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November 13, 2014

Nathan Waters wins at Silverstone Winter Series Rd2

The second round of the Silverstone Winter Series attracted a full entry in the main 2WD buggy class, on a high grip indoor astroturf track. Nathan Waters drove superbly to take the TQ and a convincing win with his Schumacher Cougar. Team mate Simon Moss set the fastest single laps by far but a couple of errors left him with too much ground to make up and he had to settle for 2nd. Associated driver Greg Williams completed the podium. The smaller 4WD class was won by new Schumacher driver Dave Burton.

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November 13, 2014

Ehrhardt wins at Eastern division LRP-HPI-Challenge

A round of the East German division LRP-HPI-Challenge was held at full time carpet indoor track in Leipzig in five different classes including the fastest Stock class of 10.5T Blinky. This class saw many fast guys attending such as Fabian Ehrhardt, Tony Streit and 1/8th scale drivers Michael Kammer and Merlin Depta. Fabian Ehrhardt took the TQ honours after the qualifiers from former ETS Stock class winner Tony Streit and Karsten Hartinger with all three being separated only by a few tenth of a second.

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November 13, 2014

Greiner takes Q5, TQ to be decided in final qualifier

Dominic Greiner has TQ’d the penultimate qualifier at the 200mm World Championships in Thailand. The result puts the Serpent driver in contention to become the overall Top Qualifier with him set to go up against Alexander Hagberg in the final round, the Xray driver ending the fifth round second fastest. With Mugen’s Takehiro Terauchi completing the Top 3, the top heat provided plenty of late drama. On a TQ round, Q3 & 4 pace setter Teemu Leino ran out of fuel with 45-seconds still to run. With Dario Balestri taking over at the top of the timing screen he too would once again have run time issues, his Caparicorn coming to a stop on the final lap. This left Mark Green on target to top the round but he would crash out saying afterwards the last lap off was simply down to ‘an old man driving like shit’.

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November 13, 2014

Michael Hanulec wins at the Halloween Classic

The annual Halloween Classic was held at The Gate and in the largest class, 17.5 Touring Car, Kyle Klingforth TQ’d and lead into the A-main. During the main, Kyle Klingforth and Mike Hanulec broke out into the lead while the pack behind was lead by Manny Flores in 3rd. Kyle lead until lap 26 when he closed on the trailing pack and attempted to put racers a lap down. He was taken out by the “failnado” happening at the back of the pack. Hanulec was promoted into the lead and he drove the heads up race, avoid the “failnado” while managing the gap back to second. At the end Hanulec came in 1st fooled by Brain Winn and Ronal Goetter.

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November 13, 2014

2014 Spektrum Off-Road Championships – Report

In its 5th year, the Spektrum Off-Road Championships hosted by Trackside Hobbies & Raceway has become one of the “must attend” events of the Fall. Located just outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Trackside has recently changed ownership and is striving to become one of the most complete facilities in the nation. In the 12 rounds of qualifying among his three classes of 2WD Mod, 4WD Mod and 2WD Short Course, Ryan Cavalieri set the fastest time in 10 of them to take the Top Qualifying position in all three classes. Also taking TQs were Cole Tollard in 2WD Modified Truck, Nick Achterkirch in 2WD Stock Buggy, Sarahann Ernst in 4WD 13.5 Buggy, Scotty Ernst in 2WD Stock Short Course, and Larry Wright in Novice.

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November 13, 2014

Xray Work.Shop Italy – Announcement

Italian Xray factory team driver Francesco Martini, Alessio Menicucci and Mattia Collina will hold the Xray Work.Shop Italy at the RCLandia track in Scandino. The event takes place on the 15th on November and cover in-depth technical and setup support for all Xray T4’15 drivers. The free workshop starts at 10 a.m. and all you have to do to participate is to e-mail Francesco Martini with your interest to take part at f.martini@mac.com.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 13, 2014

Leino opens Day 2 of qualifying with TQ run

Having ended the first day of qualifying at the 200mm World Championships yesterday with a TQ run in Q3, Teemo Leino picked up where he left off by becoming the first & so far only driver to run 22 laps of the Huge RC Circuit to top the fourth round. The HB driver set the pace over the Xray of Nicholas Lee with Serpent’s Tadahiko Sahashi and Dominic Greiner completing the Top 4. For overnight TQ holder Alexander Hagberg a traction roll would break his Xray while he was on top of the timing screens in his heat. After a disastrous day yesterday defending champion Meen Vejrak final managed a Top 10 run taking his KM to the 9th fastest time but the same couldn’t be said for Dario Balestri, the Capricorn driver again unable to go the full 5-minutes, again running out of fuel.

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November 12, 2014

Leino takes 3rd qualifier at 200mm Worlds

After two difficult opening qualifiers, top seed Teemu Leino managed to put together a clean 5-minutes to TQ the third round of qualifying at the 200mm World Championships in Thailand. Top Qualifier of the previous Worlds, which also took place in the city of Bangkok, the HB driver topped the round ahead of the Serpent’s of Dominic Greiner and the Sahashi brother’s Yuya and Tadahiko. Fastest in the opening two rounds, Xray’s Alexander Hagberg would end the day with a fourth for the round with the evening conditions not suiting his NT1.

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