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May 13, 2014

Tyler Jones wins at 2014 Post Derby Classis

The Post Derby Classic took place at the Adventure RC Raceway in Louisville, KY this past weekend. It was the first ever trophy race held at this indoor facility and the event had 104 entries and drew some of the fastest racers in the Midwest. Tyler Jones would lead the entire 1/8th E-Buggy A main wire to wire. He would be challenged a few times by fellow TLR teammates Dylan Gerard and Jimmy Vanderhaar but would fight off the challenges for the win.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 13, 2014

Chin Wee Yuan wins SRCC touring car race

The Swan Radio Control Club in Sibu City, Malaysia recently hold an electric touring car race with around 40 drivers in attendance. The win went to Chin Wee Yuan after a long and hard battle against veteran driver Ong Chee Yong. Andrew Ting completed the podium in 3rd position.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 13, 2014

Ken Miller takes WCICS 1/12th Stock title

At the final round of the non-profit Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series (WCICS), which hosted over 1500 registrations across 8 events in its 24th season, Ken Miller took the The UPS Store (Country Hills) sponsored 1/12th Scale Stock season Championship, the largest foam tire class in the series. Second in the championship was British Columbia’s Colin Roussel, followed by fellow B.C. racer Luke Pittman in his first full year of racing. Full results can be found on the series’ website by clicking here.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

May 13, 2014

BRCA Clubman Series 2014 Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the BRCA Clubman Series 2014 saw mixed weather conditions at the midlands track of Bedworth. Saturday practice seen drivers try to fine tune with great difficulty their cars to run round the technical bumpy track which at some points could be wet and then could be dry. Round 1 of qualifying started on the Sunday which seen clouds which lasted all day however the day started with a wet track with rain on and off all the time. All cars were on the wet tyre which meant it was round by round type qualifying to help with the unpredictable weather. In 17.5, Mark Bristow was showing how well he knew the track and his ability to compensate with a wet track and TQ’d the round where in 13.5 Luke Burr came on top well known for how fast he can get his car round the track in the tricky conditions.

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May 12, 2014

Bayer doubles at Czech 1/8th off-road nationals Rd1

The first round of the Czech Republic 1/8th off-road national championship took place this past weekend in Horni Jeleni. The race format saw four qualifying rounds on Saturday with the fifth and final qualifier being run on Sunday, followed by the finals. The weekend started out wet but the weather on Saturday cleared up and in the improving conditions it was Xray’s Martin Bayer who took the TQ in both the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy classes. On Sunday, right before the semifinals, heavy rain poured down meaning the finals had to be cancelled. This handed Martin Bayer the win in the Nitro Buggy class from David Kukla and Jan Zamis.

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May 11, 2014

Volker celebrates 10th ETS win with Mattsee victory

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He said after A1 he expected a stronger challenge from his team-mate and that is exactly what he got in A2, but in the end Ronald Volker was able to hold off intense pressure from Yannic Prumper to claim the overall win at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series fourth round in Mattsee, Austria. The win marks the defending champion’s 10th ETS race leaving him just 1 off the championship’s most winning driver Marc Rheinard who completed the Top 3 for second of the day’s A-Mains. In terms of the championship today’s victory together with bonus point for TQ means now only Team Xray’s Alexander Hagberg, who is having a tough event at fahr(T)raum, can deny the Yokomo driver & his team their fourth consecutive Ride Modified title.

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May 10, 2014

Volker is Top Qualifier at Austrian ETS

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Ronald Volker is Top Qualifier for the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, another fastest run in the third qualifier of the Austrian event securing the German his 14th pole position start of the championship. Claiming his third valuable bonus TQ championship point of Season #7, the defending champion was the only driver to do 24-laps in Q3, topping the round from Tamiya Factory Racing team-mates Viktor Wilck and Marc Rheinard. With two from four rounds counting towards the final order Q4 will decide who lines up behind the defending champion on the grid with five drivers in contention. A US boards style track, something that has not been seen in the ETS before, grid position is expected to play a big part in the racing with drivers predicting it will be tough to pass on the narrow and unforgiving track.

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May 10, 2014

Yokomo 1-2 in second qualifier at fahr(T)raum

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Ronald Volker backed up his opening qualifying performance by leading a Team Yokomo 1-2 in the second round of qualifying this morning at Round 4 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series at the fahr(T)raum Museum in Mattsee, Austria. The only driver to run 24-laps of the track in last night’s Q1, Volker improved on that time by 2.3 seconds with team-mate Yannic Prumper and Tamiya’s Viktor Wilck joining him on 24-laps to complete the Top 3 for the round.

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