England Park Raceway

Winter wonderland 🌞🏁

It was another exciting afternoon and night of EP racing as drivers battled it out across 13.5 ISTC, 21.5 ISTC and Trucks at England Park🙌🏎🔋

There were thrills and spills aplenty from the first round, with the always interesting Looper layout.

Thanks to all drivers who attended 🙂

Top 3 Overall Results as follows📋
13.5 ISTC
🥇Richard Chun
🥈Jason Wicks
🥉Al Savage

21.5 ISTC
🥇Jay Flynn
🥈Bella Evans
🥉David Gower

Trucks
🥇Bella Evans
🥈Steve Evans
🥉Graeme Day

Full results 📋👉https://qrccra.liverc.com/results/?p=view_event&id=511320

🛠️Friendly reminder: We have our next working bee coming up this Sunday, 12 July from 8am.

🙋‍♂️Any club members who can lend a hand, even for an hour or two, please come on down.

Job list in post below📋👇

‼️Upcoming working bees 🛠

Ahead of the FEMCA ( Far East Model Car Association ) GT8 and GT8E Asian Championships and SpeedyRC Online Store Queensland IC Titles, QRCCRA will be holding two working bees at England Park on:
🗓Sunday, 12 July from 8am and
🗓Sunday 26 July from 8am

We're going to need fair bit of manpower, so any club members who can spare some time across either or both days are strongly encouraged to lend a hand.

As they say, many hands make light work, so the faster we can get these jobs done, the faster we can go home.

So why not come along, pitch in and have a few laughs along the way. Plus, you know the banter will be absolutely top notch😂

Job list as follows📄

• Clean up Kerbs around the track.

• Clean up around the containers, either store in orange container or dispose.

• Put chairs not-in-use in orange container.

• Tidy up data and electrical cables.

• Reattach any conduits that are loose.

• Reattach all shade cloth at all marshal points

• Remove all signage from fences that are not current.

• Install new air hoses and blowers

• Install timber barriers across disused ramp.

• Install some protection to marshal points (locations TBD)

• Install netting to pit wall.

• Seal the new tabletop

• Spray all Weeds and remove (to be done on 12 July working bee)

• Mow grass and trim all edges of the track (to be done 26 July working bee)

• Trim Hedges (to be done 26 July working bee)

How about a round of applause for TGT Photography - Clive Gentle and the amazing photos he captured at the recent RCRA Large Scale OnRoad Queensland state championships just a few weeks ago 👏 👏 👏.

Make sure you head over to his page and give him a follow, so you don't miss out on his next drop of photos!!!

Tag England Park Raceway in the photo you think deserves best in show 📸💥

City of Moreton Bay

‼️Upcoming working bees 🛠

Ahead of the FEMCA ( Far East Model Car Association ) GT8 and GT8E Asian Championships and SpeedyRC Online Store Queensland IC Titles, QRCCRA will be holding two working bees at England Park on:
🗓Sunday, 12 July from 8am and
🗓Sunday 26 July from 8am

We're going to need fair bit of manpower, so any club members who can spare some time across either or both days are strongly encouraged to lend a hand.

As they say, many hands make light work, so the faster we can get these jobs done, the faster we can go home.

So why not come along, pitch in and have a few laughs along the way. Plus, you know the banter will be absolutely top notch😂

Job list as follows📄

• Clean up Kerbs around the track.

• Clean up around the containers, either store in orange container or dispose.

• Put chairs not-in-use in orange container.

• Tidy up data and electrical cables.

• Reattach any conduits that are loose.

• Reattach all shade cloth at all marshal points

• Remove all signage from fences that are not current.

• Install new air hoses and blowers

• Install timber barriers across disused ramp.

• Install some protection to marshal points (locations TBD)

• Install netting to pit wall.

• Seal the new tabletop

• Spray all Weeds and remove (to be done on 12 July working bee)

• Mow grass and trim all edges of the track (to be done 26 July working bee)

• Trim Hedges (to be done 26 July working bee)

Nitro IC Round 8🏁🏎️💨

☀The weather turned it on once again for a glorious winter's day for racing at England Park with some special visitors and close racing action across 1/8, GT and Pro Tourer.

👑RC racing royalty and multi-time Australian champion Ric Bartolozzi put his GT8 nitro through its paces as he gears up for the FEMCA ( Far East Model Car Association ) GT8 and GT8E Asian Championships at England Park later this month.

🇳🇿He was joined by rising young gun and number two ranked New Zealand GT8 driver Lockie Roache, who more than held his own in some exciting battles on the track against the QRCCRA boys. Stay tuned for more with Lockie as he gives his thoughts on the track and the upcoming Asian Championships in a video dropping later this week.🗣️📹

🎤Helping out on the microphone was former QRCCRA member and pull start tourer driver Jared Moore, who lent his voice to provide some excellent commentary over our muti-camera live stream for the afternoon's racing. 🎥

🙌Special thanks to Darryl and John for manning the barbeque and President Dan for sourcing some great rib fillet to keep us fueled up over the course of a busy day. 🍖😋

Top 3 Overall Results as follows📋
1/8th Scale
🥇Al Savage
🥈Shardy
🥉Chainsaw

Pro Tourer
🥇John Taynton
🥈Michael Serenc
🥉Mike Jackson

GT8
🥇 Lockie Roach
🥈Jason Clarke
🥉Rick Bartolozzi

Full race results here📊👉https://qrccra.liverc.com/results/?p=view_event&id=510766

😀🏎️A familiar face is with us in race control this afternoon.

Former QRCCRA member and pull start tourer driver Jared Moore will be lending his voice to provide commentary for Heat 3 and finals this afternoon in Nitro IC at England Park alongside our multi-camera live stream.

Tune in at the link below and join the live chat💻👇😀

https://www.youtube.com/live/vT0nX28bqd0?si=fz80JMTwYJwoPr_4