RCSnaps were present for the 4th Round of the TYRO Nationals this time at Swindon RC Model Car Club. The track was great and the meeting was well run thanks to the people at Swindon Model Car Club and also Glyn Morgan (TYRO Chairman). A race report will hopefully be available soon but for the moment there is a link to the detailed results and the photos of the day. The top 3 in the A final were:

1: Greg Hill 50/1815.83
2: Lee Bunker 49/1829.97
3: Keith Robertson 48/1802.90c

Detailed results can be found here…

Photos of the event can be found here…

Novarossi Raceway were pleased to announce recently that their long awaited Dirt Track was finally completed! All that was needed was a bit of rain to make sure it was in top condition. The rain indeed came. However it did not stop throughout the week so unfortunately the track was too wet and it was decided that the meeting was best run on the Astro Track, to some people’s disappointment. However, their spirits were lifted when it was announced that the Dirt Track would be open at the end of the day!

Glen Lindsey managed to TQ and win the truggy class with a result of 32/20m 28.92 followed by Nigel Ellis with a result of  28/20m 41.36 and in 3rd Chris Fuller with 27/19m 53.69. David Spashett took TQ in the buggy class and after a great start he never looked back and led for the whole race. He managed to get 34/20m 19.64 a whole 3 laps infront of 2nd Darren Hayden-Ball with 31/20m 19.00 who finished a lap infront of 3rd place Pete Stevens 30/20m 17.68.

The Dirt Track certainly did not disappoint. The track is run in an anti-clockwise direction and the jumps are similar in style to those of DXR. It flowed very well and every one seemed to love it. Comments were made such as “wow” and “cool”. It was so good a couple of drivers even risked run aways going out on battery packs that had done 2 or 3 finals!

Detailed results can be found here…

Photos of the event can be found here…

It was the 2nd round of SRS and 4th round of the summer series. Upon arrival the first change I noticed straight away was the new jump which had been created where the old tabletop used to be and WOW it had some profile on it. During drivers briefing Tony B had informed us that the track had already had over 250 drivers on it in the last 21 days due to holding the two national events but the track looked ok.

It was a fairly good turn out what with it being Euros weekend, 28 truggies and 32 buggies. There were 4 rounds of qualifying with your best two scores to count. Jon Wolfe (XRay) took TQ in the Buggies while Clanfields own Simon Freeman (Losi) took the TQ in the Truggy class. Read more…

We drove the ferry onto French soil and the first thing I had to ask Mike was… Which side of the road do you overtake on?

After 4 hours driving 30 minutes that was not needed but that’s what happens when you follow Mike Cradock’s Sat Nav (or shall I say T%@T NAV) we arrived at our hotel. I managed to get a quick nap before my alarm was waking me up again ready for our first look at the track.

After a quick stop at FDL France and a very interesting look at the brand new MP9 very close up (I did ask myself several times if I could make it outside the door with it) We arrived at the track and my breath was taken back Read more…

The 3rd round of the TYRO Buggy Nationals was held at DRT (Dartford Race Track) in the South East of England, again some of the competitors who have entered would not have looked out of place at the BRCA ‘A’ Buggy Nationals it was almost guaranteed that this would be another successful and exciting meeting! Marc Knight secured TQ closely followed by Keith Robertson and Jess Saunders who now was sporting a HoBao covered in JQProducts upgrades. Marc, Keith and Jess were all fighting for 1st 2nd and 3rd for the 1st half of the race with Keith Robertson edging ahead of the battle that Marc and Jess were having until lap 21 Read more…

RCSnaps managed to get some photos of the 2nd round of the TYRO Nationals. This round was held at Grantham A1 Racing Club up in Lincolnshire which meant a trip up either the day before or a very early wake up for us lot down south! A full report of the event will hopefully be available soon but until then the results are:

1: Jim Davis 41/1810.97
2: Marc Knight 41/1821.64
3: Scott Micheal 39/1824.50

Detailed results can be found here…

Photos of the event can be found here…

On arrival to the track my first impressions was that it did not look as big as it does in the photos. The track has very long straights and there were several of these so came the first dilemma for drivers, what clutch bell to use?

Sunday morning and there was to be one round of practice followed by 3 rounds off 5 five minute heats with the best two to count. The weather was very up and down, it had been raining on and off since 2am and although the sun was out the skies were black in front of us. Most drivers opted to go out on their first run on the famous Angle spikes with slight differences being which way round they were mounted.

After round 1 most of the problem free drivers had put in medium fast 7 lappers with 10 of the top drivers getting the famous 8 lappers. Round 2 and the pretty Read more…

Novarossi raceway held a five hour endurance on the 30th of march. The 12 teams that had entered were each given there own Novarossi N21B 2001BF which had been kindly donated at a reduced cost by Horizon Hobby UK . The teams were given a hour to run the engine in and then the 5 hour endurance began! After the 5 hours the results were in and the top team get there prizes, the top 3 teams are as followed:
1st: Team Tosi with 367 Laps
2nd: Essex Boy Racers with 362 Laps
3rd: Up North with 356 Laps

Photos of the event can be found here…

Earlier we posted photos from the recent 2nd Annual Novarossi GP, these can be found here… Horizon Hobby UK have writen a report which can be found here, you can click Read more… to see the complete report!

The second annual Novarossi GP was held over the weekend of the 6th and 7th of October at the Novarossi Raceway in Essex. The event was arguably the biggest one eighth off road event in the UK during 2007and played host to some of the best drivers from the UK, Europe and America. From Europe came Joern Neuman and his pitman Gerd Strenge from Serpent and from Sweden Lars Nordin attended with a string team that included Robert Gustafson and Henrik Nilsson. Making the trip from from Losi in America was Adam Drake and Mike Truhe. Read more…

The 2nd Annual Novarossi GP was held in 2007 at the Novarossi Raceway with some of the greatest drivers from all over the world and some of the greatest drivers from here in the UK and also from around the world!

Detailed results can be found here…

Photos of the event can be found here…