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June 11, 2014

Swedish nitro on-road nationals Rd2 – Report

The 2nd round of the Swedish nitro on-road nationals was held on the track in Trollhättan near the former and now closed SAAB car factory. Friday afternoon practice was cancelled due to a lot of rain and the track was still wet on Saturday morning which led to no practice being held on the track before the race that saw a total of 5 qualifiers with the best 3 to count, followed by 20 minute semifinals and 45 minute mains. At the end of the 1/8th class final Marcus Lindner took the win from Magnus Bengtsson and Lars Haugen. Christoph Hedlund and Markus Hellquist completed the top 5 result.

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June 10, 2014

Nitro-West-Masters Rd2 – Report

Frank Schewiola, Thilo Toedtmann, Marco Muscara and Thorsten Lewandowski are the class winners of round two of the Nitro-West-Masters, a popular on-road racing series mainly held in Western Germany. Three weeks after the amazing season opener in Oberhausen with a series record of 67 participants, a total of 55 drivers entered the race weekend in Dueren which made it a new record for this 232 meter track near Aachen. Once again the weather was perfect but the nitro family was quite lucky that a thundery front just passed the area with no effect. Finally, as in Oberhausen, the Nitro-West-Masters experienced thrilling racing action in a friendly and fair atmosphere.

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June 9, 2014

Korgae Scales takes WCICS WGT championship

At the final round of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series (WCICS), which hosted over 1500 registrations across 8 events this season, newly crowned WGT champion Korgae Scales wasn’t racing. Instead he was at home welcoming his new son into the world. But he had so dominated the class that he had the Championship locked up before the 8th and final round. CRC sponsored Korgae won the WGT season Championship for the 3rd year in a row, becoming the first and only 3-peat champion in the modern WCICS era, moving ahead of the only other repeat champions Steve Soon and Josh Carter. Second in the WGT championship was Team Associated’s Peter Toszer, followed by privateer, WCICS President, Josh Carter. Planning is already underway for next season, which will begin in late September in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

June 9, 2014

Andy Iwahara wins 13.5T class at Red Carpet series Rd3

The 3rd round of the Red Carpet series took place at the outdoor asphalt track of the Red Carpet hobbyshop in Semarang, Indonesia. Serpent’s Andy Iwahara came out successful in the 13.5T Touring class while his team mate Donie W finished in 3rd position overall.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 9, 2014

Van Staey & Ciere win at Dutch 1/8th nats Rd3

The 3rd round of the Dutch 1/8th on-road national championship took place at the RACO2000 track. In the NK class Gunther van Staey came out successful by winning the 30 minute final two laps in front of Steven Cuypers and Arie Manten who finished another two laps down. In the Nomac class Benny Ciere took the win only 1.01 second in front of 2nd placed Koen Geurds. Rene van Dijk completed the podium in 3rd position.

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June 8, 2014

Euro Touring Series Rd5 – Sunday Action

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Watch all the action Live from Rd5 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg. Today’s coverage includes all the remaining 2 legs of lower finals as well as all 3 legs of A-mains. For viewers in Germany using Firefox or Chrome browser you can install the browser addon ProxTube to allow you to view the live stream.

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June 7, 2014

Volker claims 15th ETS TQ in Luxembourg

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Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker marked his 30th Euro Touring Series participation with his 15th overall TQ of the championship when, despite running on used tyres, he topped qualifying in Luxembourg for a 3rd time. Having been the class of the field in Q1 & 2 on new tyres, Volker oversaw a much closer challenge in Q3 to take the round by almost 1-second from the new rubber shod Tamiya of Viktor Wilck. Switching car for the penultimate qualifier turned around the fortunes of Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp who, having struggled to make the Top 10, was able to produce a Top 3 run just ahead of new Team Magic signing Leo Arnold and Team Durango’s Elliot Harper.

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June 7, 2014

Volker gets spun but still takes Q2

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Even after being spun round by Marc Fischer, Ronald Volker was still able to take the second round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg. Another glorious day at Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”, the result which was 1.6 seconds off his Q1 pace set in cool conditions looks set to give the Team Yokomo driver his 15th overall TQ of the championship as conditions for Q3 & 4 are expected to be hotter making for a slower track. Behind the reigning champion, local French star Lucas Urbain backed up his Q1 performance with another strong showing, second enough to secure VBC Racing driver a spot in the A-Main. The second of the four qualifiers would see a big improvement from Alexander Hagberg as his Xray took third ahead of the Tamiya of Jilles Groskamp, the Top 4 all having the benefit of using new tyres.

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