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December 11, 2015

Volker sees off Rheinard in Q1

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Ronald Volker TQ’d the opening qualifier of Season #9 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Yokomo driver seeing off arch rival Marc Rheinard, the pair having swapped the top spot on the time screens throughout the encounter. Separated by just 2/10ths, the German’s pace left them well clear of Alexander Hagberg, a clean run leaving the Swede third fastest as many of the drivers in the top heat made mistakes. One driver to benefit from these mistakes was pre-race favourite Viljami Kutvonen, who running in the second fastest heat, would get a fourth for the first of the four scheduled rounds of qualifying.

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December 11, 2015

Volker tops seeding from Rheinard & Coelho

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Ronald Volker is the top seed for qualifying at the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series. Having set the pace in the first timed practice, the reigning champion would further improve his 3-consecutive lap time in the second & final run. Behind the Yokomo driver it was his long standing rival Marc Rheinard who would make the biggest improvement between rounds to go P2 just 0.067 of a second off. Having been second fastest in the CP1, Bruno Coelho would complete the Top 3 a further 1/10 behind. Making a return to the ETS, former race winner Adrian Berntsen would provide the biggest surprise of practice as he took his relatively unknown Gizmo chassis to the fifth fastest time behind former Xray team-mate Alexander Hagberg.

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December 11, 2015

Volker tops 1st timed practice at ETS season opener

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Ronald Volker has opened the ninth season of Yokomo Euro Touring Series at the top of the time sheets. The reigning champion set the fastest 3-consecutive laps of the first timed practice with his new Yokomo BD7 2016 heading the Xray’s of Bruno Coelho and Alexander Hagberg in the Czech Republic. An event which Volker has won during each of his five successful ETS title campaigns, the German was just 0.064 faster than Coelho, the Portuguese driver a much stronger package than 12-months ago when he made his ETS debut at the Hrotovice event.

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December 10, 2015

Rivals strive to end Volker/Yokomo reign in ETS#9

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The Czech Republic is the venue for the start of Season #9 of the Euro Touring Series this weekend (11-13 Dec) with the world’s best drivers descending on the small town of Hrotovice in their quest to win one of the sport’s most coveted titles. A season in which the World famous championship will celebrate its 50th race, it is again Ronald Volker and Team Yokomo who everyone is out to beat, the successful combination targeting a sixth consecutive title. Maintaining their long standing sponsorship of the ETS, Yokomo also remain as title sponsors for a sixth season. The big change for the 2015/16 season is the arrival of Volante as the new tyre supplier for the touring car classes and the change has created an air of anticipation among Yokomo’s rival teams, none more than long running championship runners up Marc Rheinard and his Tamiya team.

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December 8, 2015

Jeremy Limoges joins Xray

Xray have announced the signing of multiple French Champion Jeremy Limoges to their team for the 2016 season. The electric on-road specialist will attend at all major regional and national races along international events such as the EFRA Euros and the ETS. Jeremy will run Xray’s T4 and X1 cars and he has the following to say:

I have been racing as a private racer with Xray since 2006 starting back in the time with my first T2 and over the years continued through the T3 platform until today. Thanks to the performance and reliability of the Xray cars I was able during the years to grab several major achievements and victories and being satisfied with the team work and team spirit there is no other choice for me than Xray. I am happy to be part of the Xray team to represent the team in France and I will do my best also at international races in 2016. Thanks to Xray for the given trust in me.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 7, 2015

Maifield takes new 2WD to victory at JConcepts INS

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Ryan Maifield has taken the overall 2WD Mod Buggy win at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals in Omaha Nebraska. Winner of A1 from fourth on the grid, the TLR driver was gifted an early Christmas present in A2 when arch rival & Top Qualifier Ryan Cavalieri rolled his Associated onto its roof on lap 6 allowing Maifield to go to the front. While Maifield would make a mistake in the double double while leading, Cavalieri would simultaneously get it wrong in the same section of track allowing Maifield to survive to win the leg and claim the overall win on his dirt race debut with the TLR22 3.0. World Champion Spencer Rivkin would take a hard fought win in A3 but on the tie break it was Cavalieri who got second with the the 17-year-old having to settle for completing the podium at the Hobbyplex.

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December 4, 2015

Patrick Gollner signs with Xray

Xray have announced the signing of Austrian Junior Champion and multiple ETS finalist, Patrick Gollner to their team. For 2016 Patrick will focus on the touring car class and he will be joining the Xray Factory team at all major races in Europe including the EFRA European Championships, the ETS as well as the Austrian nationals. Patrick says:

I am very thankful to get this great opportunity to be part of the famous Xray team. With my focus on more international races I wanted to be part of the strongest and best working team which Xray is with no doubts. The T4 platform along with the support are hard to beat and therefore were for me the logical choice. I will do my best for the team and will work as hard as possible. A big thanks to the whole Xray family for this great opportunity and the big trust in me.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 2, 2015

Marco Baruffolo joins Hot Race Tyres

Italian company Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of 2013 European Champion B, Marco Baruffolo to their team. Following a very strong showing this year Marco will not only use Hot Race’s tyres in the 2016 season but he, along with his father, will also assist with product development during his campaign that will see appearances at all major national and international races including the IFMAR Worlds in Las Vegas.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]