A very brief update on the 2nd round of the Czech Nationals that was run last weekend by the RCACR. The race was won by Falcon powered Xray driver Lukas Zeman with his Xray team mate Petr Klatovsky in 2nd while 3rd place went to Jakub Musil racing for Mugen. Czech National Champion Martin Bayer had a difficult event finishing down the field in 9th.
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We reported on Monday that Marc Rheinard had won the Invitational class at this years Reedy Race in California, but the event also played host to a very competitive 19T Spec and Open Modified classe too. In the 19T spec class it was local Tamiya driver Corey Lewis that took the race TQ and in the finals obtained a 3rd in the first final before going on to win the next two finals in convincing fashion, which gave Corey the overall victory ahead of TJ Bradley in 2nd and Juan Aveytia in 3rd.
In the Open Modified class it was Kyle Skidmore that took the top qualifying spot and went on to win the first leg of the A-main only for, non finisher in race 1, Ryan Cavalieri to come through and take the 2nd leg win ahead of Kyle. Ryan brought his quick pace through into the 3rd leg, taking a 2nd position which was enough to take the overall win for the new Team Associated TC5 with Skidmore finishing in 2nd and Rod Canare in 3rd.
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A quick update on the 2nd round of the Hungarian 1/8th scale buggy Nationals that took place last weekend in Szolnok. The race was won by Ninja powered Mugen racer Pall Csaba while Kyosho racer Orsovai Dezso took 2nd place with the 3rd spot going to Szebelledi Laszlo racing a RB powered Xray XB8EC.
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Another report from Xray, this time from the 3rd round of the Danish Nationals held at a huge RC stadium just outside Copenhagen. The results from the semi finals saw Kyosho racer Thomas Mikkelsen take the top starting position ahead of Xray racer Peter Harder in 2nd, who when the race started made a bad start allowing Steffen Culmsee to come from behind to take the lead followed by Harder. After the pitstops Peter could regain the lead and, after an accident for Culmsee, could cruise home to the win ahead of Mikkelsen in 2nd with 3rd spot going to CEN racer Rune Gustavsen.
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Xray have a brief report on their site from the 2nd round of the Greek electric Nationals which was held last weekend on the Patras circuit. Harris Katikas, racing for Xray, completely dominated the World (open) class race by taking the TQ and the overall win ahead of team mates Nikolakopoulos and Agelakopoulos in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the National class it was a win for Karabelas with 2nd going to Flabouris while Balasis took 3rd.
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Last weekend saw the 2007 Reedy Touring Car Race held at Tamiya America’s soon to be closed track in California. Attracting a large amount of top international racers for the Invite class, the event features a qualifying & final race format in which the best six results from 8 rounds count and are used to determine the winner. After all the running it was German racer, and former World Champion, Marc Rheinard that could take the overall win, despite a slow first day that saw him down in 6th position meaning the Tamiya driver had to work hard on the Sunday to claim his second Reedy Race title in a row. British racer Craig Drescher, racing the all new Team Associated TC5, came home in 2nd place just ahead of his team mate Juho Levanen of Finland.
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The third round of the Italian 1/8th scale buggy Nationals took place last weekend in Genzone, near Milan. Held under great weather conditions, qualifying was headed by new Xray signing, and former Italian Champion, Alex Laffranchi ahead of 2nd placed team mate, and round 2 winner, Riccardo Perin with current National Champion Davide Tortorici in 3rd for Crono. After the Semi finals it was Laffranchi placed at the front of the grid for the main final, and he carried that form through to the final flag to take his first win for his new sponsors Xray, with 2nd place going to Tortorici while Iuri Gassi took 3rd spot for Mugen.
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Linus Thern has won both classes at this weekends Kyosho Masters race, the first of its kind to be held in Germany, run at the Rhein-Main club. The Swedish driver TQ’d both the buggy and truggy class racing his RB powered Kyosho and due to the Sunday being called off due to heavy rain the event was called on qualifying results. In the buggy class Linus took the win from 2nd placed Daniel Reckward with Thomas Passmann in 3rd while in the Truggy class it was again Linus, ahead of former World Champion, Yuichi Kanai from Japan in 2nd with Jimmy Wright in 3rd.
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