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November 3, 2013

Asmer does Pro Stock/Formula double at ETS

Serpent driver Jan Asmer became the first double category race winner today when he took the overall win in both the Xray Pro Stock and Formula classes at the season opener of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Czech Republic. Having already made ETS history yesterday when he TQ’d both classes, the final day of the Hrotovice event did not get off to a good start for the German but in the final round of A-Main he turned things around to win both of his A3 encounters to secure the top step on the podium. A great start to the defense of his Formula title, the win in Pro Stock’s marks his first touring car win with him describing that race as the hardest 5-minutes he has experienced in racing.

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November 3, 2013

Volker pulls off the perfect start to ETS Season #7

Defending Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker pulled off the best start possible to Season #7, the Yokomo driver taking the overall win with another faultless win in Leg 2 of the A-Main in the Czech Republic. Chasing a fourth consecutive title in the World famous championship this season, the win is the German’s ninth ETS career win and the fourth year that he has won the season opener. Having won Leg 1 from Marc Rheinard, he again headed home the Tamiya driver in Leg 2 with Yannic Prumper completing the Top 3.

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November 3, 2013

Volker handed easy Leg 1 win

Ronald Volker was handed a relatively easy win in the opening A-Main at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series this morning in the Czech Republic after the two drivers starting behind him clashed on the opening lap. A coming together between Xray’s Alexander Hagberg and Awesomatix’s Freddy Sudhoff allowed Volker to take a 1.3 second win over Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard with Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura completing the Top 3.

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November 2, 2013

Ido & Kobayashi win at Asia Offroad Championships

Masatsugu Ido (Yokomo) and Yusuke Kobayashi (Kyosho) are the first winners at this weekend’s Asia Offroad Championships. Despite only coming in 7th position in the first A-final Ido shifted into second gear in A2 and A3 of the 2WD Modified class handing him the overall win in front of pole-sitter Kouta Akimoto (Kyosho). Kai Kikuchi (Yokomo) completed the finals tie on points with Kohta whose win in the first final secured him the runner-up spot.

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November 2, 2013

Volker is Top Qualifier for ETS season opener

Ronald Volker is Top Qualifier for the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the German putting the top spot on the grid beyond the reach of his rivals with another TQ run in the third of the four qualifiers. The perfect start to the defense of his 3rd consecutive ETS title, the Yokomo driver again had to work hard to put his BD7 top of the time sheets with both Alexander Hagberg and Freddy Sudhoff in the mix. Unfortunately for Hagberg a slower car ruined his chance of forcing the overall TQ to go down to the final round of qualifying in Hrotovice. Rolling his Xray Hagberg would end up sixth with a much improved Marc Rheinard completing the Top 3 for the round.

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November 2, 2013

Volker from Hagberg in Q2

Round 2 of qualifying at the season opener of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series produced a very close three way battle but a late charge by last night’s Q1 pace setter Ronald Volker saw the Yokomo driver just pip Xray’s Alexander Hagberg to make it two from two. Once again Awesomatix’s Freddy Sudhoff was in the mix claiming third despite two mistakes, finishing just ahead of Serpent’s Marc Fischer.

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November 2, 2013

Neo Race 2014 – Announcement

Neo Buggy and DXR officially announce the 2014 Neo Race, to which entry opens November 6th – known collectively as the “1/8 buggy Indoor Worlds” by those who attend the event year after year. The 9th running of the Neo Race organised by NeoBuggy and DXR sees a welcome return to our regular Easter slot: 18-21st April 2014; after last year’s event took place during the height of the British summer. The Agricultural University Harper Adams in Shropshire continues as the venue for the event, now returned to 4 days in length – running Friday – Monday. Once again the popular “Vampire Racing” sponsored 1/8 Electric buggy class returns – limited to 45 drivers, the main nitro buggy class is limited to 225 entries. The entry guide with all needed information can be found here.

November 2, 2013

Asia Offroad Championships – Day 1 update

The Asia Offroad Championships for electric offroad are currently being held in Japan at the Yatabe Arena. The race, that is announced by Novak’s one and only Charlie Suangka, sees the 2WD Modified and 17.5T Stock classes being run on day 1 with the 4WD Modified, 17.5T and Short Course Modified class being run tomorrow. At the end of the 2WD qualifying Kouta Akimoto leads the Modified class quite dominantly as he leads the score board with a 17/5:15.790 run. Masatsugu Ido comes second with a 16/5:00.722 and Shin Adachi completes the top 3 with a 16/5:01.212. In the Stock class Yusuke Kobayashi can be considered the hot favourite of the class with a 15/5:06.164, some 12 seconds faster than the runner-up. He also is the only driver able to pull 19 seconds laps. In second comes Yoshiaki Amasaki with a 15/5:18.291 run. Eiji Chiba is sitting in third with a 14/5:02.280.

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