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July 2, 2016

HNMC Grand Prix – Announcement

The Herts Nitro Model Club have announced the HNMC Grand Prix for the weekend of the 29th of August. The open tyre event is run to BRCA rules and it will be held on the club’s popular multi-surface track, running 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy as well as E-Buggy classes. The event starts off on Saturday with controlled practice, Sunday is reserved for five rounds of qualifying with christmas tree mains held on Monday. Sign-up for the event is available here here.

July 1, 2016

Carsten Keller teams up with Team Associated

German Team Associated distributors LRP have announced the signing of Carsten Keller to run the RC8B3 and RC8B3e at all major races across Germany and Europe. The former SWorkz driver and national frontrunner will also use LRP, AKA, JConcepts and Sanwa equipment, with the campaign for his new chassis sponsors starting at the forthcoming EFRA 1/8th Nitro Buggy European Championship A in Spain. Carsten has the following to say about the deal:

I want to thank Jürgen Lautenbach, Andy Krämer and the whole LRP team as well as Team Associated for making it possible for me to run a full “Blue package” from now on. I am very proud of all the faith LRP is having in me and I am sure their efforts will pay off. I will do my best to represent all brands as good as possible.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

June 30, 2016

Mustafa Alp doubles at Xray TORC Rd3

Round three of the Xray TORC series was held at Burmod Bursa last weekend. The weekend started off with very hot weather but ended – yet again – in a rain drama. In the Nitro Touring class, Mustafa Alp took round TQs in Q1 and Q2 but suffered strange car problems in the following two rounds. After an overnight car rebuild Alp was back on track in Q5, taking the final qualifier and with it the overall TQ in front of Halit, who came out fastest in Q3 and Q4.

Continue reading the report here

June 30, 2016

Thrasyvoulou wins at Cyprus International Buggy race

Last weekend the Cyprus International 1/8 Nitro Buggy Race was held in Nicosia with drivers from Cyprus, Greece and Israel in attendance. The weather was extremely hot and the new track layout with high jumps and a lot of bumps made for challenging racing conditions. In the A-main Andreas Thrasyvoulou (Xray) brought home the win from Rafail Panayi (Xray) and Marios Christodoulou (Mugen).

View the final results here

June 30, 2016

Jason Conley successful at 2016 Byron Challenge

The 2016 Byron Challenge recently wrapped up at Leisure Hours Raceway with some fantastic racing among drivers from across the eastern half of the United States. While the forecast was for heavy rain on Sunday, the conditions were high temperatures and sunny skies throughout the weekend. In 1/8th Open 4WD, Xray teammates Eric Jones and Jason Conley battled all weekend for the TQ starting position with Joseph Wright (Serpent) right on their heels. With Jason and Eric both TQ’ing two of the four qualifying rounds, Eric’s better tiebreaker gave him P1 for the start of the main event.

Continue reading the report here

June 30, 2016

Michal Abrahamek wins at Laszlo Timar memorial race

The Laszlo Timar memorial race was recently held at the Morac Graz track in Austria with about 80 racers from the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia in attendance. The race format saw independent races on Saturday and Sunday with the combination of both would make up the final result. Xray’s Michal Abrahamek won the Saturday portion and he would take the TQ on Sunday but due to heavy rain making it impossible to drive the main final, the results were taken from the qualifiers, handing Michal his third title in a row after winning the event in 2015 and 2014. Gergö Lehner (Shepherd) and Sagi Tamas (Serpent) would round out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 29, 2016

Kukla & Novotny win rained out Czech Nats Rd2

The second round of the Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Dolni Bukovsko track. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class, Xray’s Kaja Novotny took the win in the opening qualifier but technical issues for Kaja in Q2 and Q3 made way for David Kukla (Xray) who left Jiri Mara (Serpent) and Max Gotzl (Xray) behind in second and third.

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June 29, 2016

2016 Winter Champs title for Aaron Lee

The recent 2016 Winter Champs in Australia saw Aaron Lee walking away with the triple of TQ, fastest lap and new track record as well as the win in the competitive A-main event. The victory is even more impressive as this was the first outing for his new chassis sponsors after having only received the kits on the Monday before the race.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]