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December 16, 2015

Jean Delorme joins Xray

Xray have announced the signing of French Cup winner and French Stock vice-champion, Jean Delorme to their team. Jean has been racing Xray cars as a privateer for several years now and for the 2016 season he is part of the Xray factory team. Jean will attend at regional, national and international races including the ETS and he has the following to say about the deal:

We have been racing with Xray cars since ever because they are simply the best. Not only the quality and performance but the support we get is first class and makes me confident anytime I go to a race. I’m very proud and motivated to be part of the best team and I am looking forward to work with the team and improve my racing results. I want to thank Xray for this great opportunity.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 16, 2015

Williams & Owen win at SIWS

The December round of the Silverstone Indoor Winter Series saw another packed entry and some great racing. In 2WD Greg Williams (Schumacher) set TQ from team mates Richard Barton (Schumacher) and Dave Poulter (Schumacher). In the final Greg drove to a comfortable win from Ian Mellish (Kyosho) and Dave Poulter.

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December 16, 2015

BRCA 1/12th National Series Rd3 – Report

The 2015/16 1/12th National Series headed to Tamworth for the 3rd round of the series. Tamworth is one of the regular venues and is always one to get mentioned at the EGM for the amount of work that the Tamworth club put in to making it happen. In Saturday’s 10.5 Stock qualifying David Spashett showed the same lightning pace seen at Crewe by dominating qualifying, 3 out of 4 times going a lap quicker than the entire field. Mark Stiles, Mick Farrell and Chris Kerswell all swapped positions through qualifying. Spashett will take pole from Kerswell and Stiles with just 0.15 seconds between 2nd and 3rd.

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December 15, 2015

Xray Winter Series Greece Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Xray Winter Series Greece was held at the Fanatix Race Track with a good amount of drivers in attendance. The event was held in several classes including 1/10th Touring, Formula and a foam tyre class that had 1/10th and 1/12th scale cars racing together. In the Touring Car class John Doukakis (Awesomatix) took the overall TQ and he would come out fastest in the opening A-main but Georgiadis (Xray) held the upper hand in A2 and A3 to grab the overall win from Doukakis in second and Niotis (Xray) in third.

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December 15, 2015

JR Mitch doubles at Thunder Alley Christmas Race

Thunder Alley RC Speedway in Wilson, North Carolina hosted their Christmas Race this past weekend. Florida’s JR Mitch was the man to beat as he set the TQ and took the win in the Nitro Buggy class and to back up his Nitro Buggy efforts, Mitch also set the TQ and took the win in the E-Buggy class. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truggy class rising star Austin Woodward laid it down by taking the TQ and the win.

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December 14, 2015

Nico Risser joins Hitec

Hitec have announced the signing of reigning French and Belgium 1/10th electric off-road champion, Nico Risser to their team. Nico, who also won this year’s Belgion 1/8th E-Buggy nationals, will use Hitec’s Lynx 4S radio system in his upcoming campaign and he has the following to say:

I am really happy to be part of Team Hitec, the Lynx 4S is perfect in every aspect.

Source: Hitec [hitecrc.de]

December 14, 2015

Malin Karlsen teams up with G-Force

G-Force have announced the signing of Sweden’s Malin Karlsen to their team. The young lady already has a pretty remarkable CV following a successful racing year with the 4WD title in the Swedish national series, the Swedish 2WD and 4WD Junior title and an overall 28th place in the 4WD class at the 2015 IFMAR Worlds in Japan. In the coming year Malin will use the company’s chargers, power supplies and other accessories and she has the following to say about the deal:

I’m excited to have been signed to the G-Force Factory Team and can’t wait to start using their product line of chargers, power supplies, tyre warmers and corner weights. After the initial tests with the G-Force products I’m confident they will be a great asset to help me accomplish my goals for the upcoming 2016 season. I want to thank Qing Chang at G-Force for this opportunity and look forward to be working together with the entire G-Force Team.

Source: G-Force [gforce-hobby.jp]

December 14, 2015

Ryan Cavalieri doubles at Top Gun Shootout

The 4th annual Top Gun Shootout was held at SDRC in San Diego, California with just under 200 entries. In the premier class of 2WD Modified Buggy Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri would grab the TQ and also the win in the A-mains from 2015 IMFAR 2WD Buggy World Champion Spencer Rivkin. Fellow Team Associated driver Christian Toic rounded out the podium result in 3rd. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class it was again Ryan Cavalieri who came out fastest after the qualifiers and just like in the 2WD class he was able to conserve his qualifying performance to bring home the title from Spencer. Tyler Hicks in third would round out the all Team Associated podium. Elsewhere in the Racing Truck class Brent Thielke would grab the overall win from Kevin Kimberly and Reed Harper.

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