Muchmore UK GP Series Rd2 – Report

The second round of the 2015 GP series, was hosted by the Carlisle Radio Model Car Club in the North West of England. The event runs four qualifying rounds on the Saturday with a further two on Sunday morning, followed by triple finals and featuring the five classes of Touring Car Modified, Pro-Stock, Spec, Mini and Formula. In Modified, Xray driver Peter Eagles repeated his success at last month’s round in Stonehaven and took the win in Modified from John Simpson (Schumacher) in second and Adam Howe (Team Durango) in third.

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Michal Milanowicz wins at final Mibosport Onroad Cup

The final round of the Mibosport Onroad Cup was held at the Blansko track in the Czech Republic this past weekend. Good weather made for perfect racing conditions on the small and technical track that saw Michal Milanowicz scoring round TQs in the first and second qualifier of the Formula class, to take the overall TQ. Antonín Hudec put his car on the 2 spot while Miroslav Meloun st. came in third. The triple A-mains then had Michal coming out successful in A1 and A2, handing him the overall win early. In the third main Michal had some bad luck and he only finished 3rd while Miroslav Meloun st. grabbed the overall runner-up spot from Antonín Hudec who rounded out the podium in third.

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German Pro10 National Champs – Announcement

The MCC Rhein Ahr Club will play host for the 26th German Pro10 National Championship on the weekend of the 6th of September. The race will be held in the official Pro10 Modified class as well as in the two open support classes of Pro10 10.5T Stock zero boost and Formula, the latter using the popular ETS rules. The event starts on Friday with open practice and concludes with the final qualifiers and mains on Sunday. More information can be found on the club’s website here.

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd6 – Report

The 6th round of the Belgian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the MRG Genk track in challenging weather conditions. On Saturday it was raining cats and dogs while on Sunday the rain had stopped and with the track was still being wet qualification was a bit difficult at first. But the track was drying fast and in the Efra class it was VBC team driver Olivier Bultynck who took the TQ spot with the only 18-laps runs in front of team mate Nicolas Delisé in second and Nick Joosens in 3rd. To no ones surprise it was Ollie who took the lead in the opening A-main and he kept it till the end, even struggling with a bad rear tyre could not hold him from winning. A bad start of Nicolas ruined his first final while Nick was in second place behind Olivier. Mitchell Van Es did everything he could to catch Nick but he had to settle for third.

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Ginting & Izzah win at Indonesian EP Nationals Rd3

Round three of the Indonesian EP Nationals was held at JITC Senayan track in dusty and very low-grip conditions and in the three classes of 13.5T Boosted, FWD and Mini. In the Boosted class it was Muhammad Izzah who secured the pole position for the triple A-mains. Leg one then saw Izzah taking a comfortable win from John Ambar and Ronny Suwarto. Leg two and Bowie Ginting, who suffered from tyre failures in the qualifiers and the opening A-main, was able to pass Muhammad on the second lap and to win the main some four seconds in front of Izzah and Mamesah. The third and decisive A-main then again had Bowie Ginting taking the win after an unlucky Muhammad Izzah had to park his car due to a broken drive belt. This handed Bowie the overall win from Muhammad and Christian. In the FWD class Izzah was unstoppable and he made a clean sweep to take the win from Arya and Donny Dobu.

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Schumacher BTCC Bedworth Rd5 – Report

It was a return to the fantastic Midlands track of Bedworth this past weekend, almost 70 drivers were in attendance at round 5 of the Schumacher BTCC, there were other events on this weekend so a few usual BTCC suspects weren’t present, however it was still a great event which all enjoyed. The format for the day was 4 rounds of qualifying with round by round and then 1 final for everyone. Bedworth’s track was looking in superb condition and it was very quick. In the Touring Car Modified class Colin Price took the day’s win from Ben Cosgrove in second and Paul Pinkney in third respectively while Darren Lee and David Hall rounded out the top 5 result.

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