The sixth & final round of the Irish 1:8 Off Road National Championships took place at the all astro turf surface Navan Nitro Nuts over the weekend where outgoing Truggy Champion Bradley Baird ended his debut season in Buggy with his first National race victory in the class. Having TQ’d the event the teenager suffered a flame out on the start line leaving him last but a superb recovery saw the Associated driver battle his way back up through the field. Setting the fastest lap of the race he finally took the lead when the Xray of Barkley Abernethy suffered an engine cut during the penultimate round of fuel stops to win by 2/3rd of a lap. Also driving an Xray, Alan Scroggie completed the podium bringing to a close another successful season of 1:8 Buggy racing in Ireland which saw Losi driver Michael Todd successfully defend his title.

In the Truggy class the title was still to be decided at the season finale between Neil Irwin and Arron Vance. 15-year-old Vance held the advantage in qualifying as he secured TQ honours with his Losi from the Xray of Irwin. In the half hour final, Vance’s chance at the title ended on lap 11 when he was forced to retire leaving Irwin to take the win and the 2010 title. The big battle of the race was the three way battle for second between Oisin O’Briain, Rodger Skelly and Steven McClements. In the end O’Briain took the place from Skelly with the trio all finishing on the same lap.

1:8 Buggy Result

1.(1) Bradley Baird – Associated/RB – 54 laps

2.(7) Barkley Abernethy – Xray/OS Speed – 53

3.(2) Alan Scroggie – Xray/Novarossi – 52

4.(5) Gary Baird – Kyosho/RB – 52

5.(3) Christopher McCauley – Xray/Novarossi – 51

6.(10)Cathal Taffe – Xray/Alpha – 51

7.(9) Vytas – Losi/RB – 50

8.(8) Nick Brooker – Xray/OS Speed – 50

9.(4) Derek McCloskey – Serpent/Mega – 49

10.(6)Andrew White – Hobao/RB – 43

1:8 Truggy Result

1.(2) Neil Irwin – Xray/Novarossi – 37 laps

2.(3) Oisin O’Briain – Losi/Mega – 34

3.(4) Roger Skelly – Losi/RB – 34

4.(5) Steven McClements – Mugen/Novarossi – 34

5.(6) Martin O’Docherty – Hobao/OS – 30

6.(1) Arron Vance – Losi/Novarossi – 11

7.(7) Frank McGoey – CEN/RB – 7

8.(8) Enda O’Donnell – Losi/RB – 2

Text: Hobbies Ireland [hobbiesireland.ie] / Images: Modeltune [modeltune.com]

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The second round of the 2010 Irish Touring Car Series was held at the fast St.Annes track in Dublin over the weekend where defending Champion & Round 1 winner Alan Bickerstaff claimed yet another victory. Qualifying saw the Associated team driver secure TQ honours ahead of the Tamiya’s of Mark Gilliland and Keith Dempsey with Graham Kenny fourth fastest at the controls of his Schumacher. In the finals it was the Top 3 qualifiers who were to be the class of the field. In the opening leg it was Dempsey who took the win after Bickerstaff and Gilliland made contact as the trio ran bumper to bumper in what was one of the closest races ever witnessed at the St.Annes track. Half way through the second Leg Dempsey looked on target to take his first overall victory but a small error allowed Gilliland through to claim the win from Bickerstaff. Leg 3 was a much easier affair for Bickerstaff, the win securing him overall victory after Gilliland and Dempsey clashed in the later part of the race while battling over second allowing Kenny through for his best finish of the three legs. Overall the result was a repeat of the opening round in Bangor earlier in the year with Gilliland the runner up and Dempsey filling the final podium placing.

Overall Result

1. (1) Alan Bickerstaff – Associated – 3 pts

2. (2) Mark Gilliland – Tamiya – 3

3. (3) Keith Dempsey – Tamiya – 4

4. (4) Graham Kenny – Schumacher – 6

5. (5) Johnny Dunn – Tamiya – 10

6. (8) Jim Lee – Schumacher – 11

7. (6) Mark McCracken – Schumacher – 13

8. (7) Derek McCloskey – Tamiya – 15

Source: Hobbies Ireland [hobbiesireland.ie]

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I am hoping that releases like this mean that the TC6 is getting closer to production…

Team Associated have release V2 of their stamped multi tool. A simple and cheap tool, it can be used for assembling, disassembling and adjusting multiple parts for your 1:10 scale vehicles. The tool offers cutouts that can hold new V2 shock bodies, shock caps, 1/8” turnbuckles, 5mm AE ball cup hex and 3/16” shock bushings.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

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Team Associated are celebrating the first major victory for their new TC6 touring car after team driver Olly Jefferies took TQ and a win at round four of the BRCA national series at the fast Halifax track. In the super touring class it was Elliott Harper that set the early pace with his Tamiya but it was Olly Jefferies that came through to take TQ ahead of Chris Grainger’s Schumacher Mi4 with Elliott lining up third. Andy Moore struggled a little in qualifying and ended up fourth but was hoping for a good result over the three leg finals.

Olly took legs one and two of the super touring A final with his LRP powered Associated with Grainger taking the final leg. Overall Grainger finished second ahead of Elliott, Andy Moore’s domestic bad luck continued and he finished down the order, Chris Ashton and Johnny Aird completed the top five.

In the Pro Stock class it was a win for Pro Stock reigning champion Johnny Bowden, X-Ray driver and pole man Andy Murray struggled to match the Hot Bodies driver in the finals and had to settle for second ahead of the Associated TC5 of young star Zak Smith. The series now moves on to West London next month were the championship will be decided.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

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