The German Electric outdoor touring car Nationals were held last weekend at the Weser-Ring in Hann. Persistent rain destroyed the event for some national top drivers but the event was run regardless and in the Modified class, 16 year old Chrissi Krapp took TQ with a brilliant last heat, lining up ahead of Vice World Champion Ronald Völker with Steven Weiss 3rd. Winning the first two A-mains with his Team Orion powered Kyosho Stallion Shin edition, Chrissi once more demonstrated the form that gave him 8th place overall during this summer’s European Championships. Yokomo team driver Ronald Völker took the runner up spot with Xray driver Steven Weiss taking the final podium spot in 3rd.

The sport-class saw a great battle between Alexander Stocker and Daniel Wohlgemuth. In the end, it was Stocker who took the German National title followed by Daniel Wohlgemuth in 2nd and Oliver Näthe 3rd. The fastest man over the whole weekend, Thomas Mirke, was the unluckiest driver at the Nats. The wet-rules saw him start in the F-main, where he still was setting the best lap and overall-times of the weekend.

German nationals modified:
1. Krapp Christopher
2. Völker Ronald
3. Weiss Steven
4. Südhoff Freddy
5. Bernklau Florian
6. Fleischmann Dominik
7. Sieber Daniel
8. Leinburger Steffen
9. Brück Stefan
10.Schönrock Pascal

German nationals Sport:
1. Stocker Alexander
2. Wohlgemuth Daniel
3. Näthe Oliver
4. Sakaguchi Dai
5. Baumkötter Malte
6. Botzenhart Florian
7. Speck Sascha
8. Bucher Fabian
9. Hennig Bastian
10.Spiering Michael

Thanks to Uwe Rheinard for the report.

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Shepherd have announced that European Electric touring car driver Jilles Groskamp will use Shepherd Micro Racing cars for nitro racing, racing both classes, 1/10th scale and 1/8th scale. With his experience as a professional driver he will help the German company to improve their existing products and developing new products. Jilles had the following to say:

After looking to many teams and many people, Shepherd stood out as a small team which works really hard to improve things. They are still some kind of a “newcomer” in the nitro scene but the Velox V8 is already established all over the world. I could already test it and I was really impressed. Probably the V10 project will be even more fun for myself as I feel better with a 1/10 touring car. With all the fast improvements they can realize I can test a lot of different things and get ready for the big races. I’m really looking forward to work together with them and I hope my feedback helps in creating great products.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

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