December 12, 2015

Rheinard on pole for ETS Season opener

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Marc Rheinard will start the A-Main at the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Czech Republic from pole position.  The Tamiya driver claimed the overall TQ despite Ronald Volker putting in a second TQ run in the final qualifier. With the fastest time of the four rounds which was set in Q3, this would give Rheinard the tie breaker and secure him his first pole since Round 2 last season in Muelheim-Kaerlich.  Starting behind the long standing German rivals will be Bruno Coelho, the Xray driver having been on target to top the final heat and secure second on the grid until he rolled as the heat entered the final 2-minutes.  Runner-up behind Volker in Hrotovice last year, Alexander Hagberg starts 4th with 2014 podium finisher Yannic Prumper completing the top half of the grid.

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December 12, 2015

Rheinard repeats in Q3 to again head Xray duo

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Marc Rheinard repeated his morning’s qualifying performance at the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Tamiya driver putting in a second & faster TQ run in the third & penultimate qualifier at the Czech Republic event.  Again fighting it out over the 5-minutes with Xray’s Bruno Coelho, both just 8/10th shy of making 24 laps, the gap at the end would be a much closer 0.025 of a second.  Making it a carbon copy of Q2, Alexander Hagberg continued as Mr. Consistent as he again was 3rd fastest in front of last night’s Q1 pace setter Ronald Volker.

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December 12, 2015

Rheinard heads Coelho in Q2 at ETS Czech

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Marc Rheinard has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the season opener of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Czech Republic.  Having ran a close opening qualifier last night with Ronald Volker but come up 2/10ths of a second short, the Tamiya driver would improve the Q1 pace by one second to top the times from the Xray’s of Bruno Coelho, the gap 4/10ths, and Alexander Hagberg.  Despite setting the fastest lap, Volker would finish P4 ahead of Yokomo team-mates Meen Vejrak and Yannic Prumper.

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December 11, 2015

Volker sees off Rheinard in Q1

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Ronald Volker TQ’d the opening qualifier of Season #9 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Yokomo driver seeing off arch rival Marc Rheinard, the pair having swapped the top spot on the time screens throughout the encounter.  Separated by just 2/10ths, the German’s pace left them well clear of Alexander Hagberg, a clean run leaving the Swede third fastest as many of the drivers in the top heat made mistakes.  One driver to benefit from these mistakes was pre-race favourite Viljami Kutvonen, who running in the second fastest heat, would get a fourth for the first of the four scheduled rounds of qualifying.

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December 11, 2015

Volker tops seeding from Rheinard & Coelho

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Ronald Volker is the top seed for qualifying at the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series.  Having set the pace in the first timed practice, the reigning champion would further improve his 3-consecutive lap time in the second & final run.  Behind the Yokomo driver it was his long standing rival Marc Rheinard who would make the biggest improvement between rounds to go P2 just 0.067 of a second off.   Having been second fastest in the CP1,  Bruno Coelho would complete the Top 3 a further 1/10 behind.  Making a return to the ETS, former race winner Adrian Berntsen would provide the biggest surprise of practice as he took his relatively unknown Gizmo chassis to the fifth fastest time behind former Xray team-mate Alexander Hagberg.

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December 11, 2015

Volker tops 1st timed practice at ETS season opener

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Ronald Volker has opened the ninth season of Yokomo Euro Touring Series at the top of the time sheets. The reigning champion set the fastest 3-consecutive laps of the first timed practice with his new Yokomo BD7 2016 heading the Xray’s of Bruno Coelho and Alexander Hagberg in the Czech Republic. An event which Volker has won during each of his five successful ETS title campaigns, the German was just 0.064 faster than Coelho, the Portuguese driver a much stronger package than 12-months ago when he made his ETS debut at the Hrotovice event.

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December 11, 2015

Panik Grand Prix – Announcement

Panik Grand Prix – Announcement

Following the overwhelming response to their revised track, the Panik Team Troisdorf club teamed up with Tonisport to announce the first ever Panik Grand Prix. Scheduled for the weekend of the 12th of June 2016 the race will be held on the club’s flowing yet technical astroturf track near the Cologne Airport. The event will adapt the EOS rules and entries will be limited to 100 drivers for 2WD, 80 for 4WD and 20 for Mod Truck respectively. More information will follow soon on the club’s Facebook page, including details on registration and hotels.

December 10, 2015

Rivals strive to end Volker/Yokomo reign in ETS#9

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The Czech Republic is the venue for the start of Season #9 of the Euro Touring Series this weekend (11-13 Dec) with the world’s best drivers descending on the small town of Hrotovice in their quest to win one of the sport’s most coveted titles.  A season in which the World famous championship will celebrate its 50th race, it is again Ronald Volker and Team Yokomo who everyone is out to beat, the successful combination targeting a sixth consecutive title.  Maintaining their long standing sponsorship of the ETS, Yokomo also remain as title sponsors for a sixth season.  The big change for the 2015/16 season is the arrival of Volante as the new tyre supplier for the touring car classes and the change has created an air of anticipation among Yokomo’s rival teams, none more than long running championship runners up Marc Rheinard and his Tamiya team.

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