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June 12, 2011

Nick Lefebvre wins Texas Biggie

The 34th annual Texas Biggie was held Memorial Day weekend in Rendon, Texas, just south of the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex. This race has a long history of being the “race to attend” and draws drivers from all over the United States. Over the years, this race has been won by some of the world’s best, which includes the current IFMAR world champion, Team Xray driver, Ralph Burch. Team RC America/Xray was in full force and ready to represent during this three day event of six qualifiers and the mains.

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June 12, 2011

Midwest Series Rd2 report

The 42nd annual running of the Midwest Series Round 2 was hosted by Nitro Club of Portage, Indiana. The race was held last weekend and classes included 1/8th scale open, 1/8th scale GT and 1/10th 200m. This was an interesting track, a permanent setup but still a parking lot surface making grip challenging and low 18 second lap times with the 10th scale and just getting into the 16’s with 1/8th open. Qualifying was very tight in 1/8th scale after the second round the top 3 cars had been separated by less than .250 of a second. On day two the track was sprayed again and the grip was very high in the morning shuffling the top 8 cars each round. The track really showed who was able to deal with the changes in traction from round to round. The grip level had changed again by the 1/8th final the track had lost some of its early morning grip and slowed by about .4 to .5 per lap. Jeff Zuccarell took the win in 1/8th open with his Murnan Novarossi powered MRX-5 ahead of Lon Burling in 2nd and Ted Hammer in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale class it was Andy Power taking a clear win from Chris Dosech in 2nd and Loran Whiting in 3rd. Finally in the 1/8th GT Open class Mark Lyday won by 3 laps ahead of Mark Rodney in 2nd, with Karl Ennulat 12 laps further back.

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June 11, 2011

Groskamp is Top Qualifier at Apeldoorn

Former two time ETS champion Jilles Groskamp will start his first appearance in the 2010/11 Yokomo Euro Touring Series from pole position tomorrow in Apeldoorn. The Tamiya driver tied on points with team-mate Marc Rheinard and Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper but having produced the fastest 5-minute time of qualifying when he topped Q1 yesterday, the Dutch ace was declared Top Qualifier.

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June 11, 2011

ETS racers dig deep for Japan

Racers competing in the fifth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series at the beautiful Apeldoorn track in The Netherlands this weekend dug deep into their pockets this afternoon with an auction in aid of the Red Cross’ Japan Fund raising €1,735 ($2.489). Organised by regular ETS competitor Phil Hoggart, the auction was conducted by legendary race announcer Scotty Ernst providing plenty of entertainment for everyone during a rain shower that interrupted the final round of qualifying. The highest bid made during the auction was for a body shell donated by current World and ETS Champion Marc Rheinard which helped raise €100.

June 11, 2011

Prümper heads Yokomo 1-2 in Q3

Former ETS race winner Yannic Prümper has TQ’d the third & penultimate round of qualifying at Apeldoorn setting the fastest time by 3/10th of a second over Yokomo team-mate Cyril N’diaye who in turn was a tenth quicker than Tamiya’s Jilles Groskamp in third.

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June 11, 2011

Exotek T3’11 adjustable carbon fibre LiPo brackets

New from Exotek for the Xray T3’11 are these heavy duty yet lightweight adjustable carbon fibre LiPo brackets for the Xray T3’11 chassis. The sliding brackets makes for better battery positioning and more secure mounting preventing sudden weight shifts that can unbalance your car. Also includes adjustable center rail (must drill extra hole in stock Xray chassis), which is a direct fit for the Exotek chassis.

View the mounted brackets here

June 10, 2011

Groskamp heads Tamiya 1-2-3 in Q1

The opening round of qualifying at the Dutch round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series produced a Tamiya 1-2-3 with Jilles Groskamp setting the pace ahead of Marc Rheinard and Viktor Wilck. Making a one off return to the series this weekend at Apeldoorn, the two time ETS champion said afterwards that he thinks he can go faster as he was only driving at 95%.

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June 10, 2011

Jesse Stark wins Open Mod at RROC

TOP Racing got in touch to tell us that their driver Jesse Stark took the TQ and won the Open Modified class at the 2011 Reedy Race of Champions held at Norcal Hobbies. Jesse drove his Photon to victory winning the first two mains and because of his win Jesse is automatically invited to compete in the invite class at next year’s Reedy Race.

Source: TOP USA [topracingusa.com]