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October 13, 2015

Leo Arnold teams up with Xray

Xray have announced the signing of French National Champion Leo Arnold to their on-road team. Leo will be racing at national and international 1/8th and 1/10th scale events using Xray’s RX8, NT1 and T4 cars. Leo’s campaign will include attendances at the ENS, ETS and European Championships and 3-times French Cup winner and multiple ENS and ETS finalist has the following to day about the deal:

I’m very motivated to join Xray for the upcoming season. The support that the factory and the team can give me is the best way to obtain better result. Xray is the most professional RC factory in the world, with high quality product and constant development, so it’s with big intention that I join the team. I really want to thank the Xray team and the Hudy family for this nice opportunity.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 13, 2015

Olly Jefferies joins Hot Race Tyres

Top international on-road racer Olly Jefferies has signed to race with Hot Race Tyres for the 2016 season. Olly will be using the tyres during his upcoming 1/12th scale campaign and he will also be helping to with 1/10th touring car tyre development.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

October 13, 2015

Nitro-West-Masters Rd6 – Report

The final round and end of season finale of the Nitro-West-Masters was held at the Dormagen track with a record entry of 76 drivers. The weekend started out on Saturday with free practice and a driver’s party with BBQ, beer and loads of nitro talk followed by some serious racing and the battles for the titles on Sunday in perfect Indian Summer weather conditions.

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October 13, 2015

Adam Drake triples at JBRL Nitro Series Rd7

Round seven of the 2015 JBRL Nitro Series was held at Dialed In R/C Raceway in Victorville, California this past weekend. Run in the usual range of Expert, Intermediate and Sportsman classes the event again attracted a good amount of internationally experienced racers as well as local talent and in 1/8th Expert Buggy it was Adam Drake (Mugen) who took the win from Kyle Johnson (Kyosho) and Team Associated’s own Richard Saxton.

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October 13, 2015

Thurston & Beal take BRCA 1/10th IC track titles

Last weekend’s BRCA 1/10th IC On-Road race meeting was the last one of this year’s UK National Championship for Nitro Touring Car and Sports GT. The race was held at the very technical Cotswold track in good weather conditions on Saturday and with around 45 drivers in attendance. Sunday morning was very foggy and the track was damp but quickly dried up when the sun came out. In the premier 200mm Touring class Alex Thurston was in a good position to grab the overall title and coming in second after the qualifiers things looked very promising. In the main final he suffered from a flame out but at the end Alex was able to snatch the overall Championship. In the Sports GT class Glyn Beal took the TQ and the win and with it the 2015 National Championship title.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 12, 2015

Lorenzo Crolla doubles at RCmag Cup

The French RCmag Cup was held in Viglain in four different nitro and electric classes. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy category Xray’s Lorenzo Crolla and TLR driver Jerome Sartel battled for the TQ with the better end for Lorenzo who would take the overall TQ from Jerome while Valentin Lopez (Radiosistemi) rounding out the top 3. Lorenzo would then also dominate the semifinals, taking the pole position for the main final with Jerome Sartel in second and Romain Valter on the 3 spot. In the main Lorenzo again never looked back to take the overall win some 20 seconds clear of Jerome Sartel while Valentin Lopes completed the top 3 another two laps down. Elsewhere in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Jerome who came out successful after TQing all four rounds of qualifying and winning the first three out of four A-final legs.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 12, 2015

Waters & Poulter score at SWS opener

The 2015/16 Silverstone Indoor Winter Series kicked off this past weekend with a full entry of 100 drivers in 2WD and 20 in 4WD, on their new high grip carpet. In the main 2WD class Dave Poulter took the TQ from Nathan Waters and new Schumacher team driver Chris Evison. In the final Nathan won, from Dave 2nd, and Jack Neal worked his way up to 3rd from 9th on the grid (all Schumacher). Elsewhere in the 4WD class Dave Poulter (Schumacher) completed a great day by winning the all-wheel category.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

October 12, 2015

Offroad rookie Coelho is 4WD World Champion

Bruno Coelho is the new 1:10 4WD Offroad World Champion, the Xray driver securing the sport’s top prize in Japan with a convincing victory in the second A-Main of the Yatabe Arena hosted event. Coming into his first electric offroad Worlds as a relative unknown in the class, the Portuguese Touring Car star would become the second Rookie to triumph at the first Worlds to be run on astro turf, Spencer Rivkin winning the 2WD title at 16th running of the bi-annual IFMAR event earlier in the week. A driver who burst onto the international scene when one year ago to the week he finished runner-up at the Touring Car Worlds in the USA, today’s result was made even sweeter by the fact that he would beat his onroad rival & reigning Touring Car champion Naoto Matsukura to the title. With Coelho forced to sit out A3, Matsukura would take the win ahead of David Ronnefalk to finish 2nd overall with Ronnefalk completing the podium.

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