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March 1, 2014

Volker Top Qualifier in Gran Canaria

Ronald Volker is Top Qualifier for the third round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series taking place in Gran Canaria. The Team Yokomo driver’s 13th ETS TQ, Volker secured his first pole position on the island when he topped the time sheets for a fourth time in the fifth & final qualifier. The only driver who could challenge the defending series champion for the top spot on the grid, Adrian Berntsen was able to match the pace of the German finishing second 2-second off. Having TQ’d the opening qualifier, the Norwegian will start second on the grid his best starting position at the ETS. Winner of Round 2 of the championship and despite having a bad last qualifier, posting only the 6th fastest time, Team Xray’s Alexander Hagberg will start tomorrow’s finals from third.

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March 1, 2014

Volker TQ’s third qualifier at ETS

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Ronald Volker claimed a second TQ run at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Gran Canaria when he again topped the time sheets in the third of the five scheduled qualifiers. Fastest in Q2, the Yokomo driver posted a similar pace in Q3 to once again take maximum points ahead of the Xray’s of Adrian Berntsen and Alexander Hagberg. Magnus Vässmar made it three Xray’s in the Top 4 as he found improvement to post the fourth fastest time.

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March 1, 2014

Bernsten tops opening Gran Canaria qualifier

Team Xray’s Adrian Berntsen topped the opening round of qualifying at Round 3 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Gran Canaria this morning, the Norwegian outpacing Ronald Volker by .283 with Round 2 winner Alexander Hagberg completing the Top 3. For last year’s winner Viktor Wilck another speedo issue resulted in him failing to start the qualifier.

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March 1, 2014

János Birinyi wins at East Hungarian Champs Rd6

The 6th round of the East Hungarian National Championship was held near Debrecen. Xray driver János Birinyi was able to win A1 and A2 coming from the second spot on the grid. Ferenc Gibala (Xray) and Tamás Ponghó (Xray) finished second and third respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 1, 2014

Zach Phillips wins 2WD Mod at 2014 Winter Cup

The 2014 Winter Cup at JCP RC Raceway in Indianapolis, Indiana took place with a total of 160 entries. The race format saw four qualifiers, and triple A-mains with bump-ups. In the highly contested 2WD Modified class Kyosho’s Zach Phillips took TQ and made maximum use of the pole position by winning the first A-main with a clean run. In A2 he had a small bobble in the opening laps letting him drop to 2nd, but he was able to recover in order to take the win and therefore also the overall victory in the 2WD Mod class.

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February 28, 2014

IFMAR 1/12th Worlds location announced

IFMAR 1/12th World Championship location announced

The organisers of this year’s IFMAR World Championship have announced the location of the 1/12th scale portion of the event. While the ISTC Touring Car race will take place at the Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, the 1/12th race is set to take place in Largo, Florida (Minnregg hall, 6340 126th Ave Largo, FL 33773) close to Tampa, some 100 miles away from the outdoor track. A well known venue, having hosted ROAR nationals in the past, for the first time the distance between locations means racers who are planning to race both classes will have to arrange separate accommodation for each event.

February 28, 2014

Volker tops controlled practice

With official timing finally becoming available with the first round of controlled practice it is Ronald Volker who set pace during the single 5-minute round at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Gran Canaria. After issues with the newly resurfaced track that saw much of the day’s practice run as open practice by class, the Team Yokomo driver set the fastest three consecutive laps ahead of Xray’s Adrian Bernsten with team-mate Alexander Hagberg and Serpent’s Marc Fischer sharing identical times to be be third fastest.

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February 28, 2014

New surface challenges drivers in Gran Canaria

Track issues surface in Gran Canaria

Round 3 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series got underway officially today in Gran Canaria but recent work to the track has challenged drivers as they struggle for traction on the highly abrasive new surface. Originally drivers where to run open practice for the first half of the day before conducting two control practice rounds that would determine the seeding for the day’s opening round of qualifying. However when drivers started to run tyres from the freshly produced batch of handout tyres provided by Ride there was a noticeable difference between the tyres they had used for previous practice runs, some drivers having already conducted a number of days testing earlier in the week. Due to this Race Director Scotty Ernst adapted the time table allowing drivers to continue with open practice before closing the first official day with one round of controlled practice.

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