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October 17, 2012

Josh Wheeler wins @ US Southern Nationals

The Southern Nationals took place in West Monroe, Louisiana in a huge indoor facility with a track that sported lots of elevation changes and big jumps. After three rounds of qualifying Ryan Lutz took TQ with Josh Wheeler in second position. The main started off good and it was a follow the leader show with Lutz and Wheeler for 15 minutes. Josh was doing his best to stay right with Lutz and pulled a good lead before a battle started. They were able to put themselves in front with a lead of about 15 second when Lutz broke and Wheeler took the lead. Jason Branham was now in second with the rest of the field behind him. Josh maintained a good lead until the second to the last pit stop when a crash and corner marshal failure cost him 17 seconds on his pit stop. This gave Branham the lead and a battle until the end started. Jason and Wheeler would battle until the last lap when Jason crashed and gave Wheeler the lead and the win. Kurt Kellum also had a great performance in the truggy main and fought his way to 3rd at the end.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 17, 2012

Tironi & Agostinelli win Trofeo Novarossi

The 8th running of the Trofeo Novarossi took place at the track of the Club Automodellistico Gubbio in Italy and saw the entrance of talented drivers like Francesco Tironi and Lamberto Collari. In the 1/8th scale class it was Capricorn’s Francesco Tironi who took the race win some three laps from Mattia Rinaldi and Alessandro Bracci. Lamberto Collari faced tyre problems during the final and finished in fourth position.

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October 17, 2012

Drew Moller wins @ Reedy Truck Race

The 2012 Reedy Truck Race of Champions was held at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California and the event brought in over 140 entries from SoCal’s best truck drivers. In the Modified Truck class, it was Team Orion/Kyosho’s Drew Moller who would TQ rounds 1 and 3 to take the overall TQ for the class. Come the finals he was in a close battle with TLR’s Mike Truhe who both scored a first and second place in the finals. Therefore A main number three would decide the 2012 title win and it was Drew Moller who lead from the first lap taking the win in the important final race and also the 2012 Reedy Truck Race of Champions title. Mike Truhe came in second with Kody Numedahl completing the podium.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

October 17, 2012

Mario Rigert wins 2012 Swiss TC championship

The fifth and final round of the Swiss national touring car championship was held at the track of Lostallo. After an all wet Saturday and Sunday morning the weather got better for the finals on Sunday afternoon. Markus Streuli started from pole position with Mario Rigert in second spot and Daniel Ghirlanda in third position. As the finals were the only rounds of the whole weekend with dry conditions, it was difficult for everyone to find a good pace from the start. Mario managed to win two out of the three A finals. The win of the final round secured Mario the race victory and his fifth modified touring car title as well. Xray team mate Steven Deyhle took the runner-up spot and Antonino Mangiaracina came in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 15, 2012

Robert Batlle wins 4 from 4 in Spain

Last weekend saw the 4th and final round of the Spanish 1/8 Off Road Nats take place in Silla (Valencia). Rain on Friday stopped action on track but helped to eliminate the dust from the track and increase the grip, leaving a very nice surface for Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, Robert Batlle took the TQ spot followed by Andrés Marcelino and Borja Hernández. The ‘A’ semi final was also won by Robert Batlle while rising star Ignacio Candel took the ‘B’ semi final, which mirrored the final result with Borja Hernandez completing the top 3. With this victory Batlle takes a clean sweep of the 2012 Nationals and wins 5 series in a row.

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October 14, 2012

Volker completes perfect start to ETS campaign

In search a third consecutive Yokomo Euro Touring Series title Ronald Volker completed the perfect start to season No.6 of the world famous electric touring car series in Germany today when he backed up his leg 1 win with another dominant win in leg 2 to wrap up the overall win. Having already secured the bonus point for taking the TQ honours in qualifying, the German ace will head to the round 2 of the series in Czech Republic with a 3 point lead over the runner-up at the Muelheim-Kaerlich event with that driver to be decided in this evening’s third and final leg. That battle for second overall set to be fought out between Associated’s Juho Levänen, Yokomo’s Yannic Prümper and Team Xray’s Adrian Bernsten.

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October 14, 2012

Volker cruises to Leg 1 victory

Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker cruised to a dominant victory in Leg 1 of the A-Main at the 2012/13 Yokomo Euro Touring Series season opener in Germany this morning, the defending champion winning convincingly over Team Associated’s Juho Levanen who was closely followed home by Xray’s Adrian Bernsten. Starting from pole, Volker was never threatened throughout the 5-minutes but did have a self inflicted moment when he hit a dot on his last lap sending his LRP powered BD7 into a roll but luckily it landed rubber side down. Such was the German ace’s gap the 1.5 seconds lost didn’t even allow the battling Levanen and Bernsten to get within sight and continuing on his way the he completed the final to take the win by a 2.7 second margin.

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October 13, 2012

Volker is Top Qualifier in Germany

Defending Yokomo Euro Touring Series Ronald Volker will start his title defense from the perfect position tomorrow in Germany after he secured the overall TQ honours with the fastest qualifying run of the weekend in the final round of qualifying ahead of Marc Rheinard and Juho Levanen, the latter set to line up second on the grid having failed to make an A-Main cut last season.

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