Round 4 of the Schumacher BTCC series took place last weekend at the superb Cotswolds track. With a lot of racers present to avail of the track time ahead of the next round of the Nationals, it was Associated driver Olly Jefferies that took the pole position spot in the Modified class. In the A final Olly continued his domination, taking two straight wins ahead to take the overall win ahead of the Tamiya pairing of Chris Kerswell and Glen Doman in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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Titanium Racing release a new range of pinions designed specifically for modern brushless motors. Featuring a longer but lightened boss for improved concentricity and an advanced F1 motorsport ceramic polymer coating for incredibly low friction, the pinion has 60% lower friction than that of hard anodized pinions. Manufactured from ultrasonically tested aero-grade 7075T-6 alloy, these claim to represent a giant leap in pinion gear technology. Tested on all modern touring cars, with all of the popular spurs, they run virtually silently. Available in both 48P and 64P.

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Titanium Racing Low Friction pinions

The 2nd round of the Spanish 1/8th scale National series was held earlier this month at the Club Autet Track in Almussafes, host of last years 1/8th scale European Championships. Once again the race saw 70 drivers registered and the hot sunny weather let the drivers enjoy a nice racing weekend. Following qualifying Oscar Cabezas got the TQ spot followed by local driver Nacho López, current Champion Josué Artiles and Sergio Montesinos. In the final Josué Artiles made a great start and overtook Óscar Cabezas, who was running with big tires so as to not have to change, and in the very first laps set a pace that no one else could follow and so could take the win from Cabezas. There was an interesting fight for the third place involving three drivers, which finally went the way of former Spanish Champion Sergio Montesinos with Israel Solís and Víctor González eventually taking 4th and 5th respectively.

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Round 4 of the French 1/8th scale buggy Nationals was held last weekend in Pau in the South West of France. Qualifying went the way of current European Champion and Mugen racer Renaud Savoya, ahead of Losi man Yannick Aigoin in 2nd and brother Jerome Aigoin in 3rd spot for Kyosho. In the hour long final Savoya made the race his own, as he has done at the previous rounds, winning by over a lap from Yannick in 2nd, while Mugen driver Guillaume Vray took the final podium step in 3rd, 2 laps further back.

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The warm up race for this years big event, the 1/8th scale World Championships in Lostallo, Switzerland, took place at the weekend and was attended by a lot of big names, with racers coming from as far away as Japan and America, along with the usual batch of super quick European racers. Qualifying went the way of Bumod GP winner Robert Pietsch, who was 3 seconds clear of Mugen team mates Andrea Pirani in 2nd and Alberto Picco, another 3 seconds back, in 3rd, with Kyosho team driver Takaaki Shimo from Japan taking the last direct final spot in 4th. The Semi finals saw Andrea Cristiani win his race while in the other Semi it was Patrick Schäfer who was gifted the win after actual winner Daniele Ielasi was DQ’d due to an underweight car and Marc Vanni who finished 2nd was also DQ’d because the body was too high. This allowed Salven and Tironi to be able to bump up along with Cristiani, Bertin, Green and Schäfer, to join the top 4 in the one hour long final. In the race, Michael Salven was the first to hit problems, breaking his engine at the first corner, he would later rejoin with a newly installed motor, while Andrea Pirani would also break an engine after 14 minutes putting him out of the race. Meanwhile up front it was Pietsch leading but a very quick Alberto Picco was closing and when Robert’s motor flamed out the Italian could clear away out front, followed by Shimo in 2nd, while Mark Green would work his way up to 3rd and stay there till the end of the race. And that was how it would finish with Alberto Picco winning from Takaaki Shimo in 2nd and Mark Green in 3rd.

Final results
1. Picco Alberto (IT) – 169 Laps in 1:00:03.485
2. Shimo Takaaki (JP) – 169 Laps in 1:00:19.478
3. Green Mark (GB) – 167 Laps in 1:00:00.494
4. Cristiani Andrea (IT) – 166 Laps in 1:00:16.831
5. Francesco Tironi (IT) – 165 Laps in 1:00:08.710
6. Schäfer Patrick (DE) – 163 Laps in 1:00:10.547
7. Pietsch Robert (DE) – 162 Laps in 59:54.987
8. Bertin Adrien (FR) – 135 Laps in 48:38.203
9. Salven Michael (NL) – 71 Laps in 33:13.269
10. Pirani Andrea (IT) – 41 Laps in 14:26.581

Full event results can be found here.

Thanks to Sabrina Lechner for the report and photos.

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Alberto Picco warms up for World title

Last weekend the official Warm up race for the EP TC European Championships was held at the large and tricky Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. Following practice it was Marc Rheinard who was setting the pace, getting the only 17 Lap run seen so far on the track. In qualifying it was Viktor Wilck who would set the early pace with a fast 16 Lap run in round 1, but rain showers would ruin any chance to improve for the rest of the day despite some drivers managing some more dry running later in the afternoon. With 3 more rounds of qualifying on Sunday morning, and Marc Rheinard now absent due to a prior commitment, Viktor Wilck would take the TQ spot ahead of Jilles Groskamp and Alex Hagberg, with Wilck, Groskamp and Yannic Pruemper sharing a round win each on Sunday. The 3 leg finals would see International TC race winner Groskamp win the first leg from Hagberg in 2nd and Wilck 3rd, while in the 2nd Leg it was Wilck from Marc Fisher and Elliot Harper, to set up a show down in the final leg. Unfortunately it again started to rain and with Wilck electing not to go on track and Groskamp taking the leg win, the Dutch man would claim the overall win from Tamiya team mate Wilck in 2nd, with Elliot Harper taking 3rd for Xray. A lot of the racers will now continue to test on the track for the next few days in order to fine tune their machinery even more in preparation for the Euros at the end of July.

Final results
1. Groskamp Jilles (NL) -  1:1, 3:1 [2:6]
2. Wilck Viktor (SE) – 2:1, 1:3 [3:10]
3. Harper Elliott  (UK) – 3:2, 2:3 [1:7]
4. Fischer Marc (DE) – 2:2, 1:4 [3:4]
5. Hagberg Alexander (SE) – 1:2, 3:6 [2:7]
6. Krapp Christopher (DE) – 3:3, 2:5 [1:9]
7. Hofer Martin (DE) – 1:5, 3:5 [2:9]
8. Grainger Chris (UK) – 1:6, 3:7 [2:8]
9. Prümper Yannic (DE) – 2:4, 1:10 [3:10]
10. Pumpler Thomas (A) – 1:8, 3:8 [2:10]

Full results can be found here.

Thanks to Uwe Rheinard for the report and images.

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Jilles Groskamp wins Euros Warmup