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May 16, 2017

Dominic Quek wins Urban Touring Series Rd5

Round 5 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held this past weekend. During qualifying Dominic Quek (Xray) set the pace in the 17.5T Touring class when he twice put in the only 27-lap runs, narrowly missing a 28-lapper in Q2 to take the Top Qualifier honours. Allister Lim (Xray) qualified 2nd, while Leonard Sim (Xray) came in 3rd. In the finals, Dominic secured the early overall victory with convincing wins in both legs 1 and 2. With Dominic sitting out leg 3, four drivers were in with a shot to secure the remaining two podium spots. Despite a twin body tuck incident between Allister and Leonard early in the final leg, dropping them to the back of the field, both were able to fight back to the front. Ultimately, Leonard claimed the win in the final main and overall 2nd, while Allister had to settle for 3rd overall.

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May 15, 2017

Volker & Harper complete podium in Riccione

Ronald Volker has kept the championship race for this year’s ETS title going by winning the third A-Main in Italy to finish 2nd overall. With reigning champion Bruno Coelho wrapping up his third win of the season in A2, the Portuguese driver was a more than usual interested spectator of A3 as the failure of Volker to finish second overall would mean he would be crowned Champion for a second year. Leading away the field Volker will get the result he needs with pursuer Elliott Harper not able to get by the Yokomo driver. Harper would in fact come under attack from Marc Rheinard until the Infinity driver ran onto the grass. An important result for Volker, if not the one he came to Riccione seeking, it was probably Harper however who was the happiest driver on the podium, his first podium finish in 6-years marking the first for Schumacher in the premiere Modified class.

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May 15, 2017

Coelho moves closer to retaining title with ETS Italy win

Bruno Coelho has put one hand on retaining his Euro Touring Series title as he notched up his third ETS win of the season today in Riccione, Italy. The Xray driver repeated his 2016 win at the Marco Simoncelli RC Circuit with another win in A2, although Ronald Volker made the Top Qualifier work harder for the win second time round before a mistake ended the challenge. Allowing Elliott Harper into second, the Schumacher driver would finish 1.2-seconds back from Coelho with Volker a similar distance back in 3rd.

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May 15, 2017

Armand Lantheaume sweeps French EP Buggy Nats Rd3

For round 3 of this year’s French 1/10th Buggy National Championship the drivers travelled to Gonfreville l’Orcher near Le Havre in the northern part of the country. In the 2WD class Armand Lantheaume would take the overall TQ and win from Stephane Deroch and Ludovic Valtier (Team Associated) in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the 4WD class it was again Armand who excelled by winning the opening two A-mains, coming from the 2 spot on the grid. Young Clement Boda (Team Associated) would obtain the runner-up spot from Yokomo’s Sylvain Gallo-Selva in 3rd.

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May 15, 2017

Sven Janik wins at East German regionals Rd1

The opening round of the East German regionals was held at the RC Speedracer track in Bernau near Berlin. Sven Janik was the man to beat in the Formula class as he not only took the overall TQ but he also grabbed the day’s win from veteran racers Kai-Oliver Guttschau and Mirko Morgenstern in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 15, 2017

JBRL Electric Series Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the 2017 JBRL Electric Series was held at Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale, California this past weekend. In the premier 2WD Open Buggy class HB Racing’s Cody Turner would take the day’s win from Team Associated driver, Jako Mayo in 2nd and Tyler Fenster (Team Associated) on the 3 spot.

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May 15, 2017

Jokerteam GT12 Championship Rd3 – Report

With the third round of the 2017 Jokerteam GT12 Championship being held after a week of bad weather in northern Italy, many racers turned up with one eye on the sky, expecting weather conditions to be changeable. Thankfully the rain stayed away for Sunday but the track surface gathered lots of sand and water during the days preceding the race, leaving an overall lower traction than previous rounds. Drivers were left scratching their heads during the qualification rounds in order to find the ideal set-up of their GT12 cars. Despite the challenging conditions, Mattia Dall’Oca secured the TQ ahead of Ivan Milesi. The battle for the 3rd spot was a family affair between Alessandro and Roberto Rampini Alessandro coming out on top. In the incident-filled finals, Mattia carried his momentum over to grab an early overall win by taking the opening two A-mains by relatively comfortable margins. Ivan was then able to lock P2 after a fierce battle with Johnny Orsolin who recovered from 5th on the grid. In the overall championship Mattia Dall’Oca is now leading with 450 points from Johnny Orsolin (445 points) in 2nd and Alessandro Giubbilei (438 points) 3rd.

View the top 3 results here

May 15, 2017

Christopher Krapp joins Yokomo factory off-road team

Following the signing of German frontrunner Christopher Krapp to their electric on-road factory team some time ago, Yokomo have now announced the addition of Christopher to their factory off-road team. Having run Schumacher off-road kits in the past time, Christopher will now help promote Yokomo kits in his world wide campaign while also assisting with development work. Christopher says:

After already using the Yokomo Touring cars there was no better choice for me to also use their Off-road racing cars from now on. I am looking forward to represent the YZ-2 and YZ-4 platform in the best way I can nationally and internationally. See you trackside!

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]