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January 8, 2018

Volker claims win No.8 at DHI Cup

Ronald Volker has claimed an 8th win at the DHI Cup. The Yokomo driver secured the victory at the 18th running of the Danish Classic with a convincing win in the deciding A-Main. Having had a messy opening lap in A2, with Yannic Prumper the main benefactor to take the win, Volker went into the third encounter determined to return to the form he has shown when he took all four qualifiers. While suffering a scare when his car hit a bump on the opening lap, the World Champion quickly established a lead that he would extend to over 2-second by the finish. For Prumper his weekend would net a Yokomo 1-2, the German clearly delighted to competitive again after a lean 2017 season. Completing the podium in Odense would be Marc Rheinard, the Infinity driver having gone into the final leg with a chance of the win but unable to get by Elliott Harper soon enough to do anything about Volker.

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January 8, 2018

Ric Bartolozzi joins Shepherd

Shepherd have announced the signing of top Australian racer Ric Bartolozzi to their team. Ric is one of Australia’s most successful drivers, winning several 1/8th national titles, State Championships in both 1/8th and 1/10th scale classes, and he also is a triple World Championship semi-finalist. Ric joins a very strong and growing Shepherd Australia team, which will see him compete at most major events in 2018.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

January 8, 2018

Kaufmann & Wohlgemuth win at 2018 MCSS Open

The MCSS Althengstett club in Germany hosted the 2018 MCSS Open electric on-road race this past weekend. In the Touring Modified class, that only attracted ten entries, it was Marco Kaufmann with the TQ after the tie-breaker from Thimo Weissbauer 2nd and Tim Wahl 3rd. In the hotly contested Touring Sport class, attracting 46 entries, Max Mächler came out fastest after the qualifiers from Daniel Wohlgemuth and Valentin Hettrich.

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January 8, 2018

Muchmore LiPo battery pack for CTXWP tyre warmer

Made for their recently introduced CTXWP tyre warmer unit is Muchmore’s new 4200mAh 11.1V LiPo battery pack. The softcase battery is a direct fit and it allows to use the tyre warmer without mains power, something that is helpful if drivers opt to heat their car’s tyres outside of their pit space. The battery come pre-wired and it can be charged within the CTXWP main unit and without detaching the pack.

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January 8, 2018

Bezerk RC M07 lowered shock tower set

Coming from Bezerk RC and made for the Tamiya M07 FWD mini are lowered carbon fibre shock towers. The standard towers are great for the intended 60D tyres but testing has found they were not ideal for smaller 55mm diameter rubber. Bezerk’s towers will give more ride-height to play with whilst still allowing enough up-travel. The towers come as set and are both made from glossy 3.0mm carbon fibre.

Source: Bezerk RC [bezerk.com.au]

January 7, 2018

Prumper wins A2 from Rheinard

Yannic Prumper has won the second A-Main at the DHI Cup, the Yokomo driver taking full advantage of a bad first lap from his team-mate and Top Qualifier Ronald Volker. Off the start Volker would run wide in the first corner allowing the second place starting Prumper to go to the front but things got worse as chaos broke out in the pack with Volker being given a Stop & Go penalty. All this played into the hands of Prumper who quickly found himself with huge advantage but once Marc Rheinard got up to speed that lead was greatly reduced with it looking like the Infinity driver had the legs to beat his fellow German. It wasn’t to be however as a mistake by Rheinard on the penultimate lap allowed Prumper hang on for the win. Benefiting from the first lap dramas, Viktor Wilck would complete the Top 3 just holding off Elliott Harper.

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January 7, 2018

Volker hangs on to win A1

Having dominated qualifying Ronald Volker had to work a lot harder for victory in the opening A-Main at the DHI Cup, the Yokomo driver only just hanging on for the win as challenges from both Yannic Prumper and Marc Rheinard ended with them each suffering rolls. In the end Volker would cross the line over a second clear of Rheinard, but the Infinity driver had the fastest car on track and looked a much more threatening proposition than he had in qualifying, his two rolls costing him over 3-seconds. Recovering from an early roll, that allowed Rheinard through, Elliott Harper would complete the Top 3 ahead of Viktor Wilck, with Prumper opting to pull up and save his tyres after rolling his Yokomo a second time.

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January 6, 2018

Volker again in Q2

Ronald Volker picked up where he left off last night at the DHI Cup as he opened Day 2 of the event with another TQ run this morning in Denmark. Taking Q1 comfortably over Marc Rheinard, the Yokomo driver appeared to have an even greater advantage for the second round stopping the clocks two & a half seconds up on the Schumacher of Elliott Harper even after late contact with former Champion Viktor Wilck. Yannic Prumper would post the 3rd fastest time followed by the Xray of Markus Hellquist with Wilck fifth while Rheinard completed the Top 6 after a 4-second mistake in the latter half of the qualifier.

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