Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker is Top Qualifier for the opening round of the 2011/12 Yokomo Euro Touring Series. Having TQ’d the opening two qualifiers in Germany, the reigning champion laid claim to his sixth ETS pole position when he topped Q3 with a new fastest time. The German once again outpaced the Tamiya of Marc Rheinard with Xray’s Alexander Hagberg enjoying his best round to set the third fastest time.
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Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker has got his 2011/12 Yokomo Euro Touring Series campaign off to the best start possible by backing up his pace in practice with a TQ run in the opening round of qualifying in Germany tonight. The defending champion took the first of the four scheduled qualifiers by 2/10th of a second from Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard with Viktor Wilck third.
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Defending champion Ronald Volker has set the pace in the opening timed practice at the season opener of the 2011/12 Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Yokomo ace fastest over three laps from his great rival and last season’s runner-up Marc Rheinard with Xray’s Alexander Hagberg third fastest.
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The Chinese government held the first annual Beijing International RC Invitational race recently in Beijing and it was the largest race in China’s R/C history. Overall 100 drivers in two classes EP and GP raced on a world-class racetrack built specially for this event. The government invited many renowned drivers from around the world including former world champions. Novarossi team driver JJ Wang drove his Novarossi powered Mugen MTX5 to win the GP championship on a damp track caused by light rain during the final day. Shepherd driver Ronald Volker came in second with Kyosho’s Takaaki Shimo taking third.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.com]
After a successful season in 2010/2011 Xray is proud to announce that the 2011/2012 Euro Touring Series will be again supported and sponsored by Xray. Both the ETS organisers and the Xray company have agreed to create a mutual cooperation that will see the Slovakian company as a primary sponsor of the world’s biggest r/c touring car championship. This is a great news for all Xray drivers as the Xray factory team will be available at all six rounds of the ETS to provide full support and service. Xray guarantees that their service team will also be available at every race with a complete range of all spare parts and will provide technical and set-up help to all Xray drivers. Just look for the familiar Xray tent. To cap it all off, all Xray drivers at every race will receive a FREE promo package that includes Xray T-shirt, pit towel and stickers.
More new products from Elangears, who continue to expand their setup tool line with the release of this new ride height gauge. Available in orange and black, they allow for quick measurement under the chassis between 2 and 11mm in 0.5mm increments.
Source: Elangears [elangears.com]
Former factory driver Andreas Myrberg from Sweden has gotten in touch to tell us about his new product & distribution venture called AME. Under that company T-Shox is a new brand which focuses on shocks and accessories for shocks, with their first product aiming to reinvent the traditional shock absorber. The first release will be for the 1/10 touring class and the prototypes will make their race debut at this weekend’s ETS season opener in Germany with both Andreas and test driver Freddy Südhoff running the new units. A unique design in that the shock shaft goes through the top and bottom of the shock, this configuration eliminates the need for a volume compensation bladder and ensures that the shaft is perfectly aligned in the shock body at all times, reducing wear and friction. The benefits, which early testing has confirmed, are more grip and steering yet giving the car a super smooth feel. You can view more photos and details on the company website here.
Hudy have released this very handy and useful double-sided compact box for hardware storage. Tough, durable translucent plastic box has 10 fixed and 16 adjustable internal compartments and a separate latching cover on each side. Easy, quick-access storage for small parts it features high-quality Hudy graphics.
Source: Hudy [hudy.net]
