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January 22, 2012

Volker pulls off perfect Italian job

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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January 22, 2012

Völker sees off Prümper to win first A-Main

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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January 21, 2012

Kunák on target for back to back Pro Stock success

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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January 21, 2012

Volker on target for perfect Italian job

Ronald Volker is on target to pull off the perfect Italian job at Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series after securing yet another TQ run in the third round of qualifying to secure pole position for tomorrow’s A-Main finals. On target to repeat his domination of the opening event of the 2011/12 season in Germany, the Yokomo ace has ruled proceedings since arriving in Italy with no one able to mount any serious challenge to the reigning ETS Champion.

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January 21, 2012

Video – 2012 Pro-Line SC open house

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This past weekend Pro-Line opened its legendary test track in Banning, CA to the local Short Course crowd for some fun, food and the opportunity to meet the a few of the top RC drivers in the World such as World Champion Cody King, Adam Drake, along with Ty Tessmann, Rhonda Drake, Scott Hughes and Pro-Line’s own Tim Clark and Gerardo Gonzalez. Pro-Line would like to take the opportunity and thank all who came to their Open House and helped to make it a huge success. Keep your eyes peeled to PL’s website and Facebook pages because you never know when the opportunity to run on their test track will come around again. See the above video to get an idea of the event’s fantastic atmosphere.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 21, 2012

Paolo Morganti wins Novarossi Challenge

Last weekend Homestead RC Raceway was once again the host of the Novarossi Challenge. With sunny sky and a beautiful Florida weather in the mid 70’s, everything was set to have a great weekend of racing. After a full day of practice the qualifications were underway and at the end was Paolo Morganti that claim the top spot. In the final Paolo started from pole and immediately build a lead keeping his position until a small mistake from his pit crew resulted in a flame out. After the restart he was in second, on the same lap of the leader, and he had to push really hard to try to get the first position back. After an exciting 30 minutes final, he was able to win with a 2 laps cushion.

Source: Serpent [serpentamerica.com]

January 20, 2012

Yokomo 1-2 in first Italian ETS qualifier

Team Yokomo got their weekend in Italy off to very positive start as their drivers Ronald Volker and Yannic Prumper claimed the top 2 times in the opening qualifier for the second round of the 2011/12 Euro Touring Series. Running 23 laps in 5:05.408 compared with Prumper’s time of 5:08.301, Volker said other than having to avoid a stranded car on the straight the run was near perfect with some small set-up changes to his LRP powered BD5 ahead of the run making it a lot more consistent than in practice. Prumper was also happy with his run saying he played it safe but the German teenager did have a moment when he got his car up on two wheels.

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January 20, 2012

JConcepts Racing Team additions for ’12

Recently JConcepts have added a number of super star drivers to their already strong racing team. Driver’s like TLR’s Matt Chamber and Dustin Evans as well as Frank Root and UK-based Tony Truman will add a vast amount of experience. Matt Chambers reaches agreement in 2012 to run the JConcepts tire line. The Denver, Colorado based TLR driver does his weekly racing at the Mile High R/C track while readying to strike at large events all over the World.

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