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April 9, 2016

Volker secures first TQ of the ETS Season #9

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Reigning Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker has claimed his first overall TQ of Season #9. The Yokomo driver, who holds the record for the most pole position starts in the championship’s history, claimed his 19th Top Qualifier honours by making it three from three in the penultimate round of qualifying in Austria. Taking the first two qualifiers after mistakes from Bruno Coelho, Volker would again benefit from problems for Coelho, the Xray driver clearly irate with the driving of Marc Rheinard with whom he shares the points lead in overall championship standings. Holding the top spot on the time sheets for almost 2-minutes, a great drive from Awesomatix’s Viljami Kutvonen would see him post the third fastest time behind Volker and Coelho, the Top 3 separated by 8/10ths of a second.

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April 9, 2016

Volker again benefits from Coelho error to take Q2

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Ronald Volker has made it two out of two at the Yokomo Euro Tourng Series in Austria as he again benefited from an error by Bruno Coelho to take Q2. Having claimed yesterday’s opening qualifier ahead of the joint championship leader, two errors by Coelho allowed the Yokomo driver to open Day 2 with another TQ, this time ahead of the championship’s other joint leader Marc Rheinard. With Coelho’s Xray ending up 5th fastest, a good drive from Rheinard’s Tamiya team-mate Akio Sobue left the former podium finisher to complete the Top 3 ahead of Alexander Hagberg.

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April 8, 2016

Volker takes Q1 at ETS Austria

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Ronald Volker has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Austria. Having been second fastest in practice behind Bruno Coelho, the first of the four scheduled qualifiers would see that order reversed as Volker was able to benefit from a mistake by Coelho at the 2-minute mark. Behind them Marc Rheinard would ensure the Top 3 would respresent the championship’s big three manufacturers as he took his Tamiya to third, the Top 3 covered by 0.584 of a second.

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April 7, 2016

Xray X-Race grand final – Announcement

The grand final of Xray’s X-Race series will be held on the weekend of the 8th of May at the iconic Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. The event will see the running of a variety of classes including Touring Modified, Touring Stock 17.5T, Formula, 1/10th Pan Car as well as 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro on-road with full details as well as sign-up being available here.

April 7, 2016

All equal as ETS resumes at new Austrian venue

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With the opening two races producing different winners and those drivers now sharing the lead at the top of the Volante Modified class standings, the Yokomo Euro Touring Series resumes this weekend after a six week break. Round 3 will present somewhat of a neutral ground for the resumption of the championship battle as the ETS makes its first visit to Wels, Austria. Taking over the date previously filled by the Euro Offroad Series at the Modellbau Wels hobby show, this year over 20,000 vistors will be treated to seeing the World’s best touring car drivers battle it out for glory. The final indoor race of the ETS’ ninth season, Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard and Xray’s Bruno Coelho will be looking to wrap up the first half of the season with a points advantage over their rival.

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April 6, 2016

Sweep EXP Evo-R 36 chosen for Reedy TC ROC

The Reedy Race have announced that the Sweep EXP Evo-R 36 (EXP36RPP) has been chosen as the spec tire for the 2016 Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions. Lead test driver Rick Hohwart shared his thoughts about Evo-R 36: “On the recently resurfaced and now fully cured Tamiya America racetrack, the Evo-R 36 is capable of record lap times with consistent performance from run to run and throughout the day. These qualities make the EVO-R 36 the natural choice for the Reedy Race.” Remember that each paid entry includes one set of marked and numbered Sweep EXP Evo-R 36 tires. Drivers will be allowed to purchase an additional three sets of marked and numbered tires for use as they please for qualifying and triple main events. There is no limit to the number of tires a driver may purchase for practice, but tires used during controlled practice seeding rounds must be marked tires purchased at the event.

Source: Reedy Race [reedyrace.com]

April 6, 2016

Robert Pietsch joins Xtreme Aerodynamics

Xtreme Aerodynamics are delighted to announce the signing of former World and European Champion Robert Pietsch. The Mugen on-road designer will run the Xtreme line of bodies in both the 1/10th 200mm class and in the 1/8th class and will also have a key role in the design and development of new products.

Source: Xtreme [xtremeaerodynamics.com]

April 6, 2016

2016 AKA GP – Announcement

2016 AKA GP - Announcement

The organisers of the AKA GP have been in touch to tell us about the event which will take place from Saturday the 28th to Monday the 30th of May at HNMC track in the UK, home of last year’s European B Championship. The event is open to Nitro buggy and truggy as well as eBuggy and will run a controlled tire, AKA Catapult for buggy and any AKA tire for truggy. Entry is open and can be made here and all entries received a free set of AKA Catapult tires and a free t-shirt.