January 12, 2015

Mihnea Lupu wins HB Team Challenge Race Shanghai

Mihnea Lupu wins HB Team Challenge Race Shanghai

HB China kicked off its race season by holding a two-day event, the HB Team Challenge Race, including a driver recruitment meeting with HB/HPI CEO Tatsuro Watanabe at hand to welcome everyone. The event was held in Shanghai over the past weekend and saw 14 year old Mihnea Lupu, a Canadian who resides in China, take the victory over fellow HB Team China drivers Guo Yao Wei and Ding Fang Jie. The young, up and coming Canadian joined Team HB China for the 2015 season and will begin to compete more internationally.

Source: HPI [hpiracing.com]

January 11, 2015

Volker cruises to A1 win at DHI Cup

Volker cruises to A1 win at DHI Cup

Defending DHI Cup Champion Ronald Volker moved in on a sixth title at the Danish event this morning as he cruised to an unchallenged win in the opening A-Main.  Expecting a strong challenge from his Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prumper that never materialised as Prumper got out of shape on Lap 2.  While Volker pulled clear taking the win by almost 5-seconds, the battle of the race would be for second with Xray’s Alexander Hagberg finding a way passed Prumper.  Despite a roll at the first corner, HB’s Freddy Sudhoff would finish fourth just 3/10ths off Prumper.

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January 10, 2015

Volker to seek sixth DHI Cup win as Top Qualifier

Volker to seek sixth DHI Cup win as Top Qualifier

Defending champion Ronald Volker will aim for a sixth DHI Cup victory from pole position tomorrow after the Yokomo driver secured the overall TQ in Denmark this evening.  Going head to head with team-mate Yannic Prumper in the fourth & final qualifier, Volker would claim his third TQ run just 0.547 seconds ahead of Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard.  Struggling with understeer Prumper could only manage 3rd for the round, almost 2-seconds off the TQ pace but still managed to make it a 1-2 for Yokomo.  Rheinard good finish to qualifying allowed him to secure third ahead Xray’s Alexander Hagberg while Freddy Sudhoff, debuting his new HB, completes the top half of the grid for the 15th running of famous season opening event.

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January 10, 2015

Yokomo duo to go head to head in TQ decider

Yokomo duo to go head to head in TQ decider

Yokomo’s star drivers Ronald Volker and Yannic Prumper are to go head to head for the overall TQ at the DHI Cup while the battle for who will start second is wide open.  The penultimate qualifier at the Odense event again saw a number of drivers laying down a TQ pace but it was Volker who would make the least errors to take it with second going to HB’s Freddy Sudhoff after an impressive drive.  One of the drivers to set the early TQ pace Alexander Hagberg would despite a roll on his penultimate lap complete the Top 3 followed by Marc Rheinard and Martin Lissau.

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January 10, 2015

Volker takes Q2 at DHI Cup

Volker takes Q2 at DHI Cup

Defending DHI Cup Champion Ronald Volker took the second round of qualifying this morning at the famous Danish event. The heat would see a number of drivers top the time screens over the 5-minutes but in the end it was the Yokomo driver who got the job done. 2.8-seconds down, Xray’s Alexander Hagberg would claim second with yesterday’s Q1 winner Yannic Prumper completing the Top 3.

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January 9, 2015

Prumper TQ’s opening DHI Cup qualifier

Prumper TQ's opening DHI Cup qualifier

Yannic Prumper has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the DHI Cup.  Challenging his Yokomo team-mate Ronald Volker at the top of the timing screens, a mistake by the defending champion halfway through the 5-minute qualifier would allow Prumper to go onto take an easy TQ run by 2.3 second from Marc Rheinard with Volker recovering to post the third fastest time.

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January 9, 2015

Volker tops DHI Cup practice

Volker tops DHI Cup practice

Defending DHI Cup champion Ronald Volker got his quest for a sixth win at the famous Danish event off to a good start as he topped the final practice in Odense.  With the second of the timed practice rounds seeing improvements from the Top 14 drivers the biggest improvement came from Volker to see him jump ahead of team-mate Yannic Prumper to see the German duo seeded 1-2 for qualifying.  Knocking over 6/10ths of a second of his fastest three consecutive laps, Volker would top the times by 3/10ths from Prumper with Xray’s Alexander Hagberg improving his time by 3/10ths to jump ahead of Serpent’s Marc Fisher to complete the Top 3.

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January 9, 2015

Prumper tops opening practice at DHI Cup

Prumper tops opening practice at DHI Cup

Yannic Prumper topped the opening round of timed practice at the 15th running of DHI Cup in Denmark.  The Team Yokomo driver headed a very closely matched Top 6 over 3-consecutive laps with Serpent’s Marc Fischer second fastest just 0.054 off his fellow German’s pace.  Defending champion Ronald Volker, who is chasing a sixth DHI Cup title this weekend, completed the Top 3 with his Yokomo just 0.003 off Fischer.

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