Red RC » R On Road

October 3, 2012

Mark Green wins Rd6 of BRCA 1/8th nationals

Round 8 of the 2012 national championship was our second visit of the year to the Cotswold circuit near Cirencester. The weather was set to be good all weekend which would be the only fully dry weekend of the year so far. With an entry list over 40 drivers provided 5 qualification heats of 4 rounds to determine the final line ups. The Main championship contenders were on display aiming to gain the upper hand ahead of a potential title decider in 2 weeks at Mendip. The current situation is that 3 times champion Tim Wood currently leads the way and is now aiming to better his worst score in the 6 from 9 events to count format. The remaining 2 drivers with a chance to snatch the title are Mark Green and Kyle Branson, who have missed racers due to European commitments during the year. The pre-event favourite by many was Kyle Branson who as showed consistently very fast pace throughout the season culminating in 4 TQ’s from 7 to date but with only 1 win due to bad luck in finals whilst clearly in the lead. Mark Green on the other hand was also confident of a good result this weekend.

Continue reading the report here

October 2, 2012

Giorgio de Felici wins Italian 1/10th 200mm title

The 3rd and final round of the Italian 1/10th 200mm National championships was held at the Gubbio track last weekend. The race was won by Capricorn Novarossi driver Giorgio de Felici ahead of KM Novarossi driver Dario Balestri in 2nd and Giuseppe D’angelo in 3rd driving the GiMar powered Xray. The win was enough to secure the 2012 National title for de Felici and Capricorn, the Italian company also winning the F1 class with Davide Stefanizzi and the F2 class with Generoso Mazza.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

October 2, 2012

Elliot Harper wins Polish indoor season opener

Last weekend saw the new season’s first big carpet TC race in Poland held in Michalowice, close to Warsaw. Attracting over 50 drivers, many racers used this race as good practice prior to the ETS opener later this month in Germany. In the Modified class factory Tamiya driver Elliott Harper, who came from UK especially for this event, dominated proceedings. Harper took the TQ after winning 3 from 4 qualifying heats, while behind Harper it was hard battle for the second spot between Michal Orlowski and Piotr Okonski. The second spot eventually went to Orlowski and the third to Okonski. In the finals Harper secured the overall victory when he won all 3 finals, while second place went to Orlowski and third to Okonski. In the Pro Stock class Tamiya also dominated. The overall race victory went to Blazej Chlodzinski in front of Staszek Bak, who was second, with third place going to Pawel Staszewski.

View the Pro Stock podium here

October 2, 2012

Montesinos wins Spanish finale Cabezas takes title

The last round of the Spanish championship was held in Gijon, northern Spain. With the weather forecast not good, the rain was going to be a problem. The title was still open and to be decided between 3 drivers, Nacho López (Serpent-Max-Matrix), Sergio Montesinos (Mugen Novarossi-Enneti) and Oscar Cabezas (Motonica-Novarossi-Enneti). The first 2 have have been on the podium all season, while Oscar had won the last 2 races. On Friday the drivers could not train due to the rain while on Saturday the track remained wet until the beginning of the qualifying heats, the grip improving throughout the day. The best heat was the last one which saw Oscar Cabezas take the pole position.

Continue reading the report here

October 1, 2012

Peter Jovanovic double at Australian Nationals

The Australian AARCMCC National IC titles Championships were held at the QRCCRA Brendale track in Brisbane, over 4 days last weekend. The event attracted drivers from New Zealand and locations in Australia nearly 4000 kilometres away, with nearly 100 entries in total. Timed practice was made on Thursday, with qualifying and lower finals on Friday and Saturday and finals on Sunday. In the 1/10th class Capricorn driver Peter Jovanovic started from TQ position and was never headed winning from local driver Jeff Hamon (Mugen) in 2nd and another local Jason Dorn (Xray) in 3rd. The 1/8th scale class was also won by Peter Jovanovic from TQ position, with Jeff Hamon (Mugen) again 2nd and Glenn Breugem (Mugen) in 3rd. Jeff had a better start than Peter, but Peter took the lead not long after and was never headed after that.

View the 1/8th podium here

September 29, 2012

Alexander Hagberg to use AME MBT additives

Factory Xray driver and ETS round winner Alexander Hagberg from Sweden has signed a 2 year deal with AME to use their new line of MBT Additives. Available for both carpet and asphalt Alexander had this to say about the deal:

With the AME MBT line of additives I always know that I will have the best grip possible combined with great balance which is almost more important. I can use them for all my cars at any track making it very easy for me to concentrate on driving and setup.

Source: AME [team-ame.com]

September 29, 2012

2013 DHI Cup – Announcement

The organizers of the 2013 DHI Cup have been in touch to tell us that entry for next January’s (11th to 13th) event is open on MyRCM. As in 2012 there will also be an Off-Road race run alongside the tradition touring car race in the same Arena in Odense. The classes will be Touring Car Modified and Super Stock as well as 2WD and 4WD Off-Road with the rules for all classes not completely finalised just yet.

September 26, 2012

Picco sign Rick V to factory team

Picco have announced that they have signed multiple World and European 1/8th scale finalist Rick Vrielijnck to their factory team. The Xray driver, who just recently won the Dutch National title, signed for the Italian engine firm prior to last weekend’s Dutch EFRA GP in Apeldoorn and went on to TQ, set a new track record and win the race. Rick will run the Torque line of engines in his RX8.

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]