Euro Off-road Series announced

[Lowie]

source: http://eos.redrc.net/2011/09/european-offroad-series-announced/

After much planning we are pleased to announce the dates for the much anticipated 2011/12 Euro Offroad Series. Scotty Ernst and Uwe Rheinard, the organizers behind the very successful Euro Touring Series ‘ETS’, have taken their format and formula and will be bringing it to the exciting world of Offroad. 1/10th Offroad racing in Europe is seeing tremendous growth over the past year and the EOS will embrace that growth and bring an organized racing series that will travel around Europe focusing on the fun and excitement that Offroad brings.
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UK - Ardent Raceway (nov 2011)
Czech Republic - Hrotovice (febr 2012)
Belgium - Black Country Arena, Charleroi (march 2012)
Germany - Intermodellbau Dortmund Hobby Show (april 2012)

[njc11]

I take it for this you will need an EFRA licence?

No mention of BRCA in the drop down menus..

:thumbsup:

[jimmy]

Afaik this has zero to do with any offical racing organisations? So - no.

[njc11]

cheers jimmy... thought i'd ask as you have to select when registering??!

:thumbsup:

[MikePimlott]

cheers jimmy... thought i'd ask as you have to select when registering??!

:thumbsup:

Which one you thinking of going :woot:

[jackson.55]

Has anyone scene a time table? And what tyres are to be used??


karl

[jondell]

my guess practice Friday, qually sat and sun morning followed by finals. I think each racing round will have all classes, ie you do 2wd r1 and then 4wd r1 like in US. They have controlled tyres in ets, so it would make sense to have them in eos, and did at the pilot round in April.

[Legacy555]

How will the americans (assuming they come) fair on carpet at Ardent?
You'd have to assume that they will be at the sharp end of the racing, even though the US Associated drivers will probably stick to the B4.1

Really looking forward to this event!!

[Dadandson]

The EOS in Black Country Arena in Belgium is confirmed :drool:
JP

[lochness42]

I'll probably attend Czech round.

[MikePimlott]

How will the americans (assuming they come) fair on carpet at Ardent?
You'd have to assume that they will be at the sharp end of the racing, even though the US Associated drivers will probably stick to the B4.1

Really looking forward to this event!!

Is it on the carpet ?????

[Legacy555]

Is it on the carpet ?????

According to lotussmart it is.... so yes :)

[Christer Rasmussen]

Timetable: You can se here how it was done in Sweden at the Pilot race.
http://www.myrcm.ch/de/ets/20110401_147948/EOS_2_WD/index.html
Friday was 2wd, Short Course, 4wd in each round.
But saturday and sunday was like 2wd and Short Course in the first half of the day and 4wd in the second part of the day, worked very well.
So you did not have to change car every 30 minutes.

We will do the same at the DHI-Cup so you can run both classes.

[Legacy555]

Sorry guys, we haven't managed to get the keys yet, so will be carpet with ramps designed by Buggy racers (Lee Martin, not touring car drivers :-). We will also use different track markings. All the feedback from the Petit event will be applied, that was our first attempt at buggies and we have learnt a lot from it. The EOS will be even better you have my humble word :-)

This is what lotussmart said in the Ireland section some weeks ago

[Battle_axe]

so whats the thoughts anyone gonna do some of the other rounds?

[Legacy555]

Hello racefriends,

thanks a lot for your entries for EOS start at Ardent Raceway.

Yesterday we got info, that there is another important event at same weekend, what we did not know before.
Now we are in contact with some people to decide, what to do. It´s not good to have at same weekend 2 nearly same events.

So please if you did not book hotels or anything else, wait for new informations.

If you booked anything for our EOS start, please contact me.

Because of your entryfee, that´s no problem, we can keep it for another date or we can give it back.

Sorry for no better information, but we hope to find a good solution for everybody.

Greets Uwe


Got this email this morning :(:(

[hazeandfizz]

Asked for a refund for this event about 2 weeks ago after the date change but no sign of one yet!

James.

[ConceptRacing]

Same here, sent another email last night and still waiting for a refund.

[Mugenextreme]

In the same boat lads. Not been refunded for Ardent event yet and stuck with hotel and Ferries bills which cant be refunded. Very unhappy about the whole thing.:( even tried a paypal request and nothing yet.

[ConceptRacing]

Still no refund from the organisers for this event, looks like thats my money lost then! would have thought with Scotty Earnst and Uwe Rheinhard involved there wouldnt have been a problem, shame could have been a really good event. certainly wont do this again!

[Mugenextreme]

Wow finally got a refund for the event. Shame I am still down for hotels etc. Safe to say I will never enter into another event hosted by this group in any class after this mess.

[hazeandfizz]

How did you get your money back? I've fired in about 5 emails with no joy.

James.

Wow finally got a refund for the event. Shame I am still down for hotels etc. Safe to say I will never enter into another event hosted by this group in any class after this mess.

[Mugenextreme]

James , I kept emailing uwe and scotty(at least once a week)looking for a update, plus i sent a paypal request hitting the reminder regularly( again every few days) back to the orginal a/c i paid for the fees.
Email wise i made a point of highlighting the dates and the amounts paid and if it was paid via gift or general payment so there was no confusion as to who i was and what my a/c name was.Plus of course what event you want the refund for.
My feeling is that uwe and scotty are not the paypal a/c holders hence the delay is happening with refunds as they have to confirm between who ever is invovled. Still no excuse as with the event cancelled there should have been a complete refund to everyone who had paid. If they could have posted up that we had paid it should have be easy enough to have just refunded those paid up drivers

Good luck with it.

[hazeandfizz]

Nice early Christmas present, got my entry fee back from the cancelled Rd1 today:thumbsup:.

Thank you.

[OneKiwi]

So whos going to Czech Republic - Hrotovice (febr 2012)

Im thinking hard of going just wondering if anyone needs someone to share room with or travel from vienna to the event with.

You guys in the uk might have a direct flight im not sure.

[Dadandson]

Hello,
9, 10 and 11 March. The second round of EOS is in Belgium, to Charleroi
The track for this event

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8213/track2i.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/80/track2i.jpg/)
Picture by Yves Deneyer

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/2145/track1h.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/10/track1h.jpg/)
Picture by Yves Deneyer

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4073/podiumjw.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/198/podiumjw.jpg/)
Picture by Yves Deneyer

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6309/podium2y.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/27/podium2y.jpg/)
Picture by Yves Deneyer

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4904/57308764.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/214/57308764.jpg/)
Picture by Yves Deneyer

Vidéo to EIR 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YCLPKsyjYRI

Inscription HERE (http://www.eurooffroadseries.com/)

JP

[trekkerkk]

awsome pics :thumbsup:


trekkker

[losi100]

Petite séance d'essai de pneus organisée aujourd'hui à l'Arena par JP.
Le but, tester des pneus DBoots pour voir ce qu'ils valent à l'Arena.
Aujourd'hui nico a essayer des Multibyte en gomme B ( les plus souple) avec un insert mou ( un insert moyen aurais sans doute été pas mal non plus si
pas meilleur ).
Un petit temps d'adaptation est bien sur nécessaire mais le verdicte est super un peu moins de griplatéral et un peu plus de motricité ,encourageant.Nous avons comparé à nos mini spike yellow habituel et le verdict du chrono est.......très léger avantage au Dboots.( nico avais seb W. comme sparing partner)
Et l'usure me direz vous et bien très bonne, en tout cas comparable. une bonne demi heure de roulage avant de voir une baisse de perf.....de quoi faire taire les grincheux en tt cas.
Nous avons également essayer des multibyte en gomme A avec insert ferme .....ben ça ,par contre il faut oublier.
Très bientôt l'essai d'un autre profil Dboots, histoire de ne pas mourir idiot

yesterday tyre test managed by JP at the Arena.
Why ,to test Dboots tyre and see how they goes at the Black Country Arena.
Nico as test Multybyte in B compound ( the softer) with a soft insert.
( medium insert may be good if not better )
After a short time of practice,the answer is very good.
A little less side grip a little more forward grip.
We have compared with our usual Schumacher Mini Spike andthe verdict from Chrono show a sligt advantage to....Dboots.( Nico has Seb Wartelle as sparing partner).
And about wear......really good track time ,the same as the Mini spike . A big half hour of race style driving before to see performance go down.
We also have try Mulibyte A compound with hard insert.....to forget.
Soon ( sunday) test from another Dboots profil

[losi100]

Bon nous n'avions plus envie d'attendre pour voir ce que les nanobyte donnaient à l'Arena .
Après avoir entendu pas mal de négatif ( surtout niveau rapidité d'usure ) nous nous demandions vraiment quoi penser.
( l'usure d'un pneu est beaucoups plus importante sur la moquette que sur l'astro donc il étais important de savoir )
Et bien franchement pas déçu. L'accroche est meilleur partout aussi bien en latéral qu'en ......longitudinal .
L'usure est faible et curieusement même si les picots montrent des signes de faiblesse après ( plus de) trente minutes de roulage ,l'accroche est toujours aussi bonne.
Pas question de devoir mettre des nouveaux pneus après chaques runs . Un set de pneus par jour suffiras amplement ( idem EIR donc)
Avantage donc au Nano avec de meilleurs performances , une plus grande facilité sur les parties glissantes et en plus il ne demandent pas de petit rodage ( comme le Multibyte )

Pour info Bruno Herremans a eu l'occasion de rouler avec les multibyte ( que nico avais déja usé hier ) et il les à trouvé extra ....

Voila ,JP va transmettre un feedback à Uwe mais nous pouvons tous être rassurés.
Un petit mot encore ,pour dire que quel que sois le pneus retenus ,l'organisateur garanti sur place la fourniture en suffisance .
( je précise car c'est revenu dans la conversation en soirée )

After having receveid bad feedback from quick wear of the Nanobyte on carpet we were curious to see them on astro.( tyres wear way quicker on carpet)
Good surprise also here. Due to there small pin profil , side grip and formard grip are top ,sameon the slippery wood and block surface.
After ( more than) 30 minutes of practice grip is always top same if pins showed sign of wear. So no need to change tyre every run. Totally possible to drive one set a day ( if not more).( Same as for the EIR race )
So advantage to the Nano for higher performance , control on slippery section and no break-in needed ( compared tothe multibyte).

Elvo has just try nico's used multibyte and found them Ace ( a chance i didn't try the Nano lol )
Tomorrow JP send a feedback to Uwe.
Another important point isthat tyre are normally availlable at the track directly from organizer.

Jean-michel

[Dadandson]

EOS 2012 TO BCA - Tires

After test by Nico Risser, The organizers chose the A. rubber Nanobytes
The tire is really performing at the Arena and its very moderate wear.
After 40 minutes of intensive run, the Nanobytes was still very efficient.
Test driver chose Nanobytes, the best tires from Dboots for the Arena track.
Après le test réalisé par Nico Risser, Les organisateurs ont choisi le Nanobytes en gomme A.
Le pneu est vraiment performant à l'Arena et son usure très modérée.
Après 40 minutes de run intensif, le Nanobytes était encore très performant.
Le pilote d'essai a choisi le Nanobytes, le meilleur pneus de chez Dboots pour notre piste

[jaydits]

been there last sunday and tested the nanobyte,s too
(a) compound realy good tire for the track
my son had some great practice race,s with nico and could drive booth smooth and aggresive with the tire
we used dboots on the front axels too cut outside pins and was wel balanced

hope to see you all at the eos at this fine track
joey

[flipside]

Is there a time table available? Would like to know if friday is open practise or not.

I also read that 2wd is in the morning, 4wd in the afternoon, is this correct?

[flipside]

Does anyone have any info regarding race timing?

[David Church]

Uwe posted on facebook doors open 8am friday with practice in heat order from 9am.

[Lowie]

hello DC, my caravan is ready for you :)v (key ==> JP)
Hope to meet you on sunday!