2006 World Champion Andy Moore has topped the opening qualifier for the third round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in St.Polten, Austria. The factory Hot Bodies driver recorded 19 laps in 5:05.010 and becomes only the third driver this season to post a TQ run beating championship leader Ronald Volker and defending champion Marc Rheinard who are the only other drivers to have achieved the feat.
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Factory Team Associated driver Keven Hébert has got his Euro Touring Series debut off to an impressive start with his TC6 setting the fastest lap around the indoor asphalt track here in St.Polten, Austria. The first Canadian to take part in an ETS event, Hébert managed an 16.285 second lap on a track which he described as being a lot bigger than he was used to racing on in US racing scene. Pleased with his lap time, the 22-year-old said he needed to be more consistent but feels a second run should help him settle in better to the unfamiliar settings in particular the height of the drivers rostrum which by American standards towers above the track.
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Powermaster has swept the podium in 200mm Gas Touring Car at last weekend’s Florida Winter Nationals. Current World Champion and Xray factory driver Ralph Burch Jr. not only TQ’d the event but won followed closely by Team Powermaster team mates Paul Lemieux in 2nd and newly signed Powermaster drivers Scotty Gray and Scott Rister finishing third and fourth.
Source: VP Racing Fuels [vpracingfuels.com]
Byron Fuels Factory Team Driver, Mike Swauger took TQ and 1st place in the 1:8 on road class this past weekend at the 2011 Florida Winternats hosted by the Ft. Myers RC Car Club. Not only was Mike the fastest during qualifying, he dominated the A Main and cruised to victory using the new Xray RX8 with a comfortable 5 lap lead over 2nd place Paul Lemieux. Following closely behind in 3rd place was another Byron Fuels factory driver Paul Ciccarello.
Source: Byron [byronfuels.com]
Tamiya/Orion factory driver Jilles Groskamp took TQ and the Win in the TC Modified at the 17th annual Snowbirds Nationals held in Orlando Florida. In qualifying it was Paul Lemieux who set early TQ but was bettered by Jilles in the very last round on Saturday. His new 417 equipped with the latest Orion Vortex modified motor was fast the whole weekend and with some latest set-up changes he was unstoppable in the last round taking TQ by 1 sec over Lemieux. In the final Jilles was chased by Lemieux and Cyrul hard but they never really got the chance to get close. All three ran a flawless race and it was Groskamp who took the win over Paul and Josh. For Jilles this was the second time in a row taking the highly competitive TC Mod rubber title.
Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]
Adam Drake has taken victory at the first round of the TLR Winter series in both 1/8th buggy and truck. Last weekend kicked off the series, which consists of four rounds with points being awarded for qualifying and main event finishes, with this opening round attracting 124 entries. Qualifying was controlled by TLR / Novarossi driver Adam Drake, who was able to set the fastest time in both rounds of qualifying for buggy and truck. In the finals Adam continued to put in consistent laps and won the truck final by more than one lap from Jessie Robinson and won the buggy final by more than two laps again from Robinson. Round 2 of the series is February 19th.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
The first round of 2011 Jakarta Grand Prix series for 1/10 200mm was held at the JITC Race Track, with this championship series also used for “Indonesian Selection Championship” for the 2012 IFMAR World championship. The start of the race was delayed for about 1 hour to wait for the track to dry after it rained on Saturday night. In qualifying it was Bowie Ginting that took the TQ spot with the only 16 laps in the round followed by Fayakhun Andriadi, Chandra Yosef, Andhyka Pranusatya and Heri Susanto.
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Venom Team Driver Darryn Johnson took the new Gambler Short Course Truck to the top step of the podium after a hard fought battle at last weekend’s JConcepts clash in Australia. After an intense qualifying battle, Darryn started from 2nd on the grid. With tricky track conditions because of intermittent rain, Darryn used the mid mount motor configuration on the Gambler to good effect and took out the first two finals, winning the event overall.
Source: Venom [venom-group.com]
