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April 11, 2015

Volker claims 16th ETS TQ in Italy

On the return of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series to Italy it is Ronald Volker who will start on pole position, the Yokomo driver claiming his 16th overall TQ of the championship at the Road Race Riccione RC Circuit Marco Simoncelli. With only Bruno Coelho a possible challenger to the defending ETS champion becoming Top Qualifier at the third round of the championship, a mistake by the Xray driver in the fourth & final qualifier allowed Volker to record his third TQ run of the weekend. Despite losing over 3-seconds, Coelho would still post the second fastest time and the only driver to truly challenge Volker this weekend he will start his first asphalt ETS appearance from 2nd on the grid setting the stage for an exciting head to head dual in tomorrow’s triple A-Mains. Having come into the weekend as joint leader of the championship with Marc Rheinard, Volker moves one point ahead now and with his arch rival starting fifth that advantage looks likely to grow. While Rheinard had his best round in Q4 recording his only Top 3 run the same couldn’t be said for his new team-mate & reigning World Champion Naoto Matsukura and the Japanese ace will line-up on the B-Main grid on his TRF debut in the ETS.

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April 11, 2015

Yokomo 1-2 as Volker tops Q3 from Vejrak

Yokomo claimed a 1-2 in the penultimate qualifier at Round 3 of the ETS in Italy with Ronald Volker topping the times from Meen Vejrak, the Thai driver finally completed a run after servo issues resulted in DNF’s in the opening two qualifiers. Running his second set of tyres, Volker’s second TQ run of the weekend is a significant one as it leaves his only challenger for the honour of Top Qualifier Bruno Coelho needing to post the fastest qualifier of the weekend on what today is so far proving a slower track. Still using his first set of controlled Ride tyres, Coelho would post the 3rd fastest time, an impressive pace for tyres that were on their third run, and now goes into the final qualifier armed with a fresh set of tyres.

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April 10, 2015

Volker from Coelho in opening Italian ETS qualifier

Ronald Volker kicked off qualifying at Round 3 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Italy with a TQ run however the defending champion’s anticipated domination wasn’t to be by a much as expected. Leading off the World class 11 car top qualifying group the Yokomo driver would find himself trailing Bruno Coelho before the Xray driver overheated his tyres. In the end just half a second separated the Top 2, Coelho posting the fastest time, while somewhat off the lead pace Yannic Prumper completed the Top 3 as the only other driver to run 19-laps of the Road Race Riccione RC Circuit Marco Simoncelli.

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April 10, 2015

Volker throws down the gauntlet in Italy

Ronald Volker has thrown down the gauntlet to his rivals on the Yokomo Euro Touring Series’ to Italy by convincingly topping timed practice. Describing the Road Race Riccione RC Circuit Marco Simoncelli track as one of his all time favourite tracks, the Yokomo driver was almost 7/10ths faster than his closest rival Bruno Coehlo over three laps. Joint leader of the standings with Volker coming into the first outdoor race of Season #8 of the ETS, Marc Rheinard struggled over the 2-timed practice runs with the Round 2 race winner ending up only 11th fastest behind new Tamiya team-mates Naoto Matsukura and Christopher Krapp who ended up 6th and 10th fastest respectively. Making his race debut for HB, Jilles Groskamp kicked off his new contract with an encouraging pace that will see him seeded 5th for qualifying.

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April 10, 2015

Birinyi & Bajusz win at RCProf Challenge Rd6

Round 6 of the Hungarian RCProf Challenge saw Janos Birinyi taking the TQ in the Touring Car Stock class from teammate Zsolt Kalnay. In the first final Janos brought home an easy win only to have a mixed second leg meaning the overall win would be decided in the third and final A-main. In the third leg Janos got everything together and he finished in 1st place to take the overall win from Mate Toth and Zsolt Kalnay. In the 13.5T Stock Buggy class Zsolt Ifj. Bajusz took the win from Dani Sagi and Bence Erdödi.

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April 9, 2015

Georgiadis & Dimitriou win at Greek On-Road series

The 2nd round of Greek Touring Series and the 3rd round of Greek Nitro Series was held at the Fanatix racing track in cold, medium grip conditions. The day started with the GTS’ electric touring car class and right from the start Georgiadis made his intentions clear to end the day on the top spot. He won all qualification rounds and nobody was able to match the times he set. At the end he took the TQ in front of Isaakides and teammate Papachristos.

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April 9, 2015

Mustafa Alp joins Xray

Xray have announced the signing of multi-time Turkish Champion Mustafa Alp to their team. Mustafa is focused on nitro and electric touring car racing in which he won many national races and now he aims for international success as well. The former ETS A-main finalist will participate at regional, national and international races this year including the Legend 4 Ever race, the European Championships and the ENS. Mustafa says:

Xray cars have always amazed me with highest quality and performance in the racing market and the dedication of the team is second to none. Xray team is very friendly and bulletproof for customers. With the European Championship 2015 that will be for first time held in my home country in Turkey I wanted to race only the best car which is nothing else than the World Championship winning NT1. I would like to thanks to Umut from NCRC and Hudy family for their belief in me and supporting me for what I love to do: Racing RC cars.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 9, 2015

International Dutch F1 Masters 2015 – Report

Last weekend the International Dutch F1 Masters was held for the first time at the track of the MACH in Heemstede, near Amsterdam. The organisers, Edwin Nijenhoff, Peter and Jeffrey Jongeling, had hoped for around 50 drivers to join the race but at the end nearly 70 drivers from all over Europe including the Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, France and the Netherlands made their entry. Free practise on the freshened up track started on Friday with heat practice from mid day on. After four rounds John Bruins lead the field in front of Jitse Miedema and Rik Prins.

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