Round 6 of the Xray Racing Series and Polska Liga Modeli Samochodów PLMS was held in Ściwawka Średnia recently. In the premier Touring Modified the race for the win was on between Michal Blahovsky, Jarosław Siwek and Jakub Michalski. In the end and after a lot of action on the tight, technical and demanding track it was Michal with the win from Jaroslav and Jakub, making it an all-Xray top 3.
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The 2018 CML Off-road Masters was hosted by the BCL club and held on a purpose-built indoor track in Louvres, France recently. In the 2WD Stock Buggy class it was young Noha Ben Mohamed (Xray) who laid town a perfect and impressive performance by taking the overall TQ with two out of four won qualifiers and he would also walk away with the overall win in front of Lee Russell (Team Associated) and Philippe Hautecoeur (Schumacher) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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Serpent have announced the signing of German electric on-road frontrunner, Dionys Stadler to their European team. Dionys joins the company after having a short break from RC in 2017 and he will campaign Serpent’s soon-to-be-released Project 4X Evo touring car alongside his teammates such as Viktor Wilck, Tim Benson and David Ehrbar at all major national and select international events.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Maclan Racing have announced the signing of UK on-road front runner, Harley Eldridge, to the fast growing factory team. Harley is a super proactive young talent who will be racing for Team Maclan with MMax Pro ESC and MRR motors in 2018 ETS and BRCA events.
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Last weekend the TRAP RC Venue in Pretoria, South Africa hosted the final round of the Infinity Prostock Challenge. In the Touring Modified class it was Miguel Haasbroek (Infinity) who had a strong run in qualifying to secure the overall TQ. However Jason Hillcoat (Infinity) made a few small adjustments after qualifying which Miguel had no answer to, and Jason secured the win and with it a 2nd overall for the series. John Steyn (Tamiya) stepped onto the podium for the 3rd spot on the day. Overall winner of the Modified Series went to Hein Kotze (Xray) which was secured already after round 2.
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Extreme R/C Raceway of Spring Hill, Tennessee recently held a club race in preparation of the forthcoming Extreme Carpet Initiative race in two weeks time. Caleb Stevens was in control of things in the 2WD Modified and 4WD Modified classes as he took the TQs and wins for a clean sweep. Christopher Small and Scott Anderson would end the 2WD Mod race in 2nd and 3rd respectively while Scott Anderson and Steven Hicox made up the top 3 in 4WD Mod Buggy.
Image: Caleb Stevens
The recent fourth round of the Xray Racing Series Slovenia was held at the Genius Ring in Medeuzza, Italy. Since this was the final round of the series drivers made full use of Saturday’s practice in order to fine-tune their cars for Sunday’s race. The Touring Stock class saw some great battles between B.A. and Andrea as they touched a couple of times in the opening A-main and B.A. had to wait for Andrea which promoted Edoardo into the lead. In the second leg B.A. managed to somehow overtake Andrea to take the win and shift the decision for the overall win into the final A-main. Andrea was leading A3 in the opening stages but he suffered a technical issue with a motor connector coming loose, allowing B.A. to take the overall from Edoardo 2nd and Andrea 3rd.
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Round 2 of the Xray Racing Series Greece was held recently at the Fanatix Racing Track and in Touring Modified it was Papachristos who took the pole position with some swift lap times. In leg 1 of the A-mains Papachristos took the win by just two tenths over Ioannidis. In leg 2 he won again with a 5 second gap over Nikolakopoulos while Ioannidis suffered from worn belt and a DNF. Finally in leg 3, Ioannidis passed Papachristos after a mistake the latter made and he lapped everybody finishing 1st in the last leg for the overall runner-up spot with Nikolakopoulos finishing 3rd, securing P3 overall.
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