Yannic Prumper has taken the opening round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Germany. The Yokomo driver brought Day 1 of the second round of the championship to a close by topping the times from team-mate Ronald Volker and last year’s event winner Alexander Hagberg in a ultra close encounter which saw the Top 5 covered by just one-second.
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Knocking 1/10th of a second off his pace it was last year’s race winner Alexander Hagberg who was the best placed improver in the second & final timed although his 3rd placing remained unchanged. The final practice at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Germany saw no change in the top order with Ronald Volker’s first time practice standing to see the Yokomo driver go into qualifying for Round 2 of the championship as top seed. Setting an impressive pace on his debut for Serpent with the second fastest time, Viktor Wilck would too retain his position in the final ranking despite being unable to better his earlier 3-consecutive laps.
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While the top of the time sheets at the end of the first timed practice at Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series looked familiar with Ronald Volker fastest, it was the performances of Viktor Wilck and Elliot Harper that were the main talking point. Having only made the announcement of his departure from long time team Tamiya on Wednesday and then his signing for Serpent the following day, the Swede got his new deal off to a very encouraging start as he set the 2nd fastest time. Having been left without a drive after Durango shelved its factory team, new Schumacher signing Elliot Harper also made a positive start on what is his first international outing for the British manufacturer as he ended the practice 6th quickest.
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Xray has announced the contract extension with seasoned on-road racer and former IFMAR World Champion Ralph Burch for 2015. Ralph will attend all major electric and nitro races to support the Xray USA team and to race Xray’s line of on-road cars. Ralph has the following to say about the deal:
I have been very happy for the work our Xray USA team has achieved over the last decade and including the last year. Over the years we have built a very effective team work & cooperation which has resulted into some of my best achievements in my racing career including the World Champion title. We have a strong commitment to continue our work to provide the best possible service & support and I will do my best at all the major USA races as usually. I will be available to any Xray drivers with any their questions or comments and I am looking forward to see you all during the 2015 at the races.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The Xray X Race Italy was held at the indoor asphalt facility of Indoor Racing Chilelli in Touring Car Modified and Stock classes along the further growing Formula category. The weekend started with free practice on Friday, followed by heat practice on Saturday. In the 13.5T class Mike Gosvig and Mattia Collina both showed a very good speed and it looked like the two would battle it out for the pole position. In Sunday’s qualifying Mike then quite easily took all three rounds for the overall TQ some five seconds in front of Mattia Collina. Young Davide Bertuzzi rounded out the top 3 so far.
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The first Futaba Cup was held at the FRC racing circuit in Bangkok, Thailand in several electric on-road classes including Touring Car Open 13.5T and Formula. In Open Brushless 13.5T Atsushi Hara (Yokomo) took the win from Tanit K. (Team Associated) and Natee T (Xray).
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The DM4 race was held in Brondby, Denmark, with 18 drivers in attendance in the 1/10th pan car class. During qualifying it became clear that the race for the TQ position would be between Rasmus B. Nielsen and Michael Johnsen while Claus Ryeskov and Robert Hansen battled it out for the 3rd place on the grid. At the end of the three qualifying rounds Michael came out successful in front of Rasmus and Claus.
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This weekend (6-8 Feb) Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series travels to Muelheim-Kaerlich in Germany with the big interest of the weekend set to be on the debut performances of a number of the championship’s leading drivers who since Round 1 last December in the Czech Republic have switched teams. The most significant of these new signings is that of multiple ETS race winner Viktor Wilck. Racing with championship’s most winning manufacturer Tamiya Racing Factory as long as the ETS has been in existence, the Swede will strengthen Serpent’s aspirations to be a winner in the premiere class as he joins podium finisher Marc Fischer. With the German round again as it did last year breaking a new record in terms of the size of the event with over 420 entries, the other big debuts to watch will be those of Freddy Sudhoff and multiple World Championship finalist Elliot Harper.
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