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May 31, 2015

Groskamp wins A1 in Luxembourg

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Jilles Groskamp has won the opening A-Main at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg, the HB driver benefiting from an early mistake from Top Qualifier Ronald Volker. Starting from second on the grid, the Dutch driver toook just two laps to get his PRO5 to the front getting by Alexander Hagberg early in the opening lap and then passing Volker in the same section of track on the second run through when the Yokomo driver lost rear traction and got out of shape. While Groskamp took control of things up front it was Bruno Coelho who provided all the entertainment, the Xray driver recovering from a Stop & Go to finish 3rd ahead of team-mate Alexander Hagberg and Serpent’s Viktor Wilck.

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May 30, 2015

Volker is Top Qualifier in Luxembourg

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Ronald Volker has moved a step closer to clinching a fifth consecutive Euro Touring Series championship title after the Yokomo ace claimed the overall TQ in Luxembourg. His 18th time to become Top Qualifier, the German secured pole position for tomorrow’s penultimate round of Season #8 when he completed a perfect day at Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg” with a third TQ run in the fourth & final round of qualifying. Denying Volker the TQ in the opening qualifier last night, a late P3 in the final heat will see Alexander Hagberg start from second on the grid. Behind the Swede, Volker’s bonus TQ championship point ending his title hopes, HB’s Jilles Groskamp will start third followed by Xray’s Bruno Coelho. Volker’s other two title rivals Marc Rheinard and Yannic Prumper start 6th and 8th respectively meaning the are going to need to pull off something impressive if they are to force the title to go to the season finale at the Hudy Arena next month.

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May 30, 2015

Volker tops Q3 from Coelho

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Ronald Volker has posted a second TQ run at ETS Luxembourg, the Yokomo driver topping Q3 from Bruno Coelho after the Xray driver found himself blocked by Volker’s team-mate Meen Vejrak as the qualifier entered the final minute. Backing up his strong Q2 performance, HB’s Jilles Groskamp completed the Top 3 ahead of Serpent’s Marc Fischer. Having not featured so far on this his first visit to Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”, World Champion Naoto Matsukura would finally put together a half competitive penultimate qualifier to set the 5th fastest time.

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May 30, 2015

Volker takes ‘surprise TQ’ ahead of Groskamp

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Ronald Volker took a ‘surprise TQ run’ in the second round of qualifying on another cold day at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg. The Yokomo driver overcame difficult conditions rising to the top of the timing screen where he would finish 4/10ths of a seconds up on HB’s Jilles Groskamp with Yokomo team-mate Loic Jasmin completing the Top 3 a further 2.2 seconds back. A round that would see most of the front runners suffer spins, Q1 pace setter Alexander Hagberg was one of such drivers with the Swede pulling off after just a lap due to having ‘no traction’.

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May 30, 2015

Niclas Nilsson wins Swedish National Cup Rd2

The second round of the Swedish Electric On-road National Cup was held at the fast Örebro track. Niclas Nilsson took the TQ in the qualifiers from Magnus Vässmar to grab the pole position for the triple A-mains. In the opening A-final Niclas had a good fight for the win but a coming together cost him the first spot which was taken by Markus Eelmerfors. Niclas came in 2nd, Magnus finished in 3rd. In the second leg the TQ holder was able to take a clean win some 7 seconds in front of Markus as Magus made an early mistake. In the third and decisive final Niclas was in the lead but made a mistake allowing Magnus to snatch the win from Niclas. Overall Niclas was able to take the win though. Markus Eelmerfors came in 2nd, Magnus Vässmar rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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May 29, 2015

Hagberg takes cold opening qualifier in Luxembourg

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Alexander Hagberg has topped a very cold opening round of qualifying at Round 5 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg. A day which was effected by rain, the Xray driver topped the late qualifier from Yokomo’s Ronald Volker and Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard, the three covered by 2/10ths of a second. With track conditions dry but extremely cold for the first of the weekend’s four scheduled qualifiers it was Hagberg’s team-mate Bruno Coelho who set the early TQ pace. Starting second behind top seed Volker, the Portuguese driver would catch the German but on passing him would clip the curbing and put his car on its roof. Continuing for one more lap once marshalled the always spectacular driver would then opt to pull off to save his tyres having lost almost 3-seconds due to his mistake.

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May 29, 2015

Volker tops free practice as rain haults proceedings

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Rain haulted proceedings at Round 5 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg just as controlled practice was due to get underway at Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. Having started off a dry day, allowing two rounds of free practice to be completed, the heavy rain left race organisers with no choice but to stop the event with the free practice times now expected to determine the reseeding of the qualifying heats. The free practice times would produce no surprises with last year’s race winner Ronald Volker fastest from team-mate Yannic Prumper. Behind them Xray’s Bruno Coelho completed the Top 3 in front of Marc Rheinard.

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May 29, 2015

Swedish 1/10th Off-road Nationals Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Swedish 1/10th Off-road Nationals was held in Söderhamn on a challenging and pretty low-grip astroturf track. The 2WD class saw some nice battles for the win between Niclas Maansson and young Malin Karlsen with Niclas coming out successful in the opening A-main while Malin was able to strike back in A2 following some small errors of Niclas. For the third and decisive A-main Malin was in a better position as she had scored a 1st and 2nd place while Niclas had a 1st and 3rd place to count. After the start both were running like a freight train until Niclas made a small mistake allowing Malin to get past and open up a small gap. But after having a few small bobbles of her own Niclas was able to catch up on Malin in the very last lap, taking a chance and jumping long on the table top in the winds to just barely put his front end ahead of Malin. Crossing the line both were just 1/10th of a second apart with Niclas coming in 1st.

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