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October 16, 2010

Volker is Top Qualifier in Kastellaun

Ronald Volker has secured the overall TQ honours for the opening round of the 2010/11 Yokomo Euro Touring Series as he continued his domination of proceedings in the penultimate qualifier. The European Champion recorded the fastest 5-minute run of the event putting pole position for tomorrow’s finals beyond reach of his rivals. The German switched from a gear diff to a ball diff in the back of his Yokomo BD5 which improved stability through the sweeper but create understeer out of the hairpin but overall the car felt safer to drive.

View our full ETS coverage here.

October 16, 2010

Stéphane Bouche wins Coupe de France

Last weekend the Coupe de France 1/8th scale on-road took place at the LMRC track in Limoges in the center of France. In total the race saw 136 drivers in attendance, the biggest participation for 10 years. Among them were Stéphane Bouche and recently crowned French champion Richard Volta racing for the French Shepherd team. On Friday and Saturday the weather was fine but on Sunday dark clouds covered the sky. Richard Volta was again in good shape and secured himself the pole-position, Stéphane Bouche was ranked on 10th position after qualifying. For this race there were no direct finalists and just 5 minutes before the start of the semi-finals the rain arrived so the conditions were really difficult for all the drivers. Bouche and Volta both managed to bump up to the final after a save 20 minutes drive. At the start of the 30 minutes long final Bouche had a tough battle for the lead with Sebastien Zalta who likes these conditions. After 10 minutes Bouche took over the lead and increased it lap by lap. At the end of the final, it was Stéphane Bouche with his Novarossi powered Velox V8 who took the victory 1 lap in front of Sebastien Zatla with brother Laurent Zalta finishing another lap down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com] / Image: Automodelisme.com

October 16, 2010

Volker opens qualifying with TQ run

Qualifying for the Xenon Modified class got underway this morning with Ronald Volker taking the first TQ run here in Kastellaun, German. The Yokomo ace ended the five minute run well clear of the opposition with Freddy Sudhoff just over 5 seconds adrift with the second fastest time. Volker said it was definitely a good way to start the day but admitted his car was still difficult to drive and he was having to drive a very fine line which on this occasion was possible as he faced no pressure from other drivers during the heat.

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October 15, 2010

Dankel TQ’s opening Pro-Stock qualifier

Eric Dankel has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying for the Xray Pro-Stock class as day 1 of the Yokomo ETS comes to a close here in Kastellaun. The German Indoor National Pro-Stock Champion was the only driver to record 29 laps, despite a driver error which saw him roll his Xray luckily landing rubber side down. Afterwards the accomplished nitro racer described his new T3 ‘11 chassis as perfect with it being very easy to drive

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October 15, 2010

Volker sets practice pace at ETS opener

Yokomo’s Ronald Volker is the early pace setter at the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series taking his LRP powered Yokomo BD5 around the Kastellaun track in the three fastest consecutive laps by a considerable margin over defending champion Marc Rheinard. Recording a time of 10.060 compared with Rheinard’s 10.188, the European Indoor Champion has made little changes to his car in the opening three practice runs and plans to run the same set-up for the fourth and final run.

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October 15, 2010

Pillars reports from Pattaya

On October 4th Kyosho, Associated and Losi USA drivers/mechanics traveled from LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) to Bangkok, Thailand. From Kyosho was myself, Jared Tebo, Mark Pavidis, Cody King, and Paul King. From Associated was Team Manager Brent Thielke, Ryan Cavalieri, Louis Cavalieri, Ryan Maifield, John Faulkner from J-Concepts and Kurt Wenger. From Losi was Adam Drake, Mike Truhe, Billy Fischer, Matt Castellano and Dyno. Our flight left at around 2:00am from LAX and we would land in Hong Kong for our layover about 14 1/2 hours later. This was the longest flight I have ever been on. Since we left early in the morning, most of us slept allot of the flight and made it go by faster. We would have a layover in Hong Kong for about 2 hours, then fly the rest of the way to Bangkok that was 2 1/2 hours away. After arriving in Bangkok, all 3 teams went their separate ways to the track. Each of the 3 teams stayed at different hotels. The taxi ride to the hotel was about 1 1/2 hours located in Pattaya. This is known as a very popular tourist destination and it didn’t disappoint. There was many street side vendors, shopping malls, and many activities to do.

Continue reading the report here

October 14, 2010

DHI Cup 2011 – Announcement

The organisers of the 2011 DHI Cup have been in touch to tell us that entry for the race will open at 19:00 CET on the 26th of October. The event, which takes place from the 7th to 9th of January, will be in the same venue as previous years, the Stadium Arena Fyn in Odense, Denmark. The 11th running of this famous touring car race, it will sadly be the final year for this prestigious race. This year Modified class drivers will get 1 set of LRP CPX controlled tires included in entry fee and the SuperStock drivers get 1 set of LRP CPX tires and 1 Speed Passion V3 17.5 motor. 2010 SuperStock and Modified A-finalist will have reserved places until 15th November. There is no limit of drivers in SuperStock and Modified until the 1st of November, after this date they will see how many drivers they can put in each class, there is total max of 180 drivers, so be sure to get your entry in early to avoid disappointment. A brand new carpet will be used at this event and it will be same type as used in 2010. New for 2011 – EFRA Spec 2S LiPo and LiFe cell is allowed, bump-ups for the B final winner to the A-final and finally the SuperStock and Modified A-finals will be a 6 minute race.

Entry will be done through MyRCM here.

Source: DHI Cup [dhi-cup.dk]

October 14, 2010

Peter Jovanovic wins Australian Sedan title

The 2010 Australian 1/10 On Road National Championships took place in Adelaide recently and it was a dominating performance by the Capricorn team that saw Peter Jovanovic 1st and Steven Jovanovic 2nd. During 4 days of practice and qualifying the South Australian track was producing massive wear and in the final tire strategies were going to play a massive part on the final result. Finals day saw Peter deciding not to change tires in the 45 minute main final, while Steven opted to change tires at the 25 minute mark. The decision to not change tires gave Peter the win over brother Steven, with Shepherd driver Jeff Hamon in 3rd.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]