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March 9, 2020

Louth RCCC Schumacher Winter Series Rd6 – Report

The sixth and final round of the Schumacher Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club took place over the last weekend. A new venue and new carpet offering improved grip, would give the drivers something new to get to grips with. The contact A30 club tyres were of choice for this meeting, handling the improved grip well. In 13.5T touring Chris Lovely would set the early pace take three TQ runs with his Xray, Alex Brocklebank would take the final round of qualifying to place himself into second with his Schumacher. Mitch Fiddling would make it two Schumachers in the top 3 with consistent rounds, Jason Lovely would show well on his return after a three month lay off in 4th with his aging 2019 Xray chassis. Joseph Cocking would sit into 5th with his a Yokomo, ahead Callum Chapman and Daniel Burks with their Xray cars.

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March 9, 2020

Hagberg & Neumann crowned 1/12th scale Euro Champs

The 2020 edition of the EFRA European 1/12th scale On-road Championships was held at the Racing Arena Limburg indoor track in Sittard, The Netherlands over the weekend. The field of drivers was a bit smaller than expected, possibly because of the IFMAR Worlds being held recently. However, the level of competition was really high, with tough fights in both the stock and modified classes. This was further fuelled by a really technical track layout that was laid out on a brand new ETS carpet. In the Modified class it was Alexander Hagberg who would set the early pace, however he had a tough start to qualifying, as a couple of mistakes set him back in Q1. Things worked out a lot better in Q2, as a change in tyre prep made his car work better from the start of the run. Alex was able to TQ all rounds onwards to award him the top qualifying spot for the triple A-finals on the Sunday.

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March 5, 2020

Lars Hoppe returns to Shepherd

Shepherd have announced that German nitro on-road frontrunner Lars Hoppe has returned to their factory team. The former German Champion and IFMAR world championship finalist – both with Shepherd – plans to attend the ENS series, the German Nationals and select additional events.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

March 4, 2020

MRC Longwy Winter Series Rd4 – Report

The fourth and final round of the 2019/20 MRC Longwy Winter Series was held last weekend, attracting 75 entires. While Florian Joos took the win in Touring Stock Expert, it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker with the overall TQ in Touring Modified from Awesomatix privateer, Yannic Prümper in 2nd. After the triple A-main events the top 3 would remain unchanged with Ronald taking the win from Yannic in 2nd and Carl Friedrich Groessel, who rounded out the top 3.

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March 3, 2020

Villalon wins at Andalusian EP On-road Champs Rd1

The opening round of the Andalusian Electric On-road Championship was held at the Circuito del CDAS track in Sevilla last weekend. Jorge Carmona and Juan Francisco Correa ended up tie on points after the Formula class qualifying, however it was Antonio Jesus Villalon who would walk away with the win after the A-mains from Eduardo Ameijide Abella on the runner-uo spot. Gonzalo Díez Silva, Raúl De Los Santos and Dani Rubio would round out the top 5 results.

Image: Team Proto V1 [facebook.com]

March 3, 2020

Frederik Brolos Mikkelsen takes Danish Superstock title

The final round of the Danish Electric On-road Nationals was held in Tolls over the weekend. The Touring Superstock class saw Frederik Brolos Mikkelsen (Awesomatix) taking the overall TQ from Xray’s Casper Lund in 2nd and Soren Boy Holst (Gizmo) in 3rd. The opening A-main saw the top 3 crossing the finish line in starting order while A2 was won by Casper in front of Soren as Frederik scored a DNF. With a win in A3 Frederik then put things straight again as it allowed him to take the overall from Casper in 2nd and Soren in 3rd. With the win at round 3 Frederik made it a complete sweep in the championship with three TQs and wins and thus the overall title.

Image: Frederik Brolos Mikkelsen

March 3, 2020

Florian Joos wins at Longwy Winter Series finale

The final round of the Longwy Winter Series was held over the weekend with the hosting club once again providing a nice and challenging layout with the track for the final round being a pretty fast one. In Touring Stock Expert it was Florian Joos with the overall TQ from Joe Streff and Nicolas Delisé. Florian went on to win A1 and A2, however he had to withstand a lot of pressure from both Nicolas and Joe. Nevertheless Florian took the overall win, even with a tweaked car as his mechanic put some suspension inserts in the wrong way. Behind Florian Joe and Nicolas came in 2nd and 3rd overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 3, 2020

2019/20 Mibosport Cup Rd5 – Report

The fifth and final round of the Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend, once again attracting a very healthy field of over 200 drivers for the electric on-road and off-road classes. The event was a special one for the overall championships as to make things more interesting, the organisers decided to serve more points than usual on the final encounter, ensuring all drivers were pushing really hard as nothing was set in stone in the overall rankings going into the final round. Beside the usual suspects the final round attracted some special names, mainly in the off-road classes, such as Jörn Neumann, who found the way to the Czech Republick after a long time as did young and very talented Jessica Palsson from Sweden. However, starting with the on-road classes and in Touring Modified, Oliver Havranek was the man to beat. But it was not smooth sailing for him. Matej Sulc held the TQ spot after the qualifiers but in the end Matej wasn’t able to fend off Oliver who brought home the win from Matej in 2nd. Petr Grof secured P3, Kuba Simurda came in 4th and Martin Kratochvil finished in 5th.

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