The new 2017/18 season of the popular Silverstone Winter Series kicked off with another full entry at the fantastic Moulton College venue.
With many of the UK's top drivers in attendance the racing was fast and competitive.

In the biggest 2WD class Greg Williams led home Danny McGee for a Schumacher KC 1-2, after a couple of mistakes from pole man Ellis Stafford, and William Venables made it up to 3rd, from 9th on the grid.

Lee Martin secured a dominant TQ and win for Yokomo in 4WD, from James Harrold and Connor Cocker.
Richard Miller won the truck class from Daniel Gardner and Russell Lee.

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1 – Lee Martin – United Kingdom
2- Michal Orlaowski – Poland
3- Renaud Savoya – France
4- Riccardo Berton – Italy
5- Joona Haatanen – Finland
6- Hupo Honigl – Austria
7 – Neil Cragg – United Kingdom
8 – Martin Bayer – Czech Republic
9- Davide Ongaro – Italy
10 – Daniel Kobbevik - Norway

Sent by EFRA

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The 2nd round of Jakarta EP Regional Rd.2 was held at Sunter International Speedway, Jakarta. A clear sunny weather attracted the racers all day ( 38 degree celcius in qualifying ). Completed with a dusty track condition made the traction was celearly low, while some racers had a problem with overheated-tires over 5 mins.

 

Q1 : Suwardi Suliandy was in a quickest pace, narrowly haunted by Bowie by 0.7 secs, until Suwardi made a mistake which allowed Bowie for a 1 sec lead until the end of Q1.

Q2 : Bowie cruised a comfortable 4 secs lead to wrap the TQ, over Suwardi and Christian Mamesah.

Q3 : Traction went lower, Bowie wroll his car at the first lap and decide to pull out. Ronny Suwarto sealed the Q3 TQ to lined up 2nd at the grid. 

 

A Main 1 : Christian made an enormous start from 4th to 2nd, which later chased Bowie in the lead until he made a mistake, which gave Bowie a 3 secs win ahead him and Malaysian' Michael Lo

A Main 2 : Again, Christian would climbed up to 2nd, thanks to an error from Suwardi and Ronny at the beginning of the start. Bowie cruised a 6 secs win from Christian and Ronn.

A Main 3 : Already made it 2 out of 2, I decide to made a major setup change to try. It's going worse since it sacrificed the rear-end, yet no steering at all. Christian would passed Ronny

and later easily passed me for a 3rd leg win, which handed him 2nd overall. 

 

Another 1-2 finish for Serpent Project 4X, next race going to be 1/8 GT National Race Rd.4 this week !

 

 

A Main Result :

1. Bowie Ginting - Serpent/Hobbywing

2. Christian Mamesah - Serpent/Hobbywing

3. Ronny Suwarto - Xray/Orca

4. Michael Lo - Awesomatix/Orca

5. Peter Anthonijsz - Awesomatix/Orca

6. Arya Seta - Serpent/Hobbywing

7. Denny Pangestu- Xray/Orca

8. Suwardi Suliandy- Xray/Orca

9. Chandra Yosef - Awesomatix/Orca

10. Deny Rusli - Xray/Hobbywing

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Report of the race from Jorn Neumann:

Last weekend I attended the Lyon GP for the first time. I must say it was one of the best carpet tracks I ever raced on. It was very technical and had maximum traction. Really challenging for driver and the material. 

On Saturday it was only 2WD, with 2 Rounds practice, followed by 3 Qualifications and 2 8min mains. After qualifying I found myself in the 3rd position with the brand new Serpent SRX2 MH. A1 was good until the last couple were I just was unlucky, but still finished 3rd. A2 and still the podium was wide open. After a couple laps I could take the lead with a decent gap to 2nd place and cruise to the end to take the overall win!

Sunday and it was 4WD time. This time with the new Serpent SDX4. After practice I was 4th, I needed to find some more consistency as on one lap I was right there. We made some small changes and improved my 5min pace, just unlucky again as a marshall run on the track and hit my car. Q3 was better and I made a safe run to secure 4th on the grid for this time three 5min A-mains. 

A1 was a close race between Bayer, Wollanka and me, I finished 3rd just 1.5sec behind. A2 Again a really close race. I was up to 2nd behind Wollanka with just a couple laps to go, but hit a dot and spun out. Finished 2nd just 0.9sec behind.

A3 I got a good start and could overtake Lee Martin after a couple laps. I tried to push hard to catch Bayer, but it was too much and I had a couple of mistakes which put me down. Overall I finished 3rd. 

Two times podium was a great achievement. Thanks to all my sponsors.

Serpent Maxima TeamOrion Proline Arrowmax Kpower Stickit1 Muchmore

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Another brilliant event was held at the Schumacher Indoor Masters round 4 at Worksop this past weekend. 

There were 14 heats of entries across the 2 classes of 2wd and 4wd buggy. Once again a huge entry for an event.

This time the Worksop track crew had designed a very fast and flowing circuit, so lap times were going to be pretty quick!

Doors opened at the venue at 7AM and there was a huge flow of people entering the sports arena. Many racers keen to get back racing at the venue as we hadn't been able to have an event here since November, this due to the Christmas Holidays. Many drivers had nice new shiny kit to use that they had received for Christmas presents.

As always the qualifying format was round by round, with the best 2 results to count towards the final and grid position.

It was Danny McGee on form in 4wd qualifying, just ahead of Jack Neal and James Helliwell.

In 2wd it was very close between Neil Cragg and Danny McGee all day, with both drivers taking 2 round TQ's each, but Neil having the faster time which would see him line up on pole position. Adam Perei drove superb and would line up a brilliant 3rd on the grid.

4wd A Final

1 Danny McGee
2 James Helliwell
3 Jack Neal
4 Billy Fletcher
5 Craig Collinson
6 Allan O Brien
7 Mark Fletcher
8 Richard Lowe
9 Ben Jemison
10 Karl Marsden
11 Steven Pierce

 
2wd A Final

1 Neil Cragg
2 Adam Perei
3 Mitchell Fiddling
4 Craig Collinson
5 Danny McGee
6 James Helliwell
7 James Hart
8 Allan O Brien
9 Karl Marsden
10 Mark Fletcher
11 Richard Lowe

The Series now moves on to round 5 on Sunday 29th January.

Limited spaces still available in both classes, please get booked in if you haven't already done so and would like to race.

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PETITRC was also present at the 2016 TOP GUN at Norcal Hobbies. Some great pictures with a great race!
PETITRC était présent sur une nouvelle course aux USA, version TT. De belles photos à découvrir....


Album: https://petitrc.smugmug.com/Norcal-Hobbies-2016-Top-Gun/

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Album : https://petitrc.smugmug.com/2016-SpeedWorld-Cup

 

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Last weekend was the end of year Juniors and Vets Championships.
Many top quality drivers compete at these events.  Some of the superstars of today actually did these events for years.
Those guys are now all older and the Vets have become a tough competition to win. 
New Juniors are coming through and they are super quick too. 
Well I am not Junior so it was the Veterans class for me.  To compete here one will need all their knowledge, skills and a lot more as everyone is experienced and know what to do.
The event was held at Burry Metro just above Manchester.  An all Astro track with jumps, camber corners and very technical to get right.  A 500 mile round trip for me and I have never raced at this track before.   Weather conditions were awful all weekend.  Rain rain, wind wind and a continuous bombardment of horrid weather. 
The 2wd event held on the Saturday and the 4wd on the Sunday.
2wd
My 2wd car was super good all day.  As it tried to dry out it was super competitive and I was using the laydown transmission soon available from Serpent.  Superb forward traction.  While I was also racing I was constantly testing like I do these days and I was running my car super light at 1520g all up.  Very agile and managed to make the main A final easily.  I wasn’t quick enough for the win but was in contention all the way in the finals.  Enjoyed 2wd very much and TQed the V50 class and Won and retained the 2wd title for another year.
4wd
I had some advice from one of our local Serpent guys that runs the SRX4 here and some changes were necessary.  Car was also very good in the Yuk weather conditions.  Track was drying out quick through the day as the rain eased off.  Unfortunately that took my advantage away and was not able to complete for a win today.  Took the TQ and Win for the V50 class again though and once again double V50 champ for the UK.
 

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The 2016 European Championships where held in Valladolid, Spain. It was a dirt track and the jumps where covered by astroturf. After the warm up race the club removed the stone parts of the track and filled it with dirt. It made the track much better for 1/10Electric racing then before.

Monday started with 7 Rounds of free practice. My Team Orion powered Serpent was great and only needed some small tweaks due the hot tempratures, after practice I was 2nd. Tuesday were another 2 Rounds of controlled practice and 3 Rounds of qualifying. I was able to TQ the 1st Round, 2nd in Round 2 and another TQ in the 3rd Round. That gave me the overnight TQ going into the finals day on wednesday. I could TQ the 4th Round, but Neil Cragg got the 5th Round and was 0.1sec faster then my time and I was only 2nd Overall.

The finals. A1 I had a good start but, 3rd place driver tried to pass me but we crashed. I fall back to 3rd, but worked my way back up to 2nd.

A2 This time I was very close to Neil after the start and I could follow him around closly until he made a mistake over the triple, which gave me the lead. I never looked back and took the leg victory.

A3 The deciding leg. A clean start and I was again close at Neil´s back, I tried to follow him again. After the bridge, I had slighlty more speed, but it was no room to try a pass on Neil, so I decided to brake harder that we not crash, but unfortunately I braked to hard and spun out. After that I had no chance to take the win anymore. Overall I finished 2nd place in 2WD with the new version Serpent Spyder SRX2.

4WD again 7 Rounds of free practice. My car was very good for a 5min run. Overall after practice where the best 2 laps counted I was 5th. Going into qualifying on Friday I was very confident with my hole package. In Round 1 I got a 2nd place, Round 2 a 5th place and 4th in Round 3. Overall I was 3rd after 3 Rounds. 

I had more pace in my package then this, but always small issues held me back.

On Saturday, the day started out good with a 2nd place in Round 4 and a 3rd in Round 5. Overall I stayed in 3rd place.

A1 I should started in 3rd, but as the others had issues before the start 3rd was actually the TQ spot. I was able to build a gap to the others over the first couple laps and take the win.

A2 I had a few small mistakes over the run and finished 2nd place. Which already secured a podium spot.

A3 I knew I needed to win this final to take the Overall victory. I had a very good start and could pass Neil on the second corner. After that I was right at the back of Bruno for a coupe of laps until I passed him on the inside before the chicane. Bruno made an error and fall back to 4th. I had a 3 seconds lead over Neil with 2 min to go. I knew I just need to keep it on the wheels and I would take the 4WD European Title. That was exactly what happend and I was crowned the new 4WD European Champion after coming so close in 2WD.   My Serpent Spyder SDX4  shaftdrive production prototype worked very well !!  

Team Orion (Speedo, Motor, batteries)

Proline (Tires)

K-Power (Servos)

Arrowmax (Best looking tools)

Muchmore (accessoires) 

Stickit1 (shirts and decals)

WTF (cooling fan´s)

Maxima

2-Speed

Mit freundlichen Grüßen 

Jörn Neumann

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Starting with the British Open Championships in February, then 6 exciting National weekend events with a new club hosting a National, its exciting times.
Also the end of season final events have been reformed to now hold the Juniors and Vets together in holiday August time.
The F2 and F3/4/5s will now be held on the same day and run as separate events called the Formula Championships.
No special time off needed for the Juniors so get them all booked in and with the growing class of the Vets, they can compete at the F2s too.  Great stuff happening in 2016.

Who’s your favourite!!

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En categorie Stock et Modifie soit 16 pilotes Francais engages :

En Modifie : Manuel Wagner, Thomas Vigneron, Cyril N'Diaye, Loic Jasmin et Jeremy Limoges

En Stock : Rudy Amaral, Yoan Bukowski, Aurelien Rivard, Jeremy Delalondre, Steeve Favrelle, David Jeffard

Pierre et Jean Delorme, Jean Pierre Rabbe, Widy Gimard et sans oublier notre Team Manger Julien Jost

Les essais, qualifs et finales sur myrcm : http://www.myrcm.ch/myrcm/main?pLa=fr&hId[1]=com&dId[E]=22192

...........Prendre le lien de la course ecrit en majuscule dans la liste des courses a venir........

N'hesitez pas a nous suivre, et faire des encouragements,

Merci et a bientot

The team at Robin Hood Raceway are delighted to announce we will be hosting the

EFRA 2015 1/10th Off-Road European Championships at our clay track -

RHRDirt in Nottinghamshire, England, UK.

PROVISIONAL dates: Warmup: 19-21st June, Euros 3-8th August

Robin Hood Raceway is located centrally within the UK and has excellent access from the road, train and air networks.

The site has been in use for off-road model car racing since 1989. It consists of a 1,100 square metre astroturf track and a 900 square metre pure blue clay track. The 4.5 acre site offers a large, flat grass area suitable for car parking, camping and caravans or motorhomes.

Permanent race controls, storage, toilet facilities, rostrums, grandstands and café are all present.

Robin Hood Raceway/RHRDirt is run in partnership with York Off-Road Car Club, a popular club with highly experienced members. We have successfully staged several of the UK's biggest 10th Off-Road meetings.

http://www.uk2015.com/

Le dimanche 14 avril avait eu lieu la première course de la catègorie Vintage rc Trans Am sur le circuit de Grayan l'hôpital (33)

cette catègorie que nous avons créer est une reprise du réglement USVTA quelques modifications a été apportés au niveau moteur

et durée de course...

facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trans-Am-RC-Vintage-French-Series/389407577821100

beau temps sur le medoc temperature 24°

8 participants pour la première

les qualifications étaients très serrés et de belles bagarres en perspective pour les finales qui se courraient sur 12 minutes

les pilotes étaient ravis de cette première:=):

(aucune casse, moteur tiede après 12 m)

Rendez vous le 12 Mai à Grayan pour la seconde

voici une video de la journée

Thank you for your entry. Here is some general info about our 2015 race.

TRACK

The MBV track is situated in a public park behind school buildings.

Address: Park van Relst, Aarschotsebaan 128, 1910 Kampenhout (Relst).

The track has an astroturf surface. Jumps? Oh yes, a 90° table top, whoops, a ski-iiii jump, a fabulous “wall of death”, two cobble stone sections, a tricky off camber turn, …

Special feature: unique underground drainage worth seeing. Drainage holes and pipes under the track lead to one collector on the lowest point.

The rostrum along the straight is more than 2 m high. Lap counting is installed underneath.

On the parking area right next to the track tents will be put up for pitting. Some drivers prefer pitting in the camping area which is also close to the track.

An average lap is between 27 and 29 seconds. Highest grip when the track has dried after it rained, slippery when wet. Prolonged dry weather results in slightly slower lap times.

Yes, we know all that, but what changes did Willy made this year?

The main jump has been moved to the “hoechelenkant”. The wooden washboard is in wood heaven now. The wall is covered with thicker astro. And really new is the flexy fence all around the track.

CONTROL TYRE

Schumacher Mini Spike 2, all types, all compounds for the driven axles.

Additionally for the 4WD front wheels the Schumacher Wide Stagger Rib (all compounds) will be allowed.

Cut and shut not allowed.

Recommended compound for dry weather: yellow .

Recommended compound for wet weather: silver.

BATTERIES

LiPo: 7,4 Volt originally hard cased LiPo’s.

Use and charge according to manufacturer’s instructions. Liposack recommended for charging.

Charge regime CC/CV, maximum allowed voltage setting on charger: 8.40 V or 2S.

MOTOR

No motor limit, brushless (to EFRA specifications) allowed.

MINIMUM WEIGHT

2wd 1474 g,

4wd 1588 g

TIMING

Friday: registration and free practice,

Saturday: 8 heats 2wd

Sunday: 7 heats 4wd

Timetable and briefing will be sent the week before the race.

4 qualifying rounds and 3 finals for everyone

race duration 5 minutes

round by round qualifying, 2 best to count.

RC4 decoder (hand out RC4 PT available if needed). MRT transponders probably won’t be fully compatible with an RC4 decoder.

HOTEL AND CAMPING info:

You can search for hotels near Brussels, Leuven or Mechelen.

Camping Veronique is only 3,5 km from the track:

http://www.kampeerverblijfparkveronique.be/

Camping Trianon Hever, 8 km from track:

http://www.upps.at/main/business.php?hotel_id=547&z=6〈=en&seite=1&class=1&cook_land=41

Camping in the park (3 euros per person) during the event is exceptionally allowed by the Council from Wednesday on and at own risk. The park is not a fitted camp site, there are no showers (only showers provided by nature), limited 220V from Friday on. You can bring a generator but use it wisely at night. Keep outer road free. Do not leave valuables within grabbing reach. And don’t count on quiet evenings, especially on Saturday night there will be loud music in the big party tent.

This is a link to the local festivities: http://www.parkvanrelst.be/activiteiten/2015/Parkfeesten%202015/parkfeesten2015.html

Type of electrical sockets used in Belgium: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/CEE_7-7.jpg or search Google for: CEE 7/7

Power 220V supplied in the pits. In the camping area there will be one centralized multi socket, so bring your own good quality extension lead.

If for some reason you cannot attend the meeting, please let us know as soon as possible, as there are still drivers on the waiting list.

See you soon,

Willy & Liliane,

MBV Kampenhout.

www.mbv.be

The first round of the Austrian Nationals 1/10 Offroad was held on the very old-school style track of

the SMRC Vienna - it was super slippery, bumpy and dusty, but the track layout itself was good fun with

a lot of difficult sections and a lot of elevation changes.

According Hupo Hönigl:

I was able to TQ both classes and also win both classes on my first outdoor races with the Spyders.

Christian Lanzl, local Serpent driver qualified 2nd with his Spyder MM and challanged me for the win pretty hard,

unfortunately he got taken out and had some bad luck and finished just missing the podium in 4th.

The first BRCA Off-Road National of the season took place at Robin Hood Raceway over the weekend. A full complement of drivers were greeted by a well prepped track and though the weather started wet, windy and cold the sun did at least appear once qualifying started on Saturday. For the 2WD event the all Astroturf track was a mixture of quick open corners with some really testing jumps and adverse camber sections. Grip was good and remained consistent once the track had dried. The defending champion Darren Bloomfield wasn’t in attendance, but the rest of the usual suspects were and competition was as tight as expected.

It was Neil Cragg that took pole position after a fabulous last round performance to just pip Lee Martin with Nathan Waters lining up third. The finals saw a cracking display of racing from the top two who proved to be a step quicker than the rest. Lee took the first leg after a mistake from Neil, with the latter making amends in leg two driving to a well controlled victory. The final leg was nip and tuck all the way with a definitive passing move from Lee flying out of the whoops to go around Neil into the banking. This was enough for the leg win and with it overall victory.

Result – 2WD

1. Lee Martin – Yokomo

2. Neil Cragg – Team Associated

3. Tom Cockerill – Yokomo

4. Nathan Waters – Schumacher

5. Tom Yardy – Yokomo

6. Simon Moss – Schumacher

7. Craig Collinson – Team C

8. Ben Jemison – Schumacher

9. Greg Williams – Team Associated

10. Kevin Lee – Team C

The weather for the 4WD event was still super windy with most of those pitting in gazebos moving into the relative safety of the huge communal marquee the RHR crew put on for the racers each year. The track layout was vastly different in shape, but saw the same mix of quick corners with various quirky features thrown in. Form was the same as 2WD with Neil Cragg and Lee Martin clearly ahead of the rest and although Lee closed the gap during the first three rounds, Neil was quickest in all of them to secure pole position with one round still to go. Just as well as the rain arrived halfway through the final round to really mix things up. The finals again were all about Neil and Lee, with Neil taking the first leg and Lee the second after some great nose to tail racing. The final leg was a fitting end to the season opener with Neil initially holding the advantage, but he made one tiny error which meant a missed apex and this was enough for Lee to pounce and dive through into the lead. With no errors from Lee it was all over as he took the leg and overall win.

Result – 4WD

1. Lee Martin – Yokomo

2. Neil Cragg -Team Associated

3. Tom Cockerill – Yokomo

4. Kevin Lee – Team C

5. Craig Collinson – Team C

6. Ellis Stafford – TLR

7. Richard Lowe – HB

8. Simon Moss – Schumacher

9. Tom Yardy – Team Associated

10. Danny McGee – Schumacher

Source: RC Racer

Dès avant le départ j'avais une mauvaise appréhension , Nico lui étais bien chaud , pressé dans découdre .

La semaine précédent le départ il avais bien préparé les voitures , juste pour s'assurer de ne pas avoir de problème , du style qui te pourrissent le week-end .

Malheureusement cette fois Notre ami Raphael ne peut nous accompagner , dommage , c'est une bonne dose de rigolade qui va nous manquer .

Mercredi soir , petit passage chez mes parents à Bruxelles , on en profite pour jouer l'incruste et souper.

Déja 21 heures , demain on démarre tôt et il nous reste encore quelques affaires à préparer.

On rejoint la BM et la , clic clic plus de démarreur , fait ***** ça commence fort .

Trop juste pour trouver un plan B , on va devoir faire avec . En espérant ne pas devoir pousser trop souvent . ( Ici aussi je me dis que Raph va nous manquer lol)

Bon 9 heures du mat , on démarre , enfin la bm démarre et let's go .

10 kilomètres et déja premier ralentissement , ça commence bien .

930 kilomètres à faire , on y va à son aise ; les essais c'est seulement pour demain vendredi donc on prend du temps .Les 500 premiers km se passent bien , Nico va prendre le relais . Les 400 km se passent bien , Nico aime les autoroutes allemandes , le surveille le compteur du coin de l'oeil.

130 , 135 , 150 , 160 , 170 , ben tiens ici c'est gratos alors autant en profiter .

Nous approchons de la frontière autrichienne , nous nous arrêtons pour refaire le plein et aussi acheter la fameuse vignette autoroutière , bon c'est quand même moins cher que les payages français . 8.7 euros pour 10 jours ; ça reste correct.

Nous prenons bien soin de ne pas arrêter le moteur ; arrêt pipi , pause café. et re-départ .

Alors que nous sommes sur la bretelles qui nous ramène vers l'autoroute je vois une BMW X3 garée au millieu du terre-plein , bizarre.

Quelques kilomètres et voila près d'une sortie une autre X3 garée en vrac.........curieux ça dois être les flics à la recherche de méchants terroristes.

Nous nous éloignons et je surveille la x3 dans le rétro.......shit elle viens de démarrer et rejoint la file de véhicule.

Deux voitures nous sépare, je vois un petit coup de gyrophare , une des voitures se rabat, rebelote la seconde change de file et j'en fait de même.

Le X3 nous dépasse , je fait mine de ne rien remarquer , purée il se met devant moi et apparait en lettre géante un panneau LED POLIZEI et une autre phrase que je traduis par......POLICE vous allez l'avoir dans le fion.

Nos nouveaux amis nous guident vers un parking , waw quel comité d'acceuil , au moins 50 flics .

Un des gus s'approche et baraguine un truc que je comprend pas .Je lui dis , Français , ANglais......il me répond en anglais........coupez le moteur ARffffffffje sent bien que je ne vais pas me faire un ami ..........je regarde au allentour.........mouai 50 poulets.......ils l'auront bien cherchés , si titine ne redémarre pas , au moins j'aurai de la main d'oeuvre ..........pour pousser .