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July 22, 2013

Bowie Ginting wins 13.5T at Xcampus Challenge Rd1

The First round of the Xcampus Challenge Championship was held at the SIS track in Jakarta. Before the race the organisers modified the track layout and added another technical corner to make the track more challenging. The race was run mainly in 13.5T and FWD classes with 40 competitors attending in total. The 13.5T Boosted qualifying saw Bowie Ginting place his VBC onto the TQ spot with 17 laps in 5.07. Ronny Suwarto was next with his Xray, 7 seconds behind the pole man. Peter Anthony (Yokomo) and Ronald Kasengkang (Tamiya) also scored 17 laps and lined-up in 4th and 5th respectively while young hotshot, Muhammad Izzah was a bit shy of the 17 laps with 16 laps in 5.00,0.017 ahead Teddy Syach who placed 6th. In the FWD class Anton Santoso TQ’d 3 seconds from Christian Mamesah for took the runner-up spot.

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July 21, 2013

Volker is Champion

Ronald Volker is the 2012/13 Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion. The German clinched his third consecutive title by securing his first ever asphalt win in the World famous championship with another tone to tone victory in the second leg of the A-Main at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. The result sees the factory Yokomo driver become the most crowned ETS driver having shared the honour for the past 12-months with reigning World Champion Jilles Groskamp who was champion of the first two seasons of the series. Despite shadowing Volker throughout the second 5-minute main, Marc Rheinard, the 2009/10 Champion, couldn’t catch his arch rival declaring afterwards that the ‘championship wasn’t lost here but at the start of the season’, the Tamiya ace failing to make the podium at the opening three races of the season.

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July 21, 2013

Joe Kerry wins British 200mm nationals Rd6

The 6th round of the British 1/10 200mm Championship was held last weekend at the excellent Mendip track in Weston-Super-Mare. The Weather was superb for the entire weekend with temperatures over 30 degrees. There was very little grip to start with but this slowly improved during Saturday’s practice. Joe Kerry set the fastest time with his Serpent, with team mate Mark Green just one tenth behind. During qualifying many drivers were struggling to make the 5 minutes due to a combination of the fast track layout and hot temperatures. At the end of qualifying TQ went to Joe Kerry with Mark second around 3 seconds behind. Both were the only drivers to complete 18 laps throughout qualifying.

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July 21, 2013

Volker gets one hand on ETS title with Leg 1 win

Ronald Volker moved a step closer to retaining the Yokomo Euro Touring Series title which he has held for the last two season with a tone to tone win in the opening A-Main of the season finale at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. Starting from pole position, the factory Yokomo driver took the win by over 3-seconds from team-mate Yannic Prumper after a roll by the No.2 starting Tamiya of Marc Rheinard dropped his only title rival back down the order with the 3-time World Champion eventually finishing sixth.

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July 21, 2013

Yeah Racing 1/10th touring car shock sets

Yeah Racing introduce their new high-performance shock absorbers for the use with 1/10th touring cars. The dampers make use of threaded aluminium shock bodies with aluminium upper and lower caps, and they sport titanium-nitrid-coated shock shafts and volume compensation via rubber diaphragms. Coming in sets of four the shocks include many tuning parts to make setup easy as there are 2-hole to 4-hole standard and tapered shock pistons as well as a complete 20-piece spring set and some shock oil. The shocks fit many of today’s touring car chassis and are available as 50mm and 55mm variant in blue, pink or gun metal colour.

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July 20, 2013

Yugo Nagashima wins Speed King Tour East Rd2

Yugo Nagashima dominates Speed King Tour East Rd2

The second round of the Kazuki Endo organised Speed King Tour East 2013 took place at the World Jam Racing track in the Gunma prefecture. Local hotshot Yugo Nagashima (Yokomo) took TQ and won the race in front of 2007 2WD Off-Road World and multiple national champion Hayato Matsuzaki (Yokomo). Yugo’s high school class mate Hayato Ishioka (Kyosho) finished 3rd. As first round winner Naoto Matsukura did not attend the second round, Yugo is now points leader in the championship. The next round of the series will take place at the famous Yatabe Arena in September.

Source: Speed King Tour East [speed-king-tour.blogspot.jp]

July 20, 2013

Blacktarmac double reverse 1/10th clutch

Blacktarmac introduce their new double reverse clutch for 1/10th scale vehicles with .12 nitro engines. The special design makes use of dual clutch pads for a more powerful clutch engagement. The flywheel and the inner pressure plate are machined from lightweight 7075-T6 aluminium to reduce the rotation mass and to increase durability. The clutch, that won the EFRA Euro B in the hands of Luca Redaelli, comes with all needed parts except pinions and includes a steel and a 7075-T6 aluminium clutch bell. Available for Xray NT1, Capricorn Lab C-02 and Shepherd Velox V10 cars.

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July 20, 2013

Volker ‘Top Qualifier’ for ETS Finale

Volker 'Top Qualifier' for ETS Finale

Ronald Volker is Top Qualifier for the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series after the Yokomo driver carried through his form from yesterday’s opening two qualifiers to top the third round this morning at the Hudy Racing Arena to put pole position for Sunday’s title deciding A-Main beyond the reach of his rivals. It was the perfect morning for Yokomo as they also locked up overall TQ honours in Slovakia with their Pro Stock team driver and outgoing champion Zdenko Kunak.

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