The Much More backed Euro Touring Series roars back into action after a near 2 month break following the successful running of round 3 in Warsaw, Poland. The Championship visits the famous Apeldoorn track in the Netherlands for round 4 on the 29th to 31st of May and with entry currently open, we have already attracted some of Europe’s top racers with Jilles Groskamp, Viktor Wilck, Steen Graversen, as well as round 3 winner Yannic Pruemper already placing their entry. For more information about the event and where it takes place go to the Series page on our site here.

Racers can enter round 4 of the ETS by going to rcracecontrol.com.

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Euro Touring Series – Round 4

Shepherd Micro Racing have announced that they have signed front running Dutch driver Rick Veenma to their team. Despite his short racing career the young racer has achieved a number of podium placings at the Dutch National Championships and has made the step over to Shepherd to help regularly challenge at the sharp end of the field. As team driver he will support the Benelux Shepherd drivers during races in close cooperation with Team Shepherd Benelux.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

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Rick Veenma joins Shepherd Micro Racing

This past weekend saw the 2nd round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Championship take place in Aigle, in the French part of Switzerland, which is a nice track but very dangerous due to very little run off. On Saturday the weather wasnt so good and they only managed 2 rounds of qualifying before it started to rain. It was Motonica driver Shasa Lackner that claimed the pole position, setting a new lap record, in front of Juerg Nydegger and Luca Martinello both driving Mugen, with the final direct qualifying position going to Marco Mueller with his Shepherd.

Following the Semi finals, the main race got underway and it was winner of the semi final Mattia Pesenti with his Motonica that was on a move, working his way up to 3rd spot behind Nydegger at the 4 minute mark and then managing to pass him after the second fuel stop. After about 5 laps in 2nd, Mattia was able to catch the leader Lackner and following a quicker tire stop was able to take the lead from where he would go on to win the race from Marco Mueller in 2nd and Shasa Lackner in 3rd.

Top 3 Final EXPERT:
1. Pesenti Mattia (Motonica – Novarossi – Cosmic)
2. Mueller Marco (Shepherd – Novarossi – UFRA)
3. Lackner Shasa (Motonica – Novarossi – Enneti)

Top 3 Final AMATEUR:
1. Henzi Michael (Mugen – Max – UFRA)
2. Sengstag Raoul (Mugen – Sirio – Enneti)
3. Pacor Ender (Motonica – ?? – UFRA)

Thanks to Mattia Pesenti for the report.

Mattia Pesenti wins Swiss 1/8th Nats Rd2

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This weekend saw the opening race of the 6 round Colorado State Pro Series. Team Losi driver Dustin Evans grabbed TQ in the final round of qualifying in Pro Buggy over team mate Matt Chambers. Dustin took advantage of the clear track ahead of him and went on to lead every lap of the 35 minute main event from Adrian Redding in 2nd, with Lars Johnson claiming 3rd. The Pro Truggy race had Losi Driver and TQ Lars Johnson swapping places with Team Associated driver Adrian Redding several times for the first 20 minutes, before Lars ended up getting the top spot and brought it home in first. Race 2 of the series travels to RAT Raceway in Denver, Colorado on May 30th.

Pro Buggy
1. Dustin Evans (Tq)- Losi/ GRP/ Nitrotane
2. Adrian Redding- AE/ Reedy/ Byrons
3. Lars Johnson- Losi/ Dynamite/ Blue Thunder

Pro Truggy
1. Lars Johnson (Tq)- Losi/ Dynamite/ Blue Thunder
2. Adrian Redding- AE/ Reedy/ Byrons
3. Josh Salz- Mugen/ OS/ Byrons

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Colorado State Pro Series Rd1