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June 27, 2015

Bruno claims home TQ for Xray

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Bruno Coelho has secured a home TQ for Xray at the final round of the 2014/15 Yokomo Euro Touring Series. Claiming his first win of the World famous championship at the previous round in Luxembourg, today’s qualifying result at the Hudy Racing Arena is the first time the Portuguese star has taken the honour of being Top Qualifier. With light rain forcing the cancellation of the fourth scheduled round of qualifying going into the third round Coelho’s Q1 & 2 TQ runs meant he already assured of pole position. Team-mate Alexander Hagberg however would go on to take Q3 once action resumed on a dry track compounding Xray’s celebrations as the result made for a 1-2 on the grid for the Slovakian manufacturer. Behind Hagberg, Meen Vejrak had a strong qualifier to post the 2nd fastest time securing the Yokomo driver third on the grid ahead of Marc Rheinard. For champion elect Ronald Volker he will have to lay claim to his fifth consecutive ETS title from 8th on the grid.

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June 26, 2015

Xray 1-2 as Coelho repeats in Q2

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Bruno Coelho headed an Xray 1-2 in the second round of qualifying at the sixth & final round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Slovakia. As darkness started to fall on the Hudy Racing Arena, Coelho backed up his Q1 topping performance with a super fast TQ time ahead of team-mate Alexander Hagberg. While Coelho had a clear advantage in the cooler night conditions over his rivals behind him little separated the next three drivers with Yannic Prumper completing the Top 3 behind Hagberg with Marc Fischer only 1/10th further back. For title challenger Marc Rheinard and reigning champion Ronald Volker the qualifier would see both drivers lack pace to set the 5th and 6th fastest times respectively.

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June 26, 2015

Coelho TQs opening qualifier in Slovakia

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Bruno Coelho has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Slovakia. The Xray driver topped the times at the Hudy Racing Arena from Serpent’s Viktor Wilck as a number of drivers suffered heavy damage following offs. Reigning champion Ronald Volker destroyed his Yokomo when it made contact with the barriers after flying off the track at the Arena main straight left hand kink. Alexander Hagberg would suffer similiar faith. The only driver who can deny Volker a fifth consecutive ETS title, Marc Rheinard would also crash out of the qualifying after a mistake over the curbing in the infield launched his Tamiya into a catch wall resulting in a broken wheel. With Rheinard a DNF, it was Akio Sobue who would be the top Tamiya with the Japanese star completing the Top 3.

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June 26, 2015

Prumper tops practice at ETS finale

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Yannic Prumper topped practice at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series season finale at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. The Yokomo driver was fastest over 3-consecutive laps from team-mate Ronald Volker. The only driver in with a chance of denying Volker & Yokomo their fifth consecutive ETS title, Marc Rheinard completed the Top 3 just ahead of former team-mate Viktor Wilck, the pair having claimed a TRF 1-2 at the event last year.

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June 25, 2015

ETS #8 concludes with record entry

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The Yokomo Euro Touring Series concludes its 8th season this weekend (June 26-28) at the World famous Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia with the sixth & final round highlighting the championship’s continued world wide appeal. Attracting a record 365 entries, the season finale will also mark a new record for the number of nations represented with the flags of 36 different countries set to hang at the 45th running of an ETS race weekend. On the track the main focus come Sunday will be on crowning champions with both the Ride Modified and the Xray Pro Stock titles still to be decided.

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June 25, 2015

ORCA power for Miguel Matias

ORCA Portugal have announced the signing of former European Champion and multi-time Portuguese National Champion Miguel Matias to their team. The Xray factory driver will use ORCA electronics in his electric rides from now on.

Source: ORCA [orcarc.com]

June 23, 2015

Yannic Prümper signs with Hitec

Hitec have announced the signing of German frontrunner Yannic Prümper to their team. Yannic, who won the Italian round of this year’s Euro Touring Series, will use the company’s Lynx 4S radio system from the upcoming ETS finale in Slovakia on. The Yokomo factory driver has the following to say about the deal:

I am very happy to be part of the Hitec team and I cannot await my first race with the new radio system. The transmitter is very well balanced and perfectly fits my needs. I really look forward to use the Lynx 4S at the ETS finale in Trencin.

Source: Hitec [hitecrc.de]

June 22, 2015

Simon Moss teams up with Yokomo

Yokomo have announced the signing of UK’s Simon Moss to their electric off-road team. Simon, who only left his long-term sponsors Schumacher last week, will further strengthen Yokomo’s off-road team in the UK by joining front runners Lee Martin and Tom Cockerill. This is what Simon has to say about the deal:

I’m really looking forward to joining the Yokomo team and can’t wait to start racing their already strong platform! I want to thank Minoru, Shin Adachi and Lee Martin for making this move possible and hope to strengthen the team across the UK and Europe. I’m looking forward to attending the final rounds of the BRCA Nationals and competing in the EOS at the end of the year and doing what I can to support the team!

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]