2015 Speed King Tour Rd2 – Report

The second round of the 2015 Speed King Tour was held at the World Jam Racing indoor tarmac track in the Gunma prefecture. Run in Touring Car Modified and Stock classes the event, as usual, attracted both local talent as well as nationally and internationally experienced drivers. In the Modified class 2014 “Speed King” and winner of the opening round, Akio Sobue (Tamiya), started the qualifying taking TQ in round 1 but come the second qualifier VBC driver Yugo Nagashima scored the fastest time only to see Akio striking back in the third qualifier to take the overall TQ.

The Modified A-main to no one’s surprise was dominated by the battle between Akio and Yugo but only until Yugo ran into problems around the 4 minute mark. This allowed Akio to cruise to the win with 2014 1/12th scale National Champion Hayato Ishioka (VBC) grabbing the runner-up spot from ARC driver Yusuke Goto. With the win at round 2 Akio now is in a good position to defend his title this season.

In the Stock class Kengo Yabata came out successful in front of Hiroshi Arikawa and Mamoru Otsuki. The next round of the 2015 Speed King Tour will take place at Twin Ring Honguu track on April 12th.

Source: Speed King Tour [facebook.com]