June 29, 2010

Wang Hai Feng wins Hobbywing EP On Road Champs

Wang Hai Feng wins Hobbywing EP On Road Champs

Over 80 racers gathered in Shanghai, China this past weekend for the 3rd Annual Hobbywing EP On Road Championship. This race has become the biggest EP race in China and one that attracts top Chinese racers from all over the country.  Four different classes were raced including F1, Sport, Stock and Open Class Modified. In the Open Class Modified race, Wang Hai Feng, China’s number one EP driver took TQ as well as first place driving his HB Cyclone TC. Salton Dong, came in second with his Yokomo BD5 while Speed Passion Team Driver JJ Wang took third with his Tamiya 416X.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

June 28, 2010

Matsukura’s domination ends as Rheinard tops Q5

Matsukura's domination ends as Rheinard tops Q5

An exciting penultimate round of qualifying has brought Day 2 of the IFMAR 1:12 World Championships to a close with Marc Rheinard topping Q5 to end the domination of defending Champion Naoto Matsukura.  Rheinard was the only driver to record 37 laps for the round which saw the overnight Top 3 qualifiers all make mistakes.

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June 28, 2010

Matsukura tops opening qualifier

Matsukura tops opening qualifier

Defending World Champion Naoto Matsukura has topped the opening round of qualifying for the 2010 IFMAR 1:12 World Championship.  The Japanese star set the pace with a 37 lap run in 8:06.802 which was almost 4 seconds up on his closest rival Ronald Volker.  The only other driver to record 37 laps for the first of six qualifiers was Dutch driver Jilles Groskamp.

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June 28, 2010

Additive switch transforms 1:12 Worlds

Additive switch transforms 1:12 Worlds

Day 2 of the IFMAR 1:12 World Championship at Burgdorf, Germany, has a new air of excitement after it was decided this morning to allow a second tyre additive to be used.  Yesterday the cars didn’t look good on track and drivers complained of a complete lack of traction. Despite a full day of running on the CRC carpet no black line appeared raising concerns about the batch of controlled additive provided by the race organisers.  Following a team managers meeting IFMAR made the decision to allow the use of a second additive and immediately the results could be seen with a black line appearing after just two groups of drivers completed 4 minutes each on the track.

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June 27, 2010

Perfect start for World Champion Matsukura

Perfect start for World Champion Matsukura

Defending 1:12 World Champion Naoto Matsukura has ended the opening day of the 2010 IFMAR World Championships here in Burgdorf in the perfect position by putting his new Yokomo at the top of the time sheets ahead of Touring Car World Champion Marc Rheinard.  Both drivers really upped the pace in the final round of controlled practice recording 3 consecutive laps in 40 seconds.  Having set the pace in the opening controlled practice Marc Fischer failed to improve on his time but made three different cars in the Top 3.

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June 27, 2010

Electric Worlds gets underway in Germany

Electric Worlds gets underway in German

Two years of waiting to lay claim to the greatest crown in the sport are over for the World’s top electric drivers with the 2010 IFMAR Electric Track World Championship having just got underway here in Burgdorf, Germany.  Kicking off the event is the 15th running of the 1:12 World Championship with 8 of 10 Finalists from Thailand including reigning Champion Naoto Matsukura present.  The now 16-year-old Japanese protege of r/c legend Masami Hirosaka, is very relaxed despite having the huge weight of defending his title on his shoulders and this has been further increased by the fact he is debuting Yokomo’s first competition 1:12 chassis.

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June 25, 2010

Yannic Pruemper joins Yokomo

Yannic Pruemper joins Yokomo

Yokomo have announced that they have signed current European Junior Champion Yannic Pruemper. Just in time for the next week’s World Championship the former Tamiya racer, who won the ETS series race in Poland in 2009, will run the company’s successful BD5 Worlds Spec chassis. Continuing to run Speed Passion products, Yannic joins an already strong team headed by Ronald Volker and since only recently getting the car has been testing intensively ahead of his competition debut with the Japanese manufacturer in Burgdorf. Yannic wished to thank Tamiya for their support over the past number of years and looks forward to a successful partnership with Yokomo.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

June 24, 2010

Bultynck & Vekemans dominate Belgian Rd4

Bultynck & Vekemans dominate Belgian Rd4

The fourth round of the Belgian touring car nationals took place last weekend on the large technical HRT track. In the EFRA class it was Olivier Bultynck who claimed pole position ahead of Manuel Henriet in 2nd and Thomas Stockman in 3rd. In the finals Bultynck could easily win in the first leg ahead of Henriet, but in the 2nd leg a broken spur gear saw him retire on lap 2 allowing Henriet to take the win ahead of Stockman. In the final deciding final there was 4 drivers who could still take the overall win and it started badly for the pole man Oliver who spun on the dirty track and dropped back. But he kept his head down and worked his way passed the leaders to take over at the front and claim his 2nd leg win to take the overall. Manuel came home 2nd to claim 2nd overall while Thomas took 3rd overall.

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