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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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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The Circuito de Pista de Asoger track in Madrid, Spain played host to round 4 of the Spanish Electric On-road Nationals this past weekend. In the competitive Stock Touring class, attracting 30 entries, it was Luis Enrique Carrasco with the overall TQ from Isaac Cuevas in 2nd after the qualifiers. After the triple A-mains the two would be tie on points but the better tie-breaker would mean the day’s win for Luis with Isaac in 2nd and Enrique Parrizas in 3rd. With the win, Luis would also seal the overall championship for 2019.
Source: Zoo Racing [zoo-racing.com]
The 2019 PDNR Challenge was held in Penrith, Australia this past weekend and in the popular 1/8 Nitro GT class it was Rick Seymonsbergen with the overall TQ from Benjamin Dunn in 2nd. The 30-minute A-main event then saw Rick scoring the win with a 1-lap margin from Benjamin in 2nd as Daine Parsons came in 3rd, another three laps down.
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Round 5 of the 2019 Asian Onroad Championship was held at the iconic Yatabe Arena in Japan this past weekend, attracting nearly 100 entries for the multiple electric on-road classes. The premier Touring Modified class saw a couple of IFMAR World Champions in the mix with local talent. Being true professionals, the Modified Touring Cars startsed were textbook and TQ Ryousuke Yamamoto led the way. In tow was another fellow local Akio Sobue keeping the pressure on and not letting Yamamoto get away being only a couple car lengths away the whole race. Yamamoto drover super tight keeping the door closed until the end tone taking the A1 win. In the A2 main, it would be disaster for Yamamoto when his car broke in a crash. Sobue said thank you very much and would cruise in for the A2 win. Unfortunately for Sobue, Yamamoto’s run would edge him out by one single second for the over all win.
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The opening round of the Xray Racing Series PLMS Poland was held recently in most of the important 1/10th and 1/12th scale electric on-road classes with Touring Stock 13.5T and Formula being the most popular. The purpose-built track was laid out with the popular ETS-style carpet with the schedule seeing four qualifiers and triple mains for everyone. Racing-wise and in Touring Modified it was Jakub Michalski walking away with the win from Mirek Novak in 2nd and Maciej Szkop in 3rd.
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