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May 16, 2010

Adrian Bernsten wins Rd1 of Norwegian Nats

Adrian Bernsten sent us a report from the first race of the Norwegian National Outdoor Series that was held last weekend in Spydeberg on Spydeberg Raceways beautiful facility. The practice started already on Friday, with 26 drivers present at the track. Throughout the practice it was me that could set the fastest lap times, with Helge Johannesen and my uncle Stig Berntsen closely behind. I had a good feeling before the race, since I’ve had a lot of practice there and have been the fastest. On Saturday we could also have some testing before the race, but then I got big radio problems. This continued on the first 2 qualification rounds as well, without finding out what the problem was. So before the 3rd and last qualification rounds we changed the receiver and created a new module on my radio. The problem was solved and I could drive my only, and the last qualification round without any problems. I also put the TQ run, with 7 seconds in front of Tom Erik Haaversen which claimed the 2nd spot, with Georg Ellingsen in 3rd and with Helge Johannesen claiming the last place to go directly to the main final.

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May 16, 2010

Grainger heads qualfiying at BRCA TC Rd1

The 2010 BRCA touring car nationals kicked off yesterday with day one of the Mendip national. Practice was followed by three rounds of qualifying with drivers counting their best three scores on a round by round basis. Defending champion and new dad Chris Grainger got off to a good start and the Schumacher driver holds the overnight lead in the modified class ahead of former World Champion Andy Moore for Hot Bodies in 2nd.

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May 15, 2010

1/10th Euro ‘B’ pole position for Mathieu Wullyamoz

Qualifying is over the 2010 European 1/10th scale 200mm ‘B’ Championships in Lostallo, Switzerland and it is French driver Mathieu Wullyamoz that will start tomorrow’s 45 minute main final on pole position. Despite a mostly dry track all day the conditions changed a lot throughout the final 3 qualifying rounds with a lot of drivers improving their times in the last 2 runs of the day.

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May 14, 2010

Manuel Singer on overnight pole at 1/10th Euro ‘B’

With practice now over at the rain affected European 1/10th scale 200mm ‘B’ Championships in Lostallo Switzerland, a lot of drivers have had less than 30 minutes track time on this demanding track due to the weather before qualifying got underway. Friday’s action went better for the 110 drivers who got some dry track running and many were surprised that it had maintained its grip level despite it having been so wet the previous days.

UPDATED: With full gallery from Friday.

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May 14, 2010

ISTC Worlds Warmup – Announcement

To all those drivers interested in getting some track time at this year’s Touring car World Championship track in Burgdorf, Germany, the track are hosting a Pre Worlds from the 28th to the 30th of May. Having already attracted entries from the top European drivers, there will also be 3 World Champions from Japan present, including Atsushi Hara, Naoto Matsukura and Hayato Matsuaki. The entry form is available on the official site here.

May 14, 2010

Sandro Sammarini wins Trofeo Mugen Seiki

Last weekend the Trophy Mugen Seiki race took place at the Riccione track in the centre of Italy. Qualifying in the 1/8th scale category saw the pole position go to Alessandro Bracci, ahead of Michele Romagnoli, Sandro Sammarini and Paolo Maggioli completing the top 4. In the final it was a clear win for young Serpent driver Sandro Sammarini by 3 laps ahead of Manuel Tordi in 2nd and pole man Alessandro Bracci taking the final podium step in 3rd.

Source: Road Race Riccione [roadracericcione.com]

May 14, 2010

Olivier Bultynck dominates Mod at Belgian Rd3

Having covered the super stock class at the third round of the Belgian Nationals in Zwevegem, we now have the modified class report. In the EFRA class it was Olivier Bultynck who took the pole in front of Thomas Stockman and Manuel Henriet. In the first final, Olivier took a clean start and the lead with Stockman and Henriet following. Olivier was very fast and Thomas tried to follow but made a mistake that allowed Manuel to take over he chase but Olivier was gone. The battle for second place was hard and fair and saw Manuel also make a mistake. It was Rico Claeys who drove as second for a little while but Nick Joosens came back and took second place away from Rico. But Thomas was fighting back and overtook Nick. Olivier was far in front and took the win in front of Thomas and Nick.

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May 13, 2010

Euros 200mm B practice update

With the EFRA European ‘B Championships getting underway this week at the beautiful Lostallo track in Switzerland, we received this brief practice update. Wednesday saw most of the drivers present but the track was still wet until the afternoon. Already a few drivers were getting their first laps on the wet track and from 4 o’clock the track was completely dry. From that point on, most of the drivers couldn’t wait to get their first laps in on the large MRTM track. Even though it rained all Tuesday the grip was pretty good and fast laps were being put on the score board. Setting those quickest laps were Quentin Leroux, Thomas Gunsel, Mathieu Wolyarmoz, Joe Kerry and Traugott Schar, all running laptimes under 22 seconds. Just as soon as it dried, it rained again and practice for Wednesday was over. We will be bringing you reports from the track throughout the weekend up until the finals on Sunday so stay tuned.

Thanks to Remy Moller for this update.