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March 3, 2012

Krapp is Top Qualifier at ETS Gran Canaria

Factory Kyosho driver Christopher Krapp is Top Qualifier for the third round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Spanish island of Grand Canaria after the 19-year-old German took the final round of qualifying to deny Xray’s Alexander Hagberg the honour on tie break. Each posting two TQ runs during the fifth rounds of qualifying, Krapp’s Q1 performance, which was the fastest 5-minute run of the day, secured the World finalist his first & Kyosho’s second ETS pole position in the A-Main of the premiere class.

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March 3, 2012

Another TQ run from Hagberg in Gran Canaria

Alexander Hagberg put in another TQ run at the third round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Gran Canaria, the Swede topping the penultimate qualifier ahead of Ronald Volker and fellow countryman Viktor Wilck. The top three all benefited from fresher tyres with both Hagberg and Volker running brand new tyres while Vilck’s tyres had only three laps on them after he pulled up early in the previous qualifier following a roll.

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March 3, 2012

Krapp TQs first qualifier in Gran Canaria

Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the third round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Gran Canaria bringing Champion Ronald Volker’s domination of qualifying this season to an end. Driving his TF6-SP, the young German driver took the first of the five rounds of qualifying at the outdoor asphalt track by just over half a second from Volker with Viktor Wilck setting the third fastest time.

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March 2, 2012

ETS arrives in Gran Canaria

Better known as a holiday destination rather than a place to host an international RC race, this week the island of Gran Canaria has seen an influx of people carrying suspicious hand luggage through Las Palmas airport as the top touring cars drivers from around the world arrived for Round 3 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series. A new addition to this season’s ETS schedule, the event gives drivers a very welcome break from indoor carpet racing thanks to the Mediterranean climate of the Spanish island.

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March 2, 2012

Dustin Evans to contest Euro Offroad Series

Current American 2WD Buggy Champion Dustin Evans is to contest the rest of the inaugural TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby. The 26-year-old, who took the then newly launched TLR22 to 2WD victory at the EOS Pilot race in Sweden last year on his first ever visit to Europe, will join fellow American Mike Truhe and Portugal’s Miguel Matias to strengthen Team Losi Racing’s EOS campaign with their main focus being on securing the 2WD Buggy title.

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March 1, 2012

Root & Dunford win Rd3 of TLR Series Sunday

TLR and Losi’s Frank Root and Ryan Dunford were on hand at the 3rd round of the TLR Series Sunday at Orange Country R/C Raceway (OCRC). The track had fantastic traction and a very fast layout and the entry count was very strong at over 110 and a great day of racing was had by all. There were 2 heats of modified buggy and the qualifying action was intense. Frank Root had a great run going in the first round, but a late mistake would drop him from a possible TQ to 5th. The second round saw Frank show the same speed from round 1 and keep it clean throughout to take a strong TQ by over 4 seconds. When the tone went off, Root jumped out to a quick start to gap the field. About 4 minutes in, Frank had a slight interaction with traffic and surrendered the lead. He would battle wheel to wheel for the next 3 laps and took the lead for good with 1 lap to go. After regaining the lead, Frank would make it by for his 16th lap, and cruise home for the win.

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February 29, 2012

JConcepts Double Dees SC in Gold compound

The JConcepts Double Dees tire is perfect for a variety of track surfaces. Wear is always the trade off when going to a small pin tire and with the Double Dees for Short Course, these worries have been minimized. Running qualifiers and main events on the same high performance tire is now possible. The Double Dees design is a world leading tire combination right out of the package, the unique technology combined with compounds such as the new gold compound allow the flexibility necessary to compete on even the most demanding surfaces for an extended period of time. Double Dees in gold compound excel on indoor hard packed surfaces with either dry or wet conditions.

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February 29, 2012

Eckert & Law win JConcepts SCS Rd2

Round 2 of the JConcepts Super Cup Series was hosted by New Red Hobbies in Ocala, FL. With easy 200+ entries, this one day race event has become the race to attend. This track is also selected to be one of the JConcepts Indoor National’s locations so all FL racers wouldn’t miss this chance to get their practice in time. In Pro 2 SC, their was an intense battle between JConcepts’ Paul Wynn and Kyosho’s Ryan Eckert. During qualifying both drivers were only separated by less than 1 sec of each other. During the A main, Ryan got the hole shot, leading Paul in the main but Paul had the faster car with 20.6 sec as best lap & 20.8 sec as his top 5 average lap, Ryan Eckert was still able to hold off Paul with his consistent driving ability & well setup Kyosho Ultima SC-R. In the end, Ryan Eckert took the win Paul Wynn 2nd & Daimon Borkowicz 3rd.

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