February 5, 2018

Yugo Nagashima takes Snowbirds TC Mod title

The annual Snowbird Nationals were held this past weekend in Orlando, Florida, attracting the country’s fastest electric on-road racers as well as guests from abroad. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Japan’s Yugo Nagashima (Destiny) with the TQ and he would also come out on top in the 5-minute single A-main, some 1.3 seconds in front of Awesomatix’s Sam Isaacs while Team Associated’s Keven Hebert had to settle for 3rd overall, another 0.5 seconds down. Jin Sawada (Destiny) and Paul Lemieux (Xray) would round out the top 5 results.

Image: Destiny [destinyracing.jp]

February 4, 2018

2018 RC Lemans Series – Announcement

The popular Pro10 RC Lemans Series, held in Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands, is going into its 13th season this year with the championship kicking off on the weekend of the 15th of April in Genk, Belgium. The series is held in Pro10 Modified and 10.5T Zero Boost Stock classes and a 2-day event with free practice on Saturday and qualifiers and finals on Sunday. 2018 sees a somewhat condensed calendar with the season finale will be held on the 25th and 26th of August in Velp, The Netherlands with the event being also the official warm-up for the German championships in September. Full information (in German language) can be found on the official website here.

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February 4, 2018

Coelho wins uneventful A1

Bruno Coelho won an uneventful first A-Main this morning at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Xray driver making an early break over the pack to build up a gap that even allowed him to have a moment at the chicane.  Already with a comfortable lead by the second lap, while the pursuing Ronald Volker and Marc Rheinard would close a little but never had the reigning champion under any pressure. Instead it was Volker who came under pressure from Rheinard but overall the race saw only one position change with Akio Sobue getting by Christopher Krapp for 7th place.

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February 3, 2018

Coelho claims TQ in Germany

Bruno Coelho has claimed the overall TQ at the Euro Touring Series second round in Germany.  The Xray driver secured the top spot on tomorrow’s A-Main grid with the fastest 5-minute run of the weekend in the fourth and final qualifier.  With only Ronald Volker in a position to deny the reigning champion pole position, a set-up change by the Yokomo driver meant he couldn’t match Coelho’s improved set-up with the main challenge for the round coming from a further improved Marc Rheinard.  Another mistake however, similar to the one he made in the previous round, ended Rheinard’s TQ hopes.  Finishing 2nd to Coelho, the championship leader will start third behind Volker with Yannic Prumper and Alexander Hagberg completing the front half of the grid.

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February 3, 2018

Rivals hand Coelho Q3

The third round of qualifying at Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Germany saw Bruno Coelho handed the TQ as the majority of his rivals threw away potential TQ runs through driver errors.  Afterwards even the Xray driver admitted he was lucky that so many other drivers crashed allowing him to claim his second TQ run of the weekend.  Having looked strong to become the third different TQ so far, Marc Rheinard would make a mistake at the chicane eventually ending up 2nd ahead of Yannic Prümper who threw away his TQ chances on the penultimate lap.

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February 3, 2018

Volker snatches Q2 from Coelho

Ronald Volker has kicked off Day 2 of the Euro Touring Series in Daun with a TQ run, the Yokomo driver snatching the the second round of qualifying from Bruno Coelho. Clearly the quickest man on track, Coelho would have two mistakes of his own doing but it was the flying car of Akio Sobue that ultimately cost him the TQ allowing Volker to top the times by 2/10th. With a fastest lap almost 3/10th quicker than the rest of the field, Coelho looked set to make it two out of two but coming into the sweeper at the end of the straight, the Xray driver was greeted by Sobue’s car flying through the air from the infield. While no contact was made, the T4 somehow just finding its way under the landing IF14, Coelho was forced off the racing line losing him 8/10th allowing Volker to go to the top. Pulling back 2/10ths a lap Coelho would run out of time and with Volker laying down his fastest lap on the last lap it was the German who got the TQ. Behind Yannic Prumper would set the third fastest time ahead Marc Rheinard and Naoki Akiyama, the Top 5 all managing 19-laps this morning.

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February 2, 2018

Coelho takes opening qualifier

Despite getting quite out of shape on his third lap, Bruno Coelho has taken the opening round of qualifying at Round 2 of the Euro Touring Series in Germany.  The Xray driver would recover to be the only one to make 19-laps, topping the times from top seed Ronald Volker who would have to open up to let his rival through.  Behind, Alexander Hagberg would put in a strong second half to the 5-minute qualifier to complete the Top 3 ahead of Marc Rheinard.  Making it a good start to the weekend in Daun for Xray, Marc Kaufmann took his example to the fifth fastest time ahead of a quick, but making too many mistakes, Yannic Prümper.

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February 2, 2018

Volker top seed at ETS Daun

Ronald Volker is the top seed for qualifying at the Euro Touring Series in Daun, Germany, the Yokomo driver pipping early pace setter Bruno Coelho in the second of the two timed practices.  Only sixth fastest in the first timed round, almost 6/10th off Coelho on two laps of the unique track layout, Volker would surprise even himself with his improvement turning things around to a 3/10th advantage over the reigning champion. With the track over a second faster over 2-laps, Yannick Prumper maintained his Top 3 pace, outpacing Marc Rheinard who was second quickest in the the first one. Behind Rheinard, Christopher Krapp would post the fastest time with Rheinard’s Infinity team-mate Akio Sobue completing the Top 6.

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