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.

EFRA 1/10^th 2WD Off Road Euros – Finals Report
 
After completely dry qualifying for the 2WD Championship here in Pinerolo Italy, showers before the finals presented a new conundrum for all the Drivers.
 
Englands Lee Martin started from pole with Riccardo Berton a surprise 2^nd for Italy.
Leg 1 saw a textbook run from Lee winning with some ease, however in the 2^nd leg the changing surface conditions and a lack of information about the progress of the race nearly caught out the Yokomo Driver and he slowed 1 lap too early almost handing victory to Michal Orlowski., but a good piece of defensive driving saw Lee over the line to claim his 6^th European championship
 
The final leg saw a win for Schumacher and Poland’s Orlowski that enabled him to take the runner up spot in the championship.
 
The full top 10 is.

 
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

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.

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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.

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/

PETITRC was at the 2016 Speedworld cup in USA few weeks ago. We are pleased to present you our best pictures of this great moment.
PETITRC était présent à la 2016 Speddworld Cup aux Etats-Unis il y a quelques semaines. Voici un album de nos meilleurs clichés.

 

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

 

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.
 

By Tony Evdoka

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

Citation

It is honor for Hudy Arena to host European Championship in 1/10 electric TC modified & stock class from 30th June till 2nd July 2016. Save the date in your calendar and come to race with best European drivers.

The 10th Off-Road 2016 calendar dates are now available and confirmed by all clubs.

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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