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December 9, 2017

Overnight TQ for Volker & Hofer at EWS International

Ronald Volker has taken the honours of being the first non-British driver to secure the overall pole position at the EWS International as Yokomo continued their strong showing from practice, in both Modified and Super Stock classes, as qualifying got underway. The fifth running of the race, now firmly established as the highlight of the UK racing scene and a fixture on the European calendar, saw the TQ position confirmed for the current World Champion after he set the pace in all three rounds of Qualifying held today. “All the qualifiers went well” was Volker’s reaction. Explaining that his focus had been on trying different springs throughout the day, he is searching for confidence with the car to make it as “comfortable on the bumps” as possible.

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December 7, 2017

WRCR Winter Series Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the WRCR Winter Series was held at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Saline, Michigan. The 2017/18 season at the Washtenaw RC Raceway is drawing entries beyond the levels of the past five years. With 139 entries in nine classes, most classes had multiple heats of racing action with Stock Buggy fielding 28 cars. This round the traffic ran counter-clockwise making the back straight super fast. The Stock Buggy class continued to grow in round 3 reaching 28 entries. This round 2010 ROAR National Champion joined the party securing TQ for the event after three qualifiers. As the top group jockeyed for starting position behind Kenny, the fight to stay in the A-main continued until the last laps of the last heat. Patrick Ferris and Nat Potter made their last ditch effort to improve their qualifying times vying to bump Tom Erickson and Gary Reiser and getting into the big show. The laps clicked off with both drivers in range. Nat could not hold the pace and finished behind Gary. Patrick was able to finish strong slipping between Tom and Gary. Gary then had to edge up his times to respond. The final group ran fast and smooth which allowed Gary to set the pace he needed in the opening half. All it took was a few laps missing his marks to degrade his pace. In the end he produced his best finish of the day but was not good enough to remain in the A-main.

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December 6, 2017

2018 Philippine Masters – Announcement

The 2018 Philippine Masters will be held from the 4th to the 6th of May at the Circulo Verde track in Quezon City, Philippines. Classes run will be 1/8 Nitro Buggy and 1/8 Nitro Truggy and the event is organised by the Voice of RC, Scotty Ernst. More information can be found on social media here or by emailing Edward Sio (sioedward@yahoo.com).

December 4, 2017

Rafael Angulo wins at US World Nitro Cup

Last weekend’s US World Nitro Cup saw Rafael Angulo pulling the hat trick in the GT8 ROAR 5-port Spec class. Rafael would be taking the TQ honours, victory and fastest lap of the event, leaving behind Joel Aubrey in 2nd and Tim Caporal 3rd.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]

December 4, 2017

Völker & Mächler win at 2017 Charity Race 2.0

The 2017 Charity Race 2.0 was organised by Team La Gang and hosted by the RCLandia track in Scandiano, Italy this past weekend. The annual race was held in Touring Modified, 13.5T Stock, Formula, 1/12th and GT12 classes and again attracted some of the fastest Italian drivers to compete against international guests. In the Touring Modified class it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker who took three of the four qualifying rounds for the overall TQ from Xray’s Marco Kaufmann and Infinity’s Marc Rheinard. After the triple A-mains it was again Ronald on top courtesy of wins in all three A-mains as Marco Kaufmann and Marc Rheinard made up the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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December 4, 2017

Jesse Davis TQs & wins at US World Nitro Cup

Last weekend’s 2017 US World Nitro Cup saw Infinity’s Jesse Davis walking away with the TQ and win in the 1/8th Open class. Jesse took the TQ from Infinity teammate, Naoto Matsukura and he also scored a commanding win in the 45-minutes A-main, wrapping up the title with a 6-laps lead from Lamberto Collari, making it an Infinity 1-2. Serpent’s Joaquin De Soto came in 3rd, another two laps down.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net] | Image: Joaquin De Soto

December 4, 2017

Thilo Tödtmann takes US World Nitro Cup title

The 2017 US World Nitro Cup was held at Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida this past weekend. As usual the event attracted both national racers as well as guests from abroad with this year’s event again attracting a strong field of European drivers. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan class the top 3 after the qualifiers was an all-Infinity affair with Jilles Groskamp on top followed by Andy Moore and Teemu Leino. DJ Apolaro and Thilo Tödtmann would round out the top 5 results.

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November 29, 2017

Pan Car Masters 2018 – Announcement

The MRTM track in Lostallo, Switzerland will play host to the 2018 Pan Car Masters & 1/8th Electric Track GP on the weekend of the 20th of May. Dubbed the unofficial Pro10 World Championship, the event will be held in several 1/10th 235mm Pan Car classes including Modified, 10.5T Stock and 13.5T Classic while also offering Swiss GT 13.5T and Formula 21.5T categories. In addition 1/8th E-Onroad Modified 4S/6S and 1/8th E-Onroad Stock 4S “Buri” classes will be run. The event will be organised by DownforceRC and VIP Performance and more information can be found here.