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January 25, 2013

Surikarn C & Meen V win @ Futaba Cup

The 2013 Futaba Cup in Thailand took place at the famous RC Addict track in Bangkok, Thailand. The race saw a 13.5T open brushless and a 13.5T non-boost class with 70 drivers attending in both classes. In the non-boost class Xray’s Surikarn C started from second place with a win in the first and a second place in the deciding final handing him the overall win. Second place went to Kitipong R with Trin T in third place. In the open class Surikarn took TQ but due to bad starts ended up third overall. Meen V was able to take the win followed by Xray’s Kitipong R.

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January 25, 2013

Hai Feng wins Super GP Formula 1 League Rd1

The first round of the Chinese Super GP Formula 1 League took place at the RCI Track in Shanghai. The race series is in its second year now and consists of six races with the first three of them are being run on rubber tires indoor while the last three races are carried out outdoor on foam tires. The first race of the year was won by Wang Hai Feng (T.O.P. Rebel R-F01) with Zhang Fang Zhou (Tamiya F104 WGP) taking second and Bob Peterson (Tamiya F104) taking third place. TQ JJ Wang finished fifth.

Source: T.O.P. [top-racing.jp]

January 25, 2013

Tebo tops practice at Reedy Race

Kyosho’s Jared Tebo set the pace in practice for the Reedy Race of Champions, the America topping the times sheets at West Coast RC Raceway in California in both 2WD & 4WD. Although times have no meaning due to the head to head race format of the world famous race, they do give an indication of each drivers form with Tebo declaring himself happy to end Day 1 as the fastest of the 29 invited drivers who will battle for the 19th Reedy Race title over the next three days. In 2WD it was defending Champion Joern Neumann who was 2nd fastest, with his Durango team-mate Travis Amezcua the closest on pace to Tebo in 4WD.

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January 25, 2013

World’s best ready to battle at 19th Reedy Race

World's best ready to battle at 19th Reedy Race

The Reedy Race of Champions is one of the most famous races in the world and was the brainchild of one of the sports greatest pioneers Mike Reedy. Looking to celebrate his birthday by hosting a race, in 1987 the motor guru created an all new concept for an event in which 32 of the best offroad drivers in the World where invited to race both 2WD and 4WD buggies in a series of head to head races with the driver achieving the best points tally over the 8 races being declared Champion. First run in 1987, when Chris Allec took the title, the 2013 Reedy Race of Champions is the 19th running of the event which after an 8-year break due to a decline in the 4WD class was resurrected in 2009 when Ryan Cavalieri won the title at the Yatabe Arena in Japan, which is so far the only time the event has been hosted outside of the USA.

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January 23, 2013

Paparegas wins Attiko Offroad Championships Rd2

The second round of the Greek Attiko Offroad Championsships took place at the FRT4 astroturf track near Athens. The race saw a 2WD and 4WD buggy as well as a 2WD SC class and especially especially in the 4WD class a high class field was present including 1/8 buggy Greek Champion Tasos Paparegas with the all new XB4. Tasos adapted to the electric buggy pretty fast and managed to secure TQ with John Papanikolaou starting second and Dimitris Amaxas third in the grid. Paparegas went to win all A finals with dominant performance pulling the fastest times of the day. The second place went to John with Dimitris in third place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 22, 2013

Scotty Gray wins Panamerican GT race

The Panamerican GT race took place this last weekend in Homestead Florida with racers from all over the country including Puerto Rico and countries like the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela in attendance. Scotty Gray driving an Xray GT conversion TQ’d every round of qualifying followed by Joaquin Desoto Jr. and Paolo Morganti, both driving Serpent Cobras. The main was full of action, switching the lead between Morganti and Gray several times. In the end Scotty took the win for a remarkable weekend of the Xray Team, Paolo Morganti was second and Maxy Velazco third.

Thanks to Alfonso Lino for the update.

January 22, 2013

Mats Angseryd wins VBC Cup

The Xray XB4 made its first appearance in the VBC cup through Mats Angseryd and Lukas Jerresand. The race was held in Eskilstuna Sweden on a tight medium grip carpet track. The day started out in the best possible way with Team Xray Sweden Mats Angseryd leading the field after the first qualifier ahead of Schumacher driver Christer Carlsson and Daniel Björkquist, and on fourth place was XB4 local driver Lukas Jerresand. Normal quick driver Niclas Månsson for Team Associated was looking as quick as ever but had some trouble and had to sit Q1 out after 9 laps due to breaking a front suspension arm. Qualifying would eventually end up with Mats Angseryd as the TQ after winning 3 of the 4 qualifiers, and Angseryd also was the only one in the field reaching 24 laps, and Lukas Jerresand on 5th putting two XB4 in the A-main.

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January 21, 2013

Hart & Clinch win Essex Winter Series Rd 4

The fourth round of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend, and with snow forecast all week, some wondered if the meeting would even take place. However, with Saturday proving nicer than forecast, the EWS team built the track and spent time making sure the venue access road was gritted, ready for the meeting as usual. With no overnight snow, the meeting went ahead as normal, however with snow forecast later in the day, the organisers decided to only run four rounds of qualifying rather than the usual five, to allow people a slightly earlier finish. Despite a few drivers not wishing to travel in the uncertain conditions, an impressive 86 drivers still turned up to race, including Keith Dempsey and Ryan Campbell making the trip over from Ireland. In the Stock 21.5 class, the battle for pole was between series newcomer Gavin Clinch and last year’s runner-up Mark Trinder. Mark topped the first round with his Xray, three tenths of a second ahead of Gavin, with series returnee Matthew Rowe taking third in the round and Trevor Bailey an excellent fourth. Mark also took round two, before Gavin fought back and took his Serpent to the top of the time sheets in round 3, with the fastest time so far.

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