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June 17, 2017

Coelho takes important Q1 from Matsukura at rain effected ETS Slovakia

With rain effectively wiping out yesterday’s action at the Hudy Arena, qualifying at Euro Touring Series finally got underway this afternoon with Bruno Coelho taking an important TQ run in the first of the 3 rescheduled qualifiers from a surprise Naoto Matsukura. With drivers getting only 3-minutes of running yesterday, they would again have to play the waiting game this morning as further rain delayed proceedings at the 5th round of the championship. Getting another 3-minute practice run once the track had dried after the morning downpour the expectation of further rain meant the stakes for Q1 were high. Having topped Thursday’s sun drenched free practice, it would be Marc Rheinard who led away the top heat but a minute in the Infinity driver would make a mistake. This left team-mate Matsukura to go to the top but a strong finish from Coelho, who had issues with his Xray being blown around the track by the wind, allowed the champion elect to TQ by 7/10ths from Matsukura with Alexander Hagberg getting third ahead of Rheinard. For Coelho’s only remaining title contender, Ronald Volker, the event is proving hugely challenging with the Yokomo driver describing his P6 as a ‘miracle’.

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June 16, 2017

Rain hampers Day 1 at ETS Slovakia

After basking in the sunshine in free practice yesterday, drivers didn’t fair as well on the official opening day of ETS Round 5 in Slovakia as a number of rain showers effectively wrote off any meaningful running at the Hudy Arena. Waking to rain this morning in Trencin with further rain showers over the morning, a dry track finally appeared after lunch allowing a round of 3-minute practice to prepare the track for qualifying. With further rain forecast for the morning, the schedule was brought forward to run two rounds of qualifying over the rest of the day but 9 heats in to the 27 heats the heavens opened again bringing a stop to proceedings.

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June 16, 2017

2nd IYRCA ‘Youth Worlds’ – Announcement

The 2nd annual IYRCA International Youth Car Modelling Championship will take place in Prague, Czech Republic from the 9th to 13th of August. Run over four classes, Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula and 1/14th Stock, the IFMAR sanctioned event is open to all young drivers up to and including 19 years of age and it will be held under the patronage of IFMAR president Dallas Mathiesen, making it the unofficial “Youth World Championships”. With a large number of entries from Asia attending, the Stock classes will be held using low cost good quality hand-out RTR vehicles to ensure tight competition, while drivers of the Modified and Formula classes are allowed to bring their own gear. Full details along with sign-up are available on the event’s official website here.

June 15, 2017

Coelho aiming to wrap it up at Hudy Arena

The Yokomo Euro Touring Series travels to rc racing’s bucket list topping Hudy Arena this weekend (16-18 June) but unlike previous visits to the home of Xray the event will not mark the traditional conclusion to the season for the world famous touring car championship. Now scheduled in as Round 5 of 6, the ETS’ fifth trip to Slovakia however looks likely to decide the Season #10 champion with Bruno Coelho already within hands reach of successfully defending his title. The only one who can attempt to deny Coelho form celebrating one of the sport’s most coveted titles on Sunday night is World Champion Ronald Volker. With Coelho having three wins from four races, Volker is the only other winner this season but the Yokomo driver needs to dominate on a track where he has only won once before when the ETS made its first visit in 2013. Coelho on the other hand has never failed to win at his ‘home track’ since making his championship debut and would love to wrap up the title with that record remaining intact.

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June 5, 2017

Pan Car Masters 2017 – Report

This past weekend the first annual Pan Car Masters was held at the world renown MRTM Lostallo track in Switzerland. The event was held in the six classes of Pro10 Modified, Pro10 Stock 10.5, Swiss GT 13.5T, Formula 21.5T as well as 1/8th Electric Modified 6S and 1/8th Electric Stock 4S. The weather forecast for the weekend wasn’t the best but the weather proofed to be pretty ok, much to the pleasure of the about 60 drivers from Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. The event kicked off with free practice on Friday, followed by reseeding practice on Saturday and the first two of four qualifiers. Rain was on the forecast for Sunday but thankfully the shower came during the night and thanks to nice during the day the track dried up quickly.

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June 5, 2017

Matsukura leads Infinity 1-2 at CETC in Xiamen

After a busy race day at the 2nd round of the CETC presented by Infinity, which due to rain saw the event shortened from a 2 day event to a single day event, the race was eventually able to come to a successful conclusion. Once again the Infinity duo proved to be a formidable team, successfully taking 1st and 2nd positions in the Infinity Modified class. With places switched between the team mates from the opening round at AMA, Akio Sobue was able to secure the runner up spot thanks to winning the final A-main. Points leader in the Arrowmax Chinese Modified ranking, Nicholas Lee could only take 2nd in the last final, giving him the final step of the podium. Fellow country man Dominic Quek would end the race in fourth place in front of Xray team mate JJ Wang who took fifth.

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June 5, 2017

Bayer & Martin win at 1/10th Buggy Euros Warm-up

The warm-up race for the 1/10th Electric Buggy EFRA European Championships was held this past weekend in Italy. The event kicked off with free practice on Friday while on Saturday more practice rounds and the first three qualifiers were held. Sunday saw more qualifiers and extremely closed stacked finals with only 15-minute breaks between the mains meaning a stressful time for the A-main drivers. In 4WD Buggy it was Xray’s Martin Bayer who made a clean sweep to bring home the win from Yokomo’s Lee Martin in 2nd and Hupo Hönigl (Xray) 3rd.

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June 5, 2017

Riccardo Berton teams up with Muchmore

Italian Muchmore Racing distributors Mikimodel have announced the signing of Riccardo Berton to the Muchmore Italy team. The Kyosho driver will use Muchmore products in his 1/8th and 1/10th off-road vehicles this season with Mikimodel and Muchmore Racing looking forward to some great results.

Source: Mikimodel [mikimodel.net]