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May 28, 2016

Volker pulls epic pass on Rheinard to win from the back

Ronald Volker has moved in to the early lead at the 19th running of the Reedy Race of Champions in California after pulling an epic pass on defending champion Marc Rheinard in the 3rd round of racing. Starting from the back of the grid with Rheinard on pole, Volker would work his way up to second and then set about closing down a 2-second lead held by his arch rival. With the race into the final minute, the Yokomo driver was all over the Tamiya and, with three laps to go, as they came out of the first corner sweeper Volker set-up the pass. Going to the outside before switching back to the inside, the ETS Champion would get down the inside into the hairpin immediately pulling clear of his long time arch rival. In the other two encounters of the round, both pole sitters would lead tone to tone, with four time Reedy Race Champion Barry Baker taking a popular win as Ralph Burch came of best from a three way battle for second that also involved European’s Viljami Kutvonen and Loic Jasmin. In Race 2, Tamiya’s Akio Sobue would be come the first double winner of the event, joined later by Volker, as he saw off the close attentions of Ryan Cavalieri with Rick Hohwart completing the Top 3 having started P7.

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May 27, 2016

Rheinard posts 1st win as Tamiya sweeps Round 2

Reigning Champion Marc Rheinard has registered the first win in his quest for a 6th Reedy Race of Champions title. Second in the opening round ahead of early title favourite Ronald Volker, Rheinard would take an easy win in the second encounter which would be dominated by Tamiya. In the opening race of the round Christopher Krapp went one better than Round 1 to take the win ahead of first round winner Ryan Cavalieri. TRF team-mate Akio Sobue claimed the Race 2 win having withstood a challenge from Volker. In contrast to his first race, a good start would allow Rheinard to go to the front as he got around the outside of pole sitter Antoni Caretti through the first corner. From there he cruised to a victory by almost half a lap as Meen Vejrak and Viljami Kutvonen provided the entertainment battling over second, Round 1 retiree Vejrak holding off the Finn for 2nd. Opening the event with a win and running Round 2 in the same race as Rheinard, World Champion Naoto Matsukura would finish only 6th after a mistake but struggling with his TRF419 he is set to join his team-mates in running a carbon chassis for Round 3.

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May 27, 2016

Cavalieri, Matsukura & Volker win opening RROC encounters

The opening round of racing at the Reedy Race of Champions produced pretty straight forward wins for Ryan Cavalieri, Naoto Matsukura and Ronald Volker, with only World Champion Matsukura forced to work for his win. Starting the opening race of the 19th running of the iconic event from 3rd on the grid, early patience from Cavalieri would pay with mistakes from pole sitter Rick Hohwart and early leader Eric Albano on the same lap handed the Associated driver the lead. Hohwart would get second followed by Reedy Race debutant Viljami Kutvonen who came through from 6th on the grid. Race 2 would prove to be the most entertaining of the 3 as a recovering Chrstopher Krapp put in a huge charge in the final minute to catch his Tamiya team-mate Matsukura who probably wouldn’t have held off the German had the race gone an extra lap. Having started on pole Andrew Hardman would complete the Top 3. The most heavily loaded of the races, Race 3 would see reigning champion Marc Rheinard and Volker go head to head. Volker had the advantage of starting from pole and dominated the race while contact at the start from P4 left Rheinard at the back. The Tamiya driver would recover to take a distant 2nd with team-mate Akio Sobue 3rd.

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May 27, 2016

Kyle Spiteri takes Maltese 200mm Championship title

The final round of the 2016 Maltese Onroad Championship was held at the IRMCC track in Pembroke. In the 1/10th 200mm F2 category, Kyle Spiteri (Xray) would seal the championship thanks to a TQ and win at the finale to take the title from Xray team mates Charles Vassallo and William Mallia.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 27, 2016

Volker shows advantage in RROC practice

Ronald Volker showed himself to have the advantage in terms of speed going into this year’s Reedy Race of Champions. While being quickest at the iconic heads up racing event doesn’t count for much when it comes to getting the overall success, being fastest over the four rounds of practice today at Tamiya Raceway does provide Volker with a phycological boost over his 23 rivals. The 19th running of the Reedy Race, Volker would be the only driver to record a legitimate 11-second lap with reigning champion Marc Rheinard closest to the Yokomo ace some 2/10ths of a second off his long standing rival. Rheinard’s Tamiya team-mate Christopher Krapp, one of the stars of last year’s event before a costly mistake at the famous kink in Race 10 cost him a shot at the title, would make it an all German Top 3.

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May 27, 2016

Florian Hauser wins at Swiss EP On-road Nats Rd2

The recent second round of the Swiss Electric On-road National Championship was held in Herblingen near Schaffhausen. In the Touring Modified class Florian Hauser would hold the overnight TQ following wins in Q1 and Q2 but in the colder conditions on Sunday morning Fabian Widmer would strike back. With both tie on points the tie-breaker would hand Fabian the overall TQ from Florian in second and Oliver Krähemann, in his first Modified race, in third.

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May 27, 2016

Blake Bell takes 1/12 Mod title at Protoform WCICS

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series WCICS, which celebrated its 25th Anniversary this season, again hosted eight events across Western Canada. For the second year in a row, CRC driver Blake Bell took the 1/12th Modified championship. Roche Racing’s Korgae Scales finished second overall, and Team Associated’s Peter Toszer came in 3rd. The 2016/17 season of the championship which will kick off September 23rd in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

May 26, 2016

Max Teo wins at Malaysia National Championship Rd3

The recent third round of the Malaysia National Championship was held in the town of Sibu in East Malaysia. The race format saw six round of qualifying followed by triple mains. In the Touring 13.5T Boosted class the battle for the top spot was on between Michael Lo (Awesomatix), Chong YeeYong (Awesomatix), Albert Tang (ARC), Max Teo (Destiny) and James Ki (Awesomatix). Michael would take the TQ in the opening qualifier from Chong YeeYong, Albert Tang, Max Teo and James Ki.

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