Team Xray’s Martin Bayer and new HB signing David Ronnefalk set the buggy pace in the first timed practice at the DHI Cup in Denmark. The fourth year offroad has run at the famous Touring Car event, Bayer topped 4WD from defending champion Joern Neumann while Ronnefalk also topped the German in 2WD.
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Yannic Prumper topped the opening round of timed practice at the 15th running of DHI Cup in Denmark. The Team Yokomo driver headed a very closely matched Top 6 over 3-consecutive laps with Serpent’s Marc Fischer second fastest just 0.054 off his fellow German’s pace. Defending champion Ronald Volker, who is chasing a sixth DHI Cup title this weekend, completed the Top 3 with his Yokomo just 0.003 off Fischer.
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The AME MCSS-Open was held in Althengstett, Germany with 135 drivers in attendance split into three categories including Touring Car Modified, a class that attracted a good turnout of internationally experienced drivers including 200mm Nitro Touring Car Worlds TQ Dominic Greiner. The first three qualifiers were dominated by Tim Wahl but the only 27 laps run of the weekend ultimately handed Marco Kaufmann the overall TQ for the finals.
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Young British ace Kyle Branson has renewed his contract with Capricorn for another year to run their entire range of cars. Kyle will also attend the complete ETS series with the recently announced TE03 along with other races around Europe and the UK and will also attend all major 1:10th and 1:8th races with his nitro cars. New for 2015 Kyle will run Capricorn tyres and fuel. Kyle gave the following statement:
I would like to thank Matteo Passerini at Runner Time for the help and support that he has given to me. And also Piero Torregiani at Contact for everything he has done for me and helped me with over the years. Lastly thanks to Patrizio Rossi at Capricorn for allowing me to continue with them for another year.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
Reigning IFMAR ISTC World Champion and 3-time 1/12th scale World Champion has made the move to Team TRF. The former Yokomo superstar announced his surprise departure from his long time sponsor back in mid December and it seems he has now made the jump to Japanese rivals Tamiya to race alongside good friend and 4 time World Champion Marc Rheinard. With this deal only concerning touring car we still have to see what the 21 year old will race in offroad and 1/12th scale. Watch this space.
Source: Tamiya Racing Factory [teamtrf.com]
Elliott Harper has announced a continuation and expansion of his deal with GForce into 2015 and beyond. The British driver, a Worlds, Euros and ETS Podium Finisher, had been using GForce accessories during 2014, but will now run the complete line of products including the GForce TS160 Speed Controller and Super Sonic line of GForce motors. Elliott had the following to say:
Firstly, I would like to thank Frankie, Andreas and everyone at ORCA for their help and support whilst representing the brand throughout the past two years. I have been really impressed with the GForce accessories I’ve used during 2014, and so made the decision to use their full range of products in 2015 and beyond. I’m looking forward to working with the whole GForce family and running the new TS160 Competition Speed Controller and Super Sonic line of brushless motors. Thank you to Chang for giving me this opportunity and I can’t wait for the coming races, especially since winning on my first outing with the full GForce range last weekend!
Team Associated and CML Distribution have announced the signing of British Touring car ace Chris Grainger. The former Schumacher driver has an exceptional CV including 10 times BRCA National Championships and he is also a multiple European, Worlds, TITC and ETS finalist along with winning many other race victories. A solid and consistent contender in any race he attends, his attention to detail is exceptional and some would say he is almost unstoppable in the UK and his record speaks for itself. He brings with him a wealth of experience and will be the corner stone of a fun, new and exciting team heading into the 2015 season. Chris had this to say:
I’m very excited to be joining Team Associated for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. Some of my fondest memories from the early days of Touring Cars were racing a TC3 and working with Mike Reedy at the track. I’m looking forward to being part of that team again and working with them throughout the races ahead. I’d like to thank everyone at Team Associated and CML Distribution who have made this possible. Bring on 2015!
Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]
On January 3rd, 2015, Fourseason’s Raceway in Olypmia, Washington hosted the 2nd annual e1D ‘Hang Over’ race and this year’s event definitely lived up to all the hype. Building upon last year’s success with entries numbers up 30+, a better track design that’s uber challenging, and mix in higher level of competition, the e1D Hang Over race was a complete success in all areas. On top of all that, what makes the Hang Over race unique from other races is the ‘Champion’s Cup’ race at the very end. Not only do all racers get to run 3 quals and single 8 minute mains to decide class champions, but after all the A-mains are finished the top 2 winners in each class will throw down in a 30 lap stagger started race. The handicap is calculated by taking the class winner’s top 15 lap avg. and multiplying it by 30 to give us the spread. The idea of this exciting format is to potentially allow the elite 2 from all the different classes to all battle on the last lap. Although, with each driver having their own strategy and incidents on the racetrack, makes it impossible to predict who’s going to win the race.
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