The WRC Contest race, organised by Mini Racing Chiasso, was run in Faloppio, Italy last weekend. In the F1 class which was run on Saturday Fenix Racing’s Matteo Berlincioni brought home the win in front of Davide Carbone (IRC). Fenix Racing driver Bryan Ferrara completed the top 3 result.
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Ronald Volker has claimed his fifth DHI Cup title, the Team Yokomo driver kicking off his 2014 season in perfect fashion by wrapping up overall victory at the 14th running of the famous Danish event with a second win in Leg 2. Having dominated A1, the second encounter was not as straight forward for the German ace who had to battle with a damaged car and see off a challenge from fast Finn Viljami Kutvonen. Looking comfortable for the win as the race entered the second half Volker’s new DB7 2014 edition collected the Serpent of David Ehrbar when after an off track excursion it was being place back on the track by the marshal. Damaging the body of the No.1 car, Volker’s pace dropped as he struggled with his front tyre rubbing badly through left hand corners. Making his first attack Kutvonen was clearly now faster but just as he looked like making a pass for the lead entering the straight he rolled his Awesomatix. Dropping back he quickly closed down the gap again but trying a pass on the final lap he touched the Yokomo sending it into a roll for which he waited allowing Volker to complete the final corner in front for the leg & overall win.
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Made for the Team C TC10 touring car are four new front and rear suspension mount brackets. Coming in several specifications as F1.0, R2.0, R2.5 and R3.5 variant the orange anodised parts are machined from aluminium and made to help adjusting the suspension geometry to various track conditions by simply swapping the suspension hangers.
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VBC Racing have signed former World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya to be a factory team driver and R&D member for 2014. A very experienced racer, Surikarn will be provide support to team drivers at races as well as help with the development of future products. The Thai driver will participate around Thailand with the WildFire D06 touring car, Lightning12 pan car and Twelve FF12 FWD touring car. He had the following to say:
I am honoured and very excited to be the part of the VBC Racing Team and being able to work with the VBC development team, this allows me to test new VBC products and prototypes extensively in my new HugeRC track facility giving important feedback to the team very efficiently. I am sure this will be a very successful year for VBC Racing and myself.
Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]
Having topped practice and then TQ’d the opening round of qualifying yesterday, Ronald Volker continued his reign at the 14th running of the DHI Cup by kicking off Day 2 of the Danish event by topping the second of the four qualifiers. The Team Yokomo ace took the round once again ahead of Team Xray’s Adrian Berntsen with Serpent’s Marc Fischer completing the Top 3. Exiting the boundaries of the track twice as his Tamiya understeered off the track, Marc Rheinard failed to complete the full 5-minutes.
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The opening round of qualifying threw up no real surprises as Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker TQ’d the opening round of qualifying ahead of defending Champion Adrian Berntsen and Marc Rheinard. Bringing the first day of action at the 14th running of the famous Danish event to a close Volker topped the first of the four scheduled qualifiers with a time of 25-laps in 5:11.289 with Bernsten just over 1 second adrift. Despite setting the fastest lap of Q1, Rheinard could not make a 25-lap run finishing with a time of 5:00.764.
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Ronald Volker has set the early pace on the opening day of the DHI Cup in Denmark, the Team Yokomo driver topping the first timed practice from last year’s event winner Adrian Berntsen. A three time winner of the event, Volker posted a time of 37.377 for his 3-fastest consecutive laps compared to Berntsen’s 37.423 with Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard third over 3/10ths of a second further a drift.
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Top Italian racer Francesco Tironi has signed to run for Team Shepherd in the upcoming 2014 season. The multiple Italian Champion, Worlds podium finisher and EC / ENS finalist is going to use the Velox V10 for 1/10th scale and the Velox V8 for 1/8th scale at both European championships, the 1/10th Worlds and the ENS series. Being well know for his positive attitude he will additionally give some track support at races in Italy. Francesco had the following to say:
First of all I would like to thank Capricorn for the last two years. But now it’s time to move on and I’m very happy to join the Shepherd factory team. Especially after their multiple 1/8th EC titles in 2013 and the big steps they made with their innovations on the V10 PRO it will be pleasure to be a part of this team. I’m really looking forward to the upcoming races and I would like to thank Patrick and the whole Shepherd crew for this great opportunity.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
