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July 4, 2014

Hagberg sets practice pace at Hudy Arena

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Alexander Hagberg set the pace in the opening timed practice for the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Tourig Series at Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. On a track the Team Xray driver knows better than most, the Swede set the fastest 3-consective laps to top the times from the Yokomos of Yannic Prumper and Atsushi Hara. In contention for taking the runner-up position in the championship behind already crowned champion Ronald Volker, Hagberg was exactly half a second ahead of his only rival in the points fight with Marc Rheinard posting the fifth fastest time.

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July 3, 2014

Zagorisos takes Greek Attiko championship

The final round of Attiko championship took place after some rainy months at the FRT track in Athens. The race was postponed more than 5 times because of the weather conditions and it marked the highlight of the season as it was to decide the championship and the following 3 places. The top 4 drivers where close together in the championship and in qualifying it was last year’s champion Papanikolaou who showed great speed with the only 10 laps run. The 2nd place after qualifying went to Koudouris with Zagorisos sitting in 3rd place.

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July 3, 2014

Xray On-road GP Italy – Report

The Italian Xray On-road Grand Prix was held at the Gimar Speed Park in Lazzaro last weekend. Nearly 60 drivers signed in for the event that was run in various classes including electric touring car modified, 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road and 1/5th large scale. In the touring car modified class, Alessio Menicucci TQ’d the event followed by Alessandro Brunelli and Martin Hudy. The 1/10th 200mm nitro class saw Biagio Spataro taking TQ from Alessio Mazzeo and Davide Stefanizzi.

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July 2, 2014

World class conclusion to ETS #7

The conclusion of Season #7 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series this weekend (4-6th July) will have a truly World class affair as the sixth & final round of the championship travels to the amazing Hudy Arena in Slovakia where the 260 strong entry will include no less than 6 World Champions. Joining championship regulars Marc Rheinard and Andy Moore, current World Champions Jilles Groskamp and Meen Vejrak along with all round legends of the sport Atsushi Hara and Lamberto Collari will all race at the track for the first time, this being only the ETS’ second to the race facility that is located next to the Xray factory.

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July 2, 2014

Martin Wollanka wins Austrian 1/8 off-road nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the Austria 1/8th off-road national championship saw a strong field of drivers competing with the likes of Hupo Hönigl, 2-times national champion Martin Karner, Euro finalist Dominic Bauer and Martin Wollanka in attendance. In the qualifiers two round wins secured Martin Wollanka the overall TQ for the finals and the Xray driver was also able to take the pole position for the A-main by winning his semifinal 4 seconds in front of runner-up Martin Karner. The final had the two Martin’s fighting for the first 10 minutes of the race until Wollanka’s pit crew realised that he had to do an additional stop for fuel compared to Karner. Nevertheless Martin Wollanka ended the race 1 lap ahead of Martin Karner with Klemens Heiss completing the top 3 result.

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July 2, 2014

AMCSCI Italian outdoor nationals – Report

This year’s AMSCI Italian outdoor nationals were held at the Rme L. Collari track in Cassino with more than 50 drivers attending in the Touring Car Modified and 13.5T Blinky classes. The weather conditions on Saturday proved to be very difficult and this affected the qualifiers at first but on a drying track Antonio Di Prisco took the TQ in the Modified class ahead of Nicola Marrone and Alessandro Brunelli. In the Stock class Mattia Collina grabbed the TQ spot from Valter Cola while Marco Puelo completed the top 3 result.

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July 2, 2014

2014 Team Associated Top Gun Shootout – Report

The third Annual Team Associated Top Gun Shootout takes its name from the famous Top Gun Navy fighter school located just across the street in Miramar, CA. And while there weren’t any Maverick or Goose sightings, Team Associated did bring out their top guns with World Champions Ryan Cavalieri, Brian Kinwald, and Steven Hartson all in attendance. Much like the popular 80’s movie, there were also some rookies looking to make a splash against the established veterans of the industry.

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July 1, 2014

Geoffrey Vekemans wins at Belgium on-road nats Rd3

During the 3rd round of the Belgium electric on-road championship Geoffrey Vekemans took the pole position from Athan De Witte in 2nd, Dylan Senaeve in 3rd and Emmanuel Van Ackere in 4th. Geoffrey had a good start in the first final, but made a mistake while Olivier, coming from 5th on the grid, stormed into the lead. Geoffrey soon came back and put the pressure on Olivier with the result of both having a coming together on the straight sending Olivier into the off. With great sportsmanship Geoffrey waited until Olivier recovered. Dylan took advantage of the situation and crossed the finish line in 1st place followed by Olivier and Geoffrey.

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