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November 8, 2019

Oliver Havranek takes double Czech Touring titles

The final round of Czech Electric On-road Nationals was held in Jedovnice recently. Pre-event favourite, Oliver Havranek was able to top qualify both the Touring Modified and Touring Stock classes and after some awesome battles with Matej Sulc in the Modified category, he would also bring home the wins in both classes. With these results Oliver was able to grab the back-to-back titles, leaving behind Matej Sulc and Karel Kratochvol (all Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the overall standing.

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November 8, 2019

2019/20 Essex Winter Series Rd2 – Report

The second round of the 2019/2020 Essex Winter Series took place this weekend at the popular indoor venue in the south-east of the UK. Elliott Harper, who had taken the TQ and overall win at the opening round of the series last month, set the initial pace in the Modified class as he topped Q1. However, he was pushed hard by Chris Grainger, who finished just four tenths of a second behind. Chris’s Team Associated team mate Matthew White took third in the round, a second and a half back on Chris, with Harley Eldridge and Kyle Branson rounding out the top five. The second round saw the top two positions unchanged, but Elliott managed to open up a two second gap this time. Harley moved her Yokomo into third place, with the Capricorns of Stefan Chodzynski and Kyle fourth and fifth. The third qualifier had Elliott as the first driver to break into the 22 lap bracket, securing pole position with his Xray. Again, Chris was second, with Kyle besting Stefan and Harley this time. Elliott made it a clean sweep of qualifying in Q4, finishing up ahead of Harley, Matthew, Kyle and Stefan.

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November 6, 2019

Xray Racing Series Australia – Announcement

Xray have announced the Xray Racing Series Australia Off-road will be held on the 1st of December at the Castle Hill off-road track. The race sees the running of 2WD Modified, 2WD 17.5T, 4WD Modified, 4WD 13.5T as well as 1/10th 4WD Truggy and Junior classes and more information can soon be found here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 6, 2019

Lex Fulgencio wins at Asphalt Wars Rd2

Round 2 of the Asphalt Wars series was held in San Jose, California last weekend. Lex Tyler was able to TQ and win Modified Touring over Kyle Colbert, Jeff Auxier and Aaron Lewis. Kyle showed a solid pace in Q1 and Q2 but with a couple mistakes, Lex beat his TQ earning an extra lap 26/5:10 to Colbert’s 25/5:01. In the main Lex took the lead from tone to tone leaving the rest of the field battling for 2nd and 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 6, 2019

Campeonato Cordobes Rd4 – Report

The AeroNorte Rosario track in Funes, Argentine played host to round 4 of the Campeonato Cordobes series last weekend. The event was held in several 1/8th off-road classes and in Buggy Pro it was Nicolas Bregante with the overall TQ and he would also come out on top in the 45-minute A-main, some five laps in front of runner-up, Martin Crivello. Federico Rinaudo came in 3rd to round out the top 3 results.

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November 6, 2019

Kyle Turner doubles at Harvest Classic

Empire RC Raceway of Brentwood, California held their annual Harvest Classic race last weekend, attracting over 100 entries for the multiple 1/8th off-road and single 4×4 SCT classes. In Expert Nitro Buggy it was Kyosho’s CJ Jelin with the overall TQ from Team Associated’s Gonzalo Cortez on the runner-up spot. In the 45-minute main there was some close battling in the first couple laps for the top spot between the top guys. When everything got more spread out Kyle Turner (Xray) and CJ Jelin had a good battle going back and forth once again for about ten to 15 minutes until CJ had a mechanical problem. Throughout the main Kyle had a pretty consistent run, mixed with some mistakes, but he still drove pretty well and ended up taking the win in the end as Gonzalo came in 2nd, some four laps down and Steve Noack (Kyosho) came in 3rd, another three laps behind.

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November 6, 2019

Venables & Brown win at EssexCarpetClash Rd2

Round two of EssexCarpetClash took place last weekend, with a good entry level of some very competitive drivers, 2WD being an oversubscribed class. 4WD saw Stephen Brown pick up where he left off from round 1, securing his pole position taking three of the four rounds of qualifying. Finals also went Brown’s way, by taking the first two leg wins, giving him the overall win for the day. It was then down to who would complete the podium and in which order. John Painter had looked fast all day and lined up 2nd of the grid with a chasing Lee Hedges on 3rd. After the 3-leg finals – and with Brown not participating in the 3rd – where tight close battles took place on track in all legs, the podium would conclude the same as the grid start with Stephen Brown on top followed by John Painter and Lee Hedges.

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November 5, 2019

Robert Sorjonen doubles at 2019 Fallout race

The 2019 Fallout RC Arenacross race was held in Ridgefield, Washington last weekend, attracting over 280 entries. In 1/10th 4WD Buggy it was Robert Sorjonen with the overall TQ, a tight win following a mishap in A1 and a tone-to-tone win in A2 for an early overall victory from 7th place qualifier, Roger Seim in 2nd and 3rd place qualifier, Dan Thomas in 3rd.

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