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April 13, 2012

Volker sets early pace in Poznan

Defending Champion Ronald Volker is the early pace setter at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Poznan, Poland, with the German topping the time sheets ahead of Marc Rheinard in the first timed round of practice while championship leader Christopher Krapp hit problems ending up only 21st fastest. Running as part of the Motorshow Poznan, which is set to attract almost 50,000 visitors when it officially opens its doors to the public tomorrow morning, the host club have made full use of Hall 6 at the international exhibition venue to create a huge indoor track for the final carpet race of the 2011/12 season of ETS.

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April 12, 2012

Keisuke Fukuda joins Team Picco

Team Picco is proud to welcome Japanese talent Keisuke Fukuda to their racing team. The former World Champion Keisuke will use Picco’s Torque .12 and .21 Edo Mod engines and be for sure a great addition to the company’s on-road team.

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April 12, 2012

Sabah RC Indoor championship 2012

Recently Malaysia’s biggest EP on-road race took place in the Borneo Sport Arena located in Kolombong, Kota Kinabalu. A large carpet indoor track was laid out for the two classes Stock Touring and Drift Touring. Over 70 racers from Sabah, Sarawak,Brunei, and West Malaysia attended in the two classes with the touring class being run with Dualsky 10.5T brushless motors and the drift class used Square Drift tyres. The race format saw six qualifying rounds, triple A main, dual B mains and single C to D mains. After six rounds of qualifying in the Stock Touring class Brunei racer Wirawan took the TQ spot ahead of Norazam and Shahrin. In A main 1 Wirawan lead from the start to finish with no major challenge. Second and third position went to Nilai Chong and KS Chu. In A main 2 Wirawan again managed to stay on top eventually wining the race with one A main to go. KS Chu took the runner up sport followed by Raphael in 3rd. Come A main 3, KS Chu managed to overtake Norazam and lead from the start till the end followed by Hazmi and Nilai Chong.

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April 12, 2012

Balestri & Perniciaro win Italian 1/10th champs Rd1

The Miniautodromo Il Lombrico in Milazzo saw the first round of the 2012 Italian 200mm championships. In addition to the local drivers also World and European Champion Robert Pietch showed up and all of them where pleased with ideal weather conditions until the beginning of the wet Expert finals. The rainy conditions meant a DNS for both Francesco Tironi and Luca Redaelli and a late take off for Daniele Ielasi. At the upper half of the grid KM driver Dario Balestri was able to win the 45 minute final some four laps ahead of Giorgo De Felici and Alessio Mazzeo.

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April 11, 2012

ETS motors to Poland for second half of season

After a 6-week ‘mid term’ break, the second half of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series gets underway this weekend (13-15 April) with drivers traveling to Poland for the fourth race of six that make up the calendar for season number five of the world renowned electric touring car championship. While Poland has been a regular fixture on the annual ETS schedule, like the opening three races of the 2011/12 season another new venue awaits competitors with the country’s fifth largest city Poznan playing host to drivers from 22 different nations. Adding to the excitement of the Polish round is the race being a part of Motor Show Poznan, a full size car motor show which has previously attracted 46,000 visitors.

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April 11, 2012

Cseko & Timar win Rd1 in Hungary

The opening round of the Hungarian Onroad Championships took place in Pecs on the Easter weekend. The club, which is the biggest and most active onroad club in Hungary, prepared the track nicely for this event but unfortunately it started to rain on Thursday and it seemed it was never going to stop. Finally it finished Sunday morning, just in time for the start of qualification. The conditions were difficult, the track was slippery while the temperature was super cold around 5°C and very windy.

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April 9, 2012

Rick V wins Dutch season opener

Last weekend saw the season opener of the Dutch 1/8 onroad nationals on the very bumpy REAL80 track in Groningen. With a big shift of drivers over the winter there was many new names again, giving an entry of 54 drivers. The weekend started very cold and wet but on the Sunday there was finally nice weather. With a drying track most drivers decided not to run the 1st qualifying session. At the start of the 2nd series the track still had some wet spots making it difficult to set fast times, so the last session was needed to set a time without errors.

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April 9, 2012

Azri Amri wins Malayisan Nationals Rd1

Its the new year and its the beginning of the Malaysian National Championship (MNC) held in a new venue in Ipoh at the Galaticos Arena RC Track. This being a new venue it attracted more than 30 racers in the Pro Stock class alone and almost 70 racers in all classes. 2012 is also the first year that GFT tires are used as a control tire to make the race more interesting while more economical for racers as GFT is a Malaysian brand name.

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