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March 27, 2011

Volker & Dankel take 2011 LRP TCM titles

Pole sitters Ronald Volker and Eric Dankel have both converted their top qualifying spots at this year’s LRP TCM in Eppelheim into wins, with 3 perfect A-mains each. In the modified class Ronald took all 3 A-mains by relatively small margins to secure the overall title, with 3 time World Champion Marc Rheinard claiming the runner up spot with 2nd place in both the 2nd and 3rd legs after a disastrous first leg that saw him retire just after the halfway stage. Completing the podium was ETS Rd4 winner Juho Levanen taking 2nd in leg 1 and backing it up with a 3rd in leg 2. In the pro stock class no one could come close to Eric Dankel who won leg 1 by a 9 second margin, leg 2 by over 4 seconds and leg 3 again by 9 seconds to cap off a perfect weekend for the German driver. Taking the runner up spot was Daniel Wohlgemuth, who recovered from a first lap retirement in the first final to come back and take 2nd in the remaining finals. Double ETS winner Martin Hofer completed the podium in 3rd with a 2nd and 3rd place finish in leg 1 and 2.

View the final results here

March 26, 2011

Ronald Volker & Eric Dankel secure LRP TCM TQ

Ronald Volker will start tomorrow’s LRP Touring Car Masters from pole position having dominated qualifying in Eppelheim today. The Factory Yokomo/LRP driver secured the top spot with one round still left to run, with a perfect score to line up ahead of current World Champion Marc Rheinard in 2nd and last weekend’s ETS Rd4 winner Juho Levanen in 3rd. Also taking pole position in dominant fashion was Eric Dankel, the Xray/LRP driver carried forward his form from his previous two ETS outings by easily taking the top spot in the first 4qualifying rounds, securing the top starting spot with one round left to run. Daniel Wohlgemuth will line up 2nd after topping the final qualifier with Tim Wahl in 3rd. Sunday will see triple mains for all the A-finalists, with double mains for everyone else and you can follow the coverage over at the official event site here.

March 24, 2011

Kyosho enter Adachi for EOS pilot event

Kyosho are the latest manufacturer to put their support behind the new ‘Euro Offroad Series’ concept by entering Japanese ace Shin Adachi for the April 1-3 pilot event in Tomelilla, Sweden. The seven time Japanese National off road champion joins a host of top international drivers for the three day indoor clay surface event that will see official factory representation from Team Associated, Losi, Tamiya, Durango and Kyosho. Responsible for the development of Kyosho’s electric competition cars, Adachi will join a strong local Kyosho squad. Teenagers Mikael Johansson and David Ronnefalk both hold European Junior Off Road titles and are the reigning Swedish national EP champions – Johansson the title holder in 2WD and 15-year-old Ronnefalk the champion in 4WD. Both up & coming talents will be hoping to put their knowledge of the Tomelilla track to good use and make their mark in one weeks time.

Read the full release here

March 22, 2011

Video – 2011 Cactus Classic finals day action

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Having reported on last week’s Cactus Classic in Arizona at Scottsdale RC Speedway, we have finally got some more action videos online, this time from finals day. Above is leg 2 of the 2wd modified A-main, while below we have the 4wd modified A-main leg 2, the 2wd Short Course modified A-main leg 2 and another bonus video showing some racers trying to pass the time.

View the other videos here

March 22, 2011

Maifield takes 3 at 2011 Cactus Classic

With qualifying for this year’s Cactus Classic completed on Saturday, Sunday saw the all important mains day with race favorite Ryan Maifield looking to convert his 4 TQ spots into victory. At the end of Saturday’s qualifying, all of the racers in the Pro-4 class were called to the announcer’s booth for a meeting. I was slightly confused why, then I asked Ryan Maifield what was going on? He said a lot of the guys were worried about “nuking” their motors in the scheduled 10-minute main. Their compromise was to run double 5-minute mains. In A1, top qualifier, Ryan Maifield held his lead for the first three laps then let Mike Truhe and Hupo Honigl slip by. The Durango duo of Jorn and Hupo did some swapping of positions with Maifield while Truhe ran away with the win.

Continue reading the report here

March 21, 2011

Malaysian Shepherd Racing Series report

The Grand Finale of the Malaysian Shepherd Racing Series was held at the Niko Racing Circuit near Johor close to Singapore recently. Patrick Schäfer and his team mechanic Armin Weihert traveled from Germany to Malaysia to attend this event organized by Malaysian distributor Niko Cheng. Additionally Jilles Groskamp came over from Bangkok to race in the 1/10th scale class while Schäfer participated in the 1/8th scale class. During qualifying Schäfer and Groskamp had no problems to secure the pole-positions in their classes. Due to an engine problem Groskamp had to take a timeout before the main final and started from last position. After a few laps he was right behind the early leader Azri Amri. Unfortunately another technical problem forced him to have a long pitstop and he lost a lot of time. Azri Amri cruised to the victory followed by Shafiq and Mizan on third position. Just before the start of the 1/8th scale final rain hit the track and the organizer decided that the race will be canceled. Luckily the rain was much less than the days before and the track dried up quickly. From the start Schäfer controlled the field and after a few minutes he already had a big gap on the second placed driver. After 45 min he crossed the finishing line unchallenged in front of Lai Kok Heng 14 laps down and David Voo on third position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

March 20, 2011

Levanen wins Polish ETS encounter

The winner of the first ever ETS race back in 2007, Juho Levanen finally returned, 18 races later, to the top step of the podium with victory today in the fourth round of the 2010/11 series at Legionowo, Poland. The 26-year-old claimed the victory with his second win of the day in the third leg to beat Ronald Volker and end the German’s domination of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series.

View our complete event coverage here.

March 20, 2011

Levanen wins thrilling opening final in Poland

Team Associated’s Juho Levanen has won a thrilling opening final at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Legionowo, Poland. Starting from second on the grid, the Finnish ace followed Top Qualifier Ronald Volker around the track for four minutes before the race came alive culminating in a final lap that had the crowd in the Arena on their feet as he pulled off a great series of moves to beat the German.

View our complete event coverage here.