July 16, 2018

Yaniv Sivan crowned Israeli 1/8 E-buggy champion

The sixth and final round of the 2017/18 Israeli 1/8th E-Buggy Championship was held at the Omer Ring racing track this past weekend. After four rounds of qualifying it was Yaniv Sivan who took the TQ honours and the pole position for the triple A-mains events. A1 started and Yaniv took the lead, at first followed by Aviv Maymon who had early technical issues and had to retire, meanwhile Edan Asraf was promoted into 2nd as Asaf Gurevich, coming from 6th position, battled with Liron Bizer for 3rd position. Up front Yaniv Sivan crossed the line in 1st place followed by Edan Asraf in 2nd and Asaf Gurevich 3rd.

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July 14, 2018

Lorenzo Bali wins N8 Summer Race

The N8 Racing Club in China continues to promote nitro racing and bringing people of all nationalities living in China together to share a passion for racing. Last weekend on the hottest day this summer so far in Shanghai, Serpent team driver Rocket Zhang took the TQ honors. However, it was Italian Lorenzo Bali who drove his Picco powered Mugen to a close victory over Mihnea Lupu from Canada in the 30-minute main. Jimmy Qian from Shanghai took 3rd. The N8 club also bid farewell and sends best wishes to the Lupu’s who will be repatriating back to Canada this coming Fall.

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July 14, 2018

Coelho wins A1 at ETS Finale

Bruno Coelho continued his reign at the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Slovakia, the Xray driver winning A1 ahead of team-mate Alexander Hagberg.  While a widely predicated result, Coelho didn’t have things entirely his own way with Hagberg for a time looking like he might be able to mount a challenge. Overshooting the carousel a number of times, Coelho was clearly struggling with his car but the Top Qualifier was able to hold on, crossing the line 3/10th in front of Hagberg.  Behind them, Michal Orlowski would complete the Top 3 finishing as he started with a 2-second advantage over Viktor Wilck.

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July 14, 2018

Coelho claims 5th TQ of ETS Season

Bruno Coelho has claimed his 5th overall TQ of the season at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series season finale in Slovakia.  Having already successfully defended his ETS title at the previous round in Apeldoorn, the Xray driver wrapped up the overall TQ at Hudy Arena in somewhat impressive style.  Having led a 1-2 for his team in both qualifier’s yesterday, Q3 would see him spin off towards the end of the straight and need to be marshalled after ending up on the grass.  Despite dropping 3-seconds as a result of the second lap incident, he could still recover from the lost time and top the round from by almost two seconds from Marc Rheinard who was the next fastest driver in the top heat. Overall for the round it would be Viktor Wilck, running in the second fastest heat which had the benefit of slightly less sunny conditions, who would finish P2 ahead of Rheinard with Ronald Volker fourth – 3rd to 6th for the round covered by less than 3/10ths.

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July 13, 2018

Another for Xray in Q2 at ETS finale

The first official day of action at the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Slovakia has ended with another dominant display from Xray as their two star drivers repeated the 1-2 result of the opening qualifier. Q2 again saw Bruno Coelho go quickest ahead of Alexander Hagberg however this time the TQ chase was a little more interesting as a third of the way into the qualifier Coelho had a bit of moment on the curbing.  While this put Hagberg to the top, Coelho was able to recover the time and at the end of the 5-minutes the separation was almost 6/10ths.  In what the other manufacturers are themselves referring to ‘the battle for best of rest’, it was Akio Sobue who set the 3rd fastest time from Q1’s best of the rest Christopher Krapp.  Over 3-seconds off Coelho’s pace, Sobue’s Infinity had just 2/100th of an advantage over Krapp’s Yokomo with Yannic Prumper and Freddy Sudhoff rounding out the Q2 Top 6.

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July 13, 2018

Coelho from Hagberg in opening ETS Slovakia qualifier

Bruno Coelho has taken the opening round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Slovakia.  The Xray driver lead a 1-2 for his team topping the times ahead of team-mate Alexander Hagberg and was the only driver to run 18 laps of the Hudy Arena track.  While Coelho’s pace was expected, the start of qualifying produced a marked improvement from Hagberg who just scraped into the top heat with only the 10 fastest seeding time.  With temperatures rising for the first qualifier, it much warmer than in the earlier controlled practice runs and drivers reporting track conditions changed a lot, it was to be Christopher Krapp who stepped up as best of the rest ahead of Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prumper.  Running in the second fastest heat, Viktor Wilck enjoyed a P5 run with Marc Rheinard completing the Top 6 as the best Infinity driver.

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July 13, 2018

Coelho top seed at ETS Finale

Bruno Coelho is the top seed for qualifying at the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Slovakia.  The Xray driver took full ‘home advantage’ to set the fastest 3-consecutive laps in both rounds of practice, improving by almost 3/10ths in the second run.  Behind him Infinity’s Akio Sobue was best of the rest with his first time very close to that of Coelho but he would be slower on his second attempt.  Newly crowned European Champion Ronald Völker would post the 3rd fastest time, the Yokomo driver however also unable to better his opening pace in the final practice.  Overall it was a strong practice for the Yokomo team with Christopher Krapp fourth quickest while Yannic Prumper completed the Top 6.  In between them was Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski, the British manufacturer also showing well with Elliott Harper also in the top qualifying heat after putting in the 7th fastest time ahead of Marc Rheinard.

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July 13, 2018

Turkish On-road Nationals – Report

The Izmir EFMOD track recently played host for the 2018 Turkish On-road Nationals, a 5-day race that was held in Touring Modified, Touring Stock, 1/8th IC Track and 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring classes. The race was affected by changing weather conditions and the level of competition was high in all classes, meaning lots of pressure for all drivers. In the Touring Modified category the race for the overall win was on between Ahmet Kasap and up and coming Atahan Yıldız. Both showed a very fast and very similar pace. Eventually Atahan took the title in his first race season while Ahmet took the runner-up spot. The podium was rounded out by Yunus Şahin.

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