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April 21, 2015

Mile High Indoor Championships – Report

5280 Raceway in Denver, Colorado hosted the 2015 Mile High Indoor Champs. While the weather outside was cold and slushy, the action on the track was scorching hot with some very close action across most classes during an event featuring Formula, World GT, Touring Car and 1/12th scale classes. The “Mile High” kicked off with open practice most of the day on Thursday followed by the regularly scheduled club race that evening, which provided those who travelled to the event early a taste of racing action before the actual event began. Most drivers found solid pace by the end of controlled practice on Friday and lap times began to fall as qualifying began Saturday morning on this fast and fairly open layout, designed to encourage passing and plentiful on-track action. In Modified Touring Car Paul Lemieux snatched the TQ spot by just over 2 tenths from Kevin Hebert. Others rounding out the TQ honors were local club president Mario Ficco in Formula, Brian Wynn in WGT, Kyle Klingforth in 13.5 Touring Car, Bill Sydor in 17.5 Touring Car, Kevin Hebert in Modified 1/12th scale and Mitch Witteman in both 13.5 and 17.5 1/12th scale.

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April 21, 2015

Rivkin & Fenster win at JBRL Electric Series Rd2

Round 2 of the 2015 JBRL Electric Series was held at Coyote Hobbies in Victorville, CA this past weekend. The premier class of 2WD Modified saw a Team Associated podium lockout with Spencer Rivkin coming in 1st followed by Jake Mayo in 2nd and Kody Numedahl in 3rd.

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April 21, 2015

RC Lemans Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the RC Lemans Series was held at the MRG Genk track in Belgium. Warm temperatures and a high grip made for a pleasant time off and on the track and it attracted a good turnout of drivers from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France to compete in the Pro10 Modified and Stock classes. In the fast Modified class Tobias Weist from Germany took the TQ with the only 20 laps run in the qualifiers. Tim Altmann and Reinder Wilms came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Kai Altmann and Philipp Paul completed the top 5 result.

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April 20, 2015

Vesa Yli takes Finnish 1/12th National Series title

The final round of the Finnish Electric On-Road Nationals saw Vesa Yli taking the day’s win and with it the overall title in the 1/12th scale class which, due to the lack of entries, was not an official Finnish national title this year. Vesa’s V-Dezign team mates Panu and Ari-Pekka Kyykkä came in 2nd and 3rd respectively to round out a great team performance.

Source: V-Dezign [v-dezign.net]

April 20, 2015

Marc Rheinard takes German Indoor Touring Car title

The German Indoor Touring Car Nationals were held this past weekend in Berlin. The qualifiers would see a battle between Marc Rheinard and Yannic Prümper with both ending tie on points and the tie breaker handed Marc the pole position for the triple A-mains. The opening A-main had Marc taking quite a clear win ahead of Yannic Prümper and Christopher Krapp and the TRF driver was also able to grab the victory in A2 to take the overall win and with it the national title. Sitting out the third A-main Marc Rheinard (Tamiya) made way for Yannic Prümper (Yokomo) who cemented his runner-up spot with a win in front of newly signed Tamiya/TRF driver Christopher Krapp who rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Image: Marc Rheinard

April 20, 2015

Nathan Reese joins Yokomo

Yokomo have announced the signing of up and coming Australian driver Nathan Reese to their team. Nathan is a regular A-finalist in Australia and alongside Simon Nicholson he will continue to grow and support the brand in Australia. Nathan will compete in all state and national championships in Australia as well as the TITC and next year’s World Championships in Shanghai and he had the following to say:

It’s a great opportunity to be able to join a world class team and one that I am extremely grateful for. I look forward to continuing to assist in the growth of the Yokomo brand and team within Australia. I’d like to say a huge thank you to Mr Yokobori, Aso Minoru, Yukijiro Umino, Robert Itoh, Ji-Hyun Jang and Simon Nicholson for providing me with this opportunity.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

April 17, 2015

James Hart joins Schumacher

Schumacher have announced that regular BRCA and Schumacher BTCC front runner James Hart has joined the team. James will compete in the BRCA Pro Stock Championship this year and Schumacher would like to welcome him to the team and wish him the best for the season.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

April 17, 2015

Jorge Simoes wins at Portuguese TC Nationals Rd1

The first round of the Portuguese Touring Car Nationals was held at the track of Maiorca close to Figueira da Foz in the North of Portugal. The weekend started on a pretty green track but once racing got underway the grip came up making for good racing conditions. At the end Jorge Simoes took the win with his Xray in front of TOP driver Jose Figueiredo and Helder Silva (Capricorn).

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