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Coelho extends ETS lead with Andernach win Posted: 12 May 2018 01:18 PM PDT Bruno Coelho has extended his points lead in the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Xray driver today becoming the first double winner of Season #11. With the fourth round marking the ETS’ return to Motodrom Andernach in German, rain forecast for Sunday led to the decision to condense the event to run over two days. Initially it looked like Coelho’s first time to the tight technical track was going go give his rivals the opportunity to reduce his lead as he struggled to find a set-up for the layout. Come qualifying however things changed with him TQ’ing the opening qualifying on Saturday but it was Q2 in the evening that ultimately decided the event. On a TQ run, in what would be the rocket round, Naoto Matsukura touched the curbing on the last lap which was enough for the Infinity driver to hand Coelho the TQ by 5/100th of a second. This all but decided the TQ, Matsukura starting today’s action by topping Q3 the time that was no match to the Q2 pace of the night before while Viktor Wilck claimed the final qualifier. In the opening final, Matsukura clearly had the quicker car but he couldn’t find a way pass until a late mistake by Coelho made him open the door. With both drivers making mistakes in A2 they finished as they started, meaning A3 wold decide it. Again Matsukura pressured the reigning champion who jumped the curbing in the centre chicane which was his queue to take the lead but both cars touched, with Wilck coming out the main benefactor and taking the A3 win. For Coelho luck was again on his side as his A2 win was the faster, giving him the overall win ahead of Matsukura while Marc Rheinard completed the podium ahead of Wilck. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here. |
Coelho extends ETS lead with Andernach win Posted: 12 May 2018 01:16 PM PDT Bruno Coelho has extended his points lead in the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Xray driver today becoming the first double winner of Season #11. With the fourth round marking the ETS’ return to Motodrom Andernach in German, rain forecast for Sunday led to the decision to condense the event to run over two days. Initially it looked like Coelho’s first time to the tight technical track was going go give his rivals the opportunity to reduce his lead as he struggled to find a set-up for the layout. Come qualifying however things changed with him TQ’ing the opening qualifying on Saturday but it was Q2 in the evening that ultimately decided the event. On a TQ run, in what would be the rocket round, Naoto Matsukura touched the curbing on the last lap which was enough for the Infinity driver to hand Coelho the TQ by 5/100th of a second. This all but decided the TQ, Matsukura starting today’s action by topping Q3 the time that was no match to the Q2 pace of the night before while Viktor Wilck claimed the final qualifier. In the opening final, Matsukura clearly had the quicker car but he couldn’t find a way pass until a late mistake by Coelho made him open the door. With both drivers making mistakes in A2 they finished as they started, meaning A3 wold decide it. Again Matsukura pressured the reigning champion who jumped the curbing in the centre chicane which was his queue to take the lead but both cars touched, with Wilck coming out the main benefactor and taking the A3 win. For Coelho luck was again on his side as his A2 win was the faster, giving him the overall win ahead of Matsukura while Marc Rheinard completed the podium ahead of Wilck. ‘This was a super hard race. Not all the time do you need to be unlucky, in Madrid I was dominating but then in the finals I was unlucky, today I was lucky’, was how Coelho summed up his 12th ETS career win. With the result doubling his lead over Rheinard in the standings to 8-points, he continued, ‘for sure this is a very important race for the championship. I had never been here before while others had plenty of experience of the track from the past. It a very difficult track so I’m very pleased to get the win’. On the A3 decider, he said, ‘we tried something and the car was very good at the beginning but then it started to push. I made a mistake at the chicane and he crashed me I got a body tuck and he crashed me again. I am not saying he crashed me on purpose but the luck was on my side’. Matching his previous best result on his first outing of the current ETS season, Matsukura said, ‘he made a mistake at the chicane and I think I can go but I collected him’. Finishing out last season also with a second behind Coelho in Ettlingen, the former World Champion said, ‘There was a little mistake from me at the start but I could easy catch him so we showed our car is good. If I could have got stopped and not touch Bruno I had the chance to win’. With an ETS victory still eluding him, he concluded, ‘I’m happy with the car this weekend and we are ready for the next ETS’. Summing up his podium finish, Rheinard said, ‘this was the maximum I could do after A2. It is just shit we didn’t win, Naoto was quicker than Bruno, luck was on his side.’ After the disappointment of the first asphalt round in Madrid last month, he said the podium was ‘a definite improvement’ and while ‘for sure Naoto is fast I was not as quick’. The German concluded, ‘I know we still have work to do for the next round’. Taking a popular A3 win, Wilck said, ‘with the lower temperature the car works again. I could keep a little with Naoto & Bruno’. Benefiting from their contact, the 3rd place qualifier continued, ‘It is just a shame I spun in A1 & 2 because it could easily have been a podium this weekend’. His best result for quite some time, the Serpent driver said, ‘for sure this was a step forward and hopefully we can continue it in 2-weeks time at the Reedy Race, they are similar tracks’. Behind Wilck, Freddy Südhoff took his Awesomatix to 5th followed by the Yokomo of Ronald Volker, the World Champion having a difficult weekend. With Formula decided in A2, going the way of Jan Ratheisky, the Xray driver would make it a double as he won A3 of Pro Stock to claim the overall win. Behind, A1 winner Mustafa Alp would make it an Xray 1-2 with Max Mächler completing the podium. In the 40+ Masters class, Top Qualifier Thomas Oehler finally managed to stay in front to win A3 from Christian Drießle and Beni Stutz which is how the would line up for the podium. View complete event results here. View the event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin It |
Coelho resists another Matsukura challenge to take A2 Posted: 12 May 2018 11:11 AM PDT Bruno Coelho resisted another challenge from Naoto Matsukura to take a tone to tone win in the second of the A-Mains at ETS Andernach. Having let Matsukura through in A1 after touching the curbing, Coelho would have a moment in A2 also, but just beforehand Matsukura had dropped back with a moment of his own. Right on the bumper of the Xray, the Infinity driver looked to make a late inside pass in the chicane but he went over the curb and rolled allowing Coelho to take it by close to 2-seconds. As he did in the first encounter, Marc Rheinard would make up one position to complete the Top 3, this time ahead of Alexander Hagberg. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here. |
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Matsukura gets by Coelho to take A1 Posted: 12 May 2018 09:25 AM PDT Naoto Matsukura has taken the opening A-Main at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Germany. The Infinity driver would pressure Top Qualifier Bruno Coelho through the race eventually able to take an advantage of an error with one & a half minutes remaining. Looking to have the quicker car, Matsukura would himself survive at early mistake when he ran wide on the straight with his car making clearly audible contact with the steel boards. Dropping him back a little, the Japanese driver quickly got back with Coelho and when the leader touched the curbing and opened the door he went through for the win. Behind Marc Rheinard would get by Viktor Wilck to complete the Top 3 ahead of Freddy Sudhoff, with Wilck dropping back to fifth. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here. |
Coelho Top Qualifier at ETS as Wilck takes final qualifier Posted: 12 May 2018 07:27 AM PDT Bruno Coelho has claimed his 3rd consecutive TQ of the ETS season, the Xray driver securing pole position thanks to his two TQ runs yesterday at the Motodrom Andernach track in Germany. With Naoto Matsukura taking Q3 this morning, but the time no match for last night’s Q2 time, it was only the Japanese driver who had the possibility to deny Coelho the No.1 spot. With the track at its hottest and with only used tyres for Q4, the odds were stacked against Matsukura but a mistake on the first lap confirmed things. Now the attention was on how they would line up behind the reigning series champion. Marc Rheinard took up the pace but with 4-laps to go had a mistake, briefly moving Alexander Hagberg to the top, but Wilck would finish strong to take the round from Freddy Sudhoff and Hagberg. The result meant Matsukura held onto his P2 starting position while Wilck moved ahead of Rheinard to secure third with Sudhoff completing the top half of the grid. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here. |
Matsukura leads Infinity 1-2 in Q3 at ETS Andernach Posted: 12 May 2018 04:30 AM PDT Naoto Matsukura led an Infinity 1-2 in the third & penultimate round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series this morning in Andernach, Germany. Having missed out on the TQ last night in Q2 by 5/100ths of a second after touching the curbing on the last lap, Matsukura would claim his first ever TQ run of the ETS ahead of team-mate Marc Rheinard. Despite being 3.6-seconds faster than Rheinard, the time was slower than that of Coelho’s Q2 time. While Coelho would make a mistake on the opening lap and opted to pull in after the next lap, it is looking increasingly likely the championship leader is on target for the overall TQ. With temperatures rising the track is expected to be slower for the final round with the only challenger Matsukura having now used all 3 of his allocated sets of tyres. Behind Matsukura and Rheinard, Viktor Wilck backed up his Q2 result by again completing the Top 3 while Lucas Urbain put in a strong drive from the second fastest heat to post the fourth fastest time. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here. |
Matsukura loses TQ to Coelho on final lap Posted: 11 May 2018 12:13 PM PDT Naoto Matsukura lost out on a TQ run in the second round of qualifying at the ETS in Germany this evening, a moment on the curbing on the last lap enough to allow Bruno Coelho secure his second TQ of the day by 5/100ths of a second. With the benefit of the cooler evening conditions, the Q2 TQ could prove crucial to Coelho’s title hopes with tomorrow’s remaining two qualifiers set to take place in warmer, therefore slower, track conditions. After crashing out of Q1, Viktor Wilck would complete the Top 3 albeit 2.5-seconds off the TQ pace while top seed Marc Rheinard struggled to match his Q1 form posting a P6 for the round. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here. |
Reds Racing Power & Efficiency Pack engine/pipe sets Posted: 11 May 2018 09:49 AM PDT Reds Racing from Italy have introduced their new Power Pack and Efficiency Pack engine and exhaust combo packages for 1/8th off-road vehicles. Both come in a Mario Rossi signed box and the Power Pack includes the WRX Corsa Lunga engine together the all-new 2104 X-One Smooth pipe while the Efficiency Pack includes the WR5 or WR5 High Efficiency engine as well as the 2104 X-One Smooth pipe. Also part of the packages are three venturi inserts. Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com] |
Posted: 11 May 2018 09:09 AM PDT Bruno Coelho has taken the opening round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Germany. Only 6th quickest in practice, the Xray driver topped the first of weather condensed timetable’s four qualifiers from top seed Marc Rheinard. Coelho came back from an early moment, when he lost the rear of his car, to TQ by 3/10ths from Rheinard. Less than 2/10ths further back, Naoto Matsukura completed the Top 3 while Infinity team-mate Akio Sobue improved on his practice form to post the fourth fastest time. Having seeded 3rd quickest, Viktor Wilck would crash and break on his third lap while Ronald Volker opted to pull off after a losing almost 4-seconds due to ‘a bobble’ on his opening lap. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here. |
Leadfinger Racing B64D A2 Tactic body shell Posted: 11 May 2018 08:33 AM PDT Leadfinger Racing brings an all-new look to the popular Team Associated 1/10 scale B64D wheeler with the introduction of the A2 Tactic body shell. The new lid is influenced by racer request from the previous 1/8 designs, giving it an aggressive and sleek style. To bring back a little old school, the windshield has been laid down to remove the steep rake, while at the same time keeping a modern cab forward feel. The combo gives the B64D a super slick and fast look right up front. The top of the cab has an added roof vent for superior cooling that pushes air flow over the centre diff and motor, further enhancing it’s one of a kind style. To help keep everything planted, the rear of the cab has the traditional swoop along with added down force ailerons on the top of the side pods. The body comes in clear with window masks and stickers provided and also including two LFR Tactic wings. Source: Leadfinger Racing [leadfingerrc.com] |
RCLabHK roll out Project 4X Evo CF options Posted: 11 May 2018 07:37 AM PDT Newly founded brand RCLabHK from Hong Kong have introduced a handful of carbon fibre option parts for the Serpent Project 4X Evo touring car in the form of a bulkhead stiffener and a 3mm battery mount. The bulkhead stiffeners are used to brace the left and right bulkhead in order to improve performance on high-grip carpet and asphalt surfaces as they reinforce the bulkhead area for less overall chassis flex which comes in handy especially in high traction conditions. The 2mm stiffeners come separately and including hardware such as M3x20mm screws and 4x3mm or 4x2mm bushings. Also new are the front and rear battery mounts machined from 3mm carbon fibre. Using the parts will improve battery fixing and thus overall reliability. Source: RCLabHK [facebook.com] |
EOS 17/18 Championship Winning Cars Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:06 AM PDT Michal Orlowski (2WD)Schumacher Cougar KC – LRP X22 6.5T – LRP FlowX – LRP Lcg 3500mAh – Aerox body – Sanwa transmitter – Sanwa Servo Michal Orlowski (4WD)Schumacher CAT L1 – LRP X22 5.5T – LRP Flow X – LRP 3500mAh Ultra LCG – Aerox body – Sanwa transmitter – Sanwa Servo FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin It |
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Orlowski is double EOS Champion Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:01 AM PDT Michal Orlowski has pulled off the championship double at the Euro Offroad Series season finale in Germany. Have retained his 2WD title yesterday at Arena33, the Schumacher driver won the opening two A-Mains of 4WD to take both the first ever outdoor EOS encounter and the overall title. Only the third driver in the championship’s history to do the double, the Polish driver would definitely earn the victory. With himself and Top Qualifier Joern Neumann pulling clear of the field in A2, they would battle hard with the team-mates clearly given free reign to battle irrespective of the title being at stake for Orlowski. A mistake by Neumann which would collect Orlowski’s car would see the later go to the front with the German putting him under immense pressure over the final 2 laps with them drag racing one another to the line. With a 0.092 margin it was Orlowski who took it which together with his much easier A1 win took the vital overall win that was his only option in terms of taking the title from defending champion Bruno Coelho. Both drivers would end the season on the same points but Orlowski’s win gave him the tiebreaker – 3 wins over Coelho’s 2. ‘I have been volunteer marshalling all weekend, this is the karma’, was Orlowski’s reaction to his second title in 2 days. The 16-year-old continued, ‘I cant thank enough everyone around me. Trish, Jurgen, my dad, they have been with me every EOS race and I wouldn’t be were I am now without them’. With today’s race victory his 4th in 4WD, he said, ‘I had a good night sleep for today. Qualifying went well. 2nd is good for me and then myself and Joern had a great fight. I was lucky in the first one but in the second one we broke away. Joern was pushing hard after his mistake and I could feel the pressure for sure’. With Neumann only joining the team from the second round of the EOS and getting his first win for more than 3-years in 2WD yesterday, long time Schumacher driver Orlowski said, ‘Joern was very quick here and I’m looking forward to the competition. We showed here our car is really good and I think there will be even more competition next season between us’. Not even making the podium on the championship’s first astro turf event, Coelho believes they lacked preparation for the race. He said, ‘for sure I’m not happy with the result but I can’t ask for more. I couldn’t practice for the race because of my schedule. I had no time other than 2-days before in Vienna. I also missed one race because of the TITC’. Having been the first driver ever to hold an ETS, ENS and EOS title all at the same time, he continued, ‘this one is already done so we need to focus for next season. One year ago and even the first race of the season our car was so much quicker but the other brands caught us so we need to improve. Qualifying third, he said, ‘In qualifying I was lucky, the traction was different but in the finals I need to force a lot to follow them and which I can’t do without mistakes’. Winner of A3 to make it a 1-2 for Schumacher at Arena33, Neumann summed up the result as, ‘Pretty good, a 1-2 for Schumacher in the race and 1-3 in the championship’. Having had mistakes in A1 & 2, both of which cost him the lead, he said, ‘In the last main I drove at only 85% be be safe and make no mistakes’. Summing up what was effectively on a part season as he didn’t attend Round 1 and then only got hold of his new Schumacher cars in January, he said, ‘this season I didn’t do the first race and then have all new cars I need time to tune them to my liking and we got there this weekend. You can see the improvements each race. At the Hudy Arena I got a podium, then in Wels I got second and here I got the TQ and second. I think next season both me and Michal will be very strong’. Completing the podium and another driver to join a new manufacturer in 2018, Martin Wollanka claimed Sworkz’ first ever EOS podium at only his second attempt. Debuting for the team at previous round in Austria, where he finished 5th, the Austrian was strong throughout the weekend in Andernach. Opening with a 3rd in A1 he would back that up with second in A2. Fourth in A3, he would tie on points with Team Associated’s Neil Cragg who took 2nd in A3 but with his A1 time 6/10th quicker he denied the 2WD Vice Champion his first EOS podium finish in 4WD. ‘Super happy’ with his podium finish, Wollanka, who is currently running a prototype buggy said he is looking forward to a full season of EOS with the production car’. View complete event results here. View the event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin It |
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Orlowski takes important A1 win Posted: 22 Apr 2018 05:46 AM PDT Michal Orlowski has taken an important A1 victory at the EOS finale in Germany, the Schumacher driver going to the front on the opening lap after a mistake by team-mate & Top Qualifier Joern Neumann. Chased by title rival Bruno Coelho, the Pole then got a further break when the defending champion traction rolled allowing Orlowski to take control of the race and even survive a small mid race roll. With Neumann and Coelho’s incidents dropping them down the field it would be 6th place starter Martin Wollanka who would finish second. The Austrian would see off a strong challenge from Neil Cragg who completed the top 3 ahead of AE team-mate Joona Haatanen, Neumann and Martin. Needing to take the overall win today to do the title double, Orlowski said, ‘Joern got a good start and had a small gap on me I and I had a small gap on Bruno but Joern then had a small error and the pipe caught his car and the marshal didn’t see him. I knew Bruno was behind me so I kept cool but then he made a few mistakes and dropped back so I could make a small gap. I had a small roll before the double but apart from that I could drive my own race and that’s what I will try & do again (in A2)’. ‘That was very good’, was how a pleased looking Wollanka summed up his second place. The Sworkz team driver continued, ‘I got places because some guys ahead made mistakes and then I could over take Lee.’ Only his second EOS outing with his new team and preferring to do his talking on the track, he concluded, ‘the car is perfect’. Cragg described his A1 as ‘pretty good that’. He continued, ‘I had a bobble while running second which let Wollanka through. He drove a good race to be fair. I put him under a lot of pressure but he drove well and I couldn’t get by’. Openly admitting 4WD is not his discipline, he concluded, ‘we’re not fast enough to win but maybe we can get a sneaky podium today’. View complete event results here. View the event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin It |
Schumacher 1-2 as Neumann TQs EOS Finale Posted: 22 Apr 2018 04:03 AM PDT Schumacher will start 1-2 on the grid for the Euro Offroad Series championship deciding 4WD A-Main, with Joern Neumann continuing his reign at the EOS’ first ever outdoor event at Arena33. Top Qualifier and winner of 2WD, the German claimed the 4WD pole with his second TQ run in the fourth & final qualifier while, having TQ’d Q3, title contender Michal Orlowski will start 2nd. The only other driver with a TQ run but having a fraught Q4, defending champion Bruno Coelho will line his Xray up third ahead of the Associated of Neil Cragg and Yokomo of Lee Martin. Pulling off an impressive save at the front double in Q4, Neumann said, ‘other than my moment at the double it was a clean run but there is something in the jump since they added the new carpet. I think something might be broken underneath’. With the race organisers now working on the jump ahead of the finals, he continued, ‘The Schumacher car is super fast and Michal & me are 1-2’. Asked about tyres, given that it was a factor in 2WD, the former champion replied, ‘tyres are no problem. I ran third run tyres in qualifying and have one set with one run and one brand new set. The car is very good on tyres’. Asked about the finals and the fact his team-mate is vying for the final win he said, ‘I will just drive and if he is faster he (Orlowski) will overtake’. Commenting on his qualifying, Orlowski said, ‘It was good to get the TQ in the third one, the feeling of the car was much better. The last one I was very unlucky in the double. I was feeling very good but the car just kicked and I had no chance to save it’. He continued, ‘many guys are crashing there. The up ramp is not flat and its causing the cars to go sideways in the air’. Suffering a rip yesterday, a second piece of EOS carpet was placed over the damaged area to allowing racing continue and since then some drivers are having issues. Asked about the title, the 2WD Champion said, ‘I need a win. Bruno is starting behind me and I hope he will play fair like I did with Neil (Cragg) in 2WD. Joern is fast but I am too. I got the fastest lap in the last one’. Pulling up in the final qualifier, Coelho said, ‘that was a disaster qualifying run. I had so many mistakes’. He continued, ‘Orlowski made a mistake in front of me and I was trying to see where his car was going to end up but ended up crashing and it was game over for me’ – Landing wide he would get stuck behind the track piping. Asked about the championship and challenge from Orlowski he said, ‘for sure he will force for the win and he has Neumann in front. I’m not sure if, like we do sometimes, they will play like a team like (Ronald) Volker did last weekend. We will see’. The reference to Volker is from the ETS in Madrid when the World Champion opened for team-mate Christopher Krapp in A3 to try and help him take the overall win. ‘A pretty outstanding result’, was how Cragg described his P4 starting position. The British driver continued, ‘the car has been good and the driver has been good. There is no pressure on me that’s on the other guys going for the championship. Hopefully I pick up the pieces and sneak a podium out of it’. Posting Top 3 runs in Q1 & 2, on the last two qualifiers he said, ‘I had good pace in the third one but had too may crashes so I got 8th or something. The pace was decent in the last one and I didn’t crash which got me 4th which was not too bad at all’. View complete event results here. View the event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin It |
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