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June 6, 2016

BRCA Touring Car Nationals Rd2 – Report

This last weekend saw the BRCA Touring Car Nationals head to Adur near Brighton on the south coast of England. Unusually for the UK the drivers were blessed with great sunshine all weekend and with low winds the track conditions were quite different to the previous weekend’s Schumacher BTCC race. Schumacher’s Elliott Harper was in a different league this weekend TQ-ing the first three rounds of qualifying just using one set of three allocated sets of Sorex 32RY tyres. In Pro Stock James Hart (Schumacher) was taking the fight to current BRCA champ Zak Finlay (Xray) putting in some strong performances to line up second on the grid.

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June 6, 2016

RC Lemans Series Rd4 – Report

Round four of the RC Lemans Series was held at the EVMC club in Velp, The Netherlands over the weekend. Following cold and rainy low-grip conditions at the previous rounds all drivers were looking forward to a sunny weekend with asphalt temperatures of about 50 degree Celsius. In the LMP1 Modified class Sven Stoffels took the TQ only a couple of tenth of a second from championship leader Tim Altmann. Reinder Wilms matched Tim’s time down to a hundred of a second over the five minute run. Behind the three Philipp Paul, Kai Altmann, Tobias Weist, Andy Dick and Joachim Behnken were not far away, promising some exciting A-mains.

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June 3, 2016

Murray & Tinaglia successful at Schumacher Day Italy

Last week saw the 2016 Schumacher Day event held at the Miniautodromo Ca de Mandorli Circuit in Bologna, Italy. Saturday saw an open track day where racers had useful track time to perfect their car setup for this fast flowing circuit. After a nice sunny Saturday, Sunday morning came and racers were greeted with some rain. Sadly this caused some of the racers to leave, but for those who stayed, would later enjoy a dry track and more sunshine. With half of the qualifying run in wet conditions, it would be the pairing of Andy Murray in Open Modified and Alessio Tolomelli in Stock who would take the pole positions in their respective classes.

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June 3, 2016

Conley, Collymore & Hardman win at Midwest Series Rd1

The first of six races for the Midwest Series kicked off in Toledo, Ohio, home of the One Eighth Racers of Toledo. The track was setup for a little practice on Friday but Saturday saw a little rain in the morning. The track crew did a great job with getting the track ready to go and with extended practice the race would cut out a qualifier. In 1/8th Open Ted Hammer (Shepherd) would take the TQ while in 200mm Sedan Diatta Collymore (Xray)came out fastest after the qualifiers.

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June 3, 2016

Bertuzzi & Carbone score at Vedano race

The recent Vedano race in Italy saw Davide Bertuzzi taking the TQ in the Stock 13.5T Touring class while Davide Carbone came out fastest in the Formula category. In the Stock A-mains Davide Bertuzzi had to defend himself from teammate Andrea Valerio but at the end Bertuzzi would hold the upper hand to take the day’s win. In the Formula class Davide Carbone made a clean sweep by winning all three A-main legs.

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June 3, 2016

Patrick Gollner wins at Austrian EP On-road Nats Rd2

The second round of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Wr. Neustadt track in perfect weather conditions. The race schedule saw free practice on Friday, timed practice and the qualifiers on Saturday with the mains run on Sunday. In the Touring Modified class Patrick Gollner took the overall TQ from Mario Sowka and Manuel Gremlica. The finals then had Patrick taking an easy win in A1 but a mistake in A2 shifted the decision for the overall win to the third and final A-main in which he again came out fastest to grab the overall victory from Mario Sowka and Toni Eder.

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June 2, 2016

Lopez & Smith win Reedy Race Stock classes

The 2016 Reedy Touring Car Race of Champions was held this past weekend at the Tamiya Raceway in Aliso Viejo, California. While Ronald Völker walked away with the win in the Invitational class it was Cristian Lopez who took the victory in 13.5T Stock. Keith Yu, Eric Anderson and the UK’s Jimmy Maddison set the early pace along with local Cristian and it was Keith who took the overall TQ spot after the qualifiers. The triple A-main events were rather eventful with Cristian Lopez taking A1, Keith Yu in A2 and Cristian again in A3 to lock up the win. Keith Yu would be second overall with Eric Anderson rounding out the podium.

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June 2, 2016

Dirk Wischnewski wins at Central German Champs Rd2

Round two of the Central German Championship was held at the MSC Kirchhain track. After three rounds of qualifying it was Dirk Wischnewski who took the TQ in the 1/10th scale class with Patrick Schäfer lining up in second only 0.2s behind. Mirco Thalheimer also made it directly into the main with a 3rd place, rounding out an all-Shepherd top 3. The main final then was a done deal for Wischnewski. After a few laps Schäfer’s car was hit in the back by another competitor, resulting in a body tuck meaning a short stop near the pitlane was necessary. Later on Patrick’s engine stalled one time meaning any chance to fight for the lead was gone. Unimpressed Wischnewski cruised around the track and crossed the finishing line in first position with a massive gap of 7 laps in front of Michael Hauser (Xray). Patrick Schäfer recovered to 3rd another lap down but posting the fastest laptime of the final.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]