Round 1 of the Xray Racing Series Austria was held at the small and technical track of the Carpet Brothers in Leopoldsdorf in the east of Vienna. The mains were run with 10-car fields, making for some eventful and hectic races. In the end it was Hupo Hönigl with the win in the 2WD Buggy class from Lucas Grainer 2nd and Peter Lonscar 3rd. Roland Hauleitner would come in 4th from Thomas Pumpler 5th.
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The recent second round of the CWIC Xray Racing Series UK again attracted over 100 entries with the most popular being the XRS Stock class. The new ETS style carpet has been working real well and only gets better and better each round as it clean up. This round seen some new faces to the Modified class with Harley Eldridge (Yokomo) looking good to keep Xray’s Olly Jefferies on his toes.
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The 2017 Charity Race 2.0 was organised by Team La Gang and hosted by the RCLandia track in Scandiano, Italy this past weekend. The annual race was held in Touring Modified, 13.5T Stock, Formula, 1/12th and GT12 classes and again attracted some of the fastest Italian drivers to compete against international guests. In the Touring Modified class it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker who took three of the four qualifying rounds for the overall TQ from Xray’s Marco Kaufmann and Infinity’s Marc Rheinard. After the triple A-mains it was again Ronald on top courtesy of wins in all three A-mains as Marco Kaufmann and Marc Rheinard made up the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The inaugural KRacing Winter Edition race was held at the La Nucia track in Spain this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro with the TQ from Mugen’s Robert Batlle and Team Associated driver Tom Robin. In the main final however it was Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton, coming from way down the field, who scored a popular win from Davide in 2nd as Kyosho’s João Figueiredo snatched the final podium spot. Alex Zanchettin (Tekno) came in 4th, Robert Batlle had to settle for 5th overall after some problems. Over in 1/8th E-Buggy it was also Davide Ongaro (Team Associated) with the overall TQ and by scoring wins in the opening two A-mains he would also take the overall victory from Mugen’s Robert Batlle 2nd and Tekno’s Alex Zanchettin 3rd.
Source: InfoRC [inforc.net] | Image: João Figueiredo
Yokomo have announced another big signing this year to the Yokomo USA race team with JP Richards. Over the past couple years, JP has put together an impressive racing resume, driving for Team Durango and TLR, that would be hard to match. JP has dominated the racing scene in the Midwest, while also making the highly contested 2WD Modified Buggy A-main events at the past two ROAR 1/10 Electric Off-Road Nationals. JP will make his official Yokomo debut with the World Championship Winning YZ-2 DTM 2WD buggy and YZ-4 SF 4WD buggy next week at the 2017 JConcepts Indoor National series finale at Speed RC in North Carolina.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
Arrowmax have announced the signing of Chinese top driver Fangzhou “Rocket” Zhang to their factory team. Zhang will be using Arrowmax’s tools, accessories and LiPo batteries in his forthcoming campaign and he has the following to say about the deal:
I’m so glad to join Team Arrowmax. Thanks to Arrowmax offer me this opportunity.All AM products are very nice and high quality.I believe AM products will help me achieve much better race results in the future.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
Round 2 of the BRCA Formula National Series brought the drivers to the fantastic Rug Racers venue in Hertfordshire. A great track layout awaited drivers with a long straight, sweeper and a few tricky chicanes to tackle on the infield. Qualifying ramped up in pace as the track cleaned up and fastest lap times were very close across five to six drivers but who could keep it on the road and out of the barriers for five minutes? It was Luke Lee (Xray) setting the fastest time in all three rounds and claiming pole position with James Greener (Team Associated) in 2nd and Michael Lee (Xray) driving well to 3rd on the grid despite lack of running on carpet.
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The 2017 season of the South African On-Road Electric 1/12th scale National Championship recently concluded and in the Modified class Antonio Caroli managed to win the title in a great battle with Hein Kotze, Shaun Schutte, Marius van Niekerk and Andre Greeff. Over in 1/12th Stock 13.5T, the series hosted a great battle between the youngsters Brandon Solomon and Francois Laubscher with Francois managing to take the title.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
