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July 7, 2012

Wayne Joelson wins South African Champs Rd3

The 3rd round of the South African Championships were held in the city of Durban, from 30 June to 1 July. The organisers saw a record entry in both 1/10th Touring and 1/8th scale, on the most technical track in South Africa. Reigning South African Champion Wayne Joelson driving the Mugen Seiki MRX5 won all qualifying rounds, and after an engine cut in the 45 minute final managed to take back the lead and win with minutes remaining.

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July 7, 2012

Wilck pips Prumper to take Q2 in Austria

Tamiya Racing Factory’s Viktor Wilck has taken the second round of qualifying at the season finale of the 2011/12 Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Austria by just 58/1000ths of a second over Q1 top qualifier Yannic Prumper. Having pulled up early after traction rolling his Thunder Power equipped TRF417 in Q1 yesterday, Wilck had the benefit of fresh tyres for this morning’s heat and while pleased to TQ the round the Swede said all been equal in terms of tyres Prumper is in a different league this weekend. With Team Xray’s Alexander Hagberg using his second allocated set of controlled Ride R32 tyres to set the third fastest time, Prumper’s second fastest time was all the more impressive given the young German’s tyres had already produced a 21 lap TQ run.

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July 6, 2012

Prumper TQs opening qualifier at ETS finale

Yannic Prumper produced a blistering opening qualifier at the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Austria to top Q1 by a massive four seconds over the HB of Andy Moore with defending champion Ronald Volker the only other driver to manage 21 laps of the Traiskirchen track to record the third fastest time.

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July 6, 2012

Volker fastest in first controlled practice

In very hot and humid conditions at Traiskirchen, Austria, Ronald Volker set the pace in the first of the two controlled practice runs that will determine the seeding for qualifying at the title deciding round of the 2011/12 Yokomo Euro Touring Series. The defending champion, who is one of four drivers in the battle for the overall title, set a pace of 44.667 over three laps ahead of new Yokomo team-mate Hayato Matsuzaki on 44.826 with Tamiya’s Viktor Wilck third on 45.017.

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July 6, 2012

Oscar Cabezas wins Spanish championship Rd3

Oscar Cabezas has won the recent third round of the Spanish 1/8 on-road championship held Puerto de Santa María. Oscar (Motonica) was able to grab TQ after qualifying and also set a new track record. He also won his semi final and started from the pole position into the final in which he never looked back and that he won with one lap ahead of Lopez Nacho (Serpent) and Sergio Montesinos (Mugen).

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July 4, 2012

Luis Cortez & João Gaio win Rd4 in Madeira

Last weekend saw the fourth round of the Madeira regional track Championships. Race day was characterized by constant changing weather causing the drivers to constantly work on tire choice and the tuning of their cars. The day began with warm temperatures, making the first round of qualifying for the 1/10th 200mm class the fastest. Luis Cortez set the fastest time with 22 laps in 5 minutes and 21 seconds, followed by Luis Angelo and Mario Oliveira about 5 seconds.

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July 4, 2012

Grainger takes BTCC title with Rd3 win

Round 3 of this years’ Schumacher BTCC Championship was held at the Halifax track, which was a miracle seeing only 7 days before it was under about 3 feet of water what a great job John and the committee have done to get the track into a condition where it could be used. The weather forecast for the day showed showers and at the drivers briefing it was decided that the format for the day would be 5 rounds of round by round qualifying the best 2 to count followed by 1 final.

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July 4, 2012

Olivier Bultynck wins 2012 BeNeLux Open

The 2012 BeNeLux Open, which is the annual event at the Mac Baanbrekers track in Rucphen, Holland, was held last weekend. The qualifying was on Saturday with four runs with one qualifier on Sunday morning. The qualifying started with sunny conditions and there was a lot of grip at the track. It was Olivier Bultynck with his Yokomo who completely dominated qualifying in the Efra Modified Touring Class making 21 laps in 5:08 min. Thomas Stockman was the closest driver to the TQ man also with 21 laps. Nick Joosens, Patrick Jongenelis and Mitchel van Es completed the top 5.

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