Arena have introduced a body trim block for 1/10th touring car body shells. The 3-D-printed tool was designed for the use with a Zebra fine pens and similar fine liners and its design allows to conveniently draw lower body trim lines at heights of 5.5mm up to 7.0mm by simply flipping the block.
The Mini Racing Team Essonne club played host to round 1 of the French IC Track National Championship this past weekend. In the 1/8th Elite class it was Romain Picard with the overall TQ from Richard Volta 2nd and John Ermen 3rd. The latter then had some bad luck in the semi final when he lost the lead due to a mechanical issue and eventually finished good enough to start from P11 into the 45-minute A-main. In the opening stages of the main John was fortunate enough to make it through a lot of carnage and traffic and when it started to rain lightly at the 10-minute mark, more chaos took place of which John was able to take advantage of to move up to 2nd behind Richard. When the latter had a coming together with another car in the pit lane, John was able to take over the lead and with only 15 minutes to go John stretched out on the lead and later took a 2-laps win from Arnaud Mathieu 2nd and Christophe Aygon 3rd.
Image: John Ermen
The Nitromasters 1/8th off-road race took place this past weekend in Sand am Main. Mugen’s Carsten Keller would take the win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class from Aaron Roenick in 2nd and Sebastian Winterstein in 3rd. Rene Koenig would round out the top 4 results for a full Mugen sweep. Over in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Sebastian Winterstein with the win.
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The third round of this year’s Dominican Republic 1/8th GT and 1/5th scale National Championships was held by the Dominican Association of Car Runners of Radio Control ADOCARC this past weekend in 1/8th GT and 1/5th scale Touring categories. The beautiful Santo Domingo track played host to the event and in the 1/8th GT class it was Antonio Taveras with the win from runner-up, Diego Medina. Elvin Alba would round out the podium as top qualifier, Alex Wachsmann did not make the A-main top 3.
Alexander Hagberg has won the second A-Main at the ETS in Spain, the Xray driver the benefactor of A1 winner Bruno Coelho clashing with Ronald Volker as the latter led the race. Starting on pole, just as the field came around to complete the first lap Coelho would get his Xray on two wheels over the curbing allowing Volker through just before the loop. Pushed hard by Coelho, the pair pulled clear of Hagberg but on lap 6 they clashed as Coelho tried a pass. With Volker taking a long time to find his composure as Coelho waited for the Yokomo driver to resume the lead they were quickly swallowed up by most of the grid. With Christopher Krapp, now running 2nd, struggling with a damaged car after he was collected by Volker in the warm-up, Hagberg could control the race for an easy 4-second win. Krapp would come under pressure from Awesomatix’s Freddy Südhoff, with Marc Rheinard joining the battle for a brief time before the Infinity driver outbraked himself trying a pass for second, but the Yokomo driver held on for 2nd.
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Bruno Coelho took and easy win in the opening A-Main of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Spain this morning, the Top Qualifier taking full advantage of the 2nd place battle between Alexander Hagberg and Ronald Volker. Off the start Volker’s Yokomo would get loose from 2nd on the grid allowing 3rd position starter Hagberg to slip through to second at the first corner. While Volker would put the Xray driver under pressure looking to take back the position he couldn’t and in the second half the race the pair were evenly matched with Hagberg leading Volker to the finish line but that wasn’t how they would finish. Just metres from the loop, Volker’s car would stop with an electric problem leaving the World Champion as a non-finisher. The main benefactor would be his team-mate Christopher Krapp would would complete the Top 3 having held off Freddy Südhoff.
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Bruno Coelho is the Top Qualifier for the first outdoor race of this season’s Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the fourth & final qualifier in Spain just a formality in confirming what was already decided in Q3. With drivers reduced to just two sets of tyres for qualifying this weekend, it effectively meant each driver had two chances with Coelho delivering TQ runs on both his attempts and Ronald Volker only get a TQ and a P2 from his new tyre runs. Q4 did however throw up one big surprise as Alexander Hagberg took advantage of holding out on running his second set of tyres to post a TQ run ahead of Coelho, who was on used tyres, and jump from the back of the A-Main grid to third behind behind his Xray team-mate and Volker while demoting Christopher Krapp to fourth. Freddy Südhoff will complete the top half of the grid while, having come into the weekend sharing the points lead with Coelho, Marc Rheinard is going to have his work cut out for himself to get a good result from 8th on the grid.
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Ronald Volker has taken the second qualifier at Round 3 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Spain this morning, the Yokomo driver topping the times from fellow German Freddy Sudhoff with both drivers on new tyres. Having taken the opening qualifier yesterday evening, Bruno Coelho would complete the Top 3 as the fastest driver on used tyres. One of three drivers gambling on sitting out Q1 to save tyres, Viktor Wilck would post the 4th fastest time. The other two to skip the first qualifier, Jilles Groskamp and Marco Kaufmann set the 6th & 7th fastest time respectively behind Christopher Krapp who ran his first set for a second time.
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