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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 23, 2015

1st Annual Club RC Dash for Cash – Report

Club R/C located in Houston, Texas recently hosted their first Dash for Cash race. On Friday, the doors opened at 9am for a full day of practice. The track had a new layout installed less than a week ago so it was starting to build grip as practice went along. On Saturday morning doors opened at 7am with 2 hours of open practice. Drivers meeting and the start of round 1 qualifying at 9:15am. Qualifying was based on your 1 fastest round. 4 full rounds were run on Saturday. All A mains where set with the 1 fastest qualifier and no bumps with triple A mains being run to decide the over all winner of each class.

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June 22, 2015

Asian On-Road Championships Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Asian On-Road Championships was held in Adelaide, Southern Australia over the weekend. The event saw some 100 entries split in the five different classes of 1/10 Touring Car Modified, 13.5 Stock, 21.5 Stock, Formula as well as 1/12th scale. The race was held at the permanent indoor asphalt track of Hobby Habit on a medium sized, very smooth and pretty high-bite track. In the Touring Car Modified class Yokomo’s Ronald Völker would take the TQ from Ryan Maker (VBC) who shot into the 2 spot by winning the final qualifier on new tyres as Ronald backed off. Alexander Hagberg put his Xray car on the 3 spot, saving tyres for the triple A-mains. Alex’ strategy would pay off as he came in 2nd in A1 and A3 to take the runner-up spot behind Ronald while Ryan fall back to 3rd place.

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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]

June 22, 2015

Ronnefalk & Martin win at 1/10th Euros warm-up

The warm-up race for this year’s EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championships was held at the Robin Hood Raceway in the UK. HB’s David Ronnefalk would take the TQ in the 2WD class and he went on to win the first and second A-main to take the win early. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg snatched the win in the third leg to take the runner-up spot from Lee Martin (Yokomo). In the 4WD class it was Lee Martin (Yokomo) who came out fastest from HB’s David Ronnefalk and Serpent driver Jörn Neumann. Despite Martin Bayer (Xray) taking the win in the opening A-main the overall victory went to Lee Martin from Martin Bayer on the runner-up spot. The podium was rounded out by David Ronnefalk in 3rd.

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June 22, 2015

Arnold, Soulignac & Cavard win at French TC Nats Rd4

The forth round of the French Electric Touring Car Nationals was held in Tours. In the Modified class Leo Arnold secured himself the pole position early by TQing the first two qualifying rounds. In the opening final Leo had a coming together with a competitor and he ended the leg early but wins in the second and third A-main got him the overall win in front of Alexandre Laurent and Thomas Vingeron in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The 10.5T Stock class had Arnaud Soulignac taking the winning honours from Pierre Delorme in 2nd while Jean Delorme would round out the podium in 3rd. Last but not least in the 13.5T Touring class Vincent Cavard came out successful from Christophe Pyszczek in 2nd and Rudy Amaral in 3rd.

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June 18, 2015

A race for Guillen – Announcement

The La Nurcia track in Italy, host of the The Italian Job race in August, will hold the “A race for Guillen” event at the 25th and 26th of July. The charity race for young Spaniard Juan Guillermo Carrasco, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, was set up to raise the awareness and to collect money for a Spanish organisation that does research on this rare disease. The race will take place in nitro and electric classes and more information (in Spanish language) can be found here.

June 18, 2015

Naoto Matsukura joins Xpert R/C

Xpert R/C have announced that multi-time IFMAR World Champion Naoto Matsukura is joining Xpert as a factory driver. Naoto is known as one of fastest drivers with any type of car from 1/12th on road, 1/10th touring car to 1/10th off-road. As one of his most recent successes Naoto was the Top Qualifier and won the 4WD Open class at the IFMAR Worlds Warm Up race using Xpert R/C products.

Source: Xpert R/C [xpert-rc.com]