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Jack and Joel dominate Euro Max Juniors, whilst James Greenway takes 3rd in Seniors. Strawberry Racing took a significant step towards retaining the Junior Euro Max crown it won in 2009, after Jack Barlow and Joel Affolter locked out the top two steps of the podium in Austria last weekend (17/18 July)

The Speedworld circuit at Bruck, near Vienna hosted the penultimate round of the series and saw the English and Dutch drivers win four of the six heats. In the pre final, Jack came through from grid eight to finish second, with Joel opting for a strong points finish in 3rd.

World number one Ukyo Sasahara initially led the main final, but a superbly timed and taken manoeuvre by the Strawberry pair saw them seize the advantage. Showing great maturity, Affolter wisely gave Barlow room when the latter attacked for the lead and then followed him home. It was Jack’s first victory in Europe and has set up an exciting, if nerve wracking, finale at Genk in September…

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Ashley Todds AMT Racing Team with its two drivers, Tom Joyner and Matthew Graham delivered a remarkable performance against the might of the works teams at the recent (8/11 July) European KF and KF3 Championships at Genk. The small, close knit outfit had Tom Joyner as their sole representative in the KF2 category, and despite competing in only his third race of the season, he was in superb form.

“Prior to Genk, Tom had only raced in two events an ABKC Winter Series round and the European Championship Qualifier at PFi, explained Ashley. “In Belgium he was 11th fastest in timed qualifying; was 3rd twice, took a 5th and 22nd in the heats to put himself 12th overall in the intermediate rankings. In the pre final he dropped to 15th on the opening lap, but drove a great race to finish 5th.” A difficult start in the main final saw Tom shuffled down to the 11th in the first corner, but he quickly began to make up ground and eventually guided the new Gillard 010b v2s chassis up to an excellent 4th place…

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Ed Brand became the third driver in as many races to stand on the top step of the Euro Max Challenge podium after winning last weekend’s (17/18 July) latest round at the appropriately named Speedworld circuit at Bruck, near Vienna.

Racing with the Hungarian Kalman Motorsport team, Ed began his weekend brightly by recording the 3rd fastest lap (out of 72 competitors) during timed qualifying. From there, he won two of his three preliminary heats and was 2nd in the other giving him pole position for the first of Sunday’s two finals. In a tense race, the Freem UK backed driver was able to maintain the upper hand over Holland’s Joey Van Splunteren, beating him to the chequered flag by barely two tenths of a second…

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The Euro Max Challenge is set to go down to the wire, after Jack Barlow triumphed in yesterday’s (18 July) penultimate round at the appropriately named Speedworld circuit at Bruck, near Vienna. The Strawberry Racing star was in strong form throughout the event and signalled his intent with 3rd place in timed qualifying (out of 47 participants). In the following three heats, he took a brace of wins but was given a contentious time penalty in his second race after he was adjudged to have been a little too robust with a passing manoeuvre and classified in 17th position…

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