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June 17, 2013

Cockerill & Williams win at oOple Rd2

The weekend before last was Round 2 of the oOple Series, held at RobinHood Raceway. The weather was looking good and it was clear the track crew had put in a lot of effort, with the track looking very good. The Schumacher Team were once again in attendance to offer support and help to their customer’s trackside. The racing was very close all weekend, with the format seeing 4 rounds of qualifying on Saturday, then a final round Sunday morning before heading into finals. It was James Heliwell and Tom Cockerill who came out on top in qualifying in 2wd and 4wd respectively. James was closely followed by Greg Williams in 2wd, and James wasn’t far behind in 4wd, setting up some exciting finals.

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June 17, 2013

Ulf Stenvall wins Swedish Northen Cup Rd2

The second round of the Swedish Northen Cup took place recently in Älvsbyn. 41 racers attended and were greeted with mostly clear skies and a newly built driver stand. The track was in quite bumpy condition after a wet and rainy race taking place the day before. Junior driver Emil Lundgren from Piteå had a fast enough race pace to make it into the semi-final, but unfortunately had to retire in the 1/4-final due to his engine coming loose. Instead Viktor Westerlund took first place in the junior-class followed by Viktor Öhrvall and Alexander Sundh. In the A-main final Patrik Bodén took an early lead but ran into issues with his engine flaming out loosing a lot of laps. “Veteran driver” Ulf Stenvall then took a commanding lead in the final piloting his Mugen to a safe victory. The most unexpected result this Sunday was Fredrik Kling finishing second with his Xray, taking his first ever podium finish. Martin Slagbrand managed to secure the third place even though a shock came loose on his Xray near the end of the final.

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June 17, 2013

Drake & Tessmann crowned 2013 National Champions

The ROAR 1/8th scale Nationals were held last weekend at Gulf Coast Raceway in Porter, Texas with the race seeing battles for the coveted buggy & truggy titles, won last year by Ty Tessmann. Qualifying in the buggy class was dominated by TLR’s young gun Dakotah Phend ahead of Tessmann, Truhe and Drake, while in Truggy it was all HB’s Ty Tessmann ahead of Phend with TLR team mates Drake and Truhe once again completing the Top 4. Cruel luck in the Semis as Phend lost a throttle servo and was out along with Tebo and Cavalieri and so having dominated his semi Tessmann would line up on pole position for the 45 minute long final. The final started well for the Canadian, who would lead for the majority of the race but in the end a mechanical issue would mean retirement and allow Adam Drake to take over the lead which he would never relinquish, taking his third National title in front of team mate Truhe in 2nd with Kyosho’s Cody King in 3rd. In the earlier Truggy final, Tessmann would dominate, retaining his Truggy title winning by over a lap from Durango’s Ryan Lutz, with Mike Truhe taking, what would be the first of two podium spots, in 3rd.

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June 17, 2013

Joakim Nicolaisen wins Nordic Championships

The Nordic championship is a yearly race with drivers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland attending. This year Denmark was supposed to arrange the meeting, but after a while Norway got the event, with the Oslo Modellbilklubb hosting it. The event was supposed to be a 2 day event with qualifying on Saturday and finals on Sunday. But with the weather that was showing, and the usual Norwegian weather, everybody agreed to make it a 1 day event. After practice Thomas Holmesland was fastest and set the pace for the event. In the first qualifying heat both Oskar Fjeld and Joakim Nicolaisen was driving incredible fast, and with no errors being done Joakim set a good qualification round. This was his TQ run.

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June 16, 2013

Rheinard wins, title to be decided at Hudy Arena

Rheinard wins in Austria, title to be decided at Hudy Arena

Marc Rheinard has won the penultimate round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series ahead of Ronald Volker meaning that the two great rivals will battle it out for the overall title at the season finale at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia next month. After the chaos of Leg 2, the closing race in Traiskirchen was a much calmer affair with Top Qualifier Rheinard seeing off the close attention of Yokomo drivers Yannic Prumper and Volker to take the leg and the overall win which he needed to keep his title hopes alive.

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June 16, 2013

Hagberg wins chaotic Leg 2 in Austria

Team Xray’s Alexander Hagberg has won what has to have been the most chaotic race in the history of the Euro Touring Series with the level of tension among the main contenders in the pits requiring a chainsaw to cut through it. After a change of weather saw cars sliding around in Leg 1, conditions were back to normal for Leg 2 and initially the race started well with Top Qualifier Marc Rheinard leading the way from Yannic Prumper and Ronald Volker, but on lap 4 the Yokomo pair clashed in what was the first of a number of incidents that have tempers running extremely high in Austria. One of the few happy faces in the pits at the end of the race, Hagberg took the win from fellow Swede Viktor Wilck with Martin Hudy, who started 9th completing the Top 3, with all three drivers admitting afterwards that they had got lucky by staying out of trouble.

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June 16, 2013

Volker masters dramatic condition change to win A-1

Starting from 3rd on the grid in the first A-Main of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Austria, Ronald Volker best mastered a dramatic change in track conditions to move to the front of the field after a thrilling opening two laps. A change in weather that saw the arrival of light rain caused a sharp rise in humidity at the roof covered Traiskirchen track making the asphalt surface more like the ice skating ring which the building normally houses. Such was the change that laps times where almost 2 seconds off the pace seen in qualifying. Once in front Volker cruised to an easy 3-second win over team-mate Yannic Prümper who held off a challenge from Top Qualifier Marc Rheinard.

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June 15, 2013

Rheinard ‘Top Qualifier’ in Austria

Marc Rheinard is Top Qualifier at the penultimate round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Traiskirchen, Austria. The Tamiya driver secured the honour, and the all important bonus championship point that goes with it, by posting the second fastest time in Q4 behind Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper with Xray’s Tim Wahl, who like Prumper was also on fresh tyres, completing the Top 3. The penultimate qualifier would see a troubled run for Ronald Volker and Alexander Hagberg that would see both drivers DNF.

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