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April 8, 2014

Batlle & Cuevas win at Spanish TC nats Rd1

78 drivers met for the opening round of the Spanish Electric Touring Car nationals in Madrid with 36 entries for the Modified and 42 for the Stock class. The Modified class saw Nitro Buggy World Champion Robert Batlle taking the win for Yokomo while Toni Rheinard came in second. Jonnhy Pastor completed the podium in third position. In the Stock class Isaac Cuevas, Mikel Angulo and Ramon Guasch marked the top 3 spots.

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April 8, 2014

Schumacher BTCC Rd1 – Report

The 2014 Series kicked off in fine style at the superb West London venue, with over 110 drivers booked in for the event. The weather was dry for Saturday which saw many of the drivers use the day for a lot of practice to get their cars fine tuned ready for race day on Sunday. However what greeted drivers all Sunday morning was rain, followed by more heavy rain, the weather was going to make for some very interesting racing. The race classes for this year’s BTCC, following on from a successful Series last year are 17.5T Blinky class, 13.5T and Modified.

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April 8, 2014

Park & Lee dominate Korean Sweep Challenge

A total of 40 drivers competed at the Sweep Challenge Korea at the PTS track in Gyeonggido in cold and windy conditions. In the 13.5T Stock class JinHyun Park (T.O.P.) came in 1st, followed by Sungtae Kim (Awesomatix) and Googil Jung (Awesomatix) respectively. Elswhere in the Modified class T.O.P. Racing factory driver Ryan Lee took the TQ and overall win. JungHyun Ahn and Yonghoon Park (both Awesomatix) rounded out the podium.

Source: T.O.P. [top-racing.jp]

April 8, 2014

Akio Sobue takes win at 2014 Speed King Tour Rd3

The third round of 2014 Speed King Tour took place at the RC Stadium Sodegaura track last weekend. Unfortunately the finals of all classes had to be cancelled due to hailing. This meant the qualifying results would be used to determine the winner and in the main class of Modified Touring Car it was the championship leader Akio Sobue who brought home the TQ and therefore the round win. Local driver Kyoichi Mastumoto took second place while second round winner Yugo Nagashima finished third. The win in round 3 means Akio is able to extend his lead in the championship while Yugo needs to score more points to catch up. The win in the Stock class went to Eiji Seto who sat on top of the timesheets after qualifying. Yahiro and Ooshima scored a 2nd and 3rd place respectively. The next round of the 2014 Speed King Tour will take place at the Twin Ring Hongu in the Aichi prefecture on the 22nd of June.

Source: Speed King Tour [speedkingtour.blog.jp]

April 7, 2014

Van Staey wins NK class at Dutch season opener

The first round of the Dutch nitro on-road nationals took place at the prestigious Apeldoorn track. In the 1/8th NK class Belgian driver Gunther van Staey took the overall TQ for the semifinals and also completed the final in first place, one lap ahead of Xray’s John Ermen. Frank Baggen rounded the podium another two laps down. Joey Sorber and John Lenaers completed the top 5 result.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

April 7, 2014

Oleg Lastochkin wins Russian Pro Stock 10.5T title

The Russian Electric on-road nationals where held at the Agalatovo RC Carpet Raceway near St. Petersburg. In the 10.5T Pro Stock class Oleg Lastochkin, who qualified 4th, was able to take advantage of mistakes made by the leading drivers in order to take the win the 1st and 3rd A-final, handing him the overall win and the national title. Alexander Naumov came in 2nd while Andrey Kokarev completed the podium in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 7, 2014

Janos Birinyi wins 13.5T at East Hungarian Champs Rd7

The 7th round of the East Hungarian championship was held at Ozd last weekend. in 13.5T Stock Xray driver Janos Birinyi made maximum use of his track knowledge as the race was organised by his home club and therefore he was able to take TQ with quite a margin. In the finals he was able to take the overall victory with smooth and consistent driving. His Xray teammates Tamas Pongho and Viktor Kiss completed the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 7, 2014

Ronald Völker wins Touring Car Worlds warm-up

This weekend the IFMAR Electric Touring Car World Championship warm-up took place at the Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida. Despite being held on U.S. soil the race was dominated by European and Asian drivers with Ronald Volker (Yokomo) taking the win in the triple A-mains from his Yokomo teammate Naoto Matsukura and Meen Vejrak (Yokomo). The Tamiya duo of 3-times World Champion Mark Rheinard and current title holder Jilles Groskamp completed the top 5. Xray’s Alexander Hagberg finished 6th overall, Yokomo’s Hayato Matsuzaki came in 7th while Elliott Harper was able to place one of the new Team Durango’s DETC410 in the A-main in 8th place. Viktor Wilck (Tamiya) and Andy Moore (Hot Bodies) rounded out the top 10 result.

Image: Yokomo