Welcome to the New Ascar Radio Controlled Racing News page. - Updated for 2002. |
I will keep you posted with any news relating to the development of this new formula
as it becomes available. I will also inform you of any new features added to this web site, as the 2002 season progresses. So check back here regularly, and keep a look out for any new updates! |
ITEM 27. 05/02/02 |
Please note, all non-affiliated clubs wishing to host rounds of the Ascar R/C Series,
must apply to the BRCA Oval Section for affiliation. Please contact Dave Waters the Oval section chairman,for details. All drivers wishing to race in the Ascar R/C Racing series must have an Oval Section race number. If you already hold an Oval Section race number, and you wish to use this for your ASCAR R/C Racing car, then you can use this for free. Just notify Suzanne Cooper , the new Oval section Membership secretary, to register it! Then as a member of the Oval Section you can use this registered number on your car, and will get the first opportunity to renew it for use in following years. |
For further details of how to contact Dave, Suzanne, or any of the other officials
of the B.R.C.A. Oval section, then visit my CONTACTS page. - (Up-dated for 2002.) |
This page is Copyright © 2001-2002 Mike Cooper All rights reserved. Ascar R/C Racing E-mail: ascarrc@lycos.com Last revision: 28/08/2002 These pages, best viewed with Browsers Version 4.0 or later ! |
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the RC OVAL Yahoo! Group Banner opposite, to join our RC Oval Racing community,
to learn all the LATEST news! |
ITEM 15. 27/08/01 |
ITEM 16. 08/09/01 |
Are you interested in racing your Electric Touring Cars, fitted with a Nascar style body, on the Oval Tracks in the U.K.? If you want to find out more information about this Electric version of our Ascar RC Racing formula, please contact Tony French, at the Notts and Derby Track. Either call Tony at:- 01332 - 874961 or E-mail Tony at:- tbf@rcsports.fsnet.co.uk |
Congratulations to JOHN MICKEL, winner of the Ascar Mintex Cup Rnd.1. |
27th August 2001 - ( Images courtesy of rockingham500.co.uk ) |
Congratulations to MICHAEL VERGERS, winner of the Ascar Mintex Cup Rnd.2. |
ITEM 17. 09/10/01 |
Ascar R/C Racing at the ROCKINGHAM MOTOR SPEEDWAY! A DEMO model car meeting was held at the Rockingham Motor Speedway on Sunday 7th Oct.2001. The Model Radio Controlled Ascars were invited to be part of this Model car exibition. Both Nitro powered and electric powered RC ASCARS took part. To find out more, click on the RC RACE NEWS link here! For more pictures, and news visit the R/C SPORTS NEWS link here! Also visit the Ascar RC Racing "Gallery" page for more pictures! |
ITEM 18. 09/10/01 |
Check out the Ascar RC Racing "Results Page", to view the latest results from the BRCA/RRCI/Ascar RC Racing National series championships. You can also view the current Drivers Standings for this series by clicking here! "STANDINGS" |
ITEM 19. 07/10/01 |
Congratulations to JOHN MICKEL, who pulled off a sensational victory on Rockingham
Motor Speedway's 1.5 mile oval at Northamptonshire, England on Sunday 7th
Oct.2001 and clinched the inaugural ASCAR Mintex Cup |
ITEM 20. 07/10/01 |
ITEM 21. 23/10/01 |
See the results of our own 1/10th scale Ascar RC Racing demonstration car meeting
held at Rockingham Motor Speedway on 7th Oct. 2001.Click on R.M.S. Results. |
For pictures from this meeting, visit the Gallery page. |
To view a copy of the Ascar RC Racing Handout / Flyer I have created, click here. Ascar RC Racing handout. This has been created as a webpage, but can be printed out from your browser! (A4 size.) |
ITEM 22. 01/11/01 |
ITEM 23. 07/11/01 |
18 Round Calendar Announced for ASCAR 2002, to be held on oval tracks at Rockingham in the U.K.,, and
Eurospeedway Lausitz in Germany. - Visit the ASCAR website for details. |
ITEM 24. 07/11/01 |
ITEM 25. 07/11/01 |
The Final results are now in for the first BRCA/RRCI/Ascar RC National series championships
2001. Please visit the "RESULTS" , and "STANDINGS" page , for details! |
Click here to find out details of the 39 race, 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Schedule.
Winston Cup Series Schedule 2002. (Printable version.) |
ITEM 26. 29/11/01 |
The ASCAR R/C RACING formula, has been invited to race our 1/10th scale Radio Controlled Ascars
again at the Rockingham Motor Speedway (in 2002), as part of the Ascar race meetings to be held on May 4th and 5th 2002, and August 25th 2002. - (See Details
below! ) |
PLEASE NOTE - Old posts to this newspage have not been deleted! - I have created an ARCHIVE NEWSPAGE , so if you wish to view any of the old posts, then please Click here! ARCHIVE NEWSPAGE, from 2001. |
News carried over from 2001 - Start here. |
Reminder - |
News, courtesy of ASCAR. ASCAR GOES 'COAST TO COAST' NATIONWIDE CHANNEL 4 TV DEAL FOR OVAL RACING SERIES Remember Tom Cruise in "Days of Thunder"? The same thrills will be seen for real on Channel 4, when the entire 2002 ASCAR racing series will be televised in a series of programmes, to be shown on Saturday mornings. The series, which features races on Britain's first banked oval racing circuit in a generation at Rockingham, near Corby in Northamptonshire, offers ultra close, 180mph action, with the added excitement of driving within a hairsbreadth of a solid concrete wall. The races will be shown as part of Channel 4's Saturday morning coverage of British motorsport, which also includes Formula 3 and GT racing. ASCAR is a new form of motor sport in Europe featuring the thrills and spills of American oval racing. All the cars have the same specification, with an American 500bhp V8 engine and a choice of three body styles. The only difference is the set-up of each car and the driver, which leads to very close racing and the lead continually changing. 2002 will also be the first season for ASCAR in Europe, with six meetings at Rockingham in the UK and six at Eurospeedway in Germany. The starting flag will wave on 9 May at Rockingham, with the first races being broadcast in the following weeks. "The agreement is great news for everybody involved. It offers Channel 4 an exciting new form of motor racing and offers ASCAR competitors exceptional coverage for their sponsors and supporters" said Eve Hewitt, Marketing Director of Rockingham Motor Speedway. "ASCAR, which started from scratch last year, has already established itself as a key British motor sport series and looks set to become one of the most popular championships with racing enthusiasts and casual spectators alike." |
News, courtesy of Rockingham Model Car Club. Mini ‘Rock’ ready to roll ! Have you ever wanted to race a high powered, fully prepared race car around a Rockingham Track ? From spring this year you can!..at the multi million pound racing circuit, Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, Northants If you have an Electric or nitro powered radio controlled touring car (or buggy/truck) Rockingham Model Car Club will be racing Oval and road course on a specially prepared scale race track at each ASCAR round this year and plan to run weekly club events. The cars will be predominantly 10th scale 4wd electric/nitro touring cars, but other scales and formulas will be welcomed if sufficient interest is shown. We will run an R/C ASCAR formula with replica ‘NASCAR’ bodies from Chevy, Dodge and Ford as well as racing the more regular Touring and GT bodied cars. Buggies and Trucks can also be raced on the tarmac track if enough cars are entered to form a grid ! (go on, you know you want to race your nitro truck around an oval !) Everyone will be encouraged to participate in the Oval classes with incentives and prizes on offer. If you have never tried oval racing its not as ‘boring’ as you might think ! - just turning left isn’t as easy as it looks. Each of the monthly meetings will run alongside the full size ASCAR race days so you’re in for an action packed day! For more information we can be contacted on the following : Tel - 01536 410 379 Alan Course E-mail - modelcars@rockingham.co.uk Web - www.rockingham.co.uk |
ITEM 28. 05/02/02 |
Rockingham Website back on line! Web - www.rockingham.co.uk |
News, courtesy of Rockingham Model Car Club. ROCKINGHAM Model Car Club - update The RMCC race meetings at Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, Northants will have
a closing date for entries, 10 days prior to the race day. This is to ensure that
all competitors receive their entry tickets and car passes before the day.
Each of the monthly meetings will be run alongside the full size ASCAR race days, with a grid approaching over 30 - V8 500bhp monsters, so you're in for an action packed day. as your race fee includes entry into the actual full size meeting (if you get time to see it !) For more information we can be contacted by the following :- (Web site to follow soon) Entry forms are available from - MCM Racing - Kettering GARYS PIT STOP - Northampton or by e-mailing the address below, and we will send an Entry Form on back to you, to download. We will be racing the following formulas :- 1/10th Elec ASCAR OVAL 1/10th Nitro ASCAR OVAL 1/10th Elec Touring Car 1/10th Nitro Touring Car Plus any other suggested class if there is enough interest eg: Nitro Truck OVAL ! 2wd / 4wd Elec Buggy road Circuit The 2002 race schedule, is as follows :- 5th MAY Inaugural Meeting Oval / Road 9th JUNE Open Club Oval / Road 4th AUG HPI Challenge Round 8 25th AUG R/C ASCAR National Oval / Road 6th OCT Open Club Oval / Road REMEMBER TO BOOK WELL IN ADVANCE, WE CAN NOT TAKE RACE ENTRIES ON THE DAY, SORRY ! Tel - 01536 410 379 Alan Course (MCM RACING) E-Mail - modelcars@rockingham.co.uk Web - www.rockingham.co.uk |
ITEM 29. 20/03/02 |
ITEM 30.20/03/02 |
New Update to this message.... ( new posting on 28th March 2002.) Regarding the First round of the :- BRCA RRCI ASCAR R/C RACING NATIONAL SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP. The proposed meeting for 7th April 2002, has now been moved to:- 26th May 2002, at ADUR Model Car Club (Ricardo's Car Park.) It was felt that this would allow us more time to promote this important First Round meeting! We hope that this has not caused any inconvenience to any Ascar RC Racing drivers, and that you can all make it to this important meeting? |
ITEM 31.23/03/02 |
ASCAR R/C RACING FIXTURES - URGENT MESSAGE! |
ITEM 32.28/03/02 |
Full Ascar R/C Racing Fixtures list 2002, coming soon! Check back soon, to view the full details.*Now On-line as of 09/04/02 |
Two new ASCAR influenced websites, now "online" - both well worth a visit ! 1. ASCAR RACERS .....a new UN-OFFICIAL supporters web site 2. Team West-Tec ........Excellent website. My Ascar "website of the month!" I recommend you download their racing calender - 2002 Printable Calendar, Featuring 10 Different Racing Series & Rockingham Events Read all about ASCAR , and their "vision of the future" |
ITEM 33.29/03/02 |
May The 4th be with you |
BRCA RRCI ASCAR R/C RACING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURES 2002 Please see below, a list of rounds for the Ascar RC Racing Series 2002. Rnd.1. ADUR (Ricardos car Park track) 26th May 2002 11.30am Rnd.2. Coventry 2nd June 2002 11.30am Rnd.3. Notts and Derby 11th August 2002 11.00am Rnd 4. Rockingham Model Car Club 25th August 2002. - Further detials to follow...See Fixtures page, and Tracks page for more information. |
ITEM 34.02/04/02 |
ITEM 35.03/04/02 |
Please visit the OVAL section of www.rcracechat.co.uk Forum, to read all the latest news relating to RC Oval racing. You will find a section devoted to ASCAR RC RACING there! |
Regarding the Official B.R.C.A.Oval section website - "Regrettably
OvalNet has now closed." |
ITEM 36.08/04/02 |
ITEM 37.09/04/02 |
Please Note! The Fixtures list has now been posted on the FIXTURES PAGE, for all the various Oval clubs hosting Ascar R/C Racing meetings this year 2002, including the dates for the BRCA RRCI ASCAR R/C RACING NATIONAL SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP. You will also find Links on the Fixtures page, to the Notts and Derby club, and to Moat Farm Raceway who are hosting there own 1/10th scale Touring car/Nascar race meetings. |
ASCAR R/C RACING FIXTURES |
ROCKINGHAM Model Car Club - NEWS FLASH We are very pleased to now confirm that our Inaugural Event on 5th May at Rockingham Motor Speedway will by sponsored by Team Losi / Trinity / LRP / KO & M~troniks ( M~troniks will sponsor all events ) With prizes on offer from the above manufacturers, each competitor will receive one raffle ticket (everyone participating in Oval will receive two raffle tickets !) Helger Racing also hope to bring some 'A'Team drivers along to thrash the oval ! More great news ! TEAM ASSOCIATED / REEDY / NOVAK / PROLINE and YOKOMO from CML Distribution have now been confirmed as sponsors for all R/C race meetings at Rockingham Motor Speedway. A selection of prizes will be given away through out the day, as all competitors will receive a raffle ticket per entry (Oval racers will get TWO for their support) There will also be an ASCAR RC concours competition. (You do not have to race it either !) We will appoint an independent judge, it might even be a "celeb"! Get your entry forms in soon! |
ITEM 38.09/04/02 |
Click HERE to view a "Printable" Pre-Entry Booking Form - approved by Rockingham Model Car Club. This prints onto A4 - set "Page setup", as follows:- Size A4. 210 x 297 mm Header and Footer - Blank Orientation - Portrait. Margins. Left 0.5 Right 0.5 Top 0.2 Bottom 0.552 |
Toby Scheckter is the latest star driver to join the 170mph, 'Days of Thunder' -style ASCAR oval racing series. The 22 year-old son of the 1979 Formula One World Champion Jody Scheckter will drive a 500 horsepower American V8 racing saloon prepared by last year's Champions Torquespeed in the series, which races at Rockingham in England and EuroSpeedway in Germany. Scheckter, who was at one time tipped to follow his father into Formula One, won the EFDA Euroseries Championship in 1999 with a record eight wins and seven pole positions. He was a front runner in the Spanish Formula Nissan International Series, before switching to saloon cars for the first time in the German V8 Star series last year. Scheckter will gain his first experience of ASCAR at Rockingham next week when, despite his experience, he undergoes 'rookie' training. This is mandatory for all new drivers, in order to for them to gain experience of the additional demands posed by racing on the banked ovals ASCAR reaffirmed its international reputation this week with a highly successful series of initial tests at the EuroSpeedway track near Dresden in Germany. The track's 'tri-oval' configuration with long straights and three demanding corners saw a maximum speed reached of 175mph, by the Ford Taurus of former World Hot Rod Champion John Steward. The fastest overall lap of 51.8 seconds, set by reigning ASCAR champion John Mickel, equates to an average of 139mph. The test at EuroSpeedway also gave the French former Formula One and ChampCar driver Nicolas Minassian his first experience of the cars, joined by German stars Arnt Meier and Roland Rehfeld. Reigning British Touring Car Champion Jason Plato was also in attendance |
TOBY SCHECKTER SIGNS FOR ASCAR - News, Courtesy of ASCAR. |
ITEM 39.11/04/02 |
ITEM 40.11/04/02 |
New ASCAR RC RACING Forum added at :- www.rcracechat.co.uk Click HERE to go directly to Ascar RC Racing Forum Topic ! |
ITEM 41.12/04/02 |
With Round 1 drawing ever closer and our two-seater car's ready to thunder around the Rockingham oval, we at ascar.co.uk are giving 10 lucky winners the chance to win a pair of tickets for the opening round of the ASCAR Mintex Cup on Sunday May 5th! And if that's not enough 1 extremely lucky winner will also get the opportunity to experience the high speed thrills of an ASCAR Two-Seater Ride! To enter just answer the question below: Who was the 2001 ASCAR Mintex Cup Champion? A. Mark Clausner B. John Mickel C. Phil Weaver To enter, simply e-mail the answer, your full name, age, postal address, email address and telephone number, to :- webmaster@ascar.co.uk with the subject 'Win' in the subject line. . GOOD LUCK!!! For those not so lucky, tickets are available for Round 1 priced at £15 on the gate (£12 in advance) Under 16's go free! Admission for Saturday practice is £5 per car. Two Seater rides will be available on both Saturday and Sunday priced at £50 for a 3 lap simulated qualifying run. |
ITEM 42.23/04/02 |
ASCAR COMPETITION ! |
- News, Courtesy of ASCAR. |
ITEM 43.13/05/02 |
Results and Pictures from the Inaugral Rockingham Model Car Club meeting, held
on 5th May 2002, at the Rockingham Motor Speedway, have now been added to this
site. |
ITEM 44.13/05/02 |
ROCKINGHAM MODEL CAR CLUB Website is now online! Click here to visit Rockingham Model Car Club. |
ITEM 45.24/06/02 |
Results are now in, for the first two rounds of the BRCA/RRCI/Ascar RC Racing National
series championships. Click to see RESULTS ! |
ITEM 46.24/06/02 |
Rain, rain, rain and what, more rain ! ? Despite, you guessed it, the rain, Rockingham
Model Car Club ran their second meeting on Sunday the 9th June at Rockingham
Motor Speedway in Corby, Northants. The day started dry but the weather forecasts lived up to their predictions as the heavens slowly opened and proceeded to rain virtually all day. Despite this the race meeting went ahead - and what a good day it was. The drivers took their usual precautions by taping and sealing their electronics, as best they could, against the elements. The classes were ran in Oval and Road formats, with the track easily changed between the two. Electric and Nitro Touring Cars on the Road course, and Electric and Nitro ASCAR on the Oval, along with some very special guests and the Nitro ASTRUCKS driven by Team Losi driver Gary Timms and other top Truck drivers. These guys could really get the trucks around the Oval. ( - imagine a hippo travelling around in circles, at over 30mph on three legs ! !) The format was four round and final. First up were the ASTRUCK monsters, Gary Timms took the TQ with a blistering 30 lap run using his Losi Truck. ASCAR was dominated by Richard Johnson with his mind boggling RC Lab achieving 34 laps in the wet!, and finally TOURING CAR with Daniel Wooster grabbing 22 laps with again an RC Lab car. We are lucky that the R/C racing at the 'Rock' is ran alongside the full size Ascar race meeting. This gives the competitors the opportunity to see full size motor racing at its best in the UK's most up to date and only speedway oval (well that's if they can find the time in their hectic race schedule !? Because of the persistent rain, the full size Ascars did not race at all. This gave us the chance to invite racing driver of Ascar Team Deuce #84 Toby Scheckter (son of ex Ferrari F1 world champion Jody Scheckter) to have a race with us. Toby has an Associated TC3 that he drives in his spare time. Craig Butterworth gladly gave Toby loan of his Schumacher Mission complete with Ascar body painted exactly as Toby full size #84 Ascar. Toby quickly got his Mission up to speed and was putting in some very good laps and gave us all a good run for our money, unfortunately after a couple of high speed spills his race came to an end with a broken car (whoops sorry Craig!) In the last round a few drivers suffered the dreaded car grinding to a halt with water logged speedos. The drivers were asked if they wished to continue to the finals and with an overall majority, we continued on. The tyre choice thorough the day varied , but most drivers elected to use Slicks of various makes due to the race track draining very quickly after each rain shower. The very close racing in the finals entertained the always present crowds of spectators, who often commented "This racing is better then the full size cars" 2001 Ascar Champion - John Mickel was happy to present our trophies to the wet but happy winners. All in all, a wet but very good days racing that was made even better by the raffle prizes donated by our sponsors Helger Racing - Team Losi, Trinity, LRP, CML - Team Associated, Reedy, Novak, Protoform and M~Troniks Thanks to every one who came, persisted and raced in the wet. Don't forget to book in early for the next meeting on 25th August, which also includes the final round of the BRCA/RRCI/Ascar RC Racing National series championships. (If you have a HPI car you can enter Round 8 of the HPI Challenge on 4th Aug. 2002 ) RESULTS A FINAL - ASTRUCK 1st John Murphy 32 laps 2nd Lee Bunker 27 laps 3rd Alan Bryan 26 laps A FINAL - ELEC ASCAR 1st Alex Taylor 34 laps 2nd Dave Irving 32 laps 3rd Adrian Heslop 31 laps B FINAL - ELEC ASCAR 1st Gary Butterworth 27 laps 2nd Adrian Dainty 24 laps 3rd Chris Fabian 12 laps A FINAL 10 mins- NITRO ASCAR 1st Martin Bolsover 53 laps 2nd Daniel Mathieson 45 laps 3rd Nigel Philpott 42 laps A FINAL - ELEC TOURING 1st Ben Emery 20 laps 2nd Matt Winyard 20 laps 3rd Daniel Wooster 20 laps B FINAL - ELEC TOURING 1st Nathan Maycock 18 laps 2nd Paul Coleman 18 laps 3rd Simon Webb 15 laps C FINAL - ELEC TOURING 1st Thomas Marchant 17 laps 2nd Chris Collins 14 laps 3rd John Preston 13 laps (2wd Buggy) |
CAN'T STOP THE " ROCK" - Review of the 2nd R/C Race meeting, held at Rockingham Model Car Club on June 9th 2002. (Courtesy R.M.C.C. ) |
ITEM 47.16/07/02 |
NEWSFLASH ! First Pictures of the NEW combined Oval and Touring Car track, being built at ADUR MODEL CAR CLUB, Shoreham. |
Details so far ! The race track of the outer oval is about 11 feet wide. Total length (outer fence to outer fence) is 88 feet, and total width is 50 feet.. Each of the corners is a slightly different angle. More details to follow as soon as we get them! - Watch this space! |
ITEM 48.28/08/02 |
RRCI/BRCA/Ascar R/C Racing National series championship results now in.... See Results page, and Final Standings for 2002. Gallery page also updated with new pictures taken at round 3 (Notts and Derby), and at round 4, Rockingham Model Car Clubs. |
Ascar R/C Racing News updates! |
