The Xray Work.Shop Slovenia will take place at the Genius Ring in Medeuzza, Italy on Sunday the 8th of November. Hosted by Xray team drivers Alojzij Osvald and Jernej Vuga, the two will offer tech and setup help for cars such as the X12, X1, T4, NT1, XB8 and RX8. The entry fee is 15 Euro and includes dinner. More information about the event can be found here.
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The 2015 JBRL Electric Series finale was hosted by Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, CA. The JBRL series runs throughout Southern California and averages about 150-200 entries all year long. Qualifying showed the rest of the racers that Jake Mayo was the one to beat. In the 2WD Modified class, Mayo put his local knowledge of wet-track racing to good use as he TQ’d by being the only driver to go the extra lap. Elsewhere in the Truck Modified class, Mayo had no problem setting the pace for the rest of the field.
Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA recently held their Helloween Fun Race and in the 1/8th Expert Nitro Buggy class Mugen’s Adam Drake would take the TQ and win with his Novarossi-powered buggy. One lap down Brian Givens (HB/Novarossi) would come in second in the 20 minute final while Ronda Drake (Mugen/Rex) rounded out the podium in third.
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The 2015 VBC Invitational race was held at the Hobbyexpo in Stockholm, Sweden this past weekend. The track was tight and very technical, so mistakes would cost a lot and the race was held in a Reedy-style format, meaning no qualifiers but all finals for the 30 racers from Finland, Sweden and Norway. Handout slick tyres and a mandatory tyre sauce made for equal conditions for everyone and the race started out on Saturday with five rounds of 4WD racing of which four counted towards the overall result. At the end Karri Salmela from Finland, Oskar Levin from Sweden and Daniel Kobbevik from Norway all scored a maximum of 40 points.
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Christchurch recently played host for the recent New Zealand Buggy and Truggy National Championships. On Wednesday the track was very wet but the rain did manage to abate overnight and allowed some controlled practice until mid afternoon on Thursday when the skies opened up again and practice was done for the day. Friday there was to be four rounds of qualifying with the best two to count. It was clear from practice their were some fast local guys and a handful of fast Aussies had made the trip over. Friday dawned bright and sunny but very cold. The track was changing at an amazing rate making tire selection critical. After 3 rounds on Friday Aaron Stringer had two TQs for each class which gave him the overall TQ for both classes.
ENS podium finisher and Worlds finalist Andrea Pirani completed a clean sweep at the Fiesta Matrix race held last weekend in Valencia, Spain. Hosted by the AUTET club and with the event planned on three days, worrying weather forecasts for Sunday forced the organisers to compress the whole racing action into Saturday. Andrea took the TQ in every round to start first on the grid, followed by Serpent driver Nacho Lopez and the two locals of Signes Rubio and Revert. “Mr. Matrix” himself, Cristian Boni would start fifth on the grid, going on to take the lead in the 45 minutes final thanks to a mistake by Pirani, an then would stay in the first place until the 24 minute mark, when a bad tyre stop would send him back in fourth position. Pirani’s comeback wouldn’t find any resistance, and Andrea was able to put his WRC back on the top after the tyre stops, and went on to win the race with a two laps lead on the ARC debutant Cristiano Sartor and Cristian Boni, who would round up an all-Italian Podium.
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The sixth and final round of the Speed King Tour 2015 was held at the Crest Speedway indoor carpet track in the Gunma prefecture. Going into the final round the overall title already had been decided with TRF factory team driver Akio Sobue taking the Modified class title and privater Kengo Yabata coming out successful in the Stock class. So far Akio had TQ’ed all five rounds of the championship but this time local star and 2015 JMRCA 1/12th on-road national champion Yugo Nagashima would deny Akio another one as the Yokomo driver grabbed the pole position for the A-main. VBC driver Hayato Ishioka put his car on the 2 spot while young Yokomo driver Naoki Akiyama rounded out the Modified class qualifying in third. Akio had problem in the first qualifier and finished the qualifiers in 4th position.
On a very foggy morning Wodson Park welcomed back all racers for Rug Racers round 1 at the home of HRCC. After the recent success of Rug Racers Reloaded more changes were seen this time around that made for an even better experience and one that the organisers want to continue to build on. With a record number of people booking in and some of the best drivers in all classes on display this promises to be a very fun and exciting series. Open Modiied Q1 was a war of attrition with only two cars of the first heat finishing the run, the rest were swept up in carrier bags and handed back to their bemused owners. Once the ponies had been tamed Richard Barton pumped in 26 laps to lead the time sheets. Heat 10 Open Modified, Richard Thorpe and Aaron Rose shared two each with 3rd being contested closely. In heat 11 of Open Modified, Kyle Branson took the opening round from Elliott Harper, with Andy taking R2, Elliott R3 and Andy blasting into 28 Laps for R4.
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