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February 28, 2013

Tasmanian State Titles – Report

A four strong JConcepts team from Melbourne headed across the Bass Straight from the mainland to the small island of Tasmania to take on the local talent, the Victorian team consisted of veteran drivers Ashley Peeler and Leigh Cheeseman along with JConcepts newest recruits Andrew Selvaggi and John Watkins. Competitors headed to the picturesque town of Goodwood, Tasmania, located North West of Hobart on the south east coast of Tasmania. The crew at GOMCC (Goodwood Off-Road Model Car Club) had laid out an extremely high speed, flowing track that was to provide grip in bucket loads all weekend. GOMCC President, Alex John and all the awesome track crew had taken all their favourite parts for various tracks around Australia and combined them together to produce a top class track. The track surface was made up of fine red clay with a moderate sand content; the surface was sugared in the lead up to the event to ensure a consistent level of traction all weekend long. Temperatures for the weekend ranged from a low of 14 degrees Celsius on Friday morning to a high of 34 degrees in the late afternoons. The temperatures were 10-15 degrees above average for this time of year.

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February 28, 2013

Caroli & Myburg win @ SA championship Rd1

The first round of the South African national championship was held at the Welkom RC Raceway in Welkom, South Africa. Racing was super competitive in all classes that were run over the weekend. Team Xray SA dominated the competition by taking away almost all the silverware. The 13.5T touring class was dominated by Antonio Caroli who took TQ and the first place in his class followed by Xray team mate Anderton Smith. Third place went to Shaun Schutte. In the 17.5T class Xray’s Andre Greef took TQ honours but was not able to defend his position in the finals. It was Gerrie Myburg (Xray) who ended up on the top podium spot followed by Andre in second and Justin Cloete (Xray) in third place. In the Modified class it was again Antonio Caroli who not only took the TQ honours but also ended on the top sport. He was followed by Anderton Smitch who had Xray team mate Deon Gove in tow for third place.

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February 27, 2013

Xray Challenge races – Announcement

Xray Challenge races - Announcement

Xray have been in touch to invite racers to the series of the Xray Challenge races around the Europe. A full list of confirmed dates can be seen in the calendar below with more events to be added to the calendar throughout the year. Each race will have a separate and detailed leaflet published, so watch the Xray site for more details to come.

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February 27, 2013

Gran Canaria takes ETS season outdoors

This weekend (March 1-3) the Yokomo Euro Touring Series marks its 30th event traveling to the popular Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria for the first outdoor race of the 2012/13 season. Making its debut on the ETS calendar 12-months ago, the race produced one of the most popular wins of the season when Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp notched up his first victory in the World famous electric touring car championship.

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February 27, 2013

Zacarias Villalba wins Spanish 2wd Nats Rd1

The first round of the Spanish 2WD electric buggy Championship took place last weekend in the Andalusian town of Jerez, in southern Spain. It is the second consecutive year that the club CDRC Jerez hosts a national championship and they put on a great effort to prepare the track from all rain and bad weather the week leading up to the event. Yet again the series saw a great attendance with drivers from every corner of the country. Electric racing is getting pretty popular in Spain, and many drivers from nitro classes are trying their luck in the electric classes. One of them is current 1/8th World champion Robert Batlle who raced his first ever electric race in Jerez.

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February 25, 2013

Olly Jefferies wins BRCA Winter National

The BRCA held its 2013 Winter National at the fantastic Essex Winter Series venue in Essex. The format saw three rounds of qualifying with the top 32 drivers going through to a Reedy style Race of Champions. The remaining drivers contested a more familiar UK national format with round by round qualifying and three leg finals. After three rounds of qualifying it was the young Team Associated driver Zak Smith who took TQ honours and would carry the number 1 position into the Race of Champions. Nitro driver Kyle Branson who races electric during the winter months qualified second with Team Xray’s James Hart in third. After not having the fastest car in Qualifying, current BRCA national champion Olly Jefferies who qualified twelfth began his assault at the Winter National Championship in fine style by winning his first two Race of Champions races and was in a good position going into Sunday. EWS regular Tony Broad also had a good start with a first and a second in his two races.

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February 24, 2013

Video – DNC Truggy & eBuggy finals

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Our friends at Live RC have published their A-main videos from Saturday’s Dirt Nitro Challenge Truggy and eBuggy finals. You can view the full 45 minute Truggy A-main above and after watch the 8 minute eBuggy final below. You can view our full event coverage on our Events page here.

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February 24, 2013

Fischer wins 1:8 eBuggy at Dirt Nitro Challenge

Fresh from winning the B-Main in nitro Truggy to book himself a spot in the 45 Main, Team Losi Racing’s Billy Fischer bagged the first Pro class win of the 14th running of the world famous Dirt Nitro Challenge taking the victory in the 1:8 eBuggy A-Main from Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz and Kyosho’s Elliot Boots.

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