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February 2, 2014

Hagberg cruises to A1 victory

Alexander Hagberg cruised to a very convincing victory in the opening A-Main at Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series this morning in Germany. Starting from the TQ position having dominated qualifying, the Team Xray driver raced unchallenged to take the win over Ronald Volker and Viktor Wilck despite almost not completing his final lap. Thinking his race was finished but having just crossed the line 1/10th of a second before the 5-minutes was complete he pulled up just in front of race control where team-mate & Pro Stock A1 winner Marek Cerny was about to pick up the car. Already celebrating his win, he was informed he had still to finish but being the only driver to do 23-laps even with the loss of 8-seconds official register the win with a finishing time.

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February 1, 2014

Hagberg claims first TQ honours in ETS

Alexander Hagberg has claimed both his and Xray’s first ever overall TQ of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series’ premiere class. Dominating proceedings at the second round of the championship, the Swede put in yet another impressive run in the penultimate qualifier at the German event as he again topped the times from defending champion Ronald Volker. While Hagberg kept his joy of securing pole position for tomorrow’s Ride Modified A-Main under wraps, leading one onlooker to come up the rather catchy title of ‘Ice’berg’ for the Swede, there was plenty of reason for celebration among the Xray team as it would prove to be an all Xray affair. With a record 362 entries in Muelheim-Kaerlich, the Slovakian manufacturer’s cars will start all three classes from the No.1 spot on the grid. Defending Pro Stock Champion Marek Cerny completed a hat trick of TQ runs to put his T4 2014 on pole for the ETS’ biggest class while Jan Ratheisky secured the overall TQ in Formula with an Xray prototype.

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February 1, 2014

2014 Team Durango Keilor Invitational – Report

The inaugural Keilor Invitational was run in conjunction with this year Stock Shootout at the famous Keilor Club located in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The event, held on the same weekend as the historic Reedy Race in the USA, was run to a similar format with the top 10 drivers from Victoria invited for 10 heads up races for 2WD on Saturday and 4WD on Sunday. Control tires for this event were a choice of AKA Rebar in Soft Compound or J Concepts Car Codes in Orange Compound and competitors were also limited to three sets of tires per day. Invitational drivers included Ray Munday (Team Associated), Andrew Selvaggi (Team Associated), Scott Rawlings (Yokomo), Mark Rogers (Yokomo), Glen Bonetti (Team Associated), Scott Cameron (Team C), Jai Davis (Yokomo), Ash Peeler (Kyosho), Ben Sterling (Kyosho) and John Watkins (Xray).

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February 1, 2014

Hagberg again in Q2

Alexander Hagberg continued were he left off yesterday in Germany by getting Day 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series underway with another impressive TQ run. Dominating yesterday’s proceedings topping practice & the opening qualifier, this morning the Team Xray driver set the pace in Q2 by a massive 4-seconds. Closest to the Swede was defending Champion Ronald Volker, who benefited from a late mistake by team-mate Yannic Prumper, with Awesomatix’ Freddy Sudhoff again completing the Top 3.

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February 1, 2014

Mugen Seiki Challenge – Announcement

Mugen Seiki Europe announce the Mugen Seiki Challenge that will be held in Lyon, France on the weekend of the 22nd of June. Hosted by the CAMSE club in Saint Exupéry, close to the Lyon airport, the race will be run in electric and nitro buggy and truggy classes and sees only one rule: “Drive your Mugen”. More information can be found here or by emailing Mugen France at vray.mugenseiki@gmail.com.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]

February 1, 2014

Bryan Ferrara wins F1 at WRC Contest Rd2

The second round of the Italian WRC Contest took place in Viareggio on the permanent LC Modelcars indoor track. The F1 class was held over 2 days with the actual race taking place on Sunday. At the end it was Fenix’ Bryan Ferrara who won the race from pole position followed by multiple 1/5 scale Italian Champion Emanuele D’Amico (IRC). The podium was completed by Nicola Poverino (Fenix).

Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]

January 31, 2014

Day 1 belongs to Hagberg

Day 1 of the second round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series belonged to Alexander Hagberg, the Team Xray driver backing up his practice pace with a very convincing TQ run in the opening round of qualifying at the German event. With even Marc Rheinard complimenting the Swede’s performance calling it ‘impressive’, Hagberg’s closest challenger was Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper who was some 1.8 seconds adrift. While Freddy Sudhoff completed the Top 3, it was a tough start to qualifying for defending Champion Ronald Volker as the Round 1 dominator managed only the 8th fastest time.

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January 31, 2014

Hagberg top seed for qualifying

Alexander Hagberg will lead away the top heat in qualifying this evening at Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series after the Xray driver was fastest in timed practice at the Muelheim-Kaerlich event. Having set the pace in the first timed practice over defending Champion Ronald Volker, the Swede was able to improve his 3-consecutive fastest laps by .085 of a second in the final practice while his closest rivals failed to better their early times. Hagberg becomes the first driver to top Volker this season, the Yokomo driver having completely dominated the season opener in the Czech Republic, a result albeit only practice will be a big boost for the former race winner who had a disappointing 2012/13 season of ETS.

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