Picco in Italy have announced that former German champion and multiple World and European finalist Oliver Mack has joined our racing team. The factory Shepherd driver will work closely with Edoardo Picco to race for the coming race season and get important feedback on their Torque on-road engine line. Oliver will make his competition debut with the new engines at the Florida Winternats in the middle of February.
Source: Picco [teampicco.com]
The 1st annual Sweep Carpet Challenge at MRH Raceway of Baltimore Maryland pulled over 100 entries from all over the Northeast, people came from Virginia to New Hampshire to attend. They were greeted with one of the most well kept and cleanest tracks/hobby stores around. Racers didn’t have to worry about needing something that the store didn’t have, as Middle River Hobbies stocks not only hobby supplies, but also everything a racer needs to get through a big race weekend. Sweep tires graciously sponsored the event providing their spec QTS 32 tire and brought all their top drivers down from New York to do battle on the ultra high grip carpet track.
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360 Raceway V2 in New Rochelle, NY hosted the 1st Annual Dash4Cash recently and a full field of over 120 entries meant that the competition would be fierce. The format consisted of practice on Saturday with three qualifying rounds and the main events on Sunday. In Expert Touring Car, Keven Hébert was able to TQ each round of qualifying, which meant he would start the main event on pole in front of Mike Haynes, Robbie Dodge and Jason Schreffler. Qualifying was extremely tight, with the entire main separated by less than 10 seconds. At the start of the main, Keven was able to maintain a small gap to Haynes as they pulled away from the rest of the field. Although he was able to stay close, a mistake at the 3-minute mark allowed Keven to keep a comfortable lead for the remainder of the race and bring home the win. Haynes held on for second, with Robbie Dodge rounding out the podium.
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Round 4 of the BRCA 1/12th Scale Nationals took place in Plymouth last weekend. In the stock class on Saturday, Team Associated/Reedy/LRP factory driver Olly Jefferies continued his dominant qualifying form by taking his 5th consecutive TQ of the season. Reigning British Champion Andy Griffiths joined Olly on the front row of the A final grid with his Nosram powered V-Dezign car, while former World Champion David Spashett lined up 3rd. In the A final, Olly led Andy and the pair enjoyed a very close race for more than 7 ½ minutes of the race, until a small error just 3 laps from home allowed Andy through into the lead. Chris Kerswell came from 5th on the grid to finish 2nd for Serpent/LRP ahead of Spashett, while Olly could only manage 4th place following another error whilst trying to regain the lead from Andy on the penultimate lap.
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Team Sonic have announced the cooperation with former World and European Champion Daniele Ielasi. Together with Sonic creator Patrick Schäfer he is responsible for the development and improvement of the engine line as well as for the sales and support for the competitive Italian market. Additionally he will attend all major national and international races including the 1/8 Euros in Portugal, the 1/10 Euros in Italy and the 1/10 Worlds in Thailand using the Sonic V.12T and the Sonic V.21T. Daniele had the following to say:
First of all I would like thank Picco for the good support over the past years. As the Sonic engines are produced by them I’m sure we continue to be in close contact. Sonic engines offers me a new challenge and I’m extremly happy to increase the collaboration with Shepherd/Sonic and Patrick Schäfer. With my experience I will help as much as possible to ensure a high quality standard and best performance of the Sonic engines.
Source: Sonic Engines [sonic-engines.com]
Ronald Volker has pulled off yet another perfect weekend on the Euro Touring Series’ first ever visit to Italy with a win in the second A-Main of the Ride Modified class securing the defending champion his second overall win of the 2011/12 season. Having held off the close attentions of his factory Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prümper in the opening final, the German this time had to hold off the attention of Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard who looked far more like the threat we were expecting from the World Champion this weekend.
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Euro Touring Series Round 2 Top Qualifier Ronald Volker led a 1-2 finish for Team Yokomo in the opening A-Main of the Ride Modified class in Italy but the champion was made work hard for the win as team-mate Yannic Prümper mounted a serious challenge over the race’s closing laps. Seperated by just 8/100th as they crossed the finish line, the pair were the class of the field with Tamiya Racing Factory’s Marc Rheinard finishing a distant third.
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Having claimed his first ever ETS win at the 2011/12 season opener, Team Xray’s Zdenko Kunák is on target to make it back to back victories after he secured overall TQ honours for Pro Stock in Italy this evening. Taking the opening two qualifiers, Kunák could only be denied from carrying the No.1 race number on his car in tomorrow’s triple A-Main by Awesomatix’s team driver Ivan Laptev who earlier in the day topped Q3. Proving a difficult run for Kunák after himself and reigning champion Martin Hofer had a coming together, Laptev could not repeat his earlier performance finishing the fourth & final qualifier with the third fastest time ensuring the Slovak driver his second pole position of this the fifth season of the ETS.
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