Xray have been in touch to invite racers to the series of the Xray Challenge races around the Europe. A full list of confirmed dates can be seen in the calendar below with more events to be added to the calendar throughout the year. Each race will have a separate and detailed leaflet published, so watch the Xray site for more details to come.
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This weekend (March 1-3) the Yokomo Euro Touring Series marks its 30th event traveling to the popular Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria for the first outdoor race of the 2012/13 season. Making its debut on the ETS calendar 12-months ago, the race produced one of the most popular wins of the season when Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp notched up his first victory in the World famous electric touring car championship.
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World Champion manufacturer KM Racing have announced the signing of 2-time World Champion Adrien Bertin to their team. The French driver and man behind the Orion engine program will not only race for KM in both 1/10 and 1/8 categories but will also be helping with the development of the H-K1 the upcoming K8—Killer Eight. Adrien had this to say:
I am really pleased to join the World champion brand KM Racing as at first Kenny and Hang are my friends for a long time and it was just a matter of time for us to work together. I know how hard it is to create a new brand and make it successful and when I got the opportunity to help them for the 1/8 on road project, it became evident for me to jump into this new adventure. My experience with the J-max project will help a lot to be quickly competitive! KM’s facility and power of development are just amazing so it will be for sure a great feeling to get ready for the coming World championship and fight for the victory again! With Fukuda and Meen, we will be 3 World champions to take part in this new project and all our team work will help to establish KM Racing as the major brand in the on road nitro market. I am excited to be back on racing and will be more than happy to support KM customers all over the World. See you at the track!
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
The BRCA held its 2013 Winter National at the fantastic Essex Winter Series venue in Essex. The format saw three rounds of qualifying with the top 32 drivers going through to a Reedy style Race of Champions. The remaining drivers contested a more familiar UK national format with round by round qualifying and three leg finals. After three rounds of qualifying it was the young Team Associated driver Zak Smith who took TQ honours and would carry the number 1 position into the Race of Champions. Nitro driver Kyle Branson who races electric during the winter months qualified second with Team Xray’s James Hart in third. After not having the fastest car in Qualifying, current BRCA national champion Olly Jefferies who qualified twelfth began his assault at the Winter National Championship in fine style by winning his first two Race of Champions races and was in a good position going into Sunday. EWS regular Tony Broad also had a good start with a first and a second in his two races.
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Team Torke have released a new Shorty LiPo pack for cars with limited space for the battery pack or for those racers that wish to play around with the weight balance of their car. The pack is a hard case 4400mAh 60C 7.4v 2S battery which sports the standard bullet connectors.
Source: Team Torke [team-torke.com]
Team Associated release this screw set for the RC12R5.2 1/12th scale kit. The set contains 65 lightweight aluminium screws in 11 sizes and coming blue anodized for that factory team look. Included are both metrical button head and flat head screws that help to scrub some weight off your R5.2 kit.
Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]
Shortly after their ‘2013’ line of new stick LiPo battery packs Vampire Racing also introduce a new saddle pack. Made from 70C 5400mAh cells the pack is ideal for all applications that demand a high performance split pack configuration such as 4WD buggies and SC trucks.
Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]
Xray Italy with cooperation with Sprint RC and Team La Gang invites all Xray electric on-road racers to visit the Xray Challenge Italy. The race will take place on the weekend of the 7th of April in the city of Scandiano. The meeting sees the running of a touring car modified, 13.5T ‘blinky’ and 1/12th scale class on handout tires for the touring cars and your own tire choice for the pan car class. As a little extra the TC stock class winner will receive a free ticket of the Xray Challenge Grand Final at the Xray factory. You can book in for the race here and find more information by hitting this link.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
