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June 5, 2012

Martinho & Cardoso win Portuguese Nationals Rd2

The second round of the Portuguese electric touring car series took place last weekend in Coimbra. In the modified class, the pace throughout the day was extremely fast, with drivers changing positions every lap. Hugo Miguel TQ’d the first round followed closely by Bruno Coelho, João Martinho and Bernardo Cosme. In the second round the top 4 drivers from the previous round made some errors, but in the end João Martinho successfully TQ’d the round in the last lap from José Figueiredo who took second place with an error free run. The third TQ run was set by Hugo Miguel. The final and fourth TQ run was set by Bruno Coelho.

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June 4, 2012

Robert Batlle wins RC Show 2012

The First Edition of RC Show 2012 took place last weekend at the Fuencarral Track in Spain. With typical Spanish sunny weather, this Open International event brought the top national drivers in this category as well as those from other countries. RC Show´12 was a three day event, with controlled practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday and the mains on Sunday. Also on Saturday evening after the qualification rounds, Mike Truhe and Kevin Gahan from TLR put on a great exhibition with the Losi 5T while Spanish pilot Julio Memba also put on a 3D helicopter exhibition for the crowds. Portuguese driver Miguel Matias topped qualifying and was TQ on Saturday but after Sunday’s semi finals it was the Spanish driver and current European champion Robert Batlle who put his Mugen in the top position and would go on to win, followed by TLR´s Mike Truhe with Agama driver Dani Vega completing the podium.

Source: Coches RC [cochesrc.com]

June 4, 2012

Adrian Bernsten wins Norwegian nationals Rd2

The second round of the Norwegian national series was held at the beautiful facility of LMBK last Saturday and Adrien Bernsten. The track conditions was as always very good and with the high traction and pretty low temperatures (approx. 14-15 degrees), it was all set for some good racing and fast laptimes. After having done a bit of testing on the track before the race and putting in some fast laptimes and very consistent driving I was very confident going into this race.

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June 4, 2012

Neal King wins BRCA 1/8th Rd4

The Fourth round of the BRCA 1/8th on road championship was hosted at one of the premier circuits in the UK, Mendip raceway. With the country hosting the Diamond Jubilee celebrations and having an extended weekend break made traveling down to the track early Saturday morning very time consuming which culminated in missing a couple of hours free practice. Upon arrival we had noticed that the track had been treated with sugar water (Coke) to increase the grip around the braking, mid corners and exits. It was quite visible that this was probably brush applied and did not have any consistent coverage. I fully appreciate this was carried out to provide a constant level of grip but it seemed to make the cars very inconsistent from the lap times and in reality the times were 0.4 seconds slower than the end of last season which was not expected. However with changing weather conditions, the track did seem to dry very quickly between the rain showers which was probably a bonus in the end.

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June 4, 2012

Bella & Carlessi wins Trofeo Shepherd

The second Trofeo Shepherd race took place at the Miniautodromo Black Tarmac in the North of Italy. On Mesero’s international track the racing series is a regular visitor with a lot of Shepherd drivers in attendance enjoying a nice event with a lot of prizes for everyone. In the 1/8 category the trophy was won by Sara Bella, runner-up was Simone Pausini and third place went to Andrea Novati. In the 1/10 category Stefano Carlessi crossed the finishing line in first position followed by Maurizio De Simon on second position and Mattia Lorenzetti in third.

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June 3, 2012

Tamiya secure 1-2-3 at Dutch ETS

For the first time since Andernach in 2009, the fifth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Netherlands was to be an all Tamiya podium with Marc Rheinard claiming his first win of the season ahead of team-mates Viktor Wilck and Jilles Groskamp. Having made the call to run two of the three A-Mains on Saturday night directly after qualifying due to the forecast giving rain for Sunday, it was to prove a smart decision by the ETS organisers as racers woke to a very wet morning in Apeldoorn. With results from two dry legs to work from the result was declared on best result and fastest time giving Top Qualifier & Leg 2 winner Rheinard the win over the first A-Main winner Wilck with second in Leg 2 securing the former back to back champion Groskamp the final step on the podium.

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June 2, 2012

Rheinard wins second Leg at Dutch ETS

Top Qualifier Marc Rheinard has won the second A-Main at the fifth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the German driver heading a dominant 1-2 for the Tamiya team ahead of team-mate Jilles Groskamp with Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper finishing third. Benefiting from running on brand new tyres having saved them from qualifying, the former ETS Champions pulled clear of the opposition to win by 6 seconds from Prumper who after retiring after just 4-laps in the first A-main also had the benefit of fresh rubber.

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June 2, 2012

Rheinard Top Qualifier at Dutch ETS

2011 Dutch ETS race winner Marc Rheinard has put himself in the best position possible to repeat that success and claim his first win of the current Yokomo Euro Touring Series season after the World Champion topped the final round of qualifying at Apeldoorn to secure the overall TQ honours ahead of Tamiya team-mate Jilles Groskamp and Serpent’s Marc Fisher.

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