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April 5, 2019

ETS Spain Day 1 rained out

It should have been the official start of the outdoor season of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series this morning in Spain but the weather has meant otherwise. After a day of dry free practice yesterday at the Asoger track, Round 3 of the Championship was officially set to get underway today with controlled practice and the opening round of qualifying, however rain put pay to anyone hitting the track today as racers woke up to a gloomy cloudy day in Madrid. First making the call to wait until 14:00 local time to decide whether any racing could take place, heavy lunchtime rain forced the call that the day would be cancelled. With weather not looking much better for tomorrow, the current call is that each driver’s fastest three consecutive laps will determine the heat order as they go directly into qualifying if the weather plays its part. Based on Thursday’s times, drivers managing 6 rounds of practice, it was Ronald Volker who was fastest from Bruno Coelho with Freddy Sudhoff third. Last year’s winner Alexander Hagberg found himself down in 11th. In Pro Stock it was joint championship leaders Simon Lauter and Max Machler who set the pace ahead of Olivier Bultynck, Christian Donath and Dominic Vogl. In Formula Jitse Miedema was quickest from Lauter and Jeremy Limoges.

April 4, 2019

Outdoor season gets underway with ETS Spain

The European outdoor season gets underway this weekend as Spain plays host to the third round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series. With the 12th season of the ETS producing two different winners on carpet in Austria and Germany, Round 3 will makes the change to asphalt with most drivers making no secret to the fact that this is there preferred surface to race on. The third year the championship has travelled to the Asoger RC track near Madrid, the two previous visits have seen it be a happy hunting ground for Xray. Reigning champion Bruno Coelho took the TQ and victory over Marc Rheinard in 2017 and last year team-mate Alexander Hagberg ended a 4-year ETS winning drought with the win over Yokomo’s Christopher Krapp. While unwanted weather conditions forecast for the weekend could influence the weekend’s action, all the teams will be looking to conclude the first half of the season with what is viewed as an important win given the rest of the championship will be played out on asphalt.

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April 4, 2019

Euro Contest X – Announcement

The Euro Contest X, the 10th edition of the popular 1/8th off-road race, will be hosted by the OSPY Team club from the 21st to 23rd of June in Gussago in Northern Italy. The 2019 race will see Nitro Pro, Open and E-Buggy classes with last year’s event drawing 300 entries. Full information, sign-up and more can be found on the official event website here.

April 3, 2019

Nico & Florian Schmid win at Offroad Masters Rd3

Round 3 of the Offroad Masters series was held in Islikon, Switzerland recently. In the 2WD Buggy class it was Xray’s Nico Schmid with the win from Xray teammate, Kay Frehner. Schumacher’s Elias Ehrmann came in 3rd to round out the podium. Over in the 4WD Mod Buggy class it was Florian Schmid (Xray) with the win from Kay Frehner (Xray) while Elias Ehrmann snatched another podium result in 3rd.

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April 3, 2019

Clarel, Casseem & Chinnayya win at Mauritian Champs

The second round of the Mauritian On-road Championships were held last weekend. In the 10.5T Touring class it was Lacour Clarel with the win from Jovanni Appasamy in 2nd and Emrith Shelesh in 3rd. Over in the 1/8th BL Open class Mosheen Casseem came out on top and in front of Danen Conjamalay and Jovanni Appasamy in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Finally in the 1/8th BL Promo category it was Nikheale Chinnayya from Neale Chinnayya in 2nd and Matteo Maka in 3rd.

Thanks to Jovanni Appasamy for the update.

April 3, 2019

Kevin Nielsen takes Danish TC Stock title

The final round of the Danish DRCMU series was held in Randers this past weekend. Held in several electric on-road classes it was the Xray duo of Patrick Folman and Kevin Nielsen who battled it out in the Touring Stock class. Patrick would take the overall TQ with Kevin sitting in 2nd and with Patrick coming out on top in A1 and A3 while Kevin won A2, it was Patrick with the day’s win from Kevin on the 2 spot. Young Casper Lund (Xray) would round out the top 3 after achieving his first podium result. Overall in the Championship it was Kevin Nielsen with the title thanks to five TQ spots and wins as and two 2nd place finishes over the season.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 3, 2019

Borkowicz & Setser win at Super Cup Series Rd4

Round 4 of the Super Cup Championship Series headed south to Mills Pond RC Speedway in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. A fresh layout was laid out a couple weeks prior and with a few final touches during the week leading up to Race 4, all the time and hard work paid off. The weather was also perfect and with 116 entries it was going to be a great day of racing. A few computer glitches slowed things down a bit but everyone seemed to still have a great day hanging out at the track. Racing-wise and in the 2WD Mod Buggy class it was Daimon Borkowicz with the win from Lee Setser and Paul Wynn.

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April 3, 2019

2019 April Fools’ Race – Report

The 1st edition of the April Fools’ Race was held last weekend in the capital of Brunei Darussalam, attracting local drivers as well as entries from Malaysia and Vietnam. The race format was four qualifying heats with best three out of four to count. Local driver Brian Lim would dominate the qualifying by TQ’ing the first three rounds and sitting out the final qualifier to prepare his car for the finals. In the 45-minutes final, Brian would lead in the opening stages before a faulty receiver pack dropped him to 3rd and David Lim from Vietnam would be promoted into the lead, battling with Foo from Malaysia for the next ten to 15 minutes. Foo would take the lead with 20 minutes to go and he would go on to win by a lap from Brian Lim in 2nd with David Lim taking 3rd.

Thanks to Edwin for the report.