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November 28, 2017

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd2 – Report

The challenging Eifel-Ring, the permanent indoor track of MAC Adenau located next to the famous Nurburgring, played host to round 2 of the Xray Racing Series Germany recently. It was already the third XRS appearance at the 111-metre indoor track during 2017. After some drivers already took the opportunity to practice on Friday, Saturday was full of action with nearly all drivers present and enjoying eleven hours of practice to fine-tune their car’s set-ups during thousands of laps. Touring Car Stock with hand-out XRS 13.5T motors and mandatory Hudy C1 tyres was the most popular class of the event. The fight for the TQ has been tight and exciting. Finally, Majuran Tharmalingam took first spot with just a 0.4-second advantage over Melvin Diekmann in his best qualification heat over five minutes. René Puepke in his first attempt was another 0.2 seconds down to catch third spot in the grid. Tom Kraegefski brought placed 4th.

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November 28, 2017

Nico Schmid wins 2WD class at MRTO Challenge

Last weekend’s MRTO Challenge in Altnau, Switzerland saw Nico Schmid walking away with the win in the 2WD Buggy class. Nico would lead an Xray 1-2-3 as his brother, Florian Schmid and Philip Jeisy rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 28, 2017

Keitune Carrera Cup R/C Tour – Announcement

Keitune Speedway, home of the 2013 IFMAR 1/8th On-road Worlds, have announced the Keitune Carrera R/C Tour Championship for 2018. The 10-race series will kick off on the weekend of the 25th of February and concludes on the 25th of November and it is run 1/8th Nitro, 1/10th Nitro Touring, 1/8th Nitro GT, 1/5th Touring and 1/5th Formula classes. To make the event attractive to foreign drivers, Keitune will offer an exclusive free-off-charge airport and hotel pick-up service for all oversea pilots to make for hassle-free and enjoyable racing experience. The service includes pick-up from Tokyo’s Haneda or Chiba’s Narita airport, reservation service for the Goi Grand Hotel, daily hotel-track-hotel transport, as well as optional services such as an english translator and more. More information, all dates and details can be found here or by emailing Keitune Speedway owner Kijima (info@keitune.co.jp).

November 28, 2017

Markus Hellquist takes Modified win at SSIC Rd2

The second round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Alvesta and was hosted by the Wäxjö MS club last weekend. The track was very grippy and the qualifying result was based on the best single result out of three rounds in total. In the Touring Modified class Markus Hellquist (Xray/ORCA) won all qualifying rounds as Fabian Vernersson (Serpent/Hobbywing) was the best of the rest to claim P2 on the the A-main grid. Daniel Carlsson (Team Associated/Hobbywing) would round out the top 3 results. Going into the finals, Fabian was close to overtaking Markus after a mistake in A1, but Markus managed to hold onto the win in the opening main. The following A2 and A3 were a slightly smoother affair and Hellquist would manage to secure the overall win. Fabian made sure to grab the runner-up with two 2nd places while Daniel had a decent run in A3, but it was not enough to challenge Fabian, and he had to settle for 3rd overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 28, 2017

Jason Nugroho TQs & wins Solo Year End Race

The HTS indoor track in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, played host to the Solo Year End Race last weekend. A total of 53 drivers from Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Jogjakarta, Medan, Batam, Kendari, Makasar, Pontianak, Balikpapan as well as local drivers attended the event. Because the track is a semi-indoor facility the rainy weather on Sunday had little to no effect on the racing action and after the six qualifying rounds it was Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) who took the TQ honours and also the win from John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) 2nd and Adrian Sutanto (Kyosho/O.S.) 3rd.

View the final results here

November 28, 2017

Micha Widmaier successful at MRTO Challenge

The MRTO Challenge was held in Switzerland last weekend and in the 4WD Buggy class it was SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier with the TQ and win. Xray’s Nico Schmid came in 2nd from Xray driver Luca Rau 3rd.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

November 27, 2017

Elias Johansson wins 4WD class at WBC Rd1

The opening round of the Swedish WBC Cup was hosted by the Karlskrona MRK club and held at the HB/Orion Race Track in Kallinge. In the 4WD Buggy class Elias Johansson lined up 1st on the grid in front of Jesper Rasmussen, Oskar Levin, and Alexander Landen, who rounded out the top 4 after the qualifiers. In A1 and A2 it was pretty much smooth sailing for Team Associated driver Elias Johansson and after taking the day’s win early he would sit out the final A-main to make way for the other pilots who fought for the remaining podium spots. Alexander Landen (Xray) had a DNF in A1 and a 2nd place finish in A2 and so he needed a good result to finish on the podium. Therefore he started off a little bit on the safe side for the first few laps, by that Oskar and Jesper were able to get a gap of a couple of laps, and they had a battle of their own. When things had settled in and Alexander had a little bit of a gap to the 4th placed car he started to reel in on the leaders and close the gap. When he was just within striking distance, the leaders came together and Alexander could go through to take the lead and he was able to maintain it until the end and by that securing the 2nd spot overall in front of Team Associated’s Jesper Rasmussen.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 27, 2017

Xray Racing Series Poland R3 – Report

For round 3 the PLMS RC & Xray Racing Series Poland the participants traveled to the town of Ścinawka Średnia. The event was held in several electric on-road classes and the fastest category, Touring Modified, was a dominated by Jakub Różycki, who was chased by Martin Korinek, Jarosław Siwek and Jakub Michalski. After some entertaining A-mains it was Jakub Różycki with the day’s win from Jarek Siwek and Jakub Michalski.

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