January 18, 2013

Travel chaos no match for ETS drivers

Normally we start our coverage from an ETS event with an update on early practice but as anyone who has been on Facebook over the past 24 hours will know the big news from the second round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series is the navigational challenges presented to many of the record entry as they tried yesterday to get to Hrotovice. While the Dakar Rally which is currently underway in South America is designed to present drivers with the greatest motorsport navigation test in the World the closure yesterday of Vienna Airport due to snow presented ETS drivers with a similar challenge. Although the race is taking place in the Czech Republic, Vienna in Austria is the closest international airport and the timing of its closing couldn’t have been worse as Thursday is travel day for the vast majority of the 300+ drivers.

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January 16, 2013

ETS returns to Czech Republic with record entry

The Yokomo Euro Touring Series returns to the Czech Republic this weekend (January 18-20) after a year out with the second round of the 2012/13 series attracting a record 319 entries on the world famous electric touring car championship’s third visit to the town of Hrotovice. Having opted out of last season’s ETS calendar after it was awarded the date for the opening round of the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series, the return to the Sport-V-Hotel facility has proved hugely popular with competitors from 25 different countries set to make the trip to the 29th ETS race.

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October 14, 2012

Volker completes perfect start to ETS campaign

In search a third consecutive Yokomo Euro Touring Series title Ronald Volker completed the perfect start to season No.6 of the world famous electric touring car series in Germany today when he backed up his leg 1 win with another dominant win in leg 2 to wrap up the overall win.  Having already secured the bonus point for taking the TQ honours in qualifying, the German ace will head to the round 2 of the series in Czech Republic with a 3 point lead over the runner-up at the Muelheim-Kaerlich event with that driver to be decided in this evening’s third and final leg.  That battle for second overall set to be fought out between Associated’s Juho Levänen, Yokomo’s Yannic Prümper and Team Xray’s Adrian Bernsten.

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October 14, 2012

Volker cruises to Leg 1 victory

Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker cruised to a dominant victory in Leg 1 of the A-Main at the 2012/13 Yokomo Euro Touring Series season opener in Germany this morning, the defending champion winning convincingly over Team Associated’s Juho Levanen who was closely followed home by Xray’s Adrian Bernsten.  Starting from pole, Volker was never threatened throughout the 5-minutes but did have a self inflicted moment when he hit a dot on his last lap sending his LRP powered BD7 into a roll but luckily it landed rubber side down.  Such was the German ace’s gap the 1.5 seconds lost didn’t even allow the battling Levanen and Bernsten to get within sight and continuing on his way the he completed the final to take the win by a 2.7 second margin.

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October 13, 2012

Volker is Top Qualifier in Germany

Defending Yokomo Euro Touring Series Ronald Volker will start his title defense from the perfect position tomorrow in Germany after he secured the overall TQ honours with the fastest qualifying run of the weekend in the final round of qualifying ahead of Marc Rheinard and Juho Levanen, the latter set to line up second on the grid having failed to make an A-Main cut last season.

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October 13, 2012

Levanen pips Rheinard to take Q2

Team Associated’s Juho Levanen pipped Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard by just 9/100ths in Germany this morning to TQ the second round of the qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series season opener. Second fastest behind defending champion Ronald Volker in last night’s first qualifier, the Finn benefited from a mistake by the rapid Yokomo driver during the second minute of Q2 but still managed to run a new fastest 5-minute pace after being forced to respond to a late challenge by Rheinard.

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October 13, 2012

Volker TQs first qualifier at ETS season opener

Defending Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker got his 2012/13 campaign off to the perfect start on Day 1 of the season opener in Germany as he backed up his practice topping pace with a TQ run in the first round of qualifying. The German was one of the few drivers to keep his car on four wheels for the 5-minute run and took the round by a comfortable 2.5 seconds from Team Associated’s Juho Levanen with Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prumper completing the Top 3.

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October 12, 2012

Volker sets early pace at ETS season opener

The sixth season of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series got underway today in Muelheim-Kaerlich, Germany, with defending champion Ronald Volker laying out his intentions early as he set the pace in the first round of timed practice. Having had two free practice runs in the morning, in the first of the two timed practice runs from which the fastest three laps will determine the reseed for this evening’s opening round of qualifying, Volker put his new Yokomo BD7 top of the time sheets ahead of the new Xray T4 of Norwegian Adrien Bernsten.

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