Schumacher have announced the addition of top UK driver, Phil Sleigh to their team. Phil is joining up with the team to race Schumacher 1/10th buggies and also LC Racing micro buggies. Phil will bring a depth of experience to the team being multiple BRCA Micro Champion and BRCA 1/10th buggy National winner. He will be competing at all 1/10th UK Nationals, Mid West Regionals and all Micro Nationals.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
The 2016 ROAR Electric On-road Paved Nationals were held at Valkaria RC in Malabar, Floria over the weekend. Split in several electric on-road classes including Touring Modified and Stock as well as USGT 21.5 and World GT 13.5T it was Team Associated’s Rick Hohwart who TQed two of the four Touring Modified qualifiers to take the pole position for the triple A-mains. 2015 ROAR National Champion, Ryan Cavalieri came in second from Team Associated teammate Randy Caster. In the opening A-main, Hohwart, Cavalieri, and Caster would all have a great battle for the entire 6 minutes. As the checkered flag waived, it was Cavalieri crossing the finish line in 1st. In the second main, Hohwart and Cavalieri would have another epic battle, this time Hohwart would come out on top with Cavalieri a close second. With the Championship to be decided in the final A-main, Cavalieri paced Hohwart closely for the first couple minutes of the race. A small mistake from Hohwart open the door for Cavalieri to get by. Cavalieri then did what he does best and drove a flawless last half of the race to take home his second ROAR Modified Touring Car National Championship in a row. Rick Hohwart came in second from Keven and Randy, making it a 1-2-3-4 for the all-new Team Associated TC7.1 touring car that hit the light of the day just last week. Xray’s Paul Lemieux completed the top 5 result.
The final round of the 2016 French 1/8th On-road Championship was held at the Beaumont-Monteux track last weekend. The weather was perfect with warm temperatures and bright sunshine. Leading the championship going into the final round Arnaud Mathieu (Capricorn) would only need a fifth place finish to take the overall Elite class title. The qualifiers saw Christophe Louis (Mugen) taking the top spot in front of Leo Arnold (Xray), one of the title contenders, while Arnaud Mathieu rounded out the top 3.
The fourth and final round of the Finnish 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the Vantaa track. In the 2WD qualifying Joel Valander TQed two rounds to take the overall TQ from Karri Salmela and Joona Haatanen. In the finals Joel was struggling on the drying track which allowed Karri to win the race and the National title. Joona Haatanen came in second thanks to winning the third A-main.
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The 2WD portion of this year’s German 1/10th Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the AMC Langenfeld track this past weekend. Serpent’s Jörn Neumann took the overall TQ in 2WD Modified Buggy from Yokomo’s Marc Rheinard and Björn Prümper. The triple A-main events brought a similar result with Jörn making a clean sweep to take the overall title while Marc came out fastest in A2 and A3 to grab the runner-up and vice-championship spot from Björn. Christopher Krapp came in fourth from Oliver Speith in fifth.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Round six of the Huge RC Club Race series was held this past Sunday and in 1/8th Nitro On-road it was Chavit who set the TQ, however in the 30-minute main final it was Wattakorn to take the win some two laps ahead of Anutin with Wittaya completing the top 3 another four laps down. In 1/10th Nitro Touring Supawoot took the top qualifier honours but in the main event it was Pichakorn to take the win one lap head of Andy Moore and Supawoot, who rounded out the podium result three laps down.
Midrand Offroad RC club in Johannesburg recently played host to the second round of the South African 1/8th Off-road National Championship. With the 2016 season being a 2-rounds affair and both counting towards the overall result the pressure was on for the top drivers. Friday saw the start of open practice before qualifying would start on Saturday. In Electric Buggy the championship would more than likely be contested by the top 4 drivers with Deon Gove leading over Aksay Patel due to a tie break at the first round at APN in Durban. Unfortunately Thomas Schmuck had to withdraw his entry and would not be able to defend his 2015 title at the final event. Quintis Van der Merwe would have an outside chance to take the overall championship as two new comers to E-Buggy would join for the final round. Both Dean Steenmans and Tiaan Oelofse, top nitro contenders, could split the tight field and rearrange the final points standing.
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For the sixth year running, the Tamiya Benelux finals were held at the fast and flowing track of MAC de Baanbrekers in Rucphen. Bringing together the best Tamiya drivers from The Netherlands and Belgium the event had a record attendance of 116 driver that raced in several classes including a Porsche 997 GT3 endurance race that was held on Saturday evening. The 2-day event saw timed practice and the opening qualifiers on Saturday followed by another qualifier and triple 7-minute A-mains on Sunday. Euro GT was the fastest class of the championship and it attracted the strongest field ever that included multi-Belgian champion Bart Vervloessem and his brother Jan Vervloessem, 2004 Tamiya F1 European Champion, Michael Lepelaer, Belgium’s former Stock Champion Stefan Rommens, 2006 Tamiya World Championship finalist Rob Chaldecott, Dutch Open Stock and Tamiya 2016 Champion Robert Krens as well as young Florian Joos. 10-times Belgian Champion and ETS winner Olivier Buytinck made a shock return to the Tamiya Cup races and set a very high benchmark for the other drivers.
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