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March 9, 2008

ETS Denmark – Jilles Groskamp confirmed

ETS Denmark - Jilles Groskamp confirmed

The organisers of next weekends second round of the Much More backed European Touring Series are delighted to confirm that Tamiya factory driver Jilles Groskamp will be present at the event. Taking place in Vejle, Denmark, the race will also be attended by fellow Tamiya team drivers Marc Rheinard and Viktor Wilck as well as Associated team driver Joel Myrberg and lots of other top quality racers. Entries will remain open until the first day of the race, which will be Saturday the 15th, and for those already entered or wanting to enter, there is a new reduced entry price and updated timetable. All drivers will get 5 rounds of practice on the Saturday as well as 4 rounds of qualifying, while on Sunday there will be 1 more round of qualifying and triple mains for all racers.

Do you want to race against some of the World’s top touring car racers, while being commentated on by the legendary Scotty Ernst, in a fun and friendly, yet professional racing atmosphere then be sure to get your entry in for round 2 of the ETS by going here.

March 9, 2008

Gaggiola wins North Interregional Rd1

Gaggiola wins North Interregional Champs Rd1

Xray have a brief report on their site from the first North Interregional Championship race that was held in Montecchio last weekend. Perfect spring weather conditions greeted the over 50 drivers in the 1:10 class and after 3 rounds of qualifying it was Paolo Gaggiola that took TQ with his Max-powered NT1. Following the semi finals, in wich Luca Colombo and Guido Barbera won to take their place in the main final, the NT1 racers proceeded to dominate the race with Gaggiola taking the win from Colombo and Barbera in 2nd and 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 7, 2008

Sotiropoulos wins Greek 1/8th Nats Rd1

Serpent are reporting on the first round of the Greek National Championship that got underway at the FRT track last weekend and which saw current Champion John Sotiropoulos dominate the event. With a busy few days prior to the event to build the new 08 kits, Saturday’s practice showed that Sotiropoulos had not lost any of his pace over the off season as he set the pace with his new Max powered Serpent. A pace that he carried through to qualifying on Sunday as he TQ’d the event. Starting the 30 minute final from pole position, Sotiropoulos was pushed hard at the start but once the race had settled down the Serpent driver began to pull away, eventually crossing the line some 3 laps clear of Kyosho racer Giannis Arkoumanis in 2nd and his team mate Totomis Evaggelos in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 6, 2008

Rúben Francisco wins Portugal Nats Rd1

The first round of the 2008 Portuguese National Championships for Electric touring cars took place last weekend on the large Coimbra track in the centre of Portugal and it was Speed Passion sponsored driver Rúben Francisco that took the win. Sunday morning started with the qualifying heats and these saw Xray driver Nuno Gancho take the TQ spot followed closely by Rúben Francisco who ended on the same points. In the finals there was some bad luck for the pole man and this allowed Rúben to take full advantage, win two of the three finals to take the overall with his Schumacher.

Source: Info RC [info-rc.net]

March 6, 2008

Sven Zünd takes LRP Islikon Masters Rd4

Robitronic have a report on their website from the 4th round of the LRP Islikon Masters in Switzerland. The race was run on controlled tires and the softer, better performing 27-compound was very hard to get on this weekend, therefore some clever tactics were needed and Sven Zünd with his Robitronic Avid made the most of the difficult situation, saving his tyres for the final round of qualifying and the finals. Starting from the pole position, he was able to take the win ahead of the Xray driving Lnenicka brothers Ronny and Sacha who finished in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Robitronic [robitronic.eu]

March 5, 2008

ETS Rd2 Denmark – Event T-shirt

ETS Rd2 Denmark - Event T-shirt

We promised to show you the artwork for the t-shirt that will be given away to all competitors at next weeks 2nd round of the Much More backed European Touring Series that takes place in Vejle, Denmark. And here it is, fresh from promoter Scotty Ernst, who had this to say:

The T shirt design turned out better than we could have hoped for. Dusty Kemp the designer did a great job of bringing an exciting and colourful design to these event shirts and we’re sure everyone will really enjoy them. Each racer attending the event next weekend will get a free shirt included with their race entry, just another great benefit for participating in the Euro Touring Series.

March 5, 2008

Ryan Maker joins Team Xray

Team Xray Australia have announced that young Australian racer Ryan Maker has signed to race the Xray range of touring cars for 2008. Commenting on his deal to race the T2’008 & NT1, Ryan had the following to say:

Privileged to be racing for Team Xray. I really enjoy being able to race for Xray as their car’s quality and performance is outstanding! I would like to thank Custom Model Cars and Team Xray and Hudy for all their support.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 2, 2008

Jimmy Maddison signs to SMC

2007 IIC and 2008 DHI Cup winner Jimmy Maddison from the UK has been in contact to tell us that he has signed a deal to run SMC cells for the rest of this year. The Schumacher team driver said he was very excited about the change and is looking forward to working with Danny from SMC to help develop the new Ener-G 4600 cells.