Timetable for the National at Cotswold is now available....
Corally/STCC 2012 Championship booking-in open... Round 2 is on the 27th May at the Adur club, so get your entries in. This is a wonderful track that produces excellent racing. The drivers who raced there last year demanded we return again as they liked it so much!For 2012 the championship was restructured to the "best 4 from 6" rounds to reduce the expenses of drivers in light of the ever increasing cost of fuel and traveling. 2012 will again consist of 2 classes, the very successful 13.5T TC3 class and the up and coming and highly competitive 21.5T TC4 class. Tyres will be the same proprietary STCC tyres as used in the previous years championship. All STCC marked tyres may be used. 2012/13 Winter series dates announced....
The series organisors of the Essex Winter Series have announced their provisional calendar for the 2012/13 championship....
The series organisors of the Rug Racers Championship have announced their confirmed dates for the next series of Rug Racers. Classes will be...13.5 open, 17.5 blinky and Mardave to spec rules. All motors to be used from BRCA listings
The series organisors of the Stafford RCMCC Mini-Nats Championship have announced their confirmed dates for the next series of their indoor series. Classes will be...13.5 open, 17.5 blinky and F1 subject to entries. All motors to be used from BRCA listings
2012 BTCC Round 1 Cotswolds - UPDATE“Due to a problem generating the overall results there are now a new set for the BTCC. We are sorry if some trophies got awarded incorrectly at the race but we have only just been made aware of this. Perhaps the relevant trophy winners would be as kind to swap at the next round.” Please see the new total results file: results_multi_v2
Best Regards, Chris Ashton
The weekend of 21st and 22nd of April saw the opening round of the Schumacher BTCC 2012 Championship at what many people in our fraternity say is the best track in the country, Cotswolds Model Car Club. The weather forecast didn’t look too good before the event maybe putting a few people off, however 115 drivers were set to compete. As always the excellent Sorex XG-32RY tyre was the choice for the dry and the new XG-Rain treaded tyre for the wet. All day Saturday was open practice, some people making it a two day event and others choosing to turn up on the day. Sunday morning was nice and sunny but with rain in the night open practice was on a drying track. This meeting would be the first time we have seen both drivers from modified and last years 10.5T in together on tarmac, so many looked on in interest to see how this would pan out. It was decided at driving briefing we would have FTD qualifying with rain predicted at around lunchtime allowing two dry round for drivers to get a fast time in before the predicted bad weather. Sure enough the first two rounds were dry and as predicted the rain started in round 3 resulting in round 2 being the fastest round. The Serpent of Chris Kerswell made the best of conditions in the flying Round 2 taking the TQ from the Schumacher Mi4CXL's of Chris Grainger and Matt White. In the 13.5 class Zack Finlay did the same as Chris and took the TQ from Schumachers's Mark Musgrove and Tony Broad.
So all in all an interesting start to the season with the new motor rules, Chris Grainger seamingly getting the most out of the weekend taking the overall victory with his Mi4CXL. A big thank you to Cotswolds Model Car Club for an excellent run meeting and the catering staff for the excellent food. Looking forward to round 2 at the West London Racing Centre on the 03/06/2012. Corally/STCC 2012 - Round 1 - Eastbourne...Despite the weather forecasts of poor conditions all week, we had a superb day, going to be plenty of people with red faces due to sunburn believe it or not, one starts to wonder what these forecasters actually know! Arrived at the track at 7:30am and within a shortwhile it started to rain, got the gazebo up just in time, however while it was heavy, it was only short lived and had stopped by drivers briefing. so the first round of qualifying was going to be damp, but by the 2nd round, the gazebo had been moved back as we were getting quite warm under it! The track was almost totally dry by the start of round 2 so the lap times improved dramatically and by the 3rd round it was at 28deg C! Actually reaching 31.5deg C during the finals! Qualifying progressed and clearly the finals were going to be tight and close, with 7s splitting the top 3 in 21.5 and 6s the top 3 in 13.5T, and so it was, with lots of close racing and some great racing from the all the juniors in both classes in particular young Jak Sansom in the 21.5T and Daniel Vaness in 13.5T, both stars of the future. The Eastbourne club have done a superb job of upgrading the track, with new blue/white double tiered and shaped kerbs on every corner so riding kerbs was possible everywhere, but get greedy and it would bite, not by tossing the car off the track, but just disturbing it so that you lost sufficient time to not do it again! So in qualifying to get that prized ftq required a brave but faultless drive, it was that close that one foot wrong and it was going to be tough to make it up. 2nd: Dominic Shore 1st: Darren Tickner 3rd: Mark Trinder 2nd: Bryan Loynes 1st: Mark Fuller 3rd: Daniel Vaness
Pics by john Fuller I didn't get time to watch the 21.5T racing as I was busy prepping our car, but have asked some of the more senior drivers in that class if they could provide a short report, any times guys ;) The top 5 FTQ slots went to: Darren Tickner, Mark Trinder, Lisa Keen, Dominic Shore and Trevor Bailey. In the 13.5T the top 5 FTQ went to: Mark Fuller, Bryan Loynes, Rickey Copsey, Daniel Vaness and Tom Reynolds. In final 1, Mark took off and led from start to finish with a battle going on behind him between Ricky and Bryan. Ricky's car cried enough and he pulled off leaving Bryan to take second and Tim Hancock taking 3rd followed by Daniel in 4th. In round 2 it was again Mark who led from the start, only to take too much of one kerb after a couple of laps which let the closely following Bryan and Ricky through together, there was then a full on race between Ricky and Bryan with Mark watching closely from 3rd waiting for the inevitable for half the rest of the final, then following a forceful pass on Bryan by Ricky, who was lucky to go through into the lead with Mark behind and that's how it ended with Ricky, Mark, Bryan and the 2 A final juniors Daniel and Ben Mannell coming in 4th and 5th. So into the 3rd final it was between Mark, Bryan and Ricky, any one of them could take the overall win. Mark once again led from the front and was now clearly dialled into the track, he increased his lead each lap, making the apexes with pin point accuracy, clearly having learned from his mistake in the 2nd final. At approx halfway he was well into the lead, nearly half a lap up on Bryan and starting to lap other finalists. Another epic battle was taking place between Bryan and Ricky which was ultimately slowing them down, then another DNF for Ricky let Daniel take 3rd place, closely followed again by Tim. So, it was Mark on 2pts, Bryan on 4pts, but Daniel and Tim on 7pts each and Daniel taking it on countback. Complete results will be posted as soon as possible after they have been converted to STCC format! A big thanks to all the drivers, it was great day, and a big thanks to the Eastbourne support team who did a great job, including the timekeeping at short notice due to Andy suddenly being unable to make the meeting. Last but not least, to the "food guy", it was a great opening round in all respects, thank you everyone. Mike Smith Drivers profiles......System update...drivers profile page A new Date-of-Birth field has been added to the drivers profile form to enable event organisers to identify juniors. Can all junior drivers, under 18's should cover it, please update their drivers profile page, this is for your benefit. This DoB info is only visible to an event admin in the entry download preview page. 2012 On-road Calendar of major UK eventsWelcome to 2012 everyone. Booking-in is OPEN for these Outdoor events...
We are now firmly into the summer racing season. Coming up we have round 2 of the BRCA Clubman round 1 of the ETC Nationals and round 2 of the Corally/STCC. Check the calendar to see what's on, where it is, and get yourself booked into the onroad's best electric racing events in the UK.....
Note: The 2012 TORC series was cancelled due to lack of entries. Entry Cancellations and Refunds......CentralBooking does not receive or control any entry funds at all, your payments are made directly to the series organisers and do not touch sides with Centralbooking in any way what-so-ever! If for any reason that you need to cancel an entry to any meeting you should contact the series championship organiser who will then process your entry cancellation request. For security reasons, refunds are not processed automatically by the system, or by Centralbooking. These are processed directly by the series organisers alone who control their own entry payments and have different qualifications for refunding entry fee's for cancelled entries. So please contact the series/event organisers and NOT the individual track contacts OR CentralBooking for cancellations or refunds! |
| 27 May | STCC12 | Adur |
| 27 May | TORC12 | Bedworth |
| 27 May | SPCUK12 | Broxtowe |
| 03 Jun | BTCC2012 | West London |
| 10 Jun | TCClubman | Eastbourne |
| 16 Jun | TCNats | West London |
| 24 Jun | STCC12 | Ipswich |
| 24 Jun | TORC12 | Stafford |
| 24 Jun | SPCUK12 | Eastbourne |