A favourite with its team drivers, Infinity is releasing a limited quantity of its 2018 Team hoodie. Soft and warm it is the perfect apparel for the winter months. Featuring a large Infinity World Champion logo on the front and back, it also carries the Indofood, SMJ, and Creation Model logos on the sleeve. The hoodie comes in five sizes of S, M, L, XL and 2XL.
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A round of the Xray Racing Series PLMS Poland was held recently and in the Touring Modified class it was Jakub Rozycki with the win on the technical track. Starting from the pole position Rozycki left behind Jakub Michalsi in 2nd and Michal Blahovsky in 3rd, making it an all-Xray top 3.
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Bruno Coelho is the top seed in the Volante Modified class for the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Vienna Austria, having improved upon his first round time in the 2nd controlled practice. Taking the round ahead of Freddy Sudhoff and Ronald Volker and a much improved Marc Rheinard, the Xray driver said while it was a very good run, he also made too many small mistakes. Putting them down to pushing the car to find its limits, he said ‘everything is looking good for tomorrow and we will see in the morning if we need to change anything for Q1’, the modified class having their opening qualifier first thing tomorrow morning.
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Yokomo have announced the signing of young British front runner Harley Eldridge. The 17 year old young lady, began with RC at 4 years old with her father who still strong contender in UK touring sedan racing scene. A multiple BRCA National and EWS finalist, Harley will join Team Yokomo as a factory driver along with Jimmy Maddison and Oli Meggitt in the UK and will also join the ETS with Ronald Volker and Christopher Krapp as a Factory driver at the opening round this week in Vienna. Harley had the following to say about the deal:
Firstly I would like to thank Ronald Volker, Michal Bok and Micheal Ball for the support that they have gave me over the 4 years, I am very happy to join the Yokomo factory team and will work very hard and to get the best of results in the coming events.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
The first of two rounds of controlled practice are complete here in Vienna and in the Modified class it is Ronald Volker, running the all new Yokomo BD9, who was quickest over 3 laps ahead of Bruno Coelho, Freddy Sudhoff and Yannic Prumper. The German driver said that he continued to switch cars between practice runs and has now settled on the car with the standard rear suspension having also tried the RTC system. Feeling ‘very comfortable with the balance and corner speed’, he plans to only make minor changes going forward in order to improve the car in mid corner.
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Robert Pietsch has won Super Pole at the 200mm World Championship in Florida booking himself a direct spot on the grid for Saturday title deciding 1-hour final alongside Top Qualifier Dario Balestri. Qualifying 5th overall, the Mugen driver was first to go and his 17.762 lap was the final lap of 6 was to start. First to challenge the German was reigning Champion Dominic Greiner but suffering a mistake in the middle of his attempt his best lap was 0.122 slower. Andy Moore then stood up to the mark but the Q3 Top Qualifier couldn’t break 18-seconds leave him last of the three to run so far. Taking two rounds of qualifying including the last round, Naoto Matsukura was the final challenger to run but having won Super Pole on his 1:8 Worlds debut last year he it wasn’t going to be another direct A-Main debut for the 200mm rookie. Completing the 3-minute warm-up, the Japanese driver immediately complained of being unable to see as light faded at the Homestead RC Raceway but continuing to put in his 6-laps his best time came on lap 4 but it was 28/1000ths off Pietsch’s. Unfortunately for Pietsch after a short live celebration, an official protest by Matsukura to have Super Pole re-run meant official confirmation of the result was delayed by more than an 1-hour, IFMAR’s international jury unanimous in deciding the result would stand.
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Dario Balestri is the Top Qualifier at the 1:10 200mm World Championship in Miami. The Infinity driver pulled off his third consecutive Worlds pole position in as many years with another TQ run in the penultimate round of qualifying. Having made a mistake in the day’s opening qualifier, the reigning 1:8 World Champion put in a perfect Q5 making 24-laps to top the times for a third time and deny team-mate Naoto Matsukura and Andy Moore the chance of a first nitro World’s TQ. Having taken the third round of qualifying, Moore had issues in the pits in his fifth run while a mistake from Matsukura while setting the TQ in front of Balestri ended his hopes and he ended up 5th for the round. It would be Dominic Greiner who was closest to Balestri but missing out on going 24-laps. Simon Kurzbuch would complete the Top 3, matching his surprise P3 in Q1, only this time the Shepherd driver took a more traditional route and made a fuel stop like everyone else during the 7-minute qualifier. Robert Pietsch made it four different manufacturers at the top for the round also equalling his best performance so far, while Mugen team-mate Shoki Takahata completed the Top 6.
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Naoto Matsukura has opened the second day of qualifying at the 1:10 20mm World Championships in Miami with a TQ run. Having opened qualifying with a P2 but having had issues in Q2 and 3 yesterday, the Infinity driver bounced back in the 4th round to top the times from team-mate Andy Moore. Continuing Infinity’s reign at the top of qualifying, Matsukura’s TQ is the first 24-lap run of the Homestead RC Raceway with his advantage over Moore over 2-second. Unfortunately having TQ’d the opening two rounds of qualifying and ending the day with a P2, Dario Balestri could not continue his form as he got his car hooked up in a corner board which cost him over 6-seconds. Third fastest would be Dominic Greiner, the reigning champion posting a new fastest pitstop of the weekend of 4.2-seconds as pitman Klaus Lechner bettered the previous record set in the heat before by Moore’s pitman Trin NungGai. The big improver of the Q4 would be Teemu Leino, the European Champion who had a best of a P10 from yesterday setting the fourth fastest time ahead of Tadahiko Sahashi and Francesco Tironi.
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