The opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series was all about one driver and one team with Ronald Volker dominating proceedings to give Team Yokomo their first ever win in the series. In the weeks since Kastellaun the opposition have been busy trying to ensure this is not repeated with Volker admitting himself he expects a much tougher challenge from Tamiya and Xray here.
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The last round of the RCCM Cup was held recently in Hildesheim which saw Merlin Depta take the victory. Having already won the previous two rounds, Merlin was able to reach the 600 points mark in the RCCM Cup following this last race. After three heats of qualification, the 2-speed team driver placed his Max powered Serpent 733 on pole position, from where he was able to pull away right from the beginning of the final, finishing eleven laps in front of Thomas Einbeck and Kyosho team mate Dirk Mueller.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Having brought you a brief report from last weekend’s annual Nordic Championships for modified 1/12th scale and touring car classes in Spydeberg, Norway last weekend, V-Dezign front man Vesa Yli sent us this more in depth report on the 1/12th scale race. About 30 drivers were on the starting list in 1/12th and about 40 in touring car class – all anxious to battle for the Nordics title. The entry list in 1/12th scale included most of the top drivers from Finland, Sweden and Norway were attending including multiple Euro’s A finalists like Vesa Yli (FIN) and Mikael Fransson (SWE), A finalist from this year’s Indoor TC Euros Adrian Berntsen and Swedish and Norwegian top drivers like Alexander Andersson and Helge Johannesen – just to name few!
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Last weekend saw round 2 of the 2010/11 BRCA 1/12th scale nationals take place at Ardent Raceway. On Saturday, Elliott Harper ran away with the stock class driving is Speed Passion powered CRC Gen-XL. He comfortably TQ’d ahead of current European champion Chris Kerswell, who is still getting to grips with his new Serpent car. The V-Dezign trio of Andy Griffiths, Matt Varah and Mark Stiles completed the top 5. Elliott cruised to a comfortable win in the A final. Chris Kerswell pushed hard to try and keep up, but took too many chances and a mistake left him out of contention. Matt Varah also made an error and would miss out on a podium placing. With Elliott in a clear lead, the focus of everyone’s attention was on the battle for 2nd; Mark pushed Andy all the way but just couldn’t find a way past in the dying laps, so had to settle for the 3rd step of the podium behind Andy.
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The KMRCA Korean 1/8 Onroad Championship took place recently at the Hitec Race Track in Oh-Chang. This race is held only once a year and is therefore the largest race for this class in Korea. After 3 rounds of qualifying Velox V8 pilot Nak-suong Choi was the top qualifier. At the start of the 45 min final Nak-suong Choi defended his first position and tried to increase the gap on the rest of the field. After a few minutes it was clear that nobody could keep up and he increased his lead lap by lap. In the end he crossed the finishing line in first position 6 laps in front of the 2nd placed driver Sang-jun Nam with Seung-won Choi in 3rd.
The 4th KM of Asia Cup Championships for Hong Kong & Macau region took place recently in Hong Kong. The event saw H-K1 racer Hung Cheung Hang take the top qualifying position ahead of KM team mates Nick Chan and Eddie Chu. In the final Hang hit troubles at the 23rd minute of the 30 minute encounter and retired but not before setting the fastest lap of the race, almost 3 tenths quicker than the next best lap. This allowed Nick Chan to the front where he would take the win by a lap from Lung Chun Wai in 2nd.
Source: KM Racing [km-rc.com]
Shepherd are pleased to announce the signing of this years Italian Vice-Champion Andrea Pirani for the upcoming season. With his experience and speed he is a great addition to their team of world class drivers and will help with testing and improving new and existing products. Andrea plans to attend a preparation race for the World Championship in January as well as the World Championship itself, the European Championship and of course the Italian National Championship races. He had the following to say:
I’m very happy to run with Team Shepherd for 2011. I’m ready to win some great races like the World and European Championships. I have already tested the Velox V8 and I felt very good with it since the first laps. The german quality of Shepherd is excellent. I hope to do my best races with this new team and I want to help them to achieve some great results.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The indoor Nordic Championships was held this weekend at Spydeberg, 40 minutes from Norway’s capitol city Oslo, with some of the best of the Nordic drivers from Finland, Sweden and Norway in attendance. In Modified touring it was Xray driver Alexander Hagberg who had the best run and claimed the TQ spot ahead of local star Adrian Berntsen in 2nd and Michael Nilsson in 3rd. In 1/12 scale it was Vesa Yli who was fighting with Helge Johannessen for the TQ spot and after 5 qualifying heats it was Vesa who claimed the top spot in front of Helge Johannessen and Adrian Berntsen.
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