June 2, 2012

Rheinard wins second Leg at Dutch ETS

Top Qualifier Marc Rheinard has won the second A-Main at the fifth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the German driver heading a dominant 1-2 for the Tamiya team ahead of team-mate Jilles Groskamp with Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper finishing third.  Benefiting from running on brand new tyres having saved them from qualifying, the former ETS Champions pulled clear of the opposition to win by 6 seconds from Prumper who after retiring after just 4-laps in the first A-main also had the benefit of fresh rubber.

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June 2, 2012

Rheinard Top Qualifier at Dutch ETS

2011 Dutch ETS race winner Marc Rheinard has put himself in the best position possible to repeat that success and claim his first win of the current Yokomo Euro Touring Series season after the World Champion topped the final round of qualifying at Apeldoorn to secure the overall TQ honours ahead of Tamiya team-mate Jilles Groskamp and Serpent’s Marc Fisher.

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June 2, 2012

Fisher tops Q3 in Apeldoorn

Serpent’s Marc Fisher has TQ’d the penultimate round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the German National Champion topping the round with a 20 lap run in 5:08.858 compared with the 5:09.749 of Tamiya’s Viktor Wilck who was second fastest with Team HB’s new signing Shin Adachi third a further 2 seconds adrift.

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June 2, 2012

Tamiya 1-2-3 in opening ETS qualifier

The opening qualifier for the Dutch round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series produced a 1-2-3 for the Tamiya Racing Factory with Marc Rheinard fastest ahead of team-mates Jilles Groskamp and Viktor Wilck with Serpent’s Marc Fisher denying the team a perfect start to the event as he set the fourth fastest time ahead of the fourth member of factory team Elliot Harper.

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June 1, 2012

Rheinard tops practice at Dutch ETS

Winner of last year’s Dutch ETS round, Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard has topped practice at the fifth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series putting him top seed for tomorrow’s four rounds of qualifying ahead of Yokomo’s Ronald Volker and Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp.  Finishing up Day 1 of the event later than originally scheduled due to rain delays at the Apeldoorn track in the morning, Rheinard was for once pleased with the performance of his Speed Passion powered TRF417X.

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May 31, 2012

European Nitro Challenge attracts capacity entry

The European Nitro Challenge takes place at the Hockenheimring in Germany next weekend (7-10 June) and has bucked the trend for nitro events by attracting a capacity 120 entries made up of some of nitro racing’s fastest drivers including current 1:8 World Champion Robert Pietsch. Created last year by Shepherd, the German manufacturer selected one of Europe’s most appropriate venues for a nitro event allowing 1:10 & 1:8 drivers to race within the grounds of the home of the German Formula One Grand Prix.

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May 29, 2012

Seet & Lee wins 2012 Singapore Open

This year’s Singapore Open had great attendance with 120 racers equally divided among the 1/10th and 1/8th GP categories.  This is the first time in several years that registration was full weeks in advance and a waiting list was needed. The big news this year was the level of competition, with top drivers attending the race from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia.  Even bigger news, was the very fast lap times set consistently by Meen Vejrak of Thailand and Nicholas ‘IceMan’ Lee of Singapore.  Nicholas Lee, a Singaporean, crossed over from EP to GP this year after a World Championship title in EP last year. Nicholas Lee TQ’d and won the 1/8 class with a RB powered Serpent 966TE.  He got 2nd place and set the second fastest lap time in the 1/10 class with his RB powered KM-HK1.

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May 28, 2012

Viktor Wilck wins 2012 touring car RROC

The 2012 Reedy Touring car race of champions was held last weekend at Norcal Hobbies in Union City, California. This year’s race attracted a large number of international racers from Europe with a lot of the pro drivers taking the opportunity to test at the track in the week ahead of the event. As per usual the event is heads up racing with the 6 best results from 8 counting towards the final points. On Saturday, which would see 4 of the invitational races run, it was new Yokomo driver Hayato Matsuzaki who would dominate proceedings taking 4 wins from 4 to lead overnight ahead of Jilles Groskamp driving his Tamiya. On Sunday however Hayato’s challenge fell apart with some poor results leaving him in 4th overall. Day 2 belonged to Tamiya racer Viktor Wilck who started the day with a second to add to his tally of 2 wins the day before. It kept getting better with Viktor taking 3 more wins which would give him the same points as Ronald Volker, but the title would be decided on number of wins with Viktor taking it with 5 wins to give the Swedish driver his first major title since the DHI Cup in 2008. Ronald Volker would take 2nd place with Jilles Groskamp in 3rd.

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