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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October 13, 2012

Levanen pips Rheinard to take Q2

Team Associated’s Juho Levanen pipped Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard by just 9/100ths in Germany this morning to TQ the second round of the qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series season opener. Second fastest behind defending champion Ronald Volker in last night’s first qualifier, the Finn benefited from a mistake by the rapid Yokomo driver during the second minute of Q2 but still managed to run a new fastest 5-minute pace after being forced to respond to a late challenge by Rheinard.

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October 13, 2012

Volker TQs first qualifier at ETS season opener

Defending Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker got his 2012/13 campaign off to the perfect start on Day 1 of the season opener in Germany as he backed up his practice topping pace with a TQ run in the first round of qualifying. The German was one of the few drivers to keep his car on four wheels for the 5-minute run and took the round by a comfortable 2.5 seconds from Team Associated’s Juho Levanen with Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prumper completing the Top 3.

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October 12, 2012

Volker sets early pace at ETS season opener

The sixth season of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series got underway today in Muelheim-Kaerlich, Germany, with defending champion Ronald Volker laying out his intentions early as he set the pace in the first round of timed practice. Having had two free practice runs in the morning, in the first of the two timed practice runs from which the fastest three laps will determine the reseed for this evening’s opening round of qualifying, Volker put his new Yokomo BD7 top of the time sheets ahead of the new Xray T4 of Norwegian Adrien Bernsten.

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October 12, 2012

VP Pro 1/8 GT belted tire announced

VP Pro is working on a belted 1/8th GT tire as this rendering reveals. Currently in testing stages the on-road tire will come with an inner reinforcement for added stability and durability and comes with a unique black or white wheel. No word on an exact release date yet but we were told the tire will become available soon.

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October 12, 2012

CRC wins big at 2012 IIC

Calandra Racing Concepts drivers John Tortorice, David Ehrlich and Andrew Knapp have won their respective classes at the recent 2012 International Indoor Championship. In the 1/12th 17.5T class John Tortorice swept the competition and was sidelined by his CRC team mates Mark Smyka and Kenny Lambert who took the remaining podium spots. The World GT podium again was an all-CRC affair with David Ehrlich, Mario Ficco and Brian Bohlman taking the Top 3. In the 1/12th 13.5T class Andrew Knapp took the win with the brand new XTi car that had a strong first showing at the on-road World Champs earlier this year.

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October 11, 2012

Hébert & Haynes win at 2012 IIC

The International Indoor Championships (IIC), hosted by Scotty Ernst at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, continues as one of the premier stops on the racing calendar. The top drivers in the world converged upon the desert oasis October 1-6 to battle for bragging rights and the prestigious IIC title. The program called for four rounds of controlled practice and some open practice time leading up to Thursday’s two rounds of qualifying. Two more rounds were scheduled for Friday with a driver’s single fastest round out of four used to determine a driver’s main event and grid position. The Team Associated/Reedy factory racing team was on hand to battle with the world’s best and came away with some impressive results – four pole positions and four wins with three additional podium finishes.

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