July 3, 2010

Rheinard is World Champion

Rheinard is World Champion

Marc Rheinard is the 2010 IFMAR Electric Touring Car World Champion successfully defending his title with another easy win in the  second A-Main.  Once again Jilles Groskamp was out of luck with Hayato Matsuzaki taking second over his Yokomo team-mate Yannic Pruemper in what was an incident filled race

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July 3, 2010

Rheinard cruises to easy Leg 1 victory

Rheinard cruises to easy Leg 1 victory

Marc Rheinard has moved one step closer to defending his World Championship title with an easy win in the first of the three A-Mains here in Germany. The Top Qualifier led from start to finish to head home his young Tamiya team-mate Elliot Harper with Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp completing the Top 3.

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July 3, 2010

Robert Pietsch on overnight TQ at 1/8 EC

Robert Pietsch on overnight TQ at 1/8 EC

Robert Pietsch has taken the provisional pole position after one of four heats at the 1/8 nitro on-road European Championship in Locorotondo, located between Bari and Brindisi in the south of Italia. The Mugen factory driver has pushed the new MRX5 to 27 laps in 7.01,675 minutes. The MRX5, which has been responsibly designed by Robert Pietsch himself, will hit the market at the end of July.

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July 2, 2010

Marc Rheinard is World Championship TQ

Marc Rheinard is World Championship TQ

Two time electric Touring Car World Champion Marc Rheinard will defend his title from pole position tomorrow here in Burgdorf, Germany, after securing overall TQ honours from Tamiya Racing Factory team-mate Jilles Groskamp. Going into the sixth & final round of qualifying this evening only Groskamp could deny the German the No.1 starting spot on the grid but the expected show-down never happened. On the opening lap the European Champion’s radio failed putting him out and leaving the Dutch ace clearly frustrated. The round was taken by Xray’s Alexander Hagberg who put in a blistering final run to record the only 25-lap run of the event.

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July 2, 2010

Robitronic Avid V2 tuning parts

Robitronic Avid V2 tuning parts

Robtironic have released some new tuning parts for their Avid V2 touring car include this range of springs. Available in 7 different hardness from super soft to super hard, each spring is colour coded for easy reference. Also new for the Avid is a full range of anti roll bar wires which range in thickness from 1.1mm all the way up to 1.9mm and they too are colour coded for easy reference.

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July 2, 2010

Wilck & Rheinard tie for TQ honours in Q4

Wilck & Rheinard tie for TQ honours in Q4

Tamiya Racing Factory team-mates Viktor Wilck and Marc Rheinard have set identical fastest times in the fourth round of qualifying for the 2010 World Championships. Recording 24 laps in 5:05.029, Wilck had the edge over the defending Champion but on the last lap caught a curb which flipped his TRF416, costing the Swede over a second. The time means the pair will each get the maximum 155 points.

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July 2, 2010

Rheinard tops 2nd Qualifier in Burgdorf

Rheinard tops 2nd Qualifier in Burgdorf

Defending champion Marc Rheinard has TQ’d the second qualifier here at the Electric Touring Car Worlds bettering the pace set by his Tamiya team-mate Jilles Groskamp in the opening round.  The German took the round from Xray’s Paul Lemieux with Groskamp running the third fastest time.

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July 1, 2010

Groskamp leads the way in Burgdorf at the end of Day 1

Groskamp leads the way in Burgdorf at the end of Day 1

European Touring Car Champion Jilles Groskamp has ended the opening day of the IFMAR World Championships in the top spot knocking early pace setter Ronald Volker off the top in the second controlled practice. With today’s timing based on a drivers three consecutive fastest laps, Groskamp also recorded the quickest time of 5 minutes narrowly missing out on 25 laps around the small technical track. The factory Tamiya team member said afterwards his Orion powered TRF416 was real easy to drive and he doesn’t have to push hard to get good times.

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