Bridge City Sliders

Team BCS boys and our wildcard homies ran round three of the BCS club series yesterday at our Hamilton jam, this round was 10.5 open class and another wildcard round, wildcards continuing fine form and taking it out again! We had young shredder Boston (wildcard) claiming the top spot and getting the win over Floyd (Trendsetters) in the final, again big ups boys awesome display of driving on point and well deserved.

Wrapping up the podium was Team BCS driver Eric grabbing his first podium spot to date taking out 3rd place with some smooth consistent driving throughout the day and battles so well done Buddman.

Again mean as turnout with 20 drivers yesterday so thanks heaps to all the boys that turned up, awesome jams hangs and battles throughout the day and we really appreciate the support.

Top qualifiers this round were:
Q1 Haydn HGRC (Team BCS)
Q2 Danimal Brittan (Team BCS)
Q3 Jimi van Garderen (Team BCS)

Championship standings after round 3:

1st Simon Carden - 123
2nd Jimi van Garderen - 120
3rd Daniel Brittan - 104
4th Geordan Breitler - 101
5th Shane Gunn - 91
6th Eric Budd - 82
7th Andrew Roycroft - 72
8th Andrew Peters - 62
9th Justin Rose - 62
10th DeJaey Cooper - 44
11th Mark Rose - 38
12th Jason Blunsdon - 36
13th Kurt Fredericks - 8
14th Pete Horner - 6
15th Matt Clifford - 2

MANAWATU RC DRIFT CHAMPS 2026

A handful of Team BCS set off on tour over the weekend down to Palmerston North for the Manawatu rc drift champs.

Firstly we want to give a massive thanks to Vinny & Terry and all the organisers and everyone else who attended and travelled afar to make this event possible, super fun event and one we always look forward to attending so again what a awesome weekend away with the team and all the other boys we get to catch up with.

Results wise not the most successful for the team but nonetheless a epic weekend away, we had Jimi van Garderen picking up 2nd place in the restricted class, and also Jimi picking up 2nd place in the show and shine. Massive congratulations to him and also to all the other winners throughout the comp, you guys definitely put it on so big ups to you all.

Again lastly thanks to all the event organisers, all the judges that helped out, the comp winners and everyone who attended and made this event possible.
And to our boys cheers for making the trip down and making it a weekend to remember this weekend is always one to look forward to with the vibes and good times we have and this one was no different lol so shot boys!

Team BCS boys held our second round of the 2026 bcs club series yesterday at our Hamilton jam, this was a 17.5 restricted class round, again another awesome day with the boys good jams and battles had on a super fun track layout.

We had Simon taking the win in the final against Danimal in second place with Jimi rounding up the podium in third place.
Cheers to all the boys for a awesome day and here’s looking forward to round 3 (that being a wildcard round again)

Top qualifiers this round were:
Q1 Jimi van Garderen
Q2 Andrew Peters
Q3 Geordan Breitler

Championship standings after round 2:

1st Simon Carden - 89
2nd Jimi van Garderen - 83
3rd Geordan Breitler - 81
4th Daniel Brittan - 76
5th Andrew Peters - 62
6th Shane Gunn - 59
7th Justin Rose - 50
8th Andrew Roycroft - 42
9th Eric Budd - 40
10th Mark Rose - 28
11th DeJaey Cooper - 22
12th Jason Blunsdon - 22
13th Matt Clifford - 2

Waikato champs 2025

Morning all,
The 2025 Waikato Champs rc drift comp was held yesterday and it sure didn’t disappoint, here’s a post with the official results and some pictures attached of our events winners.

Again a huge thank you to all the people who attended and made this event possible. whether travelling from afar we had a couple of the boys hop over the ditch from Australia for this or if you are a local a big thank you, to all the sponsors Frankton Model Shop , Zerofire to event organisers, judges who helped and to all the competitors you all played a part in making it one of the biggest Waikato champs yet, so once again thank you.

Here are the official results for the different classes throughout the day.

OPEN CLASS:

1st Dillenger Rawiri
(Manji Klan / Team Yokomo)

2nd Greg Macken
(Team BCS / Team Yokomo)

3rd Jimi van Garderen
(Team BCS / Team Yokomo)

4th Kelly Blithe (HEXLAB)

Top qualifier Jade Hunt (Manji Klan)

RESTRICTED CLASS:

1st Floyd Buyers - Shaw (Trendsetters)

2nd Jade Hunt (Manji Klan)

3rd Richard Wihongi (Manji Klan)

4th Dillenger Rawiri
(Manji Klan / Team Yokomo)

Top qualifier Jade Hunt (Manji Klan)

SHOW & SHINE:

1st Simon Carden (Team BCS) - ae86

2nd Daniel Brittan (Team BCS) -s15

3rd Cory Pacza (Manji Klan) - BMW

Best newcomer
Shane Gunn (Team BCS) - s13 missile

Congrats to all the winners & cheers again to all for making this event a success, some outstanding driving was on hand throughout the day and it’s also really cool to see more people getting involved with the shell building side too. Once again big thanks to the rolling judges Tank,Matt,Jimi,Floyd and camera guys that helped out Daniel,Kurt on cameras and Simon for setting up the livestreams via social media we appreciate all the willing help you all give with these events.

Cheers again.

Matariki matsuri 2025
Few of the boys headed up north to HEXLab RC Drift Shop for the matsuri.
Such a awesome day jamming with all the different crews, always fun hunting doors with all you boys too many to mention, massive thanks to Justin Rood, Ben Efits and all the HEXLAB team up there for another outstanding event, again always so accomodating and providing the vibe for everyone, cheers again team we really appreciate these events.

Congrats to the winners of the main comp outstanding driving as per usual. We did have Jimi & Greg winning the team battles with team yokomo drivers Dillenger & Haydn against team Manji Klan in the final, team bcs drivers Andrew P, Danimal,Geordan & Simon picking up 3rd in the team battles comp.

Also had team bcs driver Geordan winning the 2 guys 1 car comp driving with Tudor so well done boys 👏🏼

Overall such a cool event thanks to everyone for making it what it was, the rc drift community certainly is thriving here in NZ.