The second round of this season’s XRS PLMS was held recently with drivers from Poland and the Czech Republic in attendance. Racing was close and saw some very different winners this time, ensuring the fights for the overall titles are still wide open. In the Touring Modified class it was Jakub Rozycki with the overall win from Szymon Niebora in 2nd and Jakub Michalski in 3rd.
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The 2020 Grand Final of the Xray Racing Series will be held at the world famous Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia from the 29th to 31st of May 2020. Full details will be announced soon but participators can expect a world-class top drivers line up, racing action in many popular classes as well as a Saturday night party.
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The second round of the Midland Indoor Carpet Championship was held last weekend, attracting over 140 drivers to compete in three electric on-road classes. The premier Touring Modified class it was round one winner Elliott Harper (Xray) with the overall TQ and also the win in the single 5-minute A-main event, followed by Awesomatix driver and extremely happy Paul Pinkney finally getting his run of bad luck off his shoulders. Olly Jefferies (Schumacher) would once again make the podium in 3rd.
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The Deerdale club in the UK hosted a round of the their 1/8th Off-road Winter Series last weekend and it was Team Associated’s Neil Cragg who took the overall TQ in the pretty stacked out Nitro Buggy class. After a super close race in the main final Matt Lewis (Team Associated) and Neil would miss the top step of the podium to local veteran Graham Alsop (HB Racing) and they would finish 2nd and 3rd.
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The final round of the Chilean 1/8th Nitro GT Championship was held recently and when the dust had settled it was IGT8’s Tomas Ramirez who would be crowned the 2019 Champion. Behind him it was Alvaro Jara Jr. and Benjamin Ramirez who completed the all-IGT8 overall podium result.
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The final round of the Peruvian 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held in Lima, Peru recently. IGT8’s Fabrizio Martello took the overall TQ and also the win with his pre-production buggy from Xray’s Sergio Suarez in 2nd and Mugen’s Alejandro Nieto in 3rd. Mugen’s Ian Alencastre and Xray’s Marco Alvarez would complete the top 5 results.
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The second round of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia took a place last weekend at the Hudy Racing Arena with a recored entry of more than 200 sign-ups for the on-road and off-road classes. The event saw practice on Friday with triple qualifiers and finals on Saturday. In 2WD Mod Buggy and 4WD Mod Buggy it was Martin Bayer with the opening wins in Q1. Martin carried on the momentum to snatch the overall 2WD TQ later on, while Max Götzl upped his pace to take the overall TQ in 4WD. Max Götzl and Bartosz Zalewski would come in P2 and P3 in 2WD while Martin Bayer and Adam Izsay completed the 4WD top 3. In the Stadium Truck class it was also Max with the overall TQ followed by Michal Sekal and Rafal Ilendo.
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The second round of the 2019/20 ONE12 Series took place at the RC Landia indoor track in Scandiano, Italy this past weekend. The venue assured great racing conditions and the perfect setup for robust attendance in both GT12 and LMP Open Modified. The race was also enriched by the presence of several top drivers, who chose the Italian race as one of their preparation stages for the IFMAR 1/12th scale World Championships to be held in early January 2020 in the UK. In LMP Open Modified, Michal Orlowski delivered an impressive Grand Chelem taking TQ, the overall race win and the official lap record of RC Landia track with 10.738 seconds. During the morning qualifying, Michal displayed great consistency in all three runs ahead of Jörn Neumann who was the only other driver capable of scoring fast lap times below the 11-second barrier. Current ONE12 Series points standings leader, Alessio Mota came in 3rd. In the afternoon finals, Orlowski’s driving was flawless and with back to back 43-lap runs he was able to clinch the overall victory ahead of Mota and Marcello Galli.
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