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October 15, 2014

US invasion for ENS Finale

This weekend (17-19 October) the Euro Nitro Series travels to the world famous Fiorano track in Italy for the finale of the inaugural championship with an invasion of American drivers making up the 160 strong entry. Attracting 7 US drivers, Round 4 is a truly international event for the European based 1:10 & 1:8 Onroad Championship with 18 countries represented on the entry list including Thailand and Singapore. Joining ENS regular Loran Whiting, America’s top female racer having contested the full championship, will be factory Serpent driver Paolo Morganti who is no stranger to Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter having been a regular competitor at the annual Novarossi Trophy race held there.

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October 15, 2014

Xray Primary Sponsor of EOS

Xray are excited to announce that they will partner with Uwe Rheinard & Scotty Ernst as a primary sponsor of the European Offroad Series (EOS) for the 2014/2015 season. The Xray factory team consisting of Juraj Hudy, Martin Bayer, Martin Wollanka, Miguel Matias, Mike Gosvig, Lorenzo Crolla & their young talent Malin Karlsen will be available during the entire season at all the races to provide technical and set-up support. As with previous years the spare parts availability and service will be arranged at every event by the national distributor so look out for the Xray service centre loaded with all spare parts under the Xray tent, which is also where Xray drivers can collect their free promo package at each race.

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October 15, 2014

Martin Bayers doubles at Czech 1/8th buggy champs

The 4th and final round of the Czech 1/8th off-road national championships was held last weekend at the RC Club Radotin track in Prague. Considered to be the country’s best off-road track the club did an amazing job preparing the track and the surrounding facilities. Martin Bayer took the TQ in both the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy class and he went on to win both categories and also the national titles despite missing one round due to the German nationals.

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October 15, 2014

Danielsen & Johnsen win at PileCup Rd1

Brondby Racing Club near Copenhagen recently held the 1st round of the PileCup in the four classes of Touring Car Modified, Super Stock, LeMans and Formula 1. The most exciting class was the Touring Car Super Stock category with Patrick Danielsen and Jack Holger Sorensen fighting for the win. After both scored a leg win in the opening A-mains the third and last final would be the decisive one and at the end it was Patrick who held everything together to take the win from Jack Holger Sorensen and Caspar Morgen.

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October 14, 2014

Mike Gosvig wins Danish 1/8th off-road nats Rd7

The 7th and final round of the Danish 1/8th off-road nationals was held in Bramming. The purpose-built track was located within a large indoor riding arena and offered quite a low grip and one or the other tricky jump. Following Saturday’s 1/8th E-buggy race the nitro buggies would race on Sunday. The opening qualifier saw Magnus Frandsen taking the round TQ from Mike Gosvig and Henning Warner. In the second round Mike stroke back on new tyres, securing himself the TQ some 2 seconds in front of Magnus Frandsen and Pelle Culmsee. For the third round Mike changed his tactics and tried to get the maximum out of his buggy which at the end paid out as the TQ’d the round some 11 seconds from Jan D. Hansen in 2nd spot.

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October 14, 2014

Adam Drake triples at JBRL Nitro Series Rd6

Round 6 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA. Once again the series attracted a good amount of local talent and internationally experienced factory drivers. The event saw TLR’s Adam Drake walking away with the win in the 1/8th Expert Buggy class while Cody King (Kyosho) and Cody Smith (TLR) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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October 14, 2014

Bowie Ginting wins at Kenji Cup Rd4

Round 4 of the Kenji Cup was held at the Royal Camp Pondok Indah track in Indonesia with most drivers competing in the Touring Car 13.5T boosted class. Xray’s Bowie Ginting took the TQ honours in the penultimate qualifying round, followed closely by Muhammad Izzah who was only 1.6s behind. Danny Iswahyudi started from 3rd into the finals, 6.5 seconds behind the TQ holder with Suwardi Suliandy rounding out the top 4. The A-main saw Bowie securing the overall win early by coming out successful in leg 1 and leg 2. Izzah combined his double 2nd place finishes to grab the runner-up spot while Ronny completed the podium for an Xray 1-2-3.

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October 14, 2014

Tobias Weist takes 2014 RC Lemans championship

The 7th and final round of the RC Lemans took place at the prestigious MRC Oberhausen track. With the championship still open the race would decide about the overall title between last year’s German Pro10 champion and RC Lemans winner, Tim Altmann and this year’s German Pro10 champion, Tobias Weist. Before the event Tobias was leading the ranking by 2 points meaning the pressure was on Tim to defend his RC Lemans title after already loosing the German national title to Tobias.

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