The winner of the first ever ETS race back in 2007, Juho Levanen finally returned, 18 races later, to the top step of the podium with victory today in the fourth round of the 2010/11 series at Legionowo, Poland. The 26-year-old claimed the victory with his second win of the day in the third leg to beat Ronald Volker and end the German’s domination of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series.
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Team Associated’s Juho Levanen has won a thrilling opening final at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Legionowo, Poland. Starting from second on the grid, the Finnish ace followed Top Qualifier Ronald Volker around the track for four minutes before the race came alive culminating in a final lap that had the crowd in the Arena on their feet as he pulled off a great series of moves to beat the German.
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Ronald Volker has maintained his 100% perfect qualifying record in this season’s Euro Touring Series by wrapping up overall TQ honours in Poland with another time sheet topping run in Q3. The Yokomo driver set a new fastest five minute time of 23 laps in 5:04.275 followed by Juho Levanen and Andy Moore who enjoyed their best runs of the day so far.
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Series leader Ronald Volker has topped the opening qualifier at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Poland. Although he has dominated the first half of the 2010/11 ETS season the German was surprised to have TQ’d and said afterwards it was a lucky TQ as his rivals all made mistakes. The factory Yokomo driver said he had no idea why but hs LRP powered BD5WX did not have as much traction on fresh rubber as it did in yesterday final practice.
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The opening day of the Polish ETS encounter was very much an Alexander Hagberg affair with the Swedish ace ending the day at the top of the time sheets. The factory Xray driver improved with every outing and setting the fastest lap of the day in the fifth & final practice and will now carry No.1 on his LRP powered T3’11 in the top heat for the four rounds of qualifying that make up tomorrow’s schedule at Arena Legionowo.
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The Yokomo Euro Touring Series has arrived in Poland for round 4 of the 2010/11 Series and setting the early pace in the impressive new Arena Legionwo building is Team Xray’s Alexander Hagberg. With three rounds of free practice complete, the 21-year-old Swede heads championship leader Ronald Volker by an impressive margin of over 1/10th of a second while the next three drivers are separated by just 2/1000ths.
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Schumacher are pleased to announce the re-signing of current British Touring Car Champion Chris Grainger. Chris has won two BRCA National titles since joining Schumacher two years ago and has an important part to play in the development of their Touring Cars along with their experienced engineering team. The new agreement see’s Chris with us for a further two years and he had the following to say about the deal:
I am very happy to re-sign with Schumacher racing for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. I have enjoyed the last two years with Schumacher very much, working with the team at the factory and race track. The design team impress me with their ideas and dedication to lead, not follow in design! I look forward to the next seasons with great expectation.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
Xray Germany have announced the signing of young German star Tobias Hepp to race for their on road team in 2011. The former Serpent driver will race the brand new Xray RX8 with Orcan GT7MH-Power, Orcan fuel 25+ and ATS-Tires. Tobias will race the Nitro-West Masters and the West German Championships, Luxembourg EFRA GP and the European Championship in Hildesheim, Germany (200mm) and Luxembourg (1/8th). He had this to say:
After 3 successful years with Serpent I’m happy for the new partnership with the Xray-Gemany/Orcan Team in 2011/2012. I’m looking forward to successful future.
Source: SMI [smi-motorsport.de]
