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October 13, 2012

Volker TQs first qualifier at ETS season opener

Defending Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker got his 2012/13 campaign off to the perfect start on Day 1 of the season opener in Germany as he backed up his practice topping pace with a TQ run in the first round of qualifying. The German was one of the few drivers to keep his car on four wheels for the 5-minute run and took the round by a comfortable 2.5 seconds from Team Associated’s Juho Levanen with Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prumper completing the Top 3.

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October 12, 2012

Volker sets early pace at ETS season opener

The sixth season of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series got underway today in Muelheim-Kaerlich, Germany, with defending champion Ronald Volker laying out his intentions early as he set the pace in the first round of timed practice. Having had two free practice runs in the morning, in the first of the two timed practice runs from which the fastest three laps will determine the reseed for this evening’s opening round of qualifying, Volker put his new Yokomo BD7 top of the time sheets ahead of the new Xray T4 of Norwegian Adrien Bernsten.

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October 12, 2012

CRC wins big at 2012 IIC

Calandra Racing Concepts drivers John Tortorice, David Ehrlich and Andrew Knapp have won their respective classes at the recent 2012 International Indoor Championship. In the 1/12th 17.5T class John Tortorice swept the competition and was sidelined by his CRC team mates Mark Smyka and Kenny Lambert who took the remaining podium spots. The World GT podium again was an all-CRC affair with David Ehrlich, Mario Ficco and Brian Bohlman taking the Top 3. In the 1/12th 13.5T class Andrew Knapp took the win with the brand new XTi car that had a strong first showing at the on-road World Champs earlier this year.

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October 11, 2012

Hébert & Haynes win at 2012 IIC

The International Indoor Championships (IIC), hosted by Scotty Ernst at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, continues as one of the premier stops on the racing calendar. The top drivers in the world converged upon the desert oasis October 1-6 to battle for bragging rights and the prestigious IIC title. The program called for four rounds of controlled practice and some open practice time leading up to Thursday’s two rounds of qualifying. Two more rounds were scheduled for Friday with a driver’s single fastest round out of four used to determine a driver’s main event and grid position. The Team Associated/Reedy factory racing team was on hand to battle with the world’s best and came away with some impressive results – four pole positions and four wins with three additional podium finishes.

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October 11, 2012

Georgiadis wins final Greek TC round

The final round of the Greek 1/10 electric touring nationals took place at the FRT in Athens. The weather with temperatures in the 30 degree celsius range made for hot racing as did the tough competition. Xray driver Georgiadis TQ’d with Awesomatix driver Doucakis in second and Kiriazis (Xray) in third position. In the finals Georgiadis was able to retain the lead with Xray team mate Tsigkos finishing in second and Doucakis in third position.

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October 10, 2012

Volker, Hebert & Haynes win big at IIC

For the 8th year in succession, the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada was the site of the International Indoor Championships. The event, put on and announced by the one and only Scotty Ernst, attracted some of the top on-road drivers from around the world and featured over 350 entries in total. After 2 days of controlled practice, on track action heated up on Thursday with 2 of the 4 rounds of qualifying, the single fastest round determining grid positions. Right out of the box, Protoform team drivers Ronald Volker and Keven Hebert established themselves as the drivers to beat in the event’s 2 marquee classes, Touring Car Modified and 1/12th scale modified. Friday’s 2 final rounds of qualifying saw Protoform drivers TQ in 7 different classes of racing. Josh Cyrul and Mike Dumas, two fixtures in the American on-road scene the past decade, paced World GT racing the Protoform Sophia GT race body.

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October 10, 2012

Schumacher Mi4CXL Worlds suspension mount

From Schumacher, this new modification for the Mi4CXL was developed by their team drivers and used by Chris Grainger to gain an A final place at the 2012 IFMAR World Championships. The modification allows a much more elongated flex to the chassis, allowing it to produce more traction yet maintaining the rigid structure of the wishbone mounting system. Typically lap times will be reduced and the car will have an improved driving feel. Includes chassis mounted steering.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

October 9, 2012

Tamás Hegdüs wins Hungarian 1/8 championship

Last weekend the final round of the Hungarian On-Road Championship was held near the famous Hungaro Ring. In the 1/10 Tuning class the championship was already decided in the previous rounds. Just like the years before Gergely Csekő took the title in a really close battle with Simon Ciudan (Shepherd). Gergely skipped the last race which left Simon without a real opponent. He won the race although Balázs Bihari was quite close in the 30 minutes final and finished only one lap behind the fast Shepherd driver. Gábor László completed the podium. With this first place Simon equaled Gergely on the point table, but Gergely won the title because he had one more on his side. Overall third place also ended with a tie with Shepherd driver Laszló Kis-Orbán taking third overall.

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