The Greek Fanatix Racing Track in Stamata, Attiki is another venue of Xray’s growing Xray Winter Series that spreads across Europe this coming 2015/16 season. The five round national series kicks off on the 6th of December with the final round taking place on the 3rd of April. The series is held in the four classes of Touring Modified, Formula, 1/10th Pancar and 1/12th Pancar and race registration can be found here.
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The 2015 Kyosho Masters USA were held this past weekend at RC Tracks of Las Vegas, home of the 2016 IFMAR 1/8th Buggy World Championships. The event saw the attendance not only of U.S. Kyosho drivers but also some swift guests from abroad such as Riccardo Berton, Elliott Boots and Kyosho’s own Yuichi Kanai. In the premier Nitro Buggy class 2015 Italian Nitro Buggy Champion Riccardo Berton made a clean sweep by TQing three of the five qualifiers to take the overall TQ from Elliott Boots and Cody King who came out fastest in the remaining rounds. Jared Tebo and Kyle Johnson completed the top 5 after the qualifiers.
The final round of the Indonesian Electric On-road National Championship was held at the East RC Speedway, Jakarta. Going into the event Bowie Ginting was points leader in the 13.5T Boosted Touring class and he only needed to qualify for the A-main in order to take this year’s title. Bowie soon made his intentions clear to round out a perfect season with another win as he took a pretty undefeated TQ some five seconds clear of Muhammad Izzah and Peter Anthonijsz while Christian Mamesah rounded out the top 4. The opening A-main then was won by Bowie after an unlucky Muhammad collided with a tyre barrier that was hit and thrown on the straight. Two laps down Ronald Kasengkang ended the opening leg in second position. The second A-main again had Bowie coming out fastest, this time from Izzah and Peter. The overall win also handed Bowie the national title and he would sit out A3 to let the other drivers battle for the runner-up spot. Ultimately Muhammad Izzah grabbed the win in the final A-main to end the day in second place from Peter Anthonijsz who rounded out the top 3 result.
Roche Products International have announced the signing of multiple IFMAR 1/12th and 2014 ISTC World Champion Naoto Matsukura to race the company’s Rapide P12 1/12th scale pan car in the coming season. His campaign will also include the 2016 1/12th World Championships in China and additionally Naoto will help with further R&D work on Roche’s Rapide P12 platform.
Source: Roche [rocherc.com]
The second round of the Greek 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the Zorri RC track. In the 4WD class the Paparegas brother (both Xray) soon made their intentions clear by coming out fastest in the qualifiers with Tasos grabbing the runner up spot from John in second. Argi (Kyosho) would round out the top 3 after the qualifiers. In the finals it was again Tasos who came out fastest from John with Nicolas Floudas (TLR) completing the podium, coming from the 6 spot on the grid.
The well-known EWS Events team have announced the third edition of the popular International Carpet Challenge event will take place on the weekend of 19-21 February 2016 at their indoor venue near Southend, UK. The race, which will feature classes for Modified and Super Stock Touring Car, plus Formula 1, has grown over the last two years and attracts many drivers from across Europe. As well as the top UK drivers, last year’s runner up Christopher Krapp has already informed us that he plans to attend again. Additionally, a number of Europe’s top Modified, Stock and Formula racers are expected to make the trip to England. Entries for the event, which will also feature a Saturday night drivers’ party at a nearby venue, are now open and will be capped at 150 to ensure a full race program with plenty of track time for everyone can be completed. Full details, rules, and entries are available here.
Round one of the French Winter Nationals was held in Montbrison. In the Touring Modified class Lucas Urbain (VBC) and Alexandre Laurent (Xray) battled for the TQ spot with the better end for Alexandre whose last minute shot in the final qualifier handed him the overall TQ and the pole position for the triple A-mains. The final legs then were as tight as the qualifiers. Lucas would come out successful in the opening A-final but Alexandre stroke back in A2 and A3 to take the overall win from Lucas. Loic Jasmin (Yokomo) came in third to round out the podium.
The 11th edition of the PN Racing World Cup will be held this coming weekend in Maranello, Italy. Born from the idea of PN Racing’s Philip Ng and considered to be the most important Mini-Z race World-wide with former host countries being the U.S. and Singapore, the event will make its first ever stop in Italy. Organised by Minizracing and Davide Marka the event will see the attendance of 140 drivers from different countries to compete in the five classes of 2WD, GT Mod, PanCar, Formula 1 and Le Mans. The race direction will be carried out by Riccardo Acciari and Giuliano Golfieri and more information about the race can be found here.
