December 12, 2006

Elliott Harper takes 3rd at Rd3 of BIWS

Elliott Harper

Young racing ace Elliot Harper continued his great form at the British Indoor Winter Series held at the Don Valley indoor track. Starting from 2nd on the grid after a mistake in qualifying, the round 2 winner, had a bad start in the final and ended up in 9th after the first corner, but recovered with a fine drive back to 3rd.

My “A” final start didn’t go to plan and a “glitch” on the first bend set me back. With all the other cars racing in from behind I took a swipe that spun my car around and out of contention and into 9th place. It took 3 laps for the car to settle back down but by this time I had been lapped by a number of cars. However, once the car settled down it was really pulling back and I started to power forward and move back up the pack.

You can read Elliott’s full report here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

December 11, 2006

EFRA clarify rule on Sintered magnets

2006 EFRA AGM

EFRA (european governing body) have released a notice regarding the introduction date for their rule change that allows sintered magnets, something we briefly mentioned back in the start of November. The guts of the statement are as follows:

The sintered magnets and delta wind will be allowed on EFRA races as from 02.04.07. This means, that the following proposal accepted by the section meeting at the AGM 2006 takes effect on 2nd of April 2007:
2.2b: b) Brushless Motor
d) Winding: Delta and Y wounded stators are permitted. Only circular
(round)pure copper is permitted. There is no turn limit.
Rotor: Output shaft diameter must be 0,125″ (3.175mm). Only one piece, two poles Neodymium or Ferrite magnetic rotors are permitted.

You can download and view the letter here (PDF).

Source: RC World [rcworld.ch]

December 10, 2006

Meen Vejrak dominates 2006 Reedy Race of Asia

Reedy Race Asia

A quick update from the 2006 Reedy Race of Asia that was held this weekend at the Thang RC Raceway in Thailand. It was Kyosho driver Meen Verjak all the way as he won the Modified and Stock classes in perfect style. In Modified class Meen won the first 2 finals and sat out the last main to win the event ahead of Australian Tamiya driver Bradd Vercoe in 2nd with Hot Bodies racer Porapong Raganarat finishing in 3rd. In the stock class it was a perfect score again for Thai racer Meen Vejrak, the Kyosho racer winning all 3 A-mains to easily take the title ahead of local Tamiya racer Paphon Chanyasak in 2nd with Associated racer Tanit Kachchapananda rounding out the podium in 3rd.

We hope to get images soon. Hit the jump for the final standings… content

December 10, 2006

Fabiano Franco wins the 2006 Brazilian Nationals

2006 Brazilian Nationals

Under a sunny December sky Fabiano Franco, driving an Xray T2, has won the 2006 Brazilian National Championships held last weekend. Having qualified in second position for the finals he had some good luck in the first final when pole man ….. had esc problems allowing Fabiano to take the lead and the win. Battling with Flávio Salinet for the other 2 finals Fabiano managed to fend of the attentions of his Xray team mate the win the 2nd and 3rd finals to take the overall title.

After the start, Fabiano was in 1st and Flávio was in 2nd … this was the order to the end. Flávio tried to pass Fabiano but his tires cooked when he forced his car, so Fabiano Franco won with Flávio Salinet on 2sec behind.

You can read the full report with pictures and a video here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 8, 2006

Markus Feldmann wins the Western round of German Champs

Markus Feldmann

Markus Feldmann has won the most recent round of the German electric national series for the Western region held last weekend at the Viol Race track. Driving his Xray he only managed third in qualifying after some problems but managed to source and fix the issue before going on to win 2 out of the 3 finals to take the overall win in Modifed class.

The second A-main went well again, though I got hit by another car when I was already in the lead again and it took me back to 5th position… but I managed to get back into 2nd position 0.4 seconds behind the leader before time expired, so I took 2nd position.

You can read Makus’s full race report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 7, 2006

Joel Myrberg to race for Associated

Joel Myrberg

RC Touring have the news that top Xray racer Joel Myrberg has left the Slovakian manufacturer to race for Team Associated in 2007. Joel will make his race debut at next months DHI cup in Denmark were he will Join Drescher and Levanen in driving the TC5 prototype. This is the second top driver confirmed to be leaving Team Xray after Viktor Wilck was confirmed to be joining Tamiya on Tuesday. This of course comes after the signing of top French race Cyril N’Diaye and of course former European Champion Teemu Leino who joined from Schumacher, so there is obviously a major shake up at Xray going on.

Source: RC Touring [rctouring.nl]

December 7, 2006

Xray wins Rd1 of Western Canadian series

Xray Canada

Xray have a report on their site about the first round of the Western Canadian series held in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Xray dominated the event managing to win all 3 classes – Stock, 19T and Modified.

When the tone went for the start of the main Rodney and I took off from the pack. Rodney was quick but I was right there behind him. A couple of laps in Rodney got tangled with a back marker and opened the door for me to get by. Being a short track with the lap times being around the 8 second range, by the time Rodney got going again I was half a lap ahead. He really pushed his T2 ‘007 and caught back up in a couple of laps. We diced it out until the end of the race which I managed to hold him off for the win.

You can read the full report from the event here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 6, 2006

Marc Fischer wins the Swedish 1/12th EFRA GP

Marc Fischer

Corally team driver Marc Fischer has won the 1/12th EFRA GP held last weekend in Eskilstuna, Sweden, an important win as it took place on the same track that will host next years European 1/12th scale Championships. Marc, driving a Corally SP12X, TQ’d the event by 5 seconds ahead of 2nd place qualifier Sakke Ahonniemi who in turn was 1 second ahead of Teemu Saarinen, both drivers also driving the Corally SP12X. In the race it was Marc who was the class of the field finishing comfortably ahead of Saarinen in 2nd who managed to get ahead of Ahonniemi who ended up in 3rd.

You can view the results of the event here.

Source: Corally [corally.com]

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