Tamiya’s Viktor Wilck has topped the fourth round of qualifying here Aniche, France, helped by the fact that Ronald Volker ran used tyres. A slower round than Q3, which saw Volker record 16 laps, the Swede managed only 15 laps, admitting that the TQ was down to that fact that the provisional pole sitter ran one of 5 allocated sets of tyres for a second time.
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Ronald Volker’s domination of the 2010 European Touring Car Championship continues on the second day of qualifying with the Team Yokomo driver topping Q3 in a new fastest time as the Top 3 for the round broke into the 16 laps.
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Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker is proving to be very much the man to beat here at the European Championships in France after backing up his fastest time in the opening qualifier with another TQ run in Q2, albeit in a slightly slower time. The German, who is looking to regain the title he won in France in 2007, set the pace over the Tamiya’s of Elliot Harper, Jilles Groskamp and Viktor Wilck, and putting himself in a strong position to wrap up pole for Sunday’s final.
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Ronald Volker has carried his practice pace through to qualifying taking the opening round from defending champion Jilles Groskamp. The Team Yokomo driver was happy to be fastest but was annoyed with himself for an early mistake when he carried too much speed and over shot the entry to the chicane costing him over 1 second. Like many of the top drivers, the 2007 Champion felt the traction was off a little compared with this morning, most likely due to the opening ceremony which was held on the track after the completion of practice.
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France is the venue for 12th running of the Electric Touring Car European Championships with the small town of Aniche in the northern tip of the country. The third time that France has hosted the EFRA organised championship, only 106 drivers have made the trip but among those are 8 of last years Euro finalists and 7 of the finalists from last month’s World Championships in Burgdorf, Germany.
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CSO Racing have released this rear axle pulley for the Serpent 966 and 960. Made from 7075 T6 aluminium, this 51T pulley has been lightened through strategically positioned holes and thanks to additional holes along the side walls of the teeth it will help prevent the build of dirt which can damage the rear belt.
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Shepherd Ireland has continued their winning streak at the 4th round of the Irish Championship held two weekends ago. Velox V8 driver Ian Campbell and Velox V10 driver Chris Steel both again had a perfect weekend taking TQ, winning the A-final and setting the best laptime. At the beginning of the 1/8th final Campbell battled with Mugen driver Clive Connolly, who started from 2nd on the grid. Both held the top two positions until Campbell pitted for tyres at the half-way mark and dropped to 3rd. Connolly retired a few laps later which moved Campbell up to second, before passing Eoin Doran 13 laps before the end to take the win.
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Used by their team drivers at last week’s World Championships in Houston, Texas Capricorn RC have announced that their new LAB-E01-BC .12 engine, that we wrote about back in June, is available from next week. It sports a lightened, balanced and tuned crankshaft as well as a hand tuned piston and liner set. Other updates include the use of a ceramic main bearing and of course updated cooling head graphics.
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