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June 27, 2016

Smyk & Pyrka take Polish Open Summer Indoor titles

The Polish Open Summer Indoor Championship was recently held in Warsaw as part of an Expo. The event was run on a fast and technical track laid out with ETS carpet, making for nice racing conditions. In the Touring Modified class, Arkadiusz Smyk would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he would continue to dominate the field in the A-mains that he won in front of Bartosz Pochopien and Michal Wojcik in second and third respectively. Tomasz Niemczewski and Wojciech Rzepecki completed the top 5 result.

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June 27, 2016

Yeol & Choi successful at I-Cheon Championship

The I-Cheon Championship was held at the newly opened Mate RC Raceway near Seoul. In the 1/10th 200mm Touring class, Kim Gi Yeol (Serpent) would take the TQ and win from Park Ki Jeong (Serpent) and Mugen driver Kim Yeoncheol. In the 1/8th GT class, Naksung Choi (Serpent) would bring home the win from Yoo Jegook (Hong Nor) and Park Chanyong (Mugen).

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June 27, 2016

Groskamp wins ETS Luxembourg

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Jilles Groskamp has won the penultimate round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg, the event marking the 50th running of a round of the world famous championship. An instrumental supporter of the championship in its founding years and becoming its inaugural champion, the win is only the 2012 World Champions’ 5th and his first since winning a second ETS title in 2009. Behind the Infinity driver, Marc Rheinard kept his title hopes alive by finishing second ahead of Bruno Coelho who completed the podium at Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. Unfortunately while winning A3 would give reigning champion Ronald Volker 4th overall, it was one position below what the Top Qualifier needed to keep alive his hopes of retaining his crown.

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June 27, 2016

Hayato Ishioka wins JMRCA 1/12th Modified title

The world-famous Yatabe Arena in Japan played host to the 2016 JMRCA 1/12th Nationals this past weekend. In the Modified class, CRC’s Hayato Ishioka took the TQ with his Trinity-powered ride from Takaua Ito (Kyosho/Trinity) and Kosuke Suzuki (CRC/Trinity). In the A-mains, Hayato again came out fastest with things behind him mixed up heavily. At the end Toto Ebukuro (Yokomo/Yokomo) grabbed the runner-up spot, coming from the 6 spot on the grid, from Yokomo teammate Masatsugu Ito (Yokomo/Yokomo), who climbed up from 7th on the grid.

Source: Kimihiko Yano [kimihiko-yano.jp]

June 26, 2016

Groskamp takes A1 from Coelho

Jilles Groskamp has won the opening A-Main at the penultimate round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg. Starting from second on the grid the Team Infinity driver took an early lead when Top Qualifier Ronald Volker did a 360 on the opening lap with Marc Rheinard falling victim to the out of shape Yokomo. With this allowing Bruno Coelho through to 2nd, the championship leader would close the gap on Groskamp in the closing laps but each time he looked set to mount a challenge he would make a small error. Getting by Volker on his third attempt, the arch rivals making contact each time, Rheinard would recover to finish 3rd while Volker would end up seventh.

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June 25, 2016

Volker claims vital TQ in Luxembourg

Ronald Volker has claimed a vital TQ at the penultimate round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg tonight. Coming into the event third in the standings, the reigning champion needed the bonus championship point for the TQ and achieved it with a P2 behind Jilles Groskamp in Q3 which due to rain would become the final qualifier. With racers having to sit out most of the day due to the wet conditions the sun finally broke through the clouds at 18:00 allowing just enough time for a third round of qualifying with a number of drivers needing put in a faultless run as 3 qualifiers meant that 2 counted for the grid. One such driver was championship leader Bruno Coelho, who after taking the opening qualifier yesterday pulled off in Q2 after struggling with a bad set of tyres. Managing only a P6 he will start fourth on the grid behind both his title rivals with Marc Rheinard securing third despite a bad final qualifier.

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June 24, 2016

Volker claims super close Q2 from Rheinard

Ronald Volker claimed what could turn out to be crucial TQ run in a super close second qualifier at the ETS in Luxembourg. The Yokomo driver snatched the fastest time on the final lap from arch rival Marc Rheinard, the German power houses separated by just 0.039 of a second. Having taken the opening qualifier Bruno Coelho would struggle in Q2 eventually deciding to pull with a suspected bad set of tyres. With the championship leader having problems it would be Team Infinity driver Jilles Groskamp who would be the top Xray taking his example to third ahead of the factory car of Alexander Hagberg.

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June 24, 2016

Final practice sees big improvement for Rheinard

There was a big improvement from Marc Rheinard in the final practice at ETS Luxembourg with the Tamiya driver improving from 10th the 2nd fastest as many drivers failed to better their opening timed practice times. Fastest for the second round, Rheinard got to within 4/10ths of Bruno Coelho’s earlier time, the Xray driver remaining the top seed for qualifying which gets underway this evening. With Rheinard demoting Jilles Groskamp who failed to better his time back to third, the third of the title contenders Ronald Volker would find himself demoted to P6 as his Yokomo team-mate Hayato Matsuzaki managed to get three laps together to go fourth fastest ahead of Lucas Urbain.

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