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March 4, 2016

Valerio wins at final round of Automodelli.it series

The final round of the Automodelli.it series was held at the Indoor Racing Chilelli track. Roberto Fabiano would take a close TQ in the 13.5T Touring class but with a win in the second A-main and a second place finish in A3, Andrea Valerio would grab the overall win at the final round. Davide Gianuzzi snatched the runner-up spot from pole position holder Roberto Fabiano. Andrea Simari and Giuseppe de Liquori would round out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 3, 2016

Yong & Chiang win at Indoor Carpet Event

Last weekend saw Singapore holding its first ever Offroad Indoor Carpet Event – aptly named ICE – at the nation’s famous Science Centre. Over 60 racers signed in for the three classes of 2WD Open, 4WD Open and a Junior under-12 race. The event was run on a custom-built carpet track and saw all racers running on the new track with a new layout on new tires for the first time. These conditions, coupled with a strict no-additive rule, made for an incredibly fair and exciting race. The 2WD Open Buggy practice and qualifying saw racers clocking faster laptimes with every round as setups were tuned and the handout Sweep Nonslip tyres started to groove in and generate more grip. Topping the table on 2 of the 3 qualifying runs, Mark Lim would take a convincing TQ position with Vincent Yong in second and Jeremy Hong qualifying third.

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March 2, 2016

2016 RC Lemans Series – Announcement

Going into its 11th season the 2016 RC Lemans Series will kick off on the weekend of the 24th of April at the iconic Appeldoorn track in the Netherlands. Run in the two Pro10 classes of LMP1 Modified and LMP2 10.5T Stock the series will visit seven different tracks in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany with the 2015 instalment having attracted drivers from five different countries. New for 2016 is also the South German RC Lemans Series with the August round at the Rötz track also being the German Nationals warm-up race. More information, the race calendar and more can be found on the series’ website here.

March 2, 2016

Slovakia Cup Rd5 – Report

The fifth round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the iconic Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin. The event saw the running of several electric on-road and off-road classes and it not only attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers but also guests from Austria and Germany. The Touring Modified class was won by Xray’s own Martin Hudy from team mate Patrick Gollner. Capricorn driver Zdeno Kunak rounded out the top 3 after the A-mains.

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March 2, 2016

Joe Streff wins 10.5T class at MRCL Winter Series Rd4

Joe Streff wins at MRCL Winter Series Rd4

Round four of the MRCL Winter Series was held in Longwy in the North of France in the usual array of several electric on-road classes. In Touring 10.5T the race was on between Philipp Walleser (Team Magic) and Joe Streff (Xray). Philipp would obtain the top qualifying position but during the mains both swapped positions, ultimately handing the day’s win to Joe while Philipp had to settle for second. Richard Volta (Xray) completed the podium result in front of Thomas Stenger and Dirk Rischard.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

March 2, 2016

Yannic Prümper teams up with VBC Racing

Jannic Prümper teams up with VBC Racing

VBC Racing have announced the signing of German frontrunner, Yannic Prümper to their factory team. The former Yokomo driver will compete in electric on-road and off-road classes at all major races while also assisting with product development. Yannic has the following to say:

I would like to thank VBC Racing for putting the trust in me and giving me the opportunity to become a part of the very exciting VBC Racing Team! I can’t wait to share my experience with the team and work on future projects. See you at the track!

Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]

March 2, 2016

Niclas Mansson wins at WBC Cup Rd4

Round four of the Swedish WBC Cup was held this past weekend, hosted by the MSK Kvarnvingarna club. In the 4WD Buggy class Niclas Mansson took the TQ from Alexander Landen and Marcus Sandberg. The triple A-mains were a pretty close affair with Alexander coming out successful from Niclas in the opening A-main. The win in the second A-main then went to Niclas from Marcus and Alexander with the latter suffering from radio glitches which denied him to battle for the win. The third A-main then again had Niclas coming out fastest from Alexander, handing Niclas Mansson (Team Associated) the overall win from young Alexander Landen (Xray), who achieved a maiden podium at the WBC Cup series. Behind the two, Marcus Sandberg (HB) completed the top 3 result.

View the 4WD A-main result here

March 1, 2016

Kaja Novotny dominates Czech XWS Rd5

Round five of the Czech Xray Winter Series was held in Kolin over the weekend. As usual the track was an all-carpet affair with removable jump sections to allow the running of both electric on-road and off-road classes. Xray’s Kaja Novotny would TQ the 2WD Buggy class even though he at first struggled with the somewhat low grip conditions created by the mandatory slick tyres. Kaja’s team mates Zdenek Miksovsky and Martin Korinek would round out the top 3 so far. In 4WD Kaja made a couple of mistakes in Q1 but he stroke back in the second and third qualifier to grab a second TQ this weekend. The top 3 was completed by Milan Mudra and Zdenek Miksovsky.

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