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June 6, 2014

No surprises in Luxembourg as Volker takes Q1

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The top of the time sheets for the opening qualifier of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg contained no surprises as Ronald Volker capped off a perfect opening day to Round 5 of the championship with a TQ run. The Yokomo driver, who is very much on target to secure a fourth consecutive ETS title this weekend, outpaced his rivals by over 2-seconds, the second fastest time being set by Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard with the only remaining title challenger Alexander Hagberg managing only 7th in the first of the four qualifiers. Completing the top 3, only just, was VBC Racing’s Lucas Urbain who was 0.002 faster than fellow Frenchman Loic Jasmin. The qualifier saw a number of key non-finishers with Jilles Groskamp, Yannic Prumper, Marc Fischer and Andy Moore all having issues.

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June 6, 2014

Volker stuns rivals in opening Luxembourg practice

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Ronald Volker left his rivals stunned in the opening round of timed practice for Round 5 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg. The Yokomo driver, who could secure his fourth consequence title in the world famous championship this weekend, was over 3-laps more than 1-second faster than his closest rival who was Viktor Wilck. From Wilck back the field was very closely matched around the spectacular Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg” with 2nd to 10th covered by just half a second. Completing the Top 3 was Volker’s team-mate Yannic Prumper with French driver Lucas Urbain an impressive fourth with his VBC chassis.

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June 6, 2014

Dunavölgy wins Rd2 of Hungarian 200mm champs

The 2nd round of the Hungarian nitro on-road championship was held in Pécs which is one of the oldest but still the most active RC track in the country. The track recently got a new higher rostrum for a much better view, so everybody was looking for some improvements in lap times, which finally came up to the expectations in each category. 1/10th 200mm proved to be the most exciting class of the weekend since 4 to 5 drivers where on the same pace. Qualifications were held under changing weather conditions and the 1st round of qualifying turned out to be the “rocket” round as some rain showers hit the track just before the 2nd leg. With time being too short to completely regain traction until the last round meaning only a few drivers were able to move up in the grid during the day.

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June 6, 2014

Asia Onroad Championships Rd2 – Report

The 2nd round of the 2014 Asia Onroad Championships was run at the 3Stone Raceway in Malaysia. In the Touring Car Modified A-main Heikal Bahrin was poised for the win when he dominated the qualifying runs taking TQ and winning the first A main with a 3 second lead over Woon Fong Siow. However some mistakes in A2 and a very close 2nd place finish in A3 handed the win to Woon Fong with a 6.5 second tie breaker. Heikal Bahrin finished 2nd while Woon Fong’s dad, Jackie Siow completes the podiums as 3rd place finisher.

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June 6, 2014

Mark Green TQ’s & wins at Wombwell

Mark Green TQ's & wins at Wombwell

Round 2 of the British national 1/10th nitro championships were held at the Wombwell Race Circuit in Yorkshire, the track is the longest one on this years race calendar and was very well prepared for the event. The entry was a little low but the racing very close. Sunday morning and the sun was shinning and after 4 rounds of qualifying 200mm Touring Car was TQ’ed by Mark Green with Alex Thurston second, in 220mm GT Adam Crossland was just beaten for TQ by Glyn Beal. Mark Green then lead the 200mm A -final from the start and won the race driving a Serpent 748 pre-production car, with Joe Kerry second. Serpent’s Glyn Beal won the 220mm GT final with the help of his mechanic form many years ago Wat Bailey. The next round of the series will be at Halifax on the weekend of the 22nd of June.

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June 4, 2014

Hagberg to bolster Xray entry at ENS Hockenheim

Having taken their first win of the Euro Nitro Series at Round 2 of the all new nitro onroad championship last month in Austria, Team Xray are to bolster their factory team line-up for Round 3 at Hockenheim in Germany in two weeks (13-15 June). Taking his RX8 to victory in the 1:8 A-Main in Aigen, Dutch ace John Ermen will be joined by Alexander Hagberg as the Slovakian manufacturer looks to also take a first 1:10th ENS victory. While Xray are one of the main sponsors of the ENS, other racing commitments have prevented Hagberg from attending since his participation in the second of last year’s ENS Pilot Races in which the Swede finished 4th.

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June 4, 2014

Haaheim takes TC Mod title at Nordic Championships

The Nordic Championship was held at the Lørenskog Modelbilklubbs track near Oslo, Norway. The 2-day event attracted about 30 drivers in the Modified Touring Car class. A Stock class was also run as a support class with some 20 drivers in attendance. The race format saw 5 rounds of round by round qualifying with 4 of them being run on Saturday and the last one on Sunday, followed by triple mains. In qualifying it early came clear that it would be a three horse race for the TQ, with local star Helge Johannessen, Swedish ace Daniel Carlsson and the youngster Nikolai Haaheim outpacing the rest of the field. Local star Helge Johannessen would eventually claim the overnight TQ in front of Nikolai Haaheim who had his best result deleted as he was late for marshalling in a leg.

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June 3, 2014

Alexander Hagberg doubles at Xray Challenge Korea

The 2014 edition of the Xray Challenge Korea was held at the Kirina circuit, one hour away from the capital of Seoul. Drivers joined the race in three different classes and hot weather conditions on Sunday helped making the race a successful one. The Kirina circuit is of medium size, but challenging in both nitro and electric classes. Xray’s Alexander Hagberg was able to TQ the electric touring car class in front of Mr. Ahn in 2nd and Mr. Ryan Lee in 3rd place. Alex went on to win the triple A-finals as well as setting a new track record of 16.0 seconds.

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