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November 3, 2016

Alexander Landen successful at Winter Cup Rd1

The opening round of the Winter Cup was held at the HB Orion track in the small town of Kallinge, Sweden. The 4WD Buggy qualifying was won by young Malin Karlsen who took a convincing TQ from Jessica Palsson and Alexander Landen, the latter two having nice battles in the qualifiers with the runner-up spot narrowly going to Jessica. These three plus fourth placed Johan Balsberg would be in the mix for the overall win and the opening A-main would start quite uneventful with Jessica having a bobble on the first lap, allowing Alexander by. Up front Malin would stretch the lead and she would take the win with a comfortable margin from Alexander and Jessica.

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November 3, 2016

Schumacher sign Sergi Franch

Schumacher have announced the signing of Spanish front runner Sergi Franch to their touring car team. A very successful on-road driver with many top notch results to his name, Sergi will race the Mi6 in the SNS series and major local and regional races around Barcelona. Sergi had the following to say:

I am very grateful to Schumacher and David Lara for trusting in me for this season, I am convinced that we will be at the maximum level of performance and support at every race and I wish to return this confidence with the best possible results.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

November 3, 2016

Off-road Xray Racing Series Australia – Announcement

Xray have announced that the off-road portion of the Xray Racing Series Australia will be held on the weekend of the 11th of December at Castle Hill Off Road RC Club. Classes run are 2WD and 4WD Modified, 2WD and 4WD Stock as well as 2WD Junior Stock, SCT and Stadium Truck. Open practice will be held on Saturday with the qualifier and finals run on Sunday. More information and sign up can be found here.

November 2, 2016

Rumble in the Asphalt Jungle – Report

The newly established N-Control RC Racing Circuit in Dale, Texas held its grand opening race this past weekend hosting 68 entries from across the state of Texas. Texas’s newest permanent on-road facility, and site of the 2017 Roar Electric On Road Paved Nationals, saw close racing across 10 different classes. The event took place over two days with Saturday holding three rounds of rocket qualifying, and Sunday offering a final round of qualifying followed by mains. Triple A-mains were held for the electric classes, and single 20-minute mains were run for all nitro races. The track was fast and flowing with consistently high traction offering up for some exciting racing all weekend.

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November 2, 2016

Jesper Rasmussen wins at Winter Cup opener

Jesper Rasmussen wins at Winter Cup

The opening round of the Winter Cup series was held at the David Ronnefalk owned HB Orion Racetrack. Jesper Rasmussen got off to a good start already in practice in which he came out fastest from David Ronnefalk and Malin Karlsen. In the qualifiers the battle was on between newly crowned 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Champion, David Ronnefalk and Jesper Rasmussen. The opening qualifier saw mistakes of both drivers with David still being able to take the top spot from Jesper in second and Frederik in third. Q2 then had Jesper laying down a flawless run to take the TQ from Malin and David and Jesper was also unstoppable in Q3, taking the round TQ from Jessica and Frederik. The final qualifier again saw Jesper excel, this time in front of David and Niclas.

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November 2, 2016

Malin Karlsen takes OMK Fall Classic title

The eight and final round of the OMK Fall Classic title was recently held at the OMK astro turf track. As usual the race format was three rounds of qualifying with triple mains and much like the previous round the track was once again soaking wet and in combination with the low temperatures traction was really low. Malin Karlsen (Xray) took all qualifiers in style to grab the pole position for the A-mains. Malin was also in control of things in the opening A-main despite some bobbles due to the slippery surface but she walked away with a convincing first win of the evening. A2 then was a different affair as, after opening a small gap on the field, she got caught out by a pipe after loosing traction, causing her to loose the lead and also valuable time. Getting her head down she quickly was able to fight for the lead again but the leader would not be easy to pass, so Malin waited until what she thought was the final lap to make an attack at the table top jump leading into the last corner and she even managed to win the drag race to the finish line until both realised that they crossed the finish line tenth of a second before the time was up. With her opponent realising the fact earlier Malin had to settle for second in leg 2. For A3 Malin decided to make up for the confusion earlier so she laid down a flawless run to take the win almost a lap ahead of the field to take the win, the overall victory at round eight and with it the OMK Fall Classic title. Marius Kristensen (Serpent) would end the day on the two spot from Morten Bremsrud (Team Associated) in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 1, 2016

MRC Winter Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the popular MRC Longwy Winter Series was held this past weekend with over 100 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, 10.5T, 13.5T and Rookie. In the Modified class it was VBC Racing’s Lucas Urbain who walked away with the win from Xray’s Tim Wahl and Yokomo driver Loic Jasmin.

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November 1, 2016

Alessio Menicucci teams up with Mon-Tech Racing

Italian company Mon-Tech Racing has announced the signing of Alessio Menicucci to their team. The multiple Italian national champion and ETS finalist will deck out his Xray rides with Mon-Tech bodyshells from now on, joining swift team mates such as Portugal’s Bruno Coelho.

Source: Mon-Tech [mon-techracing.net]