July 27, 2020

Martin Bayer crowned Austrian E-Buggy Champion

The single-round Austrian 1/8th Electric Championship was hosted by the CMBF Süd Ost club in Salsach, Austria this past weekend, attracting nearly 60 entries. Jürgen Trieb, Martin Bayer and Micha Widmaier would battle for the overall TQ with the better end for Jürgen who won two of the four qualifying rounds while Martin and Micha shared a TQ each. The triple 10-minute A-main saw Martin taking A1 from Max Götzl in 2nd and Hupo Hönigl in 3rd and also A2 would go to Xray’s Martin Bayer who thus took the overall championship early while Micha Widmaier (SWorkz) and Max Götzl (Xray) came in 2nd and 3rd in A2. A3 would then decide over the remaining podium spots with Micha cementing his overall runner-up position with a win in the final A-main as Martin Bayer and Max Götzl came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Ultimately and behind Martin and Micha it was Max Götzl with the final podium spot from Hupo Hönigl in 4th and Marcel Trieb in 5th.

Image: Xray [teamxray.com]


July 24, 2020

Worley & Harding win at Psycho Nitro Blast

Last weekend’s 2020 Psycho Nitro Blast was held in the city of White Pine in Tennessee, attracting 346 drivers and 744 entries. In Sportsman Nitro Truggy to was Mason Worley with the overall TQ and he also brought home the win in the 30-minute A-main event some 1.3 seconds in front of Brayden Billington. Jordan Jennings came in 3rd overall and in front of Travis Melton and D.J. Gannon, who completed the top 5 result.

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July 23, 2020

StickIt1 Stock Series Rd5 – Report

PDX Underground of Portland, Oregon hosted round 5 of the StickIt1 Stock Series this week in 13.5T, 17.5T and 21.5T Stock classes. In the 13.5T Wheeler class it was Daniel Jeppesen with the win after coming out on top in three of the four rounds of racing. Casey Hanel came in 2nd overall from Sean Pham in 3rd, the latter winning a single round.

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July 23, 2020

MC Best Series Rd7 & Rd8 – Report

Round 7 and 8 of the Swiss MC Best Series was held in Sitterdorf last weekend in perfect weather conditions. The event saw the running of 1/10th and 1/8th IC Track classes with round 7, being held on Saturday, being won by Ales Hajdekr who lead the 1/8th scale class from Ruedi Scherer and Beat Heiniger. Nick Zünd came in 4th overall.

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July 23, 2020

Park Ki-Jeong wins at AC Raceway Championship

The AC Raceway in Pusan, South Korea hosted their Championship race last weekend. In the 13.5T Touring Super Stock class it was Park Ki-Jeong (Xray) with the win from Awesomatix driver, Yu Chang-Sun. Park Sung-Kwang (Xray) rounded out the top 3 podium result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


July 23, 2020

Alain Sarafyan doubles at Turkish Off-road Nats Rd1

Round 1 of the Turkish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was hosted by the Lüleburgaz Yıldızlar RC track recently. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Alain Sarafyan who lead an Xray 1-2-3 with Can Soykal and Ömer Şahin coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Over in the E-Buggy class it was again Alain with the win as Bora Mumcu (TLR) and İlker Alarçin (Mugen) completed the top 3 result.

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July 23, 2020

Schumacher US GP 2020 – Announcement

RC Madness of Enfield, Connecticut will play host to the Schumacher US GP 2020 on August 15th and 16th. The event will see the running of 2WD and 4WD Modified and Stock classes as well as Open 2WD SCT and Stadium Truck racing with Schumacher spec tyres being mandatory for all classes. Signup and more details are available here.