November 13, 2006

Juraj Hudy on the debut of the Xray T2007

Xray Column

Juraj Hudy, chief designer and owner of Xray model racing cars, has posted his 3rd column reporting on life heading up the Slovakian company. This column reports on the build up to the World debut for the new T2007 at the International Indoor Championship (IIC) race in the US, and also on his approach to that race both before, during and of course after.

The teams received their cars around 2 weeks before the IIC race, so the stress and tension was on the team drivers now! Still, I was anxiously waiting for first reports. The first feedback started to come in few days later and I was very happy to hear that everybody reported that the new car worked perfectly right away, and improved lap times were achieved.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 12, 2006

Danish Indoor Electric Touring Championship Rd2

Danish Indoor Round 2

Martin Lissau has written his report from the second round of the Danish National championships in which he finished 2nd. Martin has yet to take that top step of the podium with his new Xray T2007 having also taken 2nd place in the first round of the championship but we’re sure its only a matter of time before that happens.

The finals were not the best-driven finals in the world, but after some good battles and close racing (sometimes a bit too close) Jonas took first place. After Steen had some problems, I took the no. 2 spot and he took no. 3

Read Martin’s full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 11, 2006

Malyshko Dmitriy wins Russian off road Nationals

Xray XB8 of Malyshko Dmitriy

Slovakian manufacturer Xray have a report up online regarding there win in the Russian off road nationals. Russian racer Malyshko Dmitriy won the final round of the championship, held in Moscow, to take the overall win in the championship.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com] 

November 9, 2006

More on the Xray T2007 bearing problem

Xray bearing

Like we reported a while back, the Xray T2007 has a problem with the bearings not lasting the distance. This was originally thought to be the not enough lubrication applied by the bearing manufacturer, well the scientists over in Xray did some more research and found that:

The situation is in fact due to the increased precision and higher tolerances of these ball-bearings; when dust or carpet fibres enter into the ball-bearing it becomes trapped and the ball-bearing locks up and unfortunately, this tends to happen sooner than the previous batch of ball-bearings.

Nice way to put a positive spin on it there guys. Anyway click here to find out what you should do to stop this and maintain your bearings.

November 5, 2006

Xray lead the Carioca Championship

Xray Brazil Rd 2 top 3

Xray have a brief report on their site concerning the recent Brazilian electric Carioca Championship that they are now leading after winning rounds 1 and 2.

Braz Spinato of XRAY TEAM BRASIL won all the heats and won round 2 of the Carioca Championship, and is now leading the championship with 8 points ahead the 2nd place driver Sylvio Padinha (also from XRAY TEAM BRASIL). In 3rd place is Khelmo Freitas of XRAY TEAM BRASIL, too.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com] 

November 3, 2006

Xray bring the Micro Nitro RTR

Xray Micro Nitro RTR

Xray have just announced the RTR version of their popular little 1/18th scale Micro Nitro Monster and Stadium trucks. These are pretty wicked little cars and of course come with the usual Xray quality feel.

RTR Features
– There are two versions available: truck (#380740) and monster truck
(#380840)
– RTR is fully assembled by XRAY in Europe and is the most premium and luxury RTR in the market with a very affordable price
– RTR features all the premium equipment and electronics: 2x metal gear servo, receiver battery pack, XT1 Transmitter + XR1 Receiver, all cables and switch.
– RTR comes with nicely painted and trimmed body with all the stickers applied.
– There are 4 different colors available from every paint scheme.
– There is FREE Hudy Start-box for every RTR kit

Check out the brochure images here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com] 

November 3, 2006

Martin Bayer 2006 Czech Off road Champion

Martin Bayer

Martin Bayer (left) has won the 2006 Czech off road championships for Xray, driving his XB8, he secured the title with a win at the penultimate round at Hradec Králové. Whilst having problems in the final round, this allowed Martin Pater, his Xray team mate to take the win and secure the 2nd position in the championship.

The last race was held in Slavkov u Brna on a new track. This race attended 43 drivers, the champion was already knowed from the previous race so now the drivers battled for 2nd and 3rd place in the 1/8 Czech Off-road Championship, there were especially Martin Pater a Lukáš Zeman.

You can read Martin’s write up on the last 2 events here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 2, 2006

Alex Hagberg wins Nordic Championships

Nodic Championships

Top Swedish Xray racer Alex Hagberg has won the recent Nordic Championships event held in a large sports hall in Sarpsborg, Norway. The event was well attended with top racers from Sweden and Norway and Alex has his report up on the Xray site.

The third and deciding final was coming up. It was really tense as the drivers got together for the third main. The start went smoothly, and it was really close, during the second lap, I hit a dot and soon Helge took the lead in front of Niclas. The two got together so I could pass. I had the lead and started to pull away for the Nordic Championship win.

Read the full race report from Alex here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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