Awesomatix team driver Freddy Südhoff has taken the third round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring in Poznan, Poland. The 22-year-old, who is being tipped to be a strong title contender at this year’s upcoming World Championships, is the first driver to top the time sheets as early event dominator Ronald Volker rolled his Yokomo out of a TQ run before pulling up after a second mistake in Q3.
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Determined to put the drama that befell him and his Yokomo team in Gran Canaria last month, defending Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker sent out a clear message to his rivals on the opening day of the fourth round of the series when he stamped his authority on proceedings with a TQ run in the opening round of qualifying. The German took the first of the five scheduled qualifiers by 2.9 second from surprise man of the day Magnus Vässmar, the Xray driver carrying his impressive practice pace through to qualifying.
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Kyosho America announce the release of new option parts for the MP9 buggy. Seen for the first time at last weekend’s Neo Race the parts mainly include a new battery box that replace the standard carbon mount, a new receiver box, updated transponder mount, redesigned radio plate with interlocking servo mount brackets, redesigned side pods, a new and harder shock tower as well as new universal shafts. The parts will become available very soon.
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Schumacher Racing have expanded their engineering team again and would like to welcome Tristram Neal as design, development, and race engineer. Tristram previously worked as an engineer at AWE Atomic Weapons Establishment, and is well known for his Trishbits range of accessories that he has been producing for 1/10th buggies. He will be contributing to the design and development of Schumacher products and will be representing the company at race meetings.
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Defending Champion Ronald Volker is the early pace setter at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Poznan, Poland, with the German topping the time sheets ahead of Marc Rheinard in the first timed round of practice while championship leader Christopher Krapp hit problems ending up only 21st fastest. Running as part of the Motorshow Poznan, which is set to attract almost 50,000 visitors when it officially opens its doors to the public tomorrow morning, the host club have made full use of Hall 6 at the international exhibition venue to create a huge indoor track for the final carpet race of the 2011/12 season of ETS.
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Serpent introduce the S100 LT 1/10 scale pan car kit. Based on the link variant of the World GT chassis the LT kit comes equipped with dampening tubes left and right of the central shock absorber to control the roll of the chassis. Other features include a 2.5mm carbon fibre chassis, highly adjustable front end, adjustable battery mount, variable steering servo mount, rear ball differential, and adjustable motor pod.
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Yeah Racing have released this aluminium solid axle insert for the use with Team Associated’s SC10 4×4 SC truck. CNC-machined from aluminium and anodised blue the solid axle insert is usable with both the front and the rear differential, weights in at 5.7g and is a direct replacement for the kit’s differential gears.
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8-Racing introduce the V2 front shock tower for Team Durango’s DEX210 buggy. The shock stay is CNC-machined from 4mm carbon fibre and comes with brass mounting brackets. The parts are more rigid than the stock plastic tower and weight 26g in total. Integrated into the design is an anti-roll bar mount.
Source: 8-Racing [8-racing.com]
