August 15, 2017

Bowie Ginting wins East Touring Series Rd3

The third round of the East Touring Series was held at East RC Speedway in Jakarta, Indonesia. Sunny weather attracted a good amount of racers and it was Bowie Ginting who earned the TQ spot in the Touring Modified class in front of Christian Mamesah and Teddy Syach. At the end of the triple A-main finals the top 3 order would remain the same with Bowie snatching the overall after coming out on top in the first two A-mains as Christian and Teddy completed the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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August 14, 2017

RC Lemans Series Rd5 – Report

The fifth and penultimate round of the RC Lemans Series was held at the MRC Düren track this past weekend. Practice on Saturday was wet in the morning and evening and this meant the start of the qualifiers on Sunday was postponed by an hour to make sure the track was fully dried. With the sun coming out both the temperatures and traction became higher, pleasing the drivers. In the LMP1 Modified class title favourites Timo Schad and Tim Altmann – with two wins each – as well as Tobias Weist, who also may have a shot at the title, made the trip to Düren while in LMP2 Stock, title favourite Andy Dick, winner of the past three rounds, did not made the trip to round five.

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August 14, 2017

Lim & Zack win at Merdeka Challenge 2017

The annual Merdeka Challenge was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with about 80 entries from Singapore and Malaysia for the 1/8th and 1/10th scale nitro classes. In the premier 1/8th on-road category it was ARC driver Nelson Lee with the TQ, however after the final it was Xray’s Jade Lim with the win from Nelson Lee 2nd and Mugen racer Afat in 3rd.

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August 14, 2017

Active Hobby introduce new TA07 Pro option parts

Active Hobby Products have expanded their range of option parts for the Tamiya TA07 Pro touring car. First up is a new aluminium transversal chassis stiffener. The CNC-machined and blue or black anodised part connects the outer chassis rails and thus makes for an overall increased chassis stiffness. The part weighs in at a lightweight 8.5g and it is a direct fit.

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August 14, 2017

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd4 – Report

The MRG track in Genk played host for the penultimate round of the Belgian Championship this past weekend. The track is situated at a motorsport facility with an FIA karting track and an MX track and classes run were the usual Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula and Rookie categories. Most drivers were present on Saturday for practice, but due to the complete washout, running was very limited. As the track was still damp on Sunday morning, the racers expected the first qualifiers to be very tough.

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August 14, 2017

Colin Tong takes maiden Urban Touring Series win

Round 8 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held this past weekend at the city’s Urban Onroad Raceway. Colin Tong (Xray) gave his rivals notice of his intentions when he TQ’d all three rounds of qualifying to start the finals in the coveted pole position. Chee Lip Keong (Yokomo) qualified 2nd while Hasron Robana (Xray) started in 3rd. In the first leg of the A-main, a turn 1 incident unfortunately dropped Hasron to the back of the field, with Colin and Lip Keong immediately putting a gap on the rest of the field. Benefitting the most was Smith Kek (Xray) who moved to 3rd despite a 6th position start. Colin held on to his quick start to take the win by four seconds over Lip Keong in 2nd. Smith held on to 3rd. Before the second leg of the A-main could be started, the skies, that had been threatening rain throughout, finally opened up. A steady drizzle throughout the rest of the day meant that the race had to be called, with the final results based on the single leg run, handing Colin a maiden win at the UTS.

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August 13, 2017

Toni Gruber takes EFRA 1/10th 200mm title

The 2017 EFRA 1/10th IC Track European Championships were held this week in Mulhouse, France. Unseasonal wet weather on Thursday and Friday would have seen many events either struggle to get finished, or not take place at all. Fortunately a track at Mulhouse that dried relatively quickly and, more importantly, speedy and thoughtful intervention by Javier Garcia, the EFRA delegate at the event, including a smart decision to move two qualifying rounds to Wednesday when the conditions were perfect, ensured no racing was lost. Remarkable as Thursday was rained out until 16:30 and the time set aside on Friday for the lower finals was also lost to weather.

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August 11, 2017

Xray X10’18 200mm pan car – Coming soon

Xray have released a first teaser image of their forthcoming X10’18 200mm pan car kit. No details are available yet but we expecting them to surface right in time for the release.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]