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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 12, 2018

ETS concludes 11th season at Hudy Arena

The season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series takes place this weekend (13-15 July) at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. Having hosted the penultimate round of the championship last year, the World famous facility has returned to its traditional date of being not just the sixth and final round but also doubling up as the perfect venue for all the ETS’ end of season awards presentations. With 3 of the four titles already settled when the previous round saw the return of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands to the schedule, the final round will very much be an important form guide ahead of the upcoming World Championships in South Africa. Having successfully defended his ETS Modified title, Bruno Coelho will be looking to remain undefeated at his Xray team’s home track.

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July 9, 2018

Akio Sobue inks deal with ORCA

ORCA have announced the signing of Japanese frontrunner, Akio Sobue to their factory team. The former long-time LRP driver is understood to use ORCA’s full line of motors, speed controllers, batteries and chargers during his upcoming campaign.

Source: ORCA [orcarc.com]

July 9, 2018

Kurzbuch takes first win of season at ENS Aigen

Simon Kurzbuch has taken his first win of the 2018 Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Austria. Coming into the weekend with three consecutive ENS wins at the Aigen track, the Shepherd driver continued to add to that tally adding his 10th ENS career win. Capping off the perfect win having TQ’d all four rounds of qualifying, today’s result means the title goes down to the final round in Fiorano in September. In contrast to the reigning champions successful weekend, for his main title rival & points leader coming into the event it was a 10th place DNF for Dario Balestri. Starting 3rd, the Infinity driver suffered an early flame out but on his recovery drive he would later clash with Silvio Hachler with his car suffering damage that would end his race. Pushing Kurzbuch in the first half of the race, Toni Gruber would finish 2nd with Merlin Depta taking advantage of others issue to secure the final podium placing ahead of Lars Hoppe.

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July 9, 2018

Groskamp leads Infinity 1-2 at ENS Aigen

Jilles Groskamp lead home an Infinity 1-2 at the third round of the Euro Nitro Series in Austria today. Starting from 4th on the grid, the Dutch driver would win the 45-minute encounter from team-mate Francesco Tironi, benefiting from engine troubles that would strike both Top Qualifier Dominic Greiner and Eric Dankel. Taking early control of the race, Greiner looked destined for his second win of the season with his team executing a perfect tyre stop but as the Serpent driver rejoined the track his engine cut in the sweeper. Brought back to the pit lane, it fired up immediately, but again in the sweeper it stopped but again it was fired up without hesitation and third time lucky it kept going for the remainder of the race but it cost the dominant German any chance of the win. The only driver to really take the fight to Greiner today, Dankel’s race started to come undone when he made contact with Alessio Mazzeo who was exiting the pits but in the end the Mugen driver’s frustration would only get worse with a flame out, contact with a backmarker and finally a broken engine. All the while Groskamp was having a steady race even overcoming a slow tyre stop to take his 2nd ENS career win ahead of Tironi with Mazzeo hanging on to complete the podium ahead of Greiner.

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July 9, 2018

Rosario Giaimo doubles at EFRA GT Euros

The 2018 EFRA 1/8th scale GT Euros were held at the ARCA track in Madrid, Spain recently and Nitro GT and Electric GT classes it was Rosario Giaimo with the double TQ and win. Rosario took back-to-back titles in the Nitro class while scoring his maiden electric title.

Source: HB Racing [hbracing.com]

July 9, 2018

Mattia Polito takes 1/8th Buggy Euro B title

The 2018 EFRA 1/8th Nitro Buggy European Championships B were held at the Barcooff track in Barco, Italy over the weekend. Marco Ravaglia secured himself the overall TQ after the qualifiers with Mattia Polito taking 2nd. Behind the two Andrea Trevisan came in 3rd from Eliot Marcon, who also had the pace to snatch the overall TQ, having to settle for 4th. In the 45-minute main final however it was Mattia Polito who would score a popular win some 26 seconds in front ofGiuseppe Tescione on the runner-up spot. Patrick Auvinet Jr. lead a strong group of drivers that was only a lap behind the top 2 with Joachim Kallen, Niko Flamini, Marco Orlando and Eliot Marcon all scoring 72-laps runs. Alessandro Castoldi, Maxime Noble and Dario Gabrielli came in 8th to 10th respectively only two laps down on the leader. Gianmarco Franzolini and Giovanni Camamo rounded out the top 12 with 70 laps, highlighting the very high qualify of the field. In 13th, Alexander Schmitt scored the only DNF of the A-main.

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