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July 10, 2012

Kevin Pignotti wins Race2theWorlds contest

Kevin Pignotti from Italy has won the first Race2theWorlds contest. With over 1000 racers and gamers involved in this contest, the R2tW has become the single biggest R/C event ever. Kevin Pignotti is now preparing himself for to collect his big prize, the ultimate once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to join the IFMAR 2012 World Championship Electrics 1:10 in the Netherlands on the 25th of July. The 16 year old said ‘it’s like a dream coming true’ and he hopes to do well at the 2012 IFMAR Worlds. For sure, it is going to be very interesting to see how well this young talent (without any prior experience in electric racing) is going to perform on World class level amidst the best of the best in R/C racing.

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July 10, 2012

Patrick Schäfer wins Rd4 in middle Germany

Last weekend the 4th round of the Middle German Championship took place in Kastellaun in the midwest of Germany. In total 22 drivers in different classes attended this event to score points for the championship. In the 1/10th class Patrick Schäfer had a great weekend with his Sonic powered Velox V10 “twelve” testing a new chassis and radio plate with a new battery mount for a standard 5-cell battery pack. After the first qualification heat on Saturday evening he was Top Qualifier 11 seconds in front of second placed Hartmut Rose. On Sunday morning it began to rain and there were no more try qualification heats. For the finals it stopped to rain and the track dried completely. Patrick Schäfer won the race in front of Hartmut Rose and Shepherd driver Sascha Vorgrümler in 3rd position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

July 10, 2012

Mark Green wins Rd5 of BRCA 200mm series

The 5th round of the British 200mm championship was held at the excellent Cotswold circuit. The forecast for the weekend looked really bad with heavy rain predicted for both Saturday and Sunday. Current championship leader Mark Green faced some tougher competition at the front this meeting with the returning Kyle Branson looking very quick during practice. Much of Saturday’s practice was spent testing damp/rubber tyres under the wet conditions. Around 1 hour from the 6pm finish time the track was almost completely dry which caused a big rush of drivers trying to get out on track. They actually had to queue up for a space on the rostrum as everybody tried to make the most of the remaining time.

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July 9, 2012

DJ Apolaro & Kenny Ives victorious at Airtronics GP

The Airtronics GP race took place in California this past weekend and it was DJ Apolaro that took the TQ and win in the Sedan class with Kenny Ives taking the win in 1/8 scale. With tires and fuel playing a big role for this parking lot track, both DJ and Kenny were the only drivers able to pit at the 5 minute mark in the finals. DJ Apolaro would make a tire change in the Sedan final and still go on to take a convincing win with his Novarossi powered Capricorn C-02. In the 1/8 class Kenny Ives, after bumping up from the B main, was able to take advantage of the great fuel mileage given by the Kosmic Fuel and also no tire change strategy. Kenny would work his way to the top with consistent fast driving and sticking to his strategy. Chris Verano would make a charge back, but come up short, as Kenny was able make a pass on him and stay in front. Tires and fuel played a big role and Kenny made all the right moves, taking his Novarossi powered Capricorn C-801 to the winners circle.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

July 9, 2012

Hungarian Nationals Rd4 report

The 4th round of the Hungarian Nationals was held at the nice little track in Orosháza. The extreme temperatures were a hard challenge during the whole weekend, on Sunday it was around 39 degrees so it was a real test for the drivers, cars and engines. For Hungarian Shepherd Team it was a really successful weekend as they were able to take the 1st place in every category.

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July 8, 2012

Prumper wins, Volker retains ETS title

Yannic Prumper finally ended his three year winning drought today at the season finale of the 2011/12 Yokomo Euro Touring Series when he won Leg 3 of the A-Main ahead of Xray’s Alexander Hagberg to claim the overall win in Austria over the Swede with Yokomo team mate Ronald Volker completing the podium. For Volker the podium was enough for the season’s only double race winner to retain the prestigious Ride Modified title in what has been the world famous electric Touring car’s most competitive championship to date.

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July 8, 2012

Prumper takes easy Leg 1 win in Austria

Top Qualifier Yannic Prumper took an easy and comfortable win in the opening A-Main at the season finale of the the 2011/12 Yokomo Euro Touring Series heading a Yokomo 1-2 in Austria with defending champion Ronald Volker finishing 2.6 seconds adrift of his younger team-mate. Following his blistering pace in qualifying, Prumper was always expected to control the 5-minute encounter but as if the German needed any help he was practically handed the race at the first turn as the very fast starting No.3 HB of Andy Moore made contact with the No.2 Xray of title contender Alexander Hagberg. This dropped the pair to the tail end of the field, both eventually pulling off to save tyres, and allowed the No.4 prototype BD5 of Volker up to second where he would run untroubled for the entire race.

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July 7, 2012

Prumper Top Quaifier at ETS Finale

Team Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper is Top Qualifier for tomorrow’s 2011/12 Yokomo Euro Touring Series season finale after a bizzane change in track conditions in Traiskirchen, Austria, resulted in Turkish driver Mustafa Alp taking a surprise TQ for Q4. With just the top 3 heats left to run to complete qualifying the humidity suddenly shot from a 27% to over 66% resulting in a reaction with the sugar water on the roof covered asphalt track that left the worlds top drivers looking like drifters rather than touring car racers. While the freak track conditions didn’t effect much at the front of the grid it was to cost former World Champions Atsushi Hara and Hayato Matsuzaki any chance of making the final.

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