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June 16, 2018

Mallee Madness & Victorian Drivers Series Rd3 – Report

The 3rd round of the Victorian Drivers series saw just under 150 entries travel to the Mildura club in regional Australia, 6 hours drive from Melbourne. The club members had built a brand new technical track for the event with a new clay surface. Unfortunately very heavy rain on the Friday of the event left the track very heavy for practice Saturday morning, resulting in the track becoming very bumpy and challenging racer’s driving and setup skills. The track dried out and grooved up through the event with competitors starting on pin tyres and ending up on supersoft bars or webs. With slick timekeeping and organisation, the event ran to schedule despite the wet start. In 4WD Modified the qualifying order was the same as 2WD Modified, the two junior racers pushing Ray hard. In the finals Ray again took the win with his son Lachlan finishing 2nd, a very unlucky Isergin just missing the podium after collecting a marshall’s foot in A3. Healy again let his experience show in the finals, finishing 3rd after tough qualifiers.

Continue reading the report here

June 14, 2018

Wilck & Husman wins at Swedish Cup

The Swedish Cup was recently held at the Vaxjo track with some of the country’s fastest racers in attendance. In the Electric Touring class it was Serpent’s Viktor Wilck with the TQ from Xray’s Markus Hellquist who also TQ’d a qualifying round, however he had to settle for P2 on the grid behind Viktor. After the A-mains the order would remain the same with Viktor taking the day’s win from Markus as HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk, in one of his few on-road outings, had to settle for 3rd overall.

Continue reading the report here

June 14, 2018

Tim Kunz double TQs & wins German buggy regional

Round 4 of the German 1/10th Off-road central division regionals was held on a permanent astroturf track in Hütschenhausen recently. Xray’s Tim Kunz took the double TQ and win in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes, leaving behind Team C’s Marcus Lübke and Andre Welker in 2WD while Marcus Lübke (Team C) and Florian Welsch (Xray) rounded out the top 3 result in the 4WD class.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 13, 2018

Lostallo 24h race – Report

The iconic Lostallo track in Switzerland recently saw the running of a 24h race for 1/10th electric on-road cars. The rules allowed to use both electric touring and pan cars alongside with the two both making use of 17.5T motors with the faster pan car LM class utilising a 3.00 gear ratio whereas the 4WD touring cars were run using a 4.00 gear ratio. To make up for the slight weight and speed disadvantage the touring cars allowed for quicker battery changes, in under a minute, while the average LM pitstop was at 80 seconds. This made for a level playing field in the dry track conditions. Ultimately it was Team Sitterdorf with the win after 3945 laps, taking profit of fewer pit stops, a slower speed and perfect preparation with 2017 winners, Team Insurbia, coming in 2nd only 17 laps or six minutes behind.

Thanks to Andrea Brianza for the report.

June 13, 2018

Lefebvre crowned Thornhill Spring Series 2WD winner

Over the past four months Thornhill Racing Circuit held their 6-race 2018 Thornhill Jr Spring Series. Xray’s Ethan Lefebvre won four of the six rounds for the overall, eventually securing the title already after round 4 that he would finish on the 2nd place. Xray teammates, Chris Allison and Lance Myhre would end the series on the P2 and P3 overall for an Xray podium sweep.

View the championship top 10 results here

June 13, 2018

Pavlovsky & Kosmakov win at Cup of Russia Rd2

The second round of this year’s Cup of Russia was held in Moscow recently. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Alexander Pavlovsky brought hime the win from Ilya Plakhotnik and Mikhail Baldin. Over in 1/8th E-Buggy it was Alexander Kosmakov with the win from Mikhail Gofshtein 2nd and Alexandros Stefanescu 3rd.

View the E-Buggy podium here

June 13, 2018

LRP Masters Italy – Report

The 2018 LRP Masters Italy were recently held at the CAR Genova track in Pegli. The event attracted some of Italy’s fastest electric on-road racers and kicked off on Friday with free practice. Saturday saw more free practice followed by a re-seeding practice for the Touring and Formula classes while the Truck race was entirely held on Saturday, ending under the floodlights for that special atmosphere. The class was won by Marco Puleo, from Andrea Valerio and Simone Zanon in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Continue reading the report here

June 12, 2018

Kyle McBride takes win at Queens Cup

Melbourne in Australia played host to the Queens Cup last weekend, attracting some of the country’s fastest 1/8th off-road racers. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class it was Kyle McBride who dominated the proceedings, taking the TQ and a dominant win in the 45-minute A-main, some five laps in front of Max Ricca as Shane Kelly rounded out the top 3 results. Behind the three, Shane Smith and Gavin White would complete the top 5.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]