The Eifel-Ring near the famous Nürburgring recently played host to the final round of the Xray Racing Series Germany. Nearly 40 entries for the five classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock, FWD, Formula and 1/12th scale were received and in the Touring Modified class it was Tim Wahl (Xray) who took the winning honours from Florian Fink (Xray) in second and Clemens Neubert (Yokomo) third.
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The MRCC Track in Medan, North Sumatera played host to the opening round of the Indonesia National Buggy Championship. A total of 49 drivers attended the event whose schedule saw six rounds of 10-minute qualifying with the four best rounds to count. Due to heavy rain after the second qualifier the race director decided to cut short the qualifying and make it four rounds with the best three to count. In the end Rama Tribudiman (Team Associated/O.S.) took the TQ honours but in the 60-minute main final he suffered several flameouts and only finished in 11th place while Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) took the win from Adrian Wicaksono (HB Racing/Reds Raicng) and Stanley W (HB Racing/O.S.) in second and third respectively.
The final round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was hosted by the Hässleholms MK club on a tight and pretty grippy track. In the Modified Touring class Markus Hellquist would take the overall TQ in front of local driver Daniel Carlsson with Fabian Vernersson rounding off the top 3. After the finals the top 3 positions would remain the same as Markus took two wins for the overall with Daniel and Fabian coming in second and third respectively.
The opening round of the French Buggy regionals was held at the Noeux Les Mines track over the weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Jean Pierrick Sartel (Xray) took the TQ after the three rounds of qualifying and he would also take the win in the main from tone to tone in front of TLR driver Theo Lemaire and Kyosho’s Cedric Nickell.
Xray have introduced new +4.5mm offset aluminium wheel hex adapters for the XB4 buggy. Made from 7075-T6 aluminium and coming black anodised the 12mm clamping design adapter offers milled sections for a reduced weight while 4.5mm offset allows to adjust the overall width of the car to suit different offset rims.
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The Serpent Challenge was held at The Track in Gaitherburg, Maryland, home of the 2017 ROAR 1/10th Electric Off-Road Nationals. Griffin Hanna would take the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes and he would also bring home the win in 2WD while suffering several issues with backmarkers in 4WD, eventually finishing in 3rd place behind the winner, Enzo Albertoni and runner-up, Jay Drakeford.
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Bruno Coelho has successfully defended his Euro Offroad Series title with a masterful 4WD win this evening at the penultimate round of the championship in Germany. Starting the weekend by claiming his first ever 2WD win of the EOS, when the action switched over to 4WD at Arena33, the reigning champion was in a league of his own. Top Qualifier, taking all four rounds of qualifying, the Xray driver would cruise to a completely unchallenged A1 win. The second encounter would see the World Champion kept on his toes by Yokomo’s Lee Martin getting to within a second of the leader but with three laps to go a mistake from the former champion left Coelho to cruise to the win to notch up his third victory of the season and lock down the Season #6 title. With Coelho able to pack is bags early, his absence from the A3 grid would allow Martin to take the win to finish second overall with the podium being completed by star of the weekend Joona Haatanen.
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The French Indoor National Championship recently concluded and it was Jeremy Limoges who walked away with the title in the Formula and Touring Modified classes. Jean-Michel Varinard would take the vice championship in the Formula class from Willy Voisangrin in third while Alexandre Laurent and Eric Loge would complete the Touring Modified podium.
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