July 23, 2013

1/10th Buggy World Championship tyres announced

1/10th Buggy World Championship tyres announced

This year’s IFMAR 1/10th Buggy World Championship at the A Main Hobbies’ Silver Dollar R/C Raceway will be run on Pro-Line Suburbs 2.0 and Scrubs X2 compound tyres, A Main Hobbies announce. The #8213-002 Suburbs rear tyre will be run in both the 2WD and 4WD class with the 4WD class also using the #8214-002 Scrubs front tyre. The two have to be used with stock foam inserts. Tyres will be available at A Main Hobbies’ Silver Dollar R/C Raceway during the event. Find more information here.

July 21, 2013

Volker is Champion

Volker is Champion

Ronald Volker is the 2012/13 Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion.  The German clinched his third consecutive title by securing his first ever asphalt win in the World famous championship with another tone to tone victory in the second leg of the A-Main at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. The result sees the factory Yokomo driver become the most crowned ETS driver having shared the honour for the past 12-months with reigning World Champion Jilles Groskamp who was champion of the first two seasons of the series. Despite shadowing Volker throughout the second 5-minute main, Marc Rheinard, the 2009/10 Champion, couldn’t catch his arch rival declaring afterwards that the ‘championship wasn’t lost here but at the start of the season’, the Tamiya ace failing to make the podium at the opening three races of the season.

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July 21, 2013

Volker gets one hand on ETS title with Leg 1 win

Volker gets one hand on ETS title with Leg 1 win

Ronald Volker moved a step closer to retaining the Yokomo Euro Touring Series title which he has held for the last two season with a tone to tone win in the opening A-Main of the season finale at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. Starting from pole position, the factory Yokomo driver took the win by over 3-seconds from team-mate Yannic Prumper after a roll by the No.2 starting Tamiya of Marc Rheinard dropped his only title rival back down the order with the 3-time World Champion eventually finishing sixth.

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July 20, 2013

Volker ‘Top Qualifier’ for ETS Finale

Volker 'Top Qualifier' for ETS Finale

Ronald Volker is Top Qualifier for the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series after the Yokomo driver carried through his form from yesterday’s opening two qualifiers to top the third round this morning at the Hudy Racing Arena to put pole position for Sunday’s title deciding A-Main beyond the reach of his rivals.  It was the perfect morning for Yokomo as they also locked up overall TQ honours in Slovakia with their Pro Stock team driver and outgoing champion Zdenko Kunak.

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July 19, 2013

Perfect day for Volker at Hudy Arena

Perfect day for Volker at Hudy Arena

It was the perfect day for Ronald Volker at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia as the Team Yokomo driver topping the opening two rounds of qualifying at the title deciding season finale of the 2012/13 Yokomo Euro Touring Series. Having topped timed practice earlier in the day, the German who is chasing a third consecutive ETS title opened qualifying with a TQ run which he then backed up with an even faster 5-minute run in Q2 which brought Day 1 of the event to a close. Once again it was Tamiya’s Viktor Wilck who was the closest challenger, the Swede again posting the second fastest time in a Round that saw tyre strategy play a big part, Serpent’s Marc Fischer benefiting from near new tyres to set the 3rd quickest run.

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July 19, 2013

Volker TQ’s opening qualifier at ETS finale

Volker TQ's opening qualifier at ETS finale

Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker got the finale of the 2012/13 Yokomo Euro Touring Series off to the best start possible as he TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. The title protagonist took the first of the five rounds of qualifying by 2.2 seconds from Tamiya’s Viktor Wilck who for a time was setting the early pace. Marc Rheinard completed the Top 3, the German’s hopes that a binding CVD in practice was the reason for his lack of pace not turning out to be the case.

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July 19, 2013

Volker tops first time practice

Volker tops first time practice

Ronald Volker has made his intentions very clear at the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series at the amazing Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia, the Yokomo driver topping the first timed practice by a massive 4/10th over 3-consecutive laps from team-mate Yannic Prumper with title rival Marc Rheinard over a second off Volker’s blistering pace in 3rd.  With Volker and Rheinard here to battle it out to become champion of this the sixth season of the ETS, the scenarios are simple.  For Rheinard to deny Volker a third consecutive title, he must win anything less and irrespective of where his fellow German finishes on Sunday the title stays with Yokomo.  Should qualifying go the way of Volker, securing him the bonus championship point for TQ honours, and even if Rheinard can pass him for the win then second would still be enough for Volker to defend his title so ultimately the pressure is on the Tamiya driver.

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July 18, 2013

ETS arrives at Hudy Racing Arena

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The greatest R/C venue in the World, there is simply no other way to describe the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia.  Built in 2006 on the grounds of a former soccer stadium, the massive 25,000 square metre facility also includes the factory of both Xray, the only true r/c car manufacturer in Europe, and Hudy but it is the Arena which dominates the grounds. Hosting its first international event this weekend as it plays host to the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the complex houses three tracks and from the moment racers drive in the main gate they can’t but be immediately impressed by what they see before them.

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