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December 14, 2024

Ronnefalk takes Q2 at SIGP

Xray’s David Ronnefalk has kicked off Day 2 of qualifying at the SIGP in China by taking the second round of Nitro Buggy. A much cooler morning in Xiamen, a clean run would see the Swede top the times by 1.3-seconds from a much improved Davide Ongaro while Q1 pace setter Matti Politi completed the Top 3, both Italians having mistakes. While having the fastest buggy on the track in Q2, it was another error filed run from Bruno Coelho, three costly mistakes over the 7-minutes leaving him with a P4. Backing up his Top 5 in yesterday’s opening qualifier, Joseph Quagraine again took his Mayako to the 5th fastest time ahead of the WIRC of Gabriel Astorino.

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December 13, 2024

Xray X1 ’25 1:10 Formula 1

Xray has presented its latest 1:10 Formula chassis, the X1’25. The car is based on an all-new one-piece chassis design that Xray claim gives more consistent handling in all conditions and improved tweak resistance. A narrower chassis shape reduces chassis drag during cornering. The Rear POD concept on top of chassis makes for less drag and improved tweak resistance while adjustable POD angle fine tuning is controlled by set screw at the rear of chassis. New rear carbon side spring brace aligns with new POD geometry. The latest X1 also gets an all-new spring-free centre shock absorber with 1-hole piston provides exceptional bump handling, low maintenance, and helps lower CG. Other features of the car include a new wing mounting system, new adjustable wing angle, redesigned lower arms with more material around the holes for improved durability in serious crashes and a new battery mounting system.

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December 10, 2024

Xray announces 1:10 Offroad progam with Martin

Xray has announced that the multiple EFRA European Champion Lee Martin has joined their factory team to represent the brand in 1:10 offroad. The very experienced British race who spent the last 2-years with Schumacher in 1:10, will have a program with hte Slovakian brand that includes BRCA Masters, MKGP & EOS, EFRA Euros and BRCA Nationals. Competing on his new signing the Multiple British National Champion, who will continue with Agama in 1:8 Offroad, said, ‘I am very pleased to be joining Xray for the foreseeable future. The quality of these luxury products and Xray’s constant pursuit for racing perfection is inspiring and hugely motivating. I can’t wait to get started.’

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 9, 2024

Schimmel & LeMieux win at U.S. Carpet Offroad C/ships

Recent TLR departee Brennan Schimmel and Xray’s Chase LeMieux where the Modified winners at the U.S. Carpet Offroad Championships held in Cleveland over the weekend. A week after the same venue hosted the 44th running of the U.S. Indoor Champs, which is the world’s longest running RC race, it was the turn of Scotty Ernst to call some 1:10 offroad racing action. In qualifying it was Schimmel, with a car he borrowed for the event, who took the 2WD TQ ahead of Aydin Horne having topped 2 of the 3 rounds. Fastest in Q1 Brandon Foote would qualify third. In the final the World Championship finalist would wrap up the overall victory with wins in A1 & 2. Qualifying down in 6th, LeMieux would win A3 to secure the runner-up spot ahead of Davey Batta. While Schimmel would take Q1 in 4WD Buggy, LeMieux took the next to secure the overall TQ. Just as it looked like he was going to walk away with it after his A1 win, a series of misfortunes would knock LeMieux to the back of the pack in the A2 final. It would all come down to A3 for the overall win. LeMieux would show exactly why he was the TQ as he would have a super clean run and fend off the hard charging Schimmel and Batta and that was how they would like up on the podium.

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December 8, 2024

Coelho adds FEMCA title to CV

Bruno Coelho has added a FEMCA title to his racing CV, the multiple World and European Champion now official the Champion of Asia in Electric Touring Car. Securing the overall TQ at the event hosted at the GDC track in Foshan, China, the Xray driver continued his dominant form into the finals. Cruising to the win in A1 ahead of former World Champion Naoto Matsukura, he sealed the deal in A2 with another text book race this time ahead of team-mate Shin Sawada. A3 would then decide which side Matsukura and Sawada would stand next to Coelho on the events impressive podium presentation, the entire race weekend taking RC events to a very high level in terms of presentation. Leading away the field in the closing race, Matsukura would see off a determined challenge from his fellow Japanese driver even surviving heavy contact with the boards to win A3 and claim the runner-up spot, the same result he achieved on his only other previous FEMCA ISTC Championship appearance. With racing on carpet somewhat an alien experience for Sawada, he completed the podium. Qualifying fourth, Japanese Offroad Champion Kouki Kato would finish in that position ahead of the Awesomatix of Maxim Laverychev who went one better this year than he achieved on his first visit to the GDC track last year.

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December 8, 2024

Coelho cruises to A1 win as Matsukura fends off Sawada

Bruno Coelho has cruised to the win in the opening A-Main at the FEMCA ISTC Championship in China with all the attention on the battle for second between Naoto Matsukura and Shin Sawada. Starting from the TQ, Coelho’s Xray quickly gapped the field with a few interesting spectators, namely Marc Rheinard, Jilles Groskamp & Atsushi Hara, looking on. With the track maintaining the higher traction driver’s enjoyed for the final qualifier, them all having had to deal with very low traction for the first run of today, second place qualifier Matsukura found his Infinity coming under the increasing attention of the Xray of Sawada. Seeing off the first challenge, Sawada dropping back after a few laps of running on his rear bumper, the ISTC Spec Class World Finalist came back for another go at the former World Champion but couldn’t find anywhere around the GDC track to make a move. Finishing 3-seconds back on the winner, Matsukura would have just 2/10ths on Sawada. Having a lonely race Kouki Kato would cross the finish a further 1.8-seconds back.

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December 8, 2024

Coelho Top Qualifier at FEMCA Championship

Bruno Coelho is the Top Qualifier at this year’s FEMCA ISTC Championship, the Xray driver picking up where he left off yesterday to top the third round of qualifying this morning in Foshan, China. Faced with low traction conditions for the 3rd of the 5 scheduled qualifier, this would prove to be Coelho’s slowest TQ run so far with the World Champion unable to match the two 25-lap runs he posted in yesterday’s opening two qualifiers around the GDC Indoor track. Again it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura who presented the biggest challenge, the gap however at the end of the 5-minutes still significant at 3.3-seconds this time round. After a slow opening lap, Shin Sawada would recover to complete the Top 3 times, the Xray driver benefiting from his fellow countryman Kouki Kato rolling his Infinity on the curbing coming onto the main straight on lap 16 which cost him over 2.5 seconds. Behind Kato, the Awesomatix of Rocket Zhang led the home challenge, the well known Chinese driver rounding out the Top 5 ahead of the similar car of Maxim Laverychev.

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December 7, 2024

Coelho holds overnight FEMCA TQ in China

Bruno Coelho holds the overnight TQ at the FEMCA ISTC Championship in China, the Xray driver topping the opening two rounds of qualifying today at the GDC Indoor track in Foshan. Having topped seeding, the World Champion would take the first of the 5 scheduled qualifiers ahead of Naoto Matsukura and it looked it was going to be a similar result in Q2 until the Japanese driver’s Infinity got stopped suddenly in its tracks by the foot of a marshal. While Matsukura would eventually continued to claim a P4 run, it was his team-mate Koki Kato and Xray’s Shin Sawada who would benefit to end the round with the 2nd & 3rd fastest times respectively. Overall however Matsukura still holds P2 going into tomorrow morning’s final 3-rounds of qualifying despite ending the day on 6-points together with Kato & Sawada.

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