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October 26, 2016

BRCA 1/8th Electric Circuit National Rd9 – Report

With the racing season drawing to a close, the BRCA 1/8th Circuit section headed to the northern venue of Wombwell Model Car Club. With Alex Thurston only having to take home 92 points to be 1/8th Electric Circuit national champion, it seemed as if Alex had both hands on the trophy all weekend. With Saturday dry and Alex setting the pace it looked ominous for other championship contenders, but come Sunday the weather was to turn wet and after four rounds of qualifying Paul Bellinger took the TQ from Franck Dambrine and Jamie Paton.

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October 25, 2016

Daniel Rubio takes ATS Formula class title

The final round of the Andalusia Touring Series was held this past weekend at the Las Gabias track in Granada. With a second place at the final event, Daniel Rubio (MD Racing) secured himself the overall Formula class title from Xray driver Carlos Manuel Garcia and Tamiya pilot Francisco Sanchez Garcia in second and third respectively.

Source: MD Racing [mdracingrc.com]

October 25, 2016

2016 Halloween Classic – Report

The 2016 Halloween Classic once again brought in racers from around the U.S. to The Gate in Brunswick, Ohio. The limited space available makes a pitting area a coveted badge of honor as it once again sold out, this year in only about 1 hour after going live for sign ups. Even with the extreme pressure all weekend everybody was having a blast, making new friends, and enjoying the announcing by the fabulous Mr. Chris Goetz. Having fun is the priority at The Gate, which is what helps make this race popular every year. Qualifying was hot and heavy as previous TQs fell in many classes from round 1 to round 4, keeping everyone on their toes and wrenching in the pits to find that something extra. Many former Stock class winners also jumped into the Mod arena in Touring Car while trying the test class of 12th 6.5 blinky.

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October 25, 2016

Flavio Elias sweeps Brazilian IC Track finale

The final round of the Brazilian Nitro On-road Championships was held at the Zeca Elias track. In the 1/8th Pro category Capricorn’s Flavio Elias came out on top from Cesar Salvadori (ARC) and Fabricio Zamperelli (ARC) in second and third respectively. Samuel Prato (Capricorn) and Kazu (Mugen) rounded out the top 5 result.

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October 25, 2016

Jacques Libar takes Luxembourg Nationals opener

The opening round of the Luxembourg Electric On-road Nationals was hosted by the RCCM club and held at the Turelbach Center in Mertzig. The track was tight and technical with the grip kicking in at a high level once a couple of practice heads had be run. After the triple qualifiers on Sunday Jacques Libar came out on top to take the overall TQ and the pole position for the triple A-mains. The opening A-main then also went to Jaques after five flawless minutes but A2 was a different affair as an error in the opening stages cost him dearly. He made up for it in the third and decisive main though as he again came out on top to take the overall win with Gilles Choque in second and Dirk Rischard third.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

October 25, 2016

EJ Evans successful at inaugural Cen*Cal Challenge

The inaugural Cen*Cal Challenge was held over the weekend at Hobby Town in Fresno, California. There were a total of 143 entries making it the second largest outdoor electric race in the USA for 2016. After four rounds of qualifying the Touring Modified TQ honors was claimed by EJ Evans followed by Ethan Erchinger and Brian Bosley. Early in the main Evans and Erchinger pulled a slight gap over the rest of the field. Ethan Erchinger applied pressure early, but after about one minute EJ Evans was able to maintain a two second gap for the victory. Brian Bosley and Fred Hubbard had a hard fought battle for the third spot and in the end Hubbard was able to claim the final podium position.

Source: TOP Racing [top-racing.jp]

October 25, 2016

BRCA 1/12 Nationals Rd1 – Report

Last weekend saw the first round of the 2016/17 BRCA 1/12th scale Nationals take place in Eastbourne, UK. The events southern location resulted in a lower turnout than is normal for these events as some drivers from the north of England chose not to make the long trip south. Despite this the event promised to be very competitive with all of the main contenders for the series in attendance. This season sees a change to the classes offered, with a single 13.5T blinky class for everyone on Saturday while on Sunday drivers have a choice of 13.5T blinky and modified, which for this season sees the introduction of a 6.5T motor limit and “blinky” speed controllers.

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October 24, 2016

Lovan RC Challenge Rd1 – Report

The Lovan RC Challenge kicked off this past weekend with the opening round taking place at the new Velocitatem Arena, a permanent and pretty technical indoor track in Ingelmunster, in the western part of Belgium. The series is run in the four classes of Touring Superstock 10.5T blinky, Touring Stock 17.5T blinky, 1/12th scale 10.5T and Formula 21.5T. Tyres are limited to one set of Ride tyres for the Formula class and a set of Sorex, Volante, Ride or LRP tyres for the Touring classes. As for the schedule, an opening round of qualifying was held on Saturday with the remainder of the qualifiers were run on Sunday followed by triple mains for everyone. In Superstock Awesomatix’s Ollie Bultynck took a convincing pole position, one lap in front of Florian Joos (Tamiya), with the latter suffering transponder issues, and the Xray of Eric Denolf. The finals were a bit more exciting and Florian would put his Tamiya a bit closer to Ollie’s Awesomatix but ultimately Olivier would take the win from Florian while Kristof Dehert, an off-road aficionado, took his brand new WRC to a fine third place overall, all three running Volante 28 tyres.

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