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January 11, 2014

Volker wraps up DHI TQ honours in Q3

In a pretty much forgone conclusion, Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker is Top Qualifier for the 14th running of the DHI Cup. The driver with the most number of past wins at the famous Danish event, yet another TQ run in Q3 put the pole position for tomorrow’s final beyond the reach of his rivals despite one round of qualifying remaining. Posting his fastest 5-minute run of the weekend, the 4-time event winner was a whole 5-seconds clear of his rivals with Awesomatix Viljami Kutvonen claiming second followed by Xray’s Alexander Hagberg, both drivers posting their first 25-lap runs.

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January 11, 2014

Team C TC10 front & rear arm mounts

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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January 11, 2014

Surikarn Chaidajsuriya to join VBC factory team

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]

January 11, 2014

Levin 2WD Top Qualifier at DHI Cup

Oskar Levin has got his 2014 season & his new sponsorship with Team C off to the best start possible by securing the overall TQ honours for 2WD Buggy at the DHI Cup. Having TQ’d both of yesterday’s opening qualifiers in Denmark giving him the provisional overnight TQ honours, TQ runs from defending champion Joern Neumann in Q3 and Schumacher’s Tom Cockerill in Q4 meant the Swede remained top of the ranking. Cockerill will start tomorrow’s triple leg finals from 2nd with Neumann’s Durango set to line up third.

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January 11, 2014

Volker continues to reign at DHI

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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January 10, 2014

No surprises as Volker TQ opening DHI qualifier

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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January 10, 2014

Back to back TQ runs for Levin at DHI Cup

New Team C signing Oskar Levin got his debut for his new sponsor off to the perfect start at the DHI Cup after the Swede claimed the opening two rounds of qualifying at the Danish event. The result leaves the 19-year-old holding the provisional overall TQ overnight in Odense while some of his key rivals are under pressure to make the most of tomorrow’s remaining two qualifiers. Defending Champion Joern Neumann finds himself only 4th overall, while Xray’s Martin Bayer is 10th and Schumacher’s Tom Cockerill is way down in 32nd after a DNF in Q1.

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January 10, 2014

Pro-Line 1/10th Blockade sneak peek

Pro-Line have sent us this sneak peak of their new soon to be released 1/10th Blockade tire. Based off the very popular 1/8th scale tire this all-rounder is soon to be available in this smaller form. We expect more information on the tire and its release date in the coming days.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]