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March 20, 2012

Law & Bruce take victory at FSEARA Rd5

Round 5 of the FSEARA (Florida State Electric Auto Racing Association) series took place at K-Raceway in Kissimmee, FL, the same track as the 2004 IFMAR 1/10 & 1/12 worlds. FSEARA at K-Raceway is the event that most racers are waiting for all year and George Martinez did an amazing job in getting the track ready for the weekend. Due to the fast s-turn before the straight, there were many accidents during practices and another problem racers had was overheating motors, the long back straight requiring racers to hold full throttle for 5 sec. With the Florida heat the average temperature of the motor was 200F degree.

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March 20, 2012

Ronald Volker defends German Indoor title

Last weekend saw the German Indoor touring car Nationals held in Goettingen and the event attracted around 100 drivers across three classes. Saturday saw two rounds of free practice followed by 4 rounds of qualification. Sunday morning was again one round of free practice and the final qualifier. It was Yokomo/LRP driver Ronald Völker who would secure the TQ spot, followed closely by Awesomatix/LRP driver Freddy Südhoff and Yokomo/SP driver Yannic Prümper. Ronald Völker would go on to take the win in A-Main leg one and two and successfully defend his German National title. The last final went to Freddy Südhoff, which secured him the Vice German Champion title. For overall third place there was a close battle between new Yokomo driver Dominik Fleischmann and Yannic Prümper. Both had great battles but in the Final leg Yannic made a mistake and broke his car, giving Dominik the third place overall.

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March 19, 2012

Jefferies completes 1/12th National double

At the final round of this season’s BRCA 1:12 national championship a win for Olly Jefferies saw the Associated team driver take the stock title, he adds this to the modified crown he secured at the previous round. In qualifying on Saturday Jefferies kept up his perfect record of TQ at every round of the stock series by taking pole for the A final, behind Olly was a strong field of challengers including Andy Griffiths for V Design and the Serpent paring of Mark Stiles and Chris Kerswell and the only person who could beat Olly to the stock title David Spashett.

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March 16, 2012

2012 Reedy International TC Race of Champions

What started out many years ago as Mike Reedy’s vision to showcase the top drivers in the world in a format unlike any other ever used in RC racing, has grown to be one of the most anticipated and prestigious RC races anywhere in the world. Reedy and Team Associated are proud to announce that the 2012 Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions will return to Norcal Hobbies in Union City, CA from May 24th to 27th. In addition to the Invitational class, three Open classes will be offered – Modified,13.5 non-ramping, and 17.5 non-ramping. Each Open class driver is limited to a maximum of two classes. More details can be found here.

March 15, 2012

Oscar Cabezas renews Enneti Tyres deal

Former multiple Spanish national Champion Oscar Cabezas has announced that he has renewed his contract with Enneti Tyres for the 2012 season. Oscar will run the company’s tires on his factory Motonica/Novarossi throughout this season’s National and International campaign.

Source: Enneti [enneti-tyres.it]

March 14, 2012

Contact Tyres breaking records in testing

Contact Tyres got in touch to tell us their drivers Dario Balestri, Simon Kurzbuch and Kyle Branson are in Italy this week testing at the famous Cassino track. The guys are putting in important mileage ready for the new season and so far things are looking good. Dario Balestri already made a new track record of 13.050 compared to the previous best seen at the track of 13.222 by Lamberto Collari. The guys will continue testing to provide better products throughout the week.

Source: Contact [racing-cars.com]

March 14, 2012

Paul Pinkney take EWS winter series title

Schumacher’s Paul Pinkney has caped off his fine UK indoor season with a second championship victory. Paul and Schumacher’s Ashley Wiffen have been on regular top spots at the EWS winter series winning several of the rounds. The final race this last weekend saw a win for Ash and a third place for Paul with their Mi4CXL’s which was enough to give Paul the overall championship victory.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

March 13, 2012

Martin Crisp takes Canadian On-Road Champs

Last weekend was the annual Canadian On-Road Championships which is uniquely held in a shopping mall with the intent of further exposing the hobby to hopefully attract more drivers. Martin Crisp filed this report. “This event was put on by a longtime friend of mine, Mark Frechette, and has been growing year over year. The space limitations of the mall meant the track would be small and technical, but I have always like technical tracks. Even though this is a Canadian Championship race we had some fast USA drivers like Mike Haynes, Dave Johnson and others join us to make this a bit of a Can-Am challenge. The small track and driver line-up made for some great qualifying and racing.

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