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June 7, 2016

Xray Formula team manager role for Jan Ratheisky

Xray have announced the appointment of Germany’s Jan Ratheisky as their Formula-specific team manager. As part of the X1 development team Jan has an exceptional knowledge about the platform and he will now step up as the team manager in order to improve service and support at major international events. Jan will participate races such as the ETS, AOC, IIC and the European Championships and he has the following to say:

I am very happy for the opportunity to be the Formula Team manager. This opportunity form Xray makes me very proud and at the same time decisive like never before. I will do my best to provide the best possible support to every Xray driver at all major formula races or online at Xray forum & FB X1 group.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 6, 2016

Tanner Day sweeps Willamette Valley Classic

This past weekend the 2016 Willamette Valley Classic was hosted by Dave’s RC Tracks in Hubbard, Oregon. The two most competitive classes of the weekend being 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy and in 2WD Modified Buggy class, Kyosho’s Tanner Day would go onto TQ both rounds of qualifying to secure the overall TQ. Kyosho America team manager Joe Pillars would take the impressive win in the opening A–Main with Day finishing a few seconds back in 2nd. Day would then go onto take the Wins in A–Main 2 and 3 just ahead of Pillars to take his first championship of the weekend.

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June 6, 2016

Wahl, Hettrich & Vogel join T-Works

T-Works have announced the signing of Germany’s Tim Wahl, Valentin Hettrich and Tobias Vogel to their international team. The three will be using the company’s Tweak Terminator, Anti Tweak Blocks as well as accessories such as turnbuckles, body post locators and more during their campaign. This is what the three have to say:

One of the most important things with touring cars is to make sure that its always tweak free. T-Works has the best tools for this and we are thrilled to start this cooperation. Additionally T-Works also has great accessories for all kinds of cars. Thanks to T-Works for the trust and support as well as AME for making the deal happen.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

June 6, 2016

Suwardi Suliandy TQs & wins at Indonesia Nats Rd3

The third round of Indonesia National Championship was held at the Marina Red Carpet Circuit in Semarang in the two classes of Touring Stock and FWD. The weather was fairly hot and dry with no rain all weekend. In the 13.5T Boosted class, Suwardi Suliandy (Xray) took the TQ from Chandra Yosef and Ronny Suwarto (both Xray). In the A-mains Suwardi was able to conserve his qualifying performance to came out fastest in A1 and A2 while Ronny grabbed the win in A3. Behind Suwardi and after the tie-breaker with Ronny, Chandra took the runner-up spot, leaving Ronny in third.

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June 6, 2016

Wang Haifeng wins at RC Beijing GP

The RC Beijing GP was held at the new Incom Arena in Beijing, China, with racers from as far as Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai in attendance. Special guest for the event, that saw Electric Touring, 1/12th scale Pancar and 1/10th Le Mans classes, was 14-time IFMAR World Champion, Masami Hirosaka. In the Touring class young Nicholas Xu grabbed the 4 spot on the grid behind TQ Hirosaka who was followed by Zhang and Wang.

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June 6, 2016

Rasmussen & Gosvig win at Danish EP Off-road Nats Rd3

The third round of this year’s Danish 1/10th Off–road Nationals was held at the Viborg RC racing club. In the 2WD Buggy class, run on Saturday, Yokomo’s Frederik Hovgaard took the TQ after the qualifiers from Jesper Rasmussen. The latter than dominated the A–main events by scoring wins in A1 and A2 to grab the overall win early, allowing him to sit out A3. Mike Gosvig (Xray), who was fastest after the practice rounds, had some mixed qualifiers and finals with a fourth and third place in A1 and A2 but the win in A3 secured him the runner–up spot from Kim Nielsen (Schumacher) while TQ holder Frederik Hovgaard had to settle for fourth.

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June 6, 2016

BRCA Touring Car Nationals Rd2 – Report

This last weekend saw the BRCA Touring Car Nationals head to Adur near Brighton on the south coast of England. Unusually for the UK the drivers were blessed with great sunshine all weekend and with low winds the track conditions were quite different to the previous weekend’s Schumacher BTCC race. Schumacher’s Elliott Harper was in a different league this weekend TQ-ing the first three rounds of qualifying just using one set of three allocated sets of Sorex 32RY tyres. In Pro Stock James Hart (Schumacher) was taking the fight to current BRCA champ Zak Finlay (Xray) putting in some strong performances to line up second on the grid.

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June 6, 2016

RC Lemans Series Rd4 – Report

Round four of the RC Lemans Series was held at the EVMC club in Velp, The Netherlands over the weekend. Following cold and rainy low-grip conditions at the previous rounds all drivers were looking forward to a sunny weekend with asphalt temperatures of about 50 degree Celsius. In the LMP1 Modified class Sven Stoffels took the TQ only a couple of tenth of a second from championship leader Tim Altmann. Reinder Wilms matched Tim’s time down to a hundred of a second over the five minute run. Behind the three Philipp Paul, Kai Altmann, Tobias Weist, Andy Dick and Joachim Behnken were not far away, promising some exciting A-mains.

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