De röntgenstraal rapporteert over hun plaats van de eerste ronde van de Uitdaging van de Röntgenstraal die op vorig weekend bij het Park van het Ras Banwol dichtbij Seoel, Korea werd gehouden. Bij het kwalificeren voor de Proklasse met fouten was het PB SunYung Hwang die de hoogste het kwalificeren vlek van DongWoo Nam in tweede namen en SungGi in derde en na semi def. bleef lineup het zelfde voor de belangrijkste gebeurtenis. In def. was het DongWoo Nam, in slechts zijn 2de ras voor Röntgenstraal, die kon nemen wint van de poolmens Hwang die tweede beëindigde terwijl HyungKyu Yu de definitieve maatregel op het podium in derde trof.
Bron: Röntgenstraal [teamxray.com]
De definitieve race van de 1/12ste Nationale reeksen van 2008 werd in werking gesteld vorig weekend door de Auto Rennende Maatschappij van Chesterfield, die hun 25ste verjaardag als Nationale Gastheer dit jaar vierden. Slaagde de onlangs bekroonde Kampioen Andy Griffiths van Mod., die op 4de positie in 's nachts het kwalificeren zat, enkel erin om poolpositie voor def. in de definitieve ronde van Zondagen, met HB teampartner Mick Farrell te beveiligen opstellend in 2de positie. Andy slaagde om proper in alle drie def. weg te gaan erin, en ging een vrij comfortabele overwinning in elk ras nemen om hoogste vlek op de vergadering met een perfecte score te beveiligen, zijn winnen vijfde van 6 rondes.
Bron: Mirage [mirageracing.com]
Sommige kort nieuws van Canadese Winternationals dat onlangs in Rode Herten, Alberta, Canada werd gehouden. Gary van de het teambestuurder van Jammin de Gast nam eerste plaatstrophy en de hoogste bepalend woordtoekenning in de proklasse met fouten met team koppelt het eindigen van Rick McCrery tweede en Anthony Howarth in derde, allen die x1x-Cr Met fouten drijven aangedreven door Jammin .21 Motoren. Gary de Gast ging ook de ProTruggy toekenning van het klassen hoogste bepalende woord eisen en de a-Leiding wint het drijven van het prototype Jammin x2-CRT Truggy.
Bron: Jammin [jamminproducts.com]
LeMieux & Dumas nemen de titels van het V.S.- Tapijt 
Het weekend gegaan zag het beste op weg elektrische racers in de bijeenkomst van Amerika bij de Stad van de Hobby, Hobby Plex in Omaha, Nebraska voor de Ingezetenen van het Tapijt van het GEBRUL. The blue ribboned classes were the TC and 1/12th mod classes but there was many more classes supported at the this event in both scales. In Touring Mod, it was Xray racers Paul LeMieux and Barry Baker that were the men to beat throughout the event, qualifying 1 and 2 and then going on to take the top steps of the podium with Paul winning from Barry and Mike Dumas finishing in 3rd spot. In the 1/12th scale it was another great race for Mike Dumas, the Speed Merchant racer was top qualifier and managed to win 2 of the 3 A-mains to take the win in front of Paul Ciccarello in 2nd with Josh Cyrul rounding out the top 3.
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Marc Fisher wins 1/12th German Nats 
The 1:12 German Nationals were held last weekend in Oldendorf, Germany and it was top Team Corally driver Marc Fischer that TQ’d and won the Modified National title with his SP12X. After coming home 2nd in leg 1 he took the win in the 2nd A-final by 5 seconds and in the 3rd A-final by 7 seconds to take the title ahead of Markus Mobers and Steven Weiss. In the stock class is was another Team Corally driver Jan Asmer that won the National title, beating TQ man Andre Efler to 2nd with Mike Niemann claiming 3rd.
Source: Corally [corally.com]
Johannessen wins Norwegian Indoor Nationals
Xray have a report from the Norwegian Indoor National Championships that were run last weekend for 1/10th Mod & 19T Touring and 1/12th scale at a venue in Stevneplassen, Skien. Modified qualifying saw Xray driver Helge Johannessen that claimed the top spot with 3 straight wins in the heats to line up in the A-main in front of Adrian Berntsen and Rune Karlsen. Helge got a clean start in all three finals with Adrian behind but his Xray team mate hit a curb in all three finals giving him the gap needed to take the Championship ahead of Adrian with Kyosho racer Rune Karlsen in 3rd. The 19T class was won by another Xray driver Anders Theodorsen ahead of TQ Markus Alvestad, racing a Kyosho, who came home 2nd and Kjell Gunnar Guttormsen in 3rd with a Tamiya.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Belgian EP Touring car Nats Rd1 
The first round of the Belgian 1/10th scale EP on road Nationals was run last weekend indoor in Charleroi. The event had 38 drivers in two classes, EFRA and 19 turn, and they were presented with a very fast but also technical track to contend with. After a tough battle in the EFRA class, it was Olivier Bultynck with his Corally Phi who took the win in front of Xray driver Benoit Thomaes in 2nd, while the 3rd spot went to Demsey Jacob driving a Tamiya 416. In the 19 turn class, it was again a Corally driver that was the overall winner, with Urbain Swijsen placing in front of runners up Rico Claeys and Thomas Stockman.
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Juanito Hidalgo wins Spanish 200mm Rd1 
The Opening round of the Spanish 1/10th 200mm National Championships was run last weekend at the RC Club Santa Oliva in the east of Spain. The race was held in dry conditions and after qualifying it was Eduardo Escandon that took the pole position ahead of Josue Artiles in 2nd and Ramon Guash 3rd. The beginning of the final saw a good start for Martin Sevilla, who moved into the lead early on with pole man Escandon having some problems and dropping down the order. A steady beginning from Juanito Hidalgo saw him move up the order to take the lead from Sevilla around the 10 minute mark and then proceeded to pull out a lap lead by the end of the race, taking the win from Ramon Guash in 2nd with Jonnhy Pastor in 3rd, a further 2 laps back.
Source: RC Santa Oliva [rcsantaoliva.com]
