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June 15, 2016

Kyle Holmberg unbeatable at 2016 Stock Wars

The 2016 Stock Wars race was hosted by Blue Groove Hobbies in West Des Moines, Iowa. This event used the unique Reedy Race style format with five rounds of heads up racing in each class, giving each driver one round to throw-out. In 2WD Stock Buggy Kyle Holmberg (Kyosho) would go onto take the overall win with a perfect score of four wins. Kyosho America’s Taylor Timmerman would finish a close second with 5 points while Drew Rubenking (Team Associated) completed the top 3.

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June 14, 2016

2016 X-Race UK – Report

The first X-Race UK was held at the beautiful Cotswolds circuit in Kemble, Gloucestershire. On Saturday a workshop was held by Alexander Hagberg, Olly Jefferies, Greg Hill, Jimmy Maddison and Zak Finlay and as soon as the track had dried up all driver tried to put some practice in, making use of the tips and tricks taught by the factory Xray drivers. Sunday started off with a wet track, and thus, the first rounds of qualifying were run in tricky conditions. Eventually the sun came out, and the track dried up well in time for the final and deciding Q4 round. Alexander Hagberg would TQ the Touring Modified and Nitro Touring classes while Jimmy Maddison was quickest in Touring Stock, just in front of Zak Finlay.

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June 14, 2016

Spessart Cup 5-hour team race – Report

The Spessart Cup, a 5-hour 1/8th nitro buggy team race, was recently held at the Spessart Race Park in Germany. Practice was open on Saturday morning and the actual race would start at mid-day. Shortly before the take off it began to rain but nevertheless the organisers decided to start the race. Team Just-RC.DE of Vanessa and Marcus Wende, Sebastian Fenske, Christian Ackva, Andreas Heublein and Denis Schwarz would be in thrilling fights with team Semmelbrösel with both being separated by only four laps after the 5-hour encounter. Team Die Rodgauer would round out the podium result in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 14, 2016

Jeisy & Schmid score at Swiss 1/10th Buggy Nats Rd3

For the third round of the Swiss 1/10th Buggy Nationals racer travelled to the astro turf track of the Härkingen club. Wet weather made for an unpleasant race day and in the 2WD class it was Philip Jeisy (Yokomo) who made the best out of the conditions with Patrick Hofer (Team Associated) coming in second while Xray’s Nico Schmid completed the top 3 result.

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June 14, 2016

Ellis Stafford takes win at BRCA Buggy Nats Rd3

Round three of the BRCA 1/10th Buggy Nationals was held at Eden Park Raceway in mixed weather conditions. The 2WD race started out dry and everyone was running laydown cars but once the rain came out, drivers switched to stand up gearboxes for the last round of qualifier and the finals. Old dude Ellis Stafford (TLR) would make the best out of the conditions, beating young guns Neil Cragg (Team Associated) and Lee Martin (Yokomo).

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

June 14, 2016

Elias Johansson wins at Swedish National Cup Rd2

This past weekend round two of the Swedish National Cup was held at the nicely prepared “1990’s style” Örebro track. In 4WD Buggy Alexander Landén would take the overall TQ thanks to round TQs in the first and second qualifier, backing the results up with a second and a third place. The opening final then was quite eventful with some tough racing and Alexander was involved in an incident in the beginning of the final, but he recovered to take over the lead again only to get caught out by a rut which flipped the car with less than a minute to go. Alexander eventually finished fourth while the win grabbed by swift Elias Johansson.

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June 14, 2016

Dominic Quek successful at Urban Touring Series Rd7

Round seven of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held the past weekend. After coming close the last couple of rounds, Xray’s Dominic Quek finally claimed his first win of the season in the Open Class. The Reedy-race format was adopted due to the smaller than normal turnout. Nonetheless, then usual fast racers were in attendance. It was a hard fought race between Dominic and Esmail Apandi (Destiny), with both taking two wins and two second place finishes each in the best four of five finals format. In the end, Dominic secured the win on tie-break by virtue of his faster winning times. Hasron Robana (Xray) took the win in the last final to secure 3rd overall.

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June 14, 2016

2016 Texas Electric On–Road Series Rd3 – Report

After a month delay due to torrential weather in Texas, round 3 of 4 of the Texas Electric On–Road Series was held at Hobbytown USA in Austin, Texas this past Sunday. 60 entries would be present between the six classes for some classic grass–roots parking lot racing. Qualifying points from the driver’s best two out of three qualifying rounds would be used to setup the single mains. There was 2 bump–ups from each lower main. The off–camber track and extremely hot conditions would develop a push for most cars, causing drivers to search for steering and rotation. Mod TC would be a continued showdown from round 2 between Brandon McNally and Chris Adams. McNally would earn TQ on his home track by winning two rounds of qualifying over Chris Adams and Andrew Doherty. In the main, a small mistake, clipping a flapper on lap 4, by McNally would let Adams through. From the lead, Adams was able to pull a gap and maintain the lead to the checkered flag over McNally and Kemper. Adams third win of the season results in clinching the Mod TC championship for the 4th year in a row.

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