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November 18, 2014

Daniel Carlsson wins at South Swedish Indoor Cup Rd2

The 2nd round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Hassleholm, Sweden. The racers faced quite a small but yet technical layout with good grip. Right from the start local driver Daniel Carlsson found himself on top of the timesheets with a 4 seconds margin over the 2nd place driver in practice. Daniel then also lead the qualifying with Markus Hellquist coming in 2nd some 4 seconds behind while Christian Holmström ended the qualifiers in 3rd further 3 seconds down. The finals then were a done deal for Daniel who made a clean sweep in all three legs to take the overall win from Markus and Christian.

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November 18, 2014

Norwegian National Winter Series Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Norwegian National Winter Series was organised by the Kvinesdal RC Club in the South of Norway with a record entry of over 80 drivers in attendance. Held in the classes of Touring Car Modified, Touring Car Stock 13.5T, Touring Car Recruit 21.5T and 1/12th scale Modified the race format saw three rounds of qualifying with the best result to count followed by triple mains. In the Touring Car Modified class raining Nordic Champion and Schumacher team driver Nikolai Haaheim would secure the overall TQ by topping all three rounds of qualifying. A close 2nd was Team Associated driver Petter Berntsen, Oskar Fjeld (Yokomo) followed in 3rd while Rune Svestol (Xray) came in 4th.

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November 18, 2014

New Zealand North Island EP Championships – Report

The 2014 Edition of the New Zealand North Island EP Champs took place at the North Harbour RC Car Club Track which is situated at the most Northern part of the country’s biggest city Auckland. The event was somewhat of a sombre affair on the knowledge that the track was ear marked to be redeveloped into a swimming complex in a short few weeks after the event. Come qualifying, the weather played ball after months of rain in the region, the sun was out, and so were all challengers for this event.

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November 18, 2014

Cyrul & Lonergan take wins at Halloween Classic Race

The annual Halloween Classic race was hosted by the famous Gate crew of Cleveland. In the World GT 13.5T Spec class Josh Cyrul (SpeedMerchant), fresh off his win at the IIC in Vegas, went on to dominate qualifying taking TQs in every round. On Sunday, he started from the pole position and just drove away into the sunset. Josh was a full four tenth quicker than the 2nd place car of Brian Wynn (CRC) to take the win in the highly competitive class.

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November 18, 2014

Marka BD7 floating fan mount & black drive cups

Italian company Marka Racing have two new aluminium option parts for the Yokomo BD7 2014 and BD5 available in the form of a floating fan mount and black front spool drive cups. Starting with the fan mount, the CNC-machined 7075 aluminium part offers a special design that minimises the influence on the chassis tweak as only one screw is used to fix the mount to the main chassis plate. The black anodised holder is usable with most of today’s 25mm, 30mm, 35mm and 40mm fans, it weights in at only 2.3g and comes with mounting hardware. The sturdy design allows to mount smaller 25mm and 30mm fans with only one screw to minimise weight gain while larger 35mm and 40mm fans should be fixed with two screws. The part is a direct fit on BD7 2014 and BD5 cars but using the mount on a 2015 spec car requires a mooting hole to be drilled by your own.

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November 17, 2014

James Hart wins at GT12 Clubmans Series Rd3

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Round 3 of the popular GT12 Clubmans Series was hosted by the Broxtowe Model Car Club this past Sunday. After a welcoming drivers briefing from the club, the organisers held a vote to decide whether to change the qualifying format from “race” starts to staggered starts. With a majority show of hands it was decided to run staggered starts in qualifying. Broxtowe laid a technical and twisty track for the event, and unusually it was run anticlockwise. Grip levels came up steadily during qualifying, with drivers improving their times throughout the day.

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November 17, 2014

SARDA Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The 5th and final round of the 2014 South-African ORE national championship were held at the 2002 Worlds track in Krugersdorp this past weekend. The weekend started out wet as a rain storm hit the track on Saturday morning which delayed the start of the qualification. One part of the track remained waterlogged and the layout had to be changed for the event to continue, which caused some unhappiness among the drivers, but in the end it was the best option for the sport. Due to the delay only two qualifying rounds were held on Saturday with the remaining two being held on Sunday morning followed by the mains.

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November 17, 2014

Essex Winter Series Rd 2 – Report

The second round of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. Again, the series featured a fully-booked entry, but a few last minute withdrawals allowed the organisers to accommodate the majority of the drivers on the waiting list. One of those was current UK National Champion, Olly Jefferies. With Round 1 winner Andy Moore and expected title contender Kyle Branson at the 1/10th 200mm Worlds, championship points would certainly be up for grabs.

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