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December 14, 2015

Malin Karlsen teams up with G-Force

G-Force have announced the signing of Sweden’s Malin Karlsen to their team. The young lady already has a pretty remarkable CV following a successful racing year with the 4WD title in the Swedish national series, the Swedish 2WD and 4WD Junior title and an overall 28th place in the 4WD class at the 2015 IFMAR Worlds in Japan. In the coming year Malin will use the company’s chargers, power supplies and other accessories and she has the following to say about the deal:

I’m excited to have been signed to the G-Force Factory Team and can’t wait to start using their product line of chargers, power supplies, tyre warmers and corner weights. After the initial tests with the G-Force products I’m confident they will be a great asset to help me accomplish my goals for the upcoming 2016 season. I want to thank Qing Chang at G-Force for this opportunity and look forward to be working together with the entire G-Force Team.

Source: G-Force [gforce-hobby.jp]

December 14, 2015

Ryan Cavalieri doubles at Top Gun Shootout

The 4th annual Top Gun Shootout was held at SDRC in San Diego, California with just under 200 entries. In the premier class of 2WD Modified Buggy Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri would grab the TQ and also the win in the A-mains from 2015 IMFAR 2WD Buggy World Champion Spencer Rivkin. Fellow Team Associated driver Christian Toic rounded out the podium result in 3rd. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class it was again Ryan Cavalieri who came out fastest after the qualifiers and just like in the 2WD class he was able to conserve his qualifying performance to bring home the title from Spencer. Tyler Hicks in third would round out the all Team Associated podium. Elsewhere in the Racing Truck class Brent Thielke would grab the overall win from Kevin Kimberly and Reed Harper.

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December 14, 2015

Rheinard opens new ETS season with Czech win

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Marc Rheinard has won the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Czech Republic. The Tamiya driver claimed the victory with a win in the third A-Main over Ronald Volker and Bruno Coelho, that also being the final order they would step on the podium in Hrotovice. After the thrilling last lap finish to A1, in which reigning champion Volker snatched the win from the Top Qualifier, A2 & 3 would be more straight forward for Rheinard despite Volker’s best efforts. An event that has been won each season by the champion elect, the win is a major boost for Rheinard and Tamiya in their ongoing quest to win back the title. Last winning the race in 2009/10, the race has since been the reign of Volker & Yokomo in their run of five consecutive championship titles. With the bonus point for TQ and his 14th ETS win, Rheinard travels to Round 2 in German in February, where he took his only win last year, with maximum Championship points.

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December 14, 2015

Harrington & Wise win at Virginia State Champs

The 2015 Virginia State Championships were held at MBR Speed Shop, in Salem Virginia with drivers from Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina as well as host state Virginia in attendance. In a highly contested Touring car class that featured some pretty stiff drivers from the surrounding states Tim Harrington took the TQ and he led a 3-car freight train separated from the pack. Mike wise, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, made an unforced error, and slipped to 3d, and that he held till the end while up front Tim Harrington would take the win from runner-up Blake Ryan.

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December 13, 2015

Rheinard takes comfortable A2 win

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Having had an A1 win snatched off him by Ronald Volker at the end of the final lap last night, Top Qualifier Marc Rheinard claimed a comfortable win in the second A-Main of the Yokomo Euro Tourig Series season opener in the Czech Republic. Leading from start to finish, a late charge from Volker would reducing Rheinard’s winning margin to half a second, the Tamiya driver was never under real pressure as on Volker and Coelho took turns at rolling. With the Top 3 breaking clear of the pack, Volker would as the race entered the second half roll out of the 3-car train promoting Coelho to second. That position change would only last a lap as Coelho would also roll his Xray handing the place back to the Yokomo driver, causing them to spread out and while Volker would take over a second out of Rheinard’s ending the race with three 12-second laps, the order remained unchanged with Coelho finishing 1.8-seconds back from Volker.

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December 13, 2015

Volker snatches last lap win from Rheinard

Ronald Volker snatched a thrilling last lap win in the opening A-Main of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series season opener in the Czech Republic. Starting second behind Marc Rheinard, the Yokomo driver would recover from a slow start to the race and helped by an uncharacteristic roll from the Top Qualifier force a pass on the 4-time World Champion in the final hairpin that sent onlookers crazy. With just the chicane to negotiate, Volker would win by 0.339 of a second from Rheinard, the Tamiya driver clearly dejected by his rivals overtake. Running a somewhat lonely race Alexander Hagberg completed the Top 3 followed by Xray team-mate Bruno Coelho who he got by when the Portuguese driver made a mistake 8 laps into the 23-lap encounter.

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December 12, 2015

Rheinard on pole for ETS Season opener

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Marc Rheinard will start the A-Main at the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Czech Republic from pole position. The Tamiya driver claimed the overall TQ despite Ronald Volker putting in a second TQ run in the final qualifier. With the fastest time of the four rounds which was set in Q3, this would give Rheinard the tie breaker and secure him his first pole since Round 2 last season in Muelheim-Kaerlich. Starting behind the long standing German rivals will be Bruno Coelho, the Xray driver having been on target to top the final heat and secure second on the grid until he rolled as the heat entered the final 2-minutes. Runner-up behind Volker in Hrotovice last year, Alexander Hagberg starts 4th with 2014 podium finisher Yannic Prumper completing the top half of the grid.

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December 12, 2015

Rheinard repeats in Q3 to again head Xray duo

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Marc Rheinard repeated his morning’s qualifying performance at the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Tamiya driver putting in a second & faster TQ run in the third & penultimate qualifier at the Czech Republic event. Again fighting it out over the 5-minutes with Xray’s Bruno Coelho, both just 8/10th shy of making 24 laps, the gap at the end would be a much closer 0.025 of a second. Making it a carbon copy of Q2, Alexander Hagberg continued as Mr. Consistent as he again was 3rd fastest in front of last night’s Q1 pace setter Ronald Volker.

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