The 2013 British Nationals season opener kicked off under sunny skies at the HNMC track at Westmill farm north of London, former British Champion Darren Bloomfield set the overall pace during practice however fastest was Lee Martin, with young Mugen driver Jack Embling in 3rd. The five rounds of qualifying witnessed defending Champion Elliott Boots [...]
The first round of the BRCA 1/10th National Championship took place at Kidderminster over the 13th & 14th April. Darren Bloomfield claimed 2WD victory on the Saturday ahead of Simon Moss and Neil Cragg. However it was Neil Cragg who dominated the 4WD Sunday with Simon Moss in second and Tom Yardy completing the podium. [...]
Sunday 7th April 2013 and the BRCA Truggy and E8 community descends upon Herts Nitro Model Club for round one of the UK championship. After weeks of snow and bad weather the UK has had over the past months the Herts team did a great job of preparing the track for their first national event. [...]
HNMC hosted the first round of this year’s Truggy and E Buggy National championship in which a healthy 96 drivers entered. The club has again made some improvements for this year’s racing including new warm up benches, shielded undercover pit area and a new compressor for car cleaning. The truggy qualifying was dominated by Darren [...]
The 2013 Modelcar Cup is due to take place between the 29th and 31st of March in Freixedas, a small village of Pinhel town located in the northeast of Portugal. The track boasts a large outdoor boxed paddock which accompanies their impressive rostrum combined with additional facilities such as a water & air cleaning station [...]
Vampire Racing is proud to announce the latest addition to their factory racing team in the form of UK super star and 1/8th EFRA IC buggy European Champion Darren Bloomfield. Driving for Team Losi Racing, Darren will use Vampire Racing’s full line electric components such as the upcoming AB+ V2 brushless motors, SR1+ controllers and [...]
Team Durango’s Joern Neumann maintained his winning streak in the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series as he held off an impressive challenge from series debutant Naoto Matsukura in Langenfeld, Germany, the defending champion securing his fifth straight victory at the event which was hosted just 10-minutes from his house. Going down to the third & [...]
Horizon Hobby UK have put together a very thorough post Euros interview with the Champion himself, Darren Bloomfield. Not much more to add than it’s a long one and worth a read during your coffee break. Link to Bloomfield Interview
The last 4 minutes of the race as leader David Ronnefalk struggles with a lack of grip and a pouncing Darren Bloomfield catches him and the pair go into battle.
Darren Bloomfield won an enthralling final at this year’s Euros, utilizing a stronger fuel strategy to bring him back into play after a couple of earlier mistakes. David Ronnefalk led for the majority of the final however towards the last 10 laps Bloomfield reeled him in and despite a few too many coming togethers and [...]
