March 20, 2011

Levanen wins Polish ETS encounter

Levanen wins Polish ETS encounter

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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March 20, 2011

Levanen wins thrilling opening final in Poland

Levanen wins thrilling opening final in Poland

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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March 20, 2011

Maifield dominates Cactus qualifying

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The scorching Arizona sun went a bit easier on us today as qualifying wrapped up. Mid-day cloud cover and a slight breeze made it much cooler, but the track still had an amazing amount of grip. The re-sort from day 1 qualifying gave us some much-anticipated battles today with Ryan Maifield using his home advantage to TQ 4 of the 5 Modified classes.

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March 19, 2011

Volker is Top Qualifier in Poland

Volker is Top Qualifier in Poland

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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March 19, 2011

Volker surprises himself with opening TQ run

Volker surprises himself with opening TQ run

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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March 19, 2011

Cactus Classic Friday qualifying report

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What an epic day of qualifying! 48 heats twice through, started at 8am and ended at 10:30PM. Round 1 of the 25th annual Cactus Classic is saw Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield dominating the field. With his home track advantage and his cars looking stellar around the track, he finished with TQ’s in 2wd Modified Buggy, 4wd Modified Buggy, and Pro-2 Short Course.  Ryan had some minor motor issues in Pro-4 SC but otherwise would have likely TQ’ed that as well. I asked him what the plan for round 2 is and if he is going to change anything up. He said, “Everything is working really good today. I’m going to put a new motor in the SC-10 4×4 and hopefully have a better run.”

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March 19, 2011

Much More Racing confirm Joern Neumann

Much More Racing confirm Joern Neumann

Joern Neumann has signed a deal with Much More Racing for 2011 that will see him use the World championship brand. The former European Champion and multiple World Championship finalist will join other former European Champion Marc Rheinard in Much More’s offroad team. Joern will receive their full support using their Cell Master Legend, Hybrid charger and Power Master Legend. Joern had this to say about the new deal:

I am really happy to join the Much More team. They have nice products and they look awesome. I looking forward to get good results in the future with Much More products.

Source: Much More [muchmoreracing.net]


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