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September 4, 2018

2018 Protoform Cup – Report

The 2nd annual Protoform Cup ran this weekend at beautiful Steel City R/C Speedway in Fontana, California. A great field of drivers from Southern and Northern California, Arizona, Texas, and Nevada tackled a special layout designed specifically for electric cars across 6 classes: Mod & Stock Touring, USGT, F1, PRO-10 and a new addition to the American on-road scene, 1:8 Electric. Practice Friday was followed by 3 rounds of qual points Saturday and Triple Finals for all racers on Sunday. A couple unique aspects of this race were handout fixed-timing motors for the three spec classes, provided by Reedy, and a strict limit on how the Solaris spec tires were used, to eliminate all “tire games” and force all drivers to drive hard every round on the track. The weather was unseasonably cool with high’s in the low-mid 80s F (27 C) for the event, which was definitely welcomed by racers.

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September 4, 2018

Olly Jefferies joins Schumacher Racing

Schumacher Racing have announced the surprise signing of 11 time British National Champion Olly Jefferies to their pro race team. The multiple ETS and IFMAR Worlds ‘A’ finalist has penned a multi year agreement starting from 1st of September 2018. Olly is renowned not only for his exceptional driving talent but also his huge dedication and determination to win and he will be mainly concentrating on Touring Cars but will also run some LMP12 and be working closely with the Schumacher R&D Team to refine their range of On Road platforms. Olly had the following to say:

I’m extremely excited to be joining Schumacher Racing and working closely with the factory. I’m confident we can build something great together and feel at this point in my career this is the perfect opportunity for me to progress and win at the highest level. I’d like to thank Team Xray and the Hudy family for the support they have given me over the past 5 seasons, I wish them all the best for the future.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

September 4, 2018

BRCA Clubman’s Championship Rd6 – Report

Last weekend saw the BRCA Clubman’s Championship headed to the Midlands for Round 6 at Stafford RCMCC. Not the biggest of tracks on the Racing calendar but a real favourite of the Clubman’s racers as it’s quite challenging and when you get it right you are greatly rewarded. There was a near full entry for race day and there were also 60 plus drivers practicing on Saturday, this shows that this series is so popular as we only had two rounds of the championship remaining. For practice day we had seven timed runs for all classes in heat order, so plenty of opportunity to adjust to track conditions. The usual three classes were running, 17.5 Blinky, 13.5 Open and Formula One.

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September 3, 2018

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The 5th of the 7 rounds of the Belgian FBA nationals for 1/10 electric cars was held over the weekend of September 1st at the MRCZ track in Zwevegem. This temporary and technical track is laid out on an very smooth asphalt track. The club did their upmost to get the grip levels up from Saturday onwards. Their efforts provided sufficient grip for the races, which were held on Sunday. As always, the racers could choose from 4 different classes, Touring modified, touring stock (the biggest class), touring rookie and F1. F1 has currently a dip in popularity and only 3 racers attended the race in this class.

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August 29, 2018

Groessel wins at Swiss EP On-road Nats Rd5

The fifth round of the Swiss Electric On-road Nationals was hosted by the MRCAL club in Aigle last weekend. Carl Friedrich Groessel took the overall TQ in the Touring Modified class courtesy of two round TQ, leaving behind Q4 top qualifier, Philipp Huber in 2nd. In the finals the battle for the top spot was on between Carl Friedrich and Philipp with the better end for Car Friedrich as he took the wins in A1 and A3 for the overall from Philipp Huber 2nd and Khounmy Bui 3rd.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

August 29, 2018

Yannic Prümper joins Infinity electric factory team

Infinity has announced the addition of top international touring car driver Yannic Prümper to its EP team line-up. A Worlds finalist and multiple ETS race winner, the German driver adds strength to the team’s IF14 Touring Car programme ahead of the upcoming Euro Touring Series season and sees him reunited with former team-mate and close friend Marc Rheinard. With two months to the opening round of the ETS, which takes place in Vienna, Austria, Yannic will make his official race debut for Infinity this weekend when, together with Marc and Dominic Vogel, he travels to the Aigen circuit in Austria for the inaugural EWS Abroad race. On his deal to join the 2018 Reedy Race and TITC winning team, Yannic said:

I want to thank Team Infinity, especially Kenji Taira to give me the opportunity to join his team. I’m highly motivated to show the best results in the future and race beside big guns inside the team. I’m sure we will have a lot of fun and success in the future.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

August 29, 2018

Arndt Bernhard takes German 200mm 40+ title

Last weekend the German 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Championship took place at the popular AMC Hamm track. Difficult conditions with a lot of rain and changing temperatures made it really hard to find a proper setup for the cars but in the end it was the Shepherd duo of Arndt Bernhard and Marcus May that secured themselves the 2018 German 40+ Champion and 40+ Vice-Champion title.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

August 28, 2018

CTS3 finale – Report

Once again the final round of the CTS3 was held at Speedworld Raceway in Roseville, California. As the points chase tightens up for the last round, racers brought their best game. In Modified Rick Hohwart led the series with Brandon Clements and David Jun tied for 2nd. In qualifying it was Brandon who locked up TQ and a die-hard finish to the end with applied pressure by Hohwart who then had bad luck on 2nd to last lap allowing Jun to get by but Jun ran out of time allowing Clements to clinch the overall title as he is crowned the 2018 CTS3 Champion for Modified Touring.

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