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August 17, 2014

Essex Summer Series – Update

Essex Summer Series - Update

The EWS Events team have today announced that their first outdoor event, the 2014 Essex Summer Series, has been moved to the Adur circuit on the outskirts of Brighton, Sussex. The event was set to be held at the Brookland Raceway circuit in Kent, but regrettably the facility ran out of time to make the track upgrades and changes necessary to host an event on this scale. Thankfully, the Adur Model Car Club offered their facility as an alternative, which the organising team were more than happy to accept. The race will remain on the same date of 13th and 14th September. You can check out the EWS Events Facebook page for regular updates and to ask any questions here.

August 14, 2014

DKI Jakarta Region Championship Rd3 report

Last weekend at the North Jakarta Sunter Circuit was the final round of the 3 round series organised by Jakarta EP Touring Committee. The air temperature was between 31 to 35 degrees Celsius with the asphalt temperature reaching 56 degrees Celsius and there was three classes run at this race; Touring Super4wd, Touring Stock 13,5 and Touring FWD 13,5 non boost. Less drivers attended compared to the previous rounds however it didn’t make it any less competitive. Major teams such as XCampus participated, along with drivers from Pegasus (Associated team), Tamiya, Yokomo and Team Magic. The race was dominated by Touring Stock 13,5 class, the largest class in Indonesia.

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August 13, 2014

Olivier Bultynck wins Rd5 of Belgian TC Nats

The fifth round of the 2014 FBA Electro on-road championship was held at the RCR track in the town of Roeselare this past weekend. After a very wet weekend at Bierset and a half wet weekend at Rucphen the weather forecast predicted a lot of rain during this race. On Saturday the sun was shining. On Sunday morning the day started dry but the weather conditions proved to be very difficult for all drivers with heavy rain fall during the day.

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August 12, 2014

Tim Altmann wins Rd6 of RC Lemans Series

The 6th Round of the Pro10 RC Lemans series was held at the MCC Rhein-Ahr in Bad Breisig, near Koblenz/Germany last weekend. After 3 Rounds of qualifying Tim Altmann took TQ ahead of his brother Kai and Tobias Weist with Sven Stoffels and Marcel Ellissen completing the top 5. Tim took an easy win in the first 2 legs to wrap up the overall win while behind him it was Sven and Kai with a 2nd and 3rd place each. The 3rd final was totally wet and only 3 drivers started and so with a win for Tobias and his 4th place from the first final he could secure the runner up spot while 3rd place went to Kai Altmann on tiebreak against Sven. The final race of the series will take place at the legend track in Oberhausen/Germany in October when the overall series win will be decided between Tim and Tobias.

Thanks to Tobias Weist for the report.

August 12, 2014

2014/15 Essex Winter Series – Announcement

2014/15 Essex Winter Series - Announcement

The organisers of the Essex Winter Series are pleased to announce that the UK’s most popular Touring Car series will return later this year. Building on the success of last year, which saw the whole series sell out in record time, the organisers have released the details of the 2014-2015 championship. After discussions with drivers from across the series, the organising team have made a few changes for this season. For 2014-2015, EWS is pleased to announce that the new Ride REX30 will be the control tire. After seeing the success of the tire at the ETS championship and at the 2014 International Carpet Challenge the organisers hosted last year, Essex Winter Series is very happy to welcome Ride to the series.

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August 11, 2014

Olly Jefferies wins Rd5 to take 2014 National title

Olly Jefferies wins final to take 2014 National title

The fifth and final round of the 2014 BRCA Touring Car championship was held at the Mendip track this past weekend situated a stones throw away from the popular UK holiday town of Weston-Super-Mare. Going in to this round both championships were wide open with Olly Jefferies, Chris Grainger, Colin price and Elliot Harper battling it out in the Super Touring class and Zak Finlay, Lee Price and Chris Gunter going for it in the Pro Stock class. The weather forecast for the weekend was not going to be kind to the drivers and the conditions proved to be very difficult for all drivers with sudden rain falling on the track regularly meaning some rounds of qualifying were better for the higher heats and some rounds better for the lower heats.

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August 6, 2014

Mack & Kremer win in Wiesbaden

Last weekend the final round of the Central German Championship took place at the WMC Wiesbaden track. In the Expert class it was a close fight for the TQ between the Shepherd drivers Oliver Mack, and Freddy Südhoff at his second outing with the Velox V8. After 4 rounds it was Oliver Mack who was on top of the time sheets with less than a second in front of Freddy Südhoff.

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August 6, 2014

Mibosport Summer On-Road Cup 2014 – Report

The final race of the Mibosport Summer On-Road Cup 2014 took place at the permanent on-road track in Blansko with over 40 drivers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland in attendance. The TQ holder in the Touring Car Modified class was open till the very last qualifying session. After three sessions, David Nemcek held the prestigious TQ spot as his main rival, Radek Flek had very bad luck due to technical problems followed by a mistake of a marshal, who put another car right into Radek’s racing line, which cost him a broken suspension and a retirement from the qualifying round. Despite all those problems, Radek did not give up and he grabbed the TQ in the last qualifying session with the fastest time of 24 laps in 5:02.438.

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