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July 7, 2014

ElectroChamps 2014 – Report

The biggest Greek electric off-road race of the year was held at the Fanatix racing track in the Northern suburbs of Athens. The event saw 2WD buggy racing on Saturday and the 4WD buggy and SC classes on Sunday with over 50 entries in total and the appearance of Team Associated factory team driver Peter Pinisch from Austria. Peter then dominated the 2WD class on Saturday, smashing the track’s lap record and winning the race in front of Vassilis Bournias (Schumacher) and Dimitris Fotinos on a close 3rd (Kyosho).

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July 7, 2014

Rheinard takes victory at ETS Finale

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Marc Rheinard has taken victory at the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series at the Hudy Racing Arena, giving the championship’s most winning manufacturer Tamiya their first & only win of the 2013/14 championship. Having not won in the world famous championship for over a season, the most winning driver claimed his 12th victory as he backed up his A1 win with a dominant performance in A2, helped hugely by his TRF team-mate Viktor Wilck. Despite having the slowest car on the track, the number 2 starting Wilck managed to keep a train of cars behind him for the entire five minutes allowing Rheinard to pull clear for an easy 3.6 second winning margin. The battle for second was an impeccable display of world class driving as despite their close proximity and high speeds of the cars there was no contact. With the top 4 finishing in the order which they started with Ronald Volker 3rd and Alexander Hagberg 4th, World Champion Jilles Groskamp was the highest place finisher to make a pass again getting by the Yokomo of Yannic Prumper for 5th.

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July 7, 2014

David Kukla wins at Czech electric off-road nats Rd1

The first round of this year’s Czech electric off-road nationals was held at the technical clay track in Debolin. On Saturday two timed practice rounds and five qualifications runs were held with David Kukla coming out successful in the 4WD buggy class, taking TQ for the finals. For the A-main David was able to conserve his performance, taking wins in all 3 final legs to take the first round of the two event championship. Dominik Sulc and Tomas Holicky completed the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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July 7, 2014

Hayato & Kuwata win at JMRCA 1/12th nationals

Hayato & Kuroda win at JMRCA 1/12th nationals

This past weekend the 2014 Japanese 1/12th nationals were held at a purpose-built track in Fukuoka. The Modified class had Naoto Matsukura taking the TQ for the finals and it looked like the multi-national champion would make its 8th 1/12th national title in a row, but runner-up after the qualifiers, Ishioka Hayato denied him the title to take the 2014 championship. Hideo Kitazawa came in 2nd while Naoto Matsukura ultimately had to settle for 3rd. The Stock class had Takayuki Kuwata taking the TQ and win from Naoki Kuroda and Yamaguchi Tokusu.

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July 7, 2014

BRCA Truggy & E8 championship Rd4 – Report

This past weekend the BRCA Truggy and E8 championship moved South to the newly revamped dirt track at Kent. The morning skies had a little moisture in them to welcome the drivers. The 6 minute practice session that both classes had was a little greasy but still allowed the drivers and marshals to get a feel of the new layout. Round 1 started with the E8 buggy doing there first qualifying run out of 3, with the best 2 to count. This resulted in an assortment of lap times with Kevin Brunsden fastest in heat 1 and Elliot Boots fastest in heat 2. By the time the Truggy class started the track was starting to loose the damp shine. Heat one of the Truggy class was won by Tony Truman and heat 2 by young Oliver Currie.

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July 6, 2014

Rheinard heads Tamiya 1-2 in opening ETS A-Main

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Marc Rheinard headed a Tamiya 1-2 in the opening A-Main at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series season, the Top Qualifier heading home a very evenly matched lead group from team-mate Viktor Wilck. While the race saw no changes of position among the Top 4, drivers had no time to let up with the pack covered by 1-second with Yokomo’s Ronald Volker finishing third followed by Xray’s Alexander Hagberg. The most significant moment of the race at the Hudy Racing Arena was a coming together between Jilles Groskamp and Yannic Prumper, the latter collecting the rear of the World Champion send both cars off onto the grass infield while in the battle for fourth position with Hagberg.

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July 5, 2014

Rheinard is Top Qualifier in Slovakia

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Marc Rheinard is the Top Qualifier for the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the 3-time World Champion claiming the honour for the first time in more than a season after he topped the final round of qualifying at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. Needing a TQ run to deny his Tamiya team-mate Viktor Wilck, who topped Q2 & 3, the pair pushed one another extremely hard over the five minutes until Wilck went for an all or nothing last lap that saw the Swede roll at the end of the straight. Taking the round ahead of this season’s already crowned champion Ronald Volker, Rheinard would end up tied on points but thanks to his fastest Q1 time he would claim his 9th ETS pole position. A weekend that has seen the Tamiya Racing Factory make a huge step forward in performance, Wilck will start second with Jilles Groskamp and Akio Sobue also on the grid making them the best represented manufacturer.

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July 5, 2014

Another TQ run for Wilck at Hudy Arena

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Viktor Wilck claimed a second TQ run at the season finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, a result that means Tamiya is guaranteed to claim its first overall TQ honour of Season #7 at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. Following a 3-hour delay to proceeding due to rain in Trencin, on the resumption of the Ride Modified class it was again new tyres that determined the top of the timing sheets with Wilck heading a Swedish 1-2 finishing 9/10ths ahead of Xray’s Alexander Hagberg with Awesomatix’s Viljami Kutvonen third, with the best of those on used tyre being Marc Rheinard who ended up 4th quickest. Fastest in Q1 Rheinard, the last TRF driver to claim an ETS TQ & win over a season ago in Austria, is the only driver going into the fourth & final qualifier who can deny Wilck his 5th TQ.

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