWD and Mini classes. In the 13.5T Boosted TC category Bowie Ginting was able to grab the TQ with the only 27-lap run from Muhammad Izzah in second, who narrowly missed the 27-lap barrier with a 26 laps 5:00 run. Arya Seta and Christian Mamesah came in third and fourth after the qualifiers. In the FWD class Muhammad Izzah took the TQ from Bowie Ginting and Arya Seta.

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