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November 2, 2013

Volker from Hagberg in Q2

Round 2 of qualifying at the season opener of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series produced a very close three way battle but a late charge by last night’s Q1 pace setter Ronald Volker saw the Yokomo driver just pip Xray’s Alexander Hagberg to make it two from two. Once again Awesomatix’s Freddy Sudhoff was in the mix claiming third despite two mistakes, finishing just ahead of Serpent’s Marc Fischer.

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November 1, 2013

Volker stamps authority on Day 1 of ETS

Volker

Defending champion Ronald Volker stamped his authority on the opening day of the new season of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series by topping the opening round of qualifying in the Czech Republic. Having set the pace in both free and controlled practice, the Team Yokomo driver capped off the perfect day by taking Q1 from Freddy Sudhoff and Naoto Matsukura in what was a very close battle which saw a number of drivers set the lead pace.

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November 1, 2013

Volker No.1 for Qualifying at Czech ETS

Ronald Volker

Ronald Volker backed up his early free practice form by topping the two rounds of controlled practice at the ETS season opener in the Czech Republic to secure himself the top seeding for qualifying. The Team Yokomo driver set the fastest time over 3-consecutive laps in the final practice by a convincing 3/10ths of a second from team-mate Naoto Matsukura. Behind the two Yokomos, Alexander Hagberg took his Xray to the third fastest time ahead of Freddy Sudhoff while Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard ended up only 9th fastest.

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November 1, 2013

Volker tops free practice at ETS Season opener

Reigning Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker has kicked off the defense of his 3rd consecutive title by putting his Yokomo top the times sheets in free practice. Drivers had two rounds of free practice this morning for the Czech Republic event, with the German fastest from team-mate Yannic Prumper. Volker’s main title rival for the past three seasons, Marc Rheinard was third fastest around the track which is proving popular with the drivers with Marc Fischer, Andy Moore and Viljami Kutvonen completing the Top 6.

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October 30, 2013

ETS descends on Czech Republic for start of Season #7

The World’s top electric touring car racers and teams will descend on the Czech Republic this weekend (1-3 Nov) for the opening round of Season #7 of the Euro Touring Series. Once again defending champions Yokomo are to be title sponsors of the world famous championship and the Japanese manufacturer will be looking to get the start of their title defense off to the perfect start just as they have done by winning the opening race of the last three seasons. With Ronald Volker chasing a fourth consecutive ETS title, in addition to ETS race winner Yannic Prumper Yokomo have bolstered their team for Round 1 by entering their reigning 3-time 1:12 World Champion Naoto Matsukura. However once again Volker’s biggest challenger is set to be fellow German Marc Rheinard, Tamiya’s 3-time former World Champion having finished runner up for the past three seasons having been champion of the 2009/10 season.

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October 30, 2013

Berlin to host EOS Round 2

The Euro Offroad Series is pleased to confirm that Round 2 of its championship for 1:10 Electric Offroad will take place in the German capital city of Berlin over the weekend of January 17-19. After a very successful start to the third season of the EOS in Poland just two weeks ago, the opportunity to stage the second event on the four round 2013/14 calendar was only officially given the green light by the local government authorities yesterday evening.

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October 26, 2013

Davide Ongaro joins Modelix Racing

Modelix Racing have the signing of talented twelve years old Italian driver Davide Ongaro to their World Racing Team. Davide will run the company’s range of Ultimate Racing products, Procircuit tires and Nitrolux fuel. “The whole Modelix team wishes you a successful RC racing career and wants to welcome Davide as well as his father and mechanic Mauro Ongaro to the team.”

Source: Modelix [modelixracing.com]

October 26, 2013

Smokem steel TRF drive cups

After an extensive research and development process, Smokem Racing have released their new steel drive cups for the TRF417. Made from a special hardened alloy steel, these are some of the toughest wearing drive cups available on the market today, verified by numerous test drivers over a range of racing conditions. They are also hard coated to further increase durability. The spool cups are ready for use in the TRF417 line of electric tourers without blades, while the gear diff cups suit the TRF417 Gear Diff Unit II with the white TRF417V5 blades.

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