Levanen & Moore on overnight pole at 12th Euros

The second and final of today’s qualifying rounds are in the bag and once again its Associated leading the way in the modified class. Olly Jefferies took advantage of a mistake by Juho Levenan to take the fastest time, however Olly’s time was half a second slower than Juho’s round 1 time, leaving him second over night behind the Finn, while third on the leader board is newly crowned European Indoor Champion Ronald Volker. Andy Moore continues to lead pro stock by virtue of his first round time, with Marc Fisher and Chris Kerswell completing the overnight podium.

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Levanen & Moore top 1/12th Euros qualifying after Rd1

Following two more rounds of practice at the second day of the 2010 1:12th scale European Championships being run this weekend in the UK, qualifying has finally got underway. The first qualifying round saw Finnish driver Juho Levenan take the fastest time in modified ahead of his UK team mate Olly Jefferies. Simo Ahoniemi completed the top 3 for Corally. In the 10.5 pro stock class the locals have a Brit up front in the form of Andy Moore, the ex touring World champion heads up the field ahead of current European Stock Spec champion, Germany’s Marc Fisher driving a Corally. Chris Kerswell was third ahead of fellow brit Mark Stiles, both driving a V-Design Carpet Ripper, delighting team owner Vesa Yli who is here racing and on hand to assist. Today will see one more round of qualifying and we hope to bring you the results and more photos later on today.

1/12th Euros – Practice update

Welcome to our coverage of this years 1/12th On Road European Championship from Hinckley in the UK. The first day of the championship was spent booking in and getting some familiarisation laps completed with most of the European 1/12th big guns are here including Juho Levanen, Markus Mobers, Mark Fisher, Ronald Volker and Alexander Hagberg, while providing the domestic challenge in the modified class are Andy Moore, Elliott Harper, Olly Jefferies and Chris Kerswell. A strong entry of Pro Stock drivers are also here and some of the top drivers are doubling up and contesting both classes. Updated.

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Andersson secures Indoor Euros runner up spot

Team Yokomo/LRP factory driver Ronald Völker took the European title following the first two A-main legs and so chose to sit out and watch the last final. With Ronald absent from the starting grid it gave Christer Andesson the virtual pole position and a clean track ahead of him and was  followed by Alexander Hagberg but his car seemed a little loose and difficult right from the start. Marc Rheinard was pushing him hard for many laps and made an awesome pass at the front chicane to take second place. This battle allowed Andersson to drive his own race and pull a gap, but Marc did his best to catch up.

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