March 7, 2007

Soeren Boy Holst wins Rd4 Pilegaards-Cup

Rd4 Pilegaards-Cup

Xray have a report on their site from Soeren Boy Holst who writes about the 4th round of the Pilegaards Cup in Denmark. Soeren managed to claim the TQ spot in the modified class and then went on to win the race ahead of Michael Priest and Nikolaj Hviid who finished in 2nd and 3rd respectively

The first final was perfect. Michael was close in the beginning, but made some mistakes and so I made a gap. The car was still fine, but the tyres felt a little looser this time. Michael’s car broke down, and so did Nikolaj Hviid, so it was Kim Lindegaard who would take 2nd place with his T2’007, and his son Nicolai in third, also with a T2’007.

You can read the full report and get the top 3 from the other classes here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 6, 2007

2007 ROAR Carpet On-road Nats

CEFX Raceway

This week sees the 2007 ROAR Carpet On-road Nats run at Josh Cyruls indoor track, the CEFX Raceway, in Toledo Ohio with the race catering for 1/10th sedan and 1/12th scale, with 3 categories for each scale. With the entry expected to be around 230+ entries, the racing will begin on Wednesday with open practice on the completely new track layout that you can see above. We will hope to bring you reports from the race at the end of each race day but in the meantime if you want more information, here are some useful links.

Track: CEFX Raceway
Talk about the event: Forum (RC Tech)
Live Coverage: Live RC
Photos: RC50.com
Entry List: RC Tech (PDF)

Image: RC50 [rc50.com]

March 5, 2007

French EP Off road Nationals Lique 10 Rd1

French EP Off road Nationals Lique 10 - Rd1

Just a quick post to tell you that last weekend saw the start of the new outdoor season for electric off road in France with the Ligue 10 championships getting underway at the Pegase Racing-club. In the 2wd open class it was Olivier Demontfuma that took the round 1 victory ahead of Manu Moncada with José Fonda finishing in 3rd. In the 4wd class the race went to Ansellem Xavier with 2nd and 3rd placings going to Cedric Avaro and Fabrice Lassale respectively.

You can check out the full report (in French) and plenty of pictures here.

Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]

March 3, 2007

Juho Levanen wins Fintrack Rd2

Fintrack Rd2

Xray are reporting on last weekends round of the Fintrack indoor series that took place on the Ylistaro track. Racing was very close in the modified class with the gap between 1st and 10th only 5 seconds and between Juho (1st) and Teemu (2nd) the gap was only 0.2 sec. Associated racer Levanen went on to win the modified class followed by Xray racer Teemu Leino in 2nd and Corally racer Simo Ahoniemi in 3rd. In Pro Stock it was Xray racer Janne Valtanen that took the win followed by team mate Jukka-Pekka Huhtala in 2nd and Ari Lappi in 3rd.

Read the full race report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 2, 2007

Norway EFRA GP 2007

Norway EFRA GP 2007

We were asked by the organisers of this months EFRA GP in Norway to give the event a mention on the site, so here it is. The event will take place in Sarpsborg, Norway on the 17th – 18th of March, so if you have nothing in your racing calendar in 2 weeks time and fancy a trip to Norway, this race is for you. The event will cater for EFRA classes 1/10 touring and 1/12th track as well as hosting a non EFRA support class for super stock touring.

You can find out all the information for the event here.

UPDATE: This Event has been canceled due to lack of entries. Read more here.

February 28, 2007

Antoine Rossetti joins X-Factory

Antoine Rossetti

X-Factory have announced that top French off road racer Antoine Rossetti has joined their team for the 2007 season. Due to drive the X-5 in this years Nationals, Antoine who finished in the top 10 at last years French Nationals, leaves Team Losi for whom he raced last year, and he seems pretty excited about the upcoming season.

The X–5 appeals to me because it’s different compared to the other cars because of its design. Thus it’s unconventional, and I like to drive different, to be apart! They were really thinking when they came up with this car. Because I know the Losi car so well, it will be easy to Faite Le Calcul. I’ll be running the X–6 at this year’s Nationals, but my focus will be on the X–5 and 4WD.

You can read more about Antoine, who seems to have a pretty interesting life, here.

Source: X-Factory [4wdrc.com]

February 28, 2007

Bernhard Bopp wins German South Rd4

Bopp Bernhard

Hot Bodies racer Bernhard Bopp has won the modified class at round 4 of the South Germany regionals that took place 2 weekends ago on the MCSS Althengstett race track. Bernhard who only started from 3rd position after qualifying behind Dominik Fleischmann and Felix Bischoff managed to win the 1st and 3rd finals to take the overall win, with Fleischmann and Bischoff finishing in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the Stock class it was Erik Dankel that took the round win after starting from the TQ spot with Reto Dobler and Florian Ring coming home in 2nd and 3rd to complete the podium.

You can read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 26, 2007

Jonas Kaerup wins Corally Days event

2007 Corally Days

Xray have a report on their site about the recent Corally Days event held in Megadrom Geilenkirchen in the west of Germany. The event was won by Jonas Kaerup, who managed to dominate all 3 main finals from his top qualifying position, winning easily ahead of Steven Weiß who finished in a clear 2nd position with Björn Prümper rounding of the podium in 3rd place.

Final 2 was very similar to the first one. After 2min B. Prümper again made a small mistake and Steven jumped into 3rd place closely behind Yannic Prümper. They battled the rest of the race for 2nd place. Steven was able to pass Yannic with 2 laps remaining and finished in 2nd place only 2sec behind Jonas Kearup.

You can read the full race report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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