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November 20, 2011

Volker & Laptev victorious at ATS pilot race

Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker and Awesomatix’s Ivan Laptev are the winners of the inaugural Asian Touring Series event held at the Yatabe Arena in Japan as part of the grand opening of the extension to the World famous r/c facility. Top Qualifiers of their respective classes Volker and Laptev backed up their wins in the opening A-Main with a second win in Leg 2 to become champions of the pilot race that is a precursor to a full multi round ATS series similar to the successful ETS that already runs in Europe.

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November 20, 2011

Levanen close to denying Volker in first A-Main

Juho Levanen came very close to ending Ronald Volker’s domination of the Asian Touring Series pilot race at the Yatabe Arena in Japan with the Team Associated driver finishing just 15/100th behind the Team Yokomo driver. Japanese talent Akio Sobue put in a very competitive race making it three different cars in the top 3 as he secured third with his Tamiya TRF417.

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November 19, 2011

Root double at Thanksgiving Throwdown Rd2

TLR and Losi’s Frank Root, Cody Turner, and Matt Castellano were on hand at the second round of the Thanksgiving Throwdown Series Saturday at West Coast R/C Raceway (WCRC). The track had fantastic traction, and a really fun and technical layout. The entry count was very strong with 19 full heats and a great day of racing was had by all.

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November 19, 2011

Volker Top Qualifier for inaugural ATS event

Ronald Volker is the Top Qualifier for the inaugural Asian Touring Series event after the German dominated today’s four rounds of qualifying at the World famous Yatabe Arena in Japan. With two of the five rounds to count, the Team Yokomo leader put pole position beyond the reach of his closest rivals Juho Levanen and Alexander Hagberg with his fourth straight TQ run and the focus for tomorrow morning’s final qualifier will now be on who will line-up second on the grid behind the ETS Champion.

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November 19, 2011

Volker takes opening qualifier at ATS

Current Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker has taken the opening round of qualifying for the Asian Touring Series pilot race, the factory Yokomo driver running 19 laps in 5:11.104 to top practice pace setter Juho Levanen by 3 seconds. The German ace described the run as ‘clean’ and said while his LRP powered BD5 WXi was good there was room for some small improvement which he feels if made would allow him to push that little bit harder.

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November 19, 2011

Matsukura sets early pace at Asian Touring Series

Current Japanese Touring Car Champion Naoto Matsukura is the early pace setter at the Asian Touring Series pilot race that is being held this weekend at the world famous Yatabe Arena as part of the grand opening of the recently extended facility that features no less than four indoor tracks. Organised by the same crew that are behind the hugely successful Euro Touring series which kicked off its fifth season two weeks ago in Germany with a record entry, the first ATS event has attracted drivers from 14 countries including a number of Europe’s top drivers and official factory entries from Xray, Yokomo, Kyosho and Awesomatix.

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November 18, 2011

Tasos Paparegkas wins Greek Nitrofest 2011

The new Top RC track in Thesaloniki, Greece was the host of the 2011 Greek Nitrofest. A total of 30 drivers attended at the three day event that not only attracted lokal drivers but also one Joseph Quagraine from far Finland. Tasos Paparegkas took TQ with his Xray XB808 ’11 followed by John Paparegkas (Xray XB808 ’11) and Joseph Quagraine (JQ THE Car). The 45 minutes long final was a close affair with many lead changes between Paparegkas and Quagraine with the better end for Tasos who won the race by 9 seconds in front of Joseph and John.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 18, 2011

Choi Nak Sung claims Korean Nationals titel

Shepherd racer Choi Nak Sung has won the annual KMRCA National 1/8th On-Road Championship which took place at the Oh-Chang Hitec Circuit near Oh-Chang in South Korea. The race which is considered the most important race of the season attracted 40 drivers in total. During qualification Choi Nak Sung showed a good performance taking the TQ spot with his Velox V8 “eleven”. In the final Sung was unchallenged leading from start to the checkered flag crossing the finishing line 3 laps in front of the rest of the drivers field.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]