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November 4, 2013

Alex Zanchettin wins at IBR Winter Indoor Race Rd1

The first out of three Winter Indoor Race meetings was held at IBR Padova last weekend. The race saw a good amount of international drivers attending such as Kyosho’s Cody King and Elliott Boots, Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann or Mugen’s Robert Battle to name just a few. At the end of the hour long F1 final TLR’s Alex Zanchettin took the win one lap ahead of TLR team mate Alessandro Stocco. Cody King finished five seconds down in third position. Martin Wollanka (Xray) and Jerome Sartel (Agama) came in fourth and fifth respectively.

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November 4, 2013

Bryan Ferrara wins F1 at ModelBerghem race

At last weekend’s ModelBerghem race Fenix Racing driver Bryan Ferrara took the win in the Formula 1 class with the new Su-zuka conversion kit. Coming in second was Flavio Paladin (Tamiya) with Domenico Drago completing the top 3.

Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]

November 4, 2013

Oskar Levin doubles at VBC Cup

The first round of the Swedish VBC Cup took place at the Borås track. Oskar Levin took TQ in the 2WD class and later went on to win in front of Niclas Månsson and Otto Ausfelt. In 4WD, despite starting from 3rd on the grid, Oskar again went home with the winning honours, this time in front of Marcus Lind and Felix Sandberg. In the 1/10th ST class Marcus Sandberg brought home the win with Jesper Uvehall and Niclas Månsson in tow.

Source: rchobbysydracing.se [rchobbysydracing.se] | Images: Oskar Levin

November 3, 2013

Akimoto & Ootsuka win 4WD at Asia Offroad Champs

After yesterday’s running of the 2WD classes at the 2013 Asia Offroad Championships today the 4WD classes were run. The race schedule saw four rounds of qualifying followed by triple A-mains with the lower finals being run twice. The Modified class had Kohta Akimoto taking TQ three seconds in front of Masatsugu Ido and Kai Kikuchi, who was another second down on his fastest run. Shin Adachi came in fourth, Daisuke Sakamoto ended the qualifying in fifth position. The 13.5T Stock class had Daisuke Katou taking the TQ honours closely followed by Masahiro Outsuka and Masaru Takeda. Hiroki Katou was the last driver to score 15 laps, fifth placed Mami Hoshino lead the 14 laps club.

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November 3, 2013

Asmer does Pro Stock/Formula double at ETS

Serpent driver Jan Asmer became the first double category race winner today when he took the overall win in both the Xray Pro Stock and Formula classes at the season opener of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Czech Republic. Having already made ETS history yesterday when he TQ’d both classes, the final day of the Hrotovice event did not get off to a good start for the German but in the final round of A-Main he turned things around to win both of his A3 encounters to secure the top step on the podium. A great start to the defense of his Formula title, the win in Pro Stock’s marks his first touring car win with him describing that race as the hardest 5-minutes he has experienced in racing.

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November 3, 2013

Volker pulls off the perfect start to ETS Season #7

Defending Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker pulled off the best start possible to Season #7, the Yokomo driver taking the overall win with another faultless win in Leg 2 of the A-Main in the Czech Republic. Chasing a fourth consecutive title in the World famous championship this season, the win is the German’s ninth ETS career win and the fourth year that he has won the season opener. Having won Leg 1 from Marc Rheinard, he again headed home the Tamiya driver in Leg 2 with Yannic Prumper completing the Top 3.

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November 3, 2013

Volker handed easy Leg 1 win

Ronald Volker was handed a relatively easy win in the opening A-Main at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series this morning in the Czech Republic after the two drivers starting behind him clashed on the opening lap. A coming together between Xray’s Alexander Hagberg and Awesomatix’s Freddy Sudhoff allowed Volker to take a 1.3 second win over Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard with Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura completing the Top 3.

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November 2, 2013

Ido & Kobayashi win at Asia Offroad Championships

Masatsugu Ido (Yokomo) and Yusuke Kobayashi (Kyosho) are the first winners at this weekend’s Asia Offroad Championships. Despite only coming in 7th position in the first A-final Ido shifted into second gear in A2 and A3 of the 2WD Modified class handing him the overall win in front of pole-sitter Kouta Akimoto (Kyosho). Kai Kikuchi (Yokomo) completed the finals tie on points with Kohta whose win in the first final secured him the runner-up spot.

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