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November 2, 2007

Chris Tosolini wins US Open Fuel Sedans

Chris Tosolini wins Open Fuel Sedan Nats

Last weekend saw the second annual US Open Fuel Sedan Championships held at the Kissimmee track in Florida. The race saw around 70 entries turn up for the 3 day event with 3 qualifying rounds run on Friday, 1 more that originally planned due to Saturday’s weather forecast which turned out be correct and rain caused the cancellation of the further 4 rounds on that day. On Sunday the rain was still there in the morning but it dried up and the finals could be run, including the 20 minute triple A-mains. Starting the each of the main finals from pole position was Xray racer Paul LeMiuex with 2nd and 3rd spot on the grid going to Kyosho racer Chris Tosolini and Serpent runner DJ Apolaro respectively. With two wins, in the first 2 finals, it was Chris Tosolini that came out on top taking the overall win in front of Xray racer Barry Baker in 2nd, scoring three 2nd places, and DJ Apolaro rounding out the podium in 3rd with two 3rd positions.

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November 1, 2007

Hoppe wins Hildesheim 1/12th German qualifier

Last weekend Team Kyosho 1:8 on road nitro driver, and 2006 Class 2 race winner, Lars Hoppe moved back into electric powered racing for the winter. The former Corally team driver and 2006 DHI-Cup winner was debuting his new 1:12th Corally in the first round of the qualification of the North German region in Hildesheim. It turned out to be a perfect weekend for the Corally team, with Lars going on to win the modified class while Jan Asmer took the win in the Stock class.

October 30, 2007

Nicolas Guillot wins 1/8th Coupe de France

Last weekend saw the Coupe de France for 1/8th scale run at the MRTE circuit near the town of Evry, close to Paris. Qualification saw recently crowned French National Champion Nicolas Guillot take the pole position for Mugen from Kyosho racer Stéphane Riccobono, with Adrien Siegfried in 3rd also for Kyosho. As with the Nationals, there are no direct qualifiers and all racers must take part in the Semi Finals to determine the final starting order and it was Stéphane Bouche that was quickest lining up first for the main final in front of Adrien Siegfried. In the main final it was a good start for Bouche and Siegfried who immediately took the lead however it was Bouche that was to have a coming together with another racer, knocking him out of the lead and down to 3rd behind Siegfried who took over the lead and Guillot who moved up into 2nd. Close to the end of the racer Siegfried also had some troubles which caused him to slow and allowed Guillot through into the lead and to take the win and Bouche up into 2nd, while Siegfried eventually finished 3rd.

Source: JP Racing [jpracing.com]

October 30, 2007

1/8 Off-road Texas State Championship

Xray are reporting on the recent 1/8 Off-road Texas State Championship race held at the Toys for Big Boys track in San Antonio. The event was open for both 1/8th scale buggy and truggy and going into the event it was Jason Branham that headed the series points in Expert 1/8 buggy and Jimmy Matsler in Expert Arena truck. Qualifying saw no surprises at the top with Branham and Matsler heading their respective classes going into the finals. The Expert Arena Truck main final saw no mercy from TQ Jimmy Matsler who had a couple of bobbles early but quickly regained form and took control to win the Final, and Texas State Championship title, while Xray team mates Joe Mireless and Wayne Mann finished in 2nd and 3rd. The Expert 1/8th buggy final saw a close battle early on between Xray driver Branham and Caster Racing’s Mike Battaile as well as area local Dave Mangelsdorf driving a Losi 8ight, the former having problems and dropping down the order. Eventually Branham could get his head down and pull out a small gap to take the win, and the State title, in front of Mangelsdorf in 2nd and Hunter Kinsey in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 30, 2007

Xceed Challenge Cup ’07 – Announcement

Xceed Challenge Cup ‘07 - Announcement

We have been contacted by the organisers of the Xceed Challenge Cup in the Netherlands to let all our EP Touring Car racing visitors in Europe know about this upcoming event. Held on the new indoor facility from the MACH club in Heemstede, near Amsterdam airport, the race takes place November 24th and 25th this year, and has already attracted a number of quality drivers from around Europe. Entry is currently open and closes on November the 5th so be sure to get your entry in straight away to avoid dissapointment.

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October 29, 2007

Steven Weiss wins Team Orion Cup

The 10th annual Team Orion Cup was run at the weekend in a large indoor venue in the town of Zillisheim, France. Some of the best racers in Europe were present at the event which saw TQ in the Expert class go to British Hot Bodies team driver Olly Jeffries just in front of European Championship TQ driver Steven Weiss from Germany racing for Xray, and top French driver Lucas Urbain in 3rd using the Losi JRXS-R. In the Amateur qualifying it was pole position for Corally racer Oliver Beining in front of team mate Gerrit Van Swijgenhoven in 2nd while 3rd spot went to HB driver Alain Sonval. The Expert final saw a win for Steven Weiss from Schumacher racer Alexandre Laurent in 2nd and Olly Jeffries in 3rd, while in the Amateur class the win went to poleman Oliver Beining with Gerrit Van Swijgenhoven in 2nd and Stéphane Roufosse in 3rd.

Image: Mr Clongwy [mrclongwy.aceboard.fr]

October 29, 2007

Surikarn C. & Paphon C. take FEMCA titles

Surikarn C. wins FEMCA buggy Champs

The 2007 FEMCA Championship for 1/8th off road buggy and truggy classes were run last weekend in Pattaya, Thailand and it saw a win for Surikarn C. in buggy and Paphon C. in truggy. The buggy class was TQ’d by Kyosho racer Panit ahead of Hwang Sun Young with another Kyosho while Hot Bodies racer Surikarn was 3rd, but after the semi finals it was Xray driver Meen V. that was on pole position with Surikarn in 2nd. And the race was battled out between the 2 racers with Surikarn eventually taking the win by 1 lap at the end of the 1 hour final with Meen V. in 2nd and HongNor racer Yeh Hsia Ching a further lap back in 3rd. In the truggy class it was TQ for CEN driver Paphon C. with Mugen driver Chai Kok Chin in 2nd and Alan Looi in 3rd, also for Mugen and it didn’t change much after the semi finals apart from Chai Kok Chin dropping down to 5th in the starting order. The 45 minute long final saw the win go to pole man Paphon C. by 2 laps in front of Alan Looi in 2nd and John Ho in 3rd, 1 lap further back.

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October 29, 2007

Renaud Savoya wins 1/8th Pre Worlds

After almost a week of muddy and super tricky conditions brought on by mid week rain, the Pre Worlds finals for 1/8th scale buggies were eventually run on a muddy track at the Farm 2 track in Charlotte, North Carolina. An extremely tricky qualifying saw Jammin racer Taylor James take the TQ spot from Kyosho pairing of Kelbey Roberts and Lance Norick with Billy Easton rounding out the top 4 with the Serpent protoype. After the Semi finals, in which the tricky conditions once more took their toll, it was Taylor James who would start from Pole position ahead of Mugen racer Daniel Vega from Spain and Mike Truhe racing for Losi in 3rd. The 1 hour final saw a good pace for Truhe, but 2 flameouts cancelled out any performance advantage he had and left him trailing Savoya who was leading. The Losi driver was able to catch the leader by the end, who was suffering from receiver battery problems, but it was not to be as Truhe had to stop just before the 1 hour was up due to mechanical problems although he still came home 2nd with Raul Peris for Kyosho in 3rd.

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