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Sunday 29th of January saw round 5 of the popular Nitro X Cross winter series take place at Ledbury Model Car Club. With the weather forecast not looking great we didn't really know what to expect until we pitched up trackside. With Ledbury having its own weather system we took the chance to go racing and when we arrived we found that although some overnight rain was apparent the track looked very good with no puddles, just a mildly moist racing surface! As per the Nitro X Cross series which run to the same format at each round we would...

So this last weekend was the beginning of the winter racing for most RCPB drivers. Some members of the team were at the first NitroXcross meeting of the winter series, held at Shrewsbury. Matt Box, Milan Dragojlovic, Steve Shakespeare, Rich Price, Elliot Jones, Si Davies, Gary Gregory and Ben Billing were all in attendance. After 4 rounds of qualifying it was Milan driving his HB car who took a brilliant TQ, Steve Shakespeare and his Kyosho car were 8th, Ben 17th running his Kyosho for the first time (pictured below), Rich was 22nd, Gary and Matt were 24th and 25th...

  This weekend the RCPB team were out in force again all over the UK and at Summer Finals time lots of places and prizes up for grabs. At ESBRC at the Shrewsbury dirt track we had Team Boss Matt Box and his Ielasi Tuned powered Kyosho MP9 along with Rich Price and his Sworkz machine. Also in attendance was Graham Alsop running his Maxima MX Motor. After 4 rounds of quail it was Graham on top of the pile with Matt just behind in 2nd, Rich managed 6th. Nice work by the guys to all get in the top...

This last weekend saw the BRCA Junior 1/10th finals at Bury, and our Jnr’s were representing, Felix De Hamel n U16 running his Schumacher cars and Tommy Hall and Jamie Hall in U13 representing Team XRAY. In 2wd on Saturday Felix qualified 3rd, Jamie qualified 5th and Tommy qualified 6th. Amazing qualifying for the boys – despite a tricky and wet track! Finals were even better Felix finished 4th, Jamie finished 6th, Tommy finished 5th. A brilliant day in 2wd for the RCPB lads!  Sunday was 4wd and another awesome day for the team, Felix once again qualified 3rd, Jamie...

Last week was the 1/10th Off Road Euros in Spain and RCPB driver Felix De Hamel and his Schumacher cars were lucky enough to be one of the BRCA entries for Team GB - Pictured above. He would compete in both 2wd and 4wd at the championships, held at Valladolid on the 1/8th Dirt track. The track looked amazing and all the cars coped well on the fantastic features. First was 2wd and Felix despite missing some of practice due to being unwell made a mightily impressive start, he had a 38th in round (see below). He continued his great qualifying...