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December 8, 2015

Jeremy Limoges joins Xray

Xray have announced the signing of multiple French Champion Jeremy Limoges to their team for the 2016 season. The electric on-road specialist will attend at all major regional and national races along international events such as the EFRA Euros and the ETS. Jeremy will run Xray’s T4 and X1 cars and he has the following to say:

I have been racing as a private racer with Xray since 2006 starting back in the time with my first T2 and over the years continued through the T3 platform until today. Thanks to the performance and reliability of the Xray cars I was able during the years to grab several major achievements and victories and being satisfied with the team work and team spirit there is no other choice for me than Xray. I am happy to be part of the Xray team to represent the team in France and I will do my best also at international races in 2016. Thanks to Xray for the given trust in me.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 8, 2015

Karri Salmela wins at Finnish Touring Nationals Rd1

The opening round of the Finnish 1/10 Touring Nationals was held at the Fullspeed RC raceway in Helsinki on a small and challenging track. In qualifying Karri Salmela was the man to beat and after the four qualifying rounds he took the overall TQ from Henry Salmen and Kalle Lehto. The opening final then saw the top 3 finish in the starting order but in A2 Karri crashed at the three minute mark, resulting in a DNF for him. Kalle made maximum use of the situation and took the win and going into the third and decisive leg Karri, Kalle and Henry all had the chance to grab the overall win. At the end of A3 the top 3 again finished in the starting order, handing Karri the win in the final main and also the overall victory at the opening round of the championship.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

December 8, 2015

Willian Capitelli wins at Curitibano Championship Rd9

The ninth and final round of the Brazilian Curitibano Championship was held at the CAAR track. Despite a worst rain forecast with rain all weekend the weather on Saturday started out of and at the end it was young Lucas Baruffi (Xray) who came out fastest after practice and seeding from fellow Xray drivers Willian Capitelli and André Franchi. The heats then started on an inconsistent and slippery track and at the end of heat four the rain came back, forcing for an hour long break until heat five could be started. Unfortunately the heaven opened its gates again and so the championship reached its end and it was Willian Capitelli who took the overall win. Lucas Baruffi grabbed the runner-up spot from Flavio Salinet (Xray) who rounded out the top 3 result.

View the final result here

December 7, 2015

Maifield does double at JConcepts Finals

Ryan Maifield has completed the buggy double at the Finals of the JConcepts Indoor National Series in Omaha. Taking the an early overall victory in 2WD Mod after winning A1 & 2, the Team Losi Racing driver would have to wait until A3 and the final race of the Hobby Plex event to claim the 4WD win. Top Qualifier in 4WD, Maifield would finish second to Spencer Rivkin in A1 but winning A2 it set up a straight battle between himself and his protege for the overall win. Starting second behind his mentor, Rivkin would push Maifield hard for the win until his Associated hooked the piping. Enough to give Maifield control of the race Rivkin would finish second with last year’s winner Jared Tebo coming home third to complete the podium at the fifth & final event of the JConcepts championship.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete coverage here.

December 7, 2015

Philipp Walleser wins at MRCL Winter Series Rd2

Round 2 of the MRCL Winter Series was held in Longwy and in the 10.5T Touring Stock category it was Philipp Walleser who grabbed the pole position for the triple A-mains with the round TQ in the third and final qualifier. Behind him Michael Kiesewetter and Alexander Becker lined up in second and third respectively. In the finals Philipp, who had just ended a year off from RC, took win in the first and second leg to grab the overall win early. Thomas Stenger would end the day on the runner-up spot with Michael Kiesewetter rounding out the top 3 result.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

December 7, 2015

Alexander Hagberg wins high-class Slovakia Cup Rd3

The third round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia this past weekend. With the opening round of the 2015/16 ETS taking place at the iconic venue in only one week time, both national and international drivers used the event to get some last minute practice, making for a total of 97 entries for the weekend. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Alexander Hagberg would dominate the proceedings by taking the TQ and the win from Martin Hudy (Xray) with Germany’s Dionys Stadler (Xray) rounding out the top 3 result.

Continue reading the report here

December 7, 2015

Azri Amri wins at SIS Year End Race

Sunter International Speedway in Jakarta, Indonesia played host to the SIS Year End Race with more than 70 drivers in attendance in the three classes of Touring 13.5T Boosted, FWD and Mini. In the 13.5T Boosted category the race for the TQ was on between Azri Amri and Bowie Ginting with both scoring round TQs on Saturday and they were tie on points going into the final qualifier on Sunday morning. A very fast run saw Bowie taking the final round TQ and with it the pole position for the triple A-mains with Azri putting his car on the two spot. Suwardi Suliandy and Peter Anthonisz would round out the top 4 result.

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December 7, 2015

Max Mächler wins Touring Stock class at Charity Race

The annual Charity Race was held this past weekend at RC Landia in Scandiano, Italy. As usual the race attracted the some of the fastest Italian drivers to compete against guests from abroad and in the 13.5T Touring Stock class it was Germany’s Max Mächler (Awesomatix) who would be in control of things by taking the overall TQ from Riccardo Rabitti and Gabriele Berselli (Xray). In the opening A-main Max would score a clean win some four seconds on front of Nico Catelani (Yokomo) and Riccardo. A2 and it was Nico who would come out fastest from Riccardo while Max only finished in 4th place meaning the third and final leg would bring the decision for the day’s win. Scoring the fastest lap in the finals, Max soon made his intensions clear to bring home the win in A3 and at the end he would come out successful some three seconds in front of Riccardo and Nico to grab the 13.5T Touring Stock title from Nico Catelani on the runner-up spot while Riccardo Rabitti rounded out the podium in third.

Image: Max Mächler