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October 27, 2015

Xray Winter Series Morava Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Xray Winter Series Morava was held at the Jedovnice sports hall in the Czech Republic this past weekend with local drivers and guests from abroad in attendance. The event was held in the five classes of Open, Stock 17.5T, Hobby, Formula and GT. In the Touring Open class Oliver Havranek was the man to beat as he won all qualifiers in front of Michal Vitamvas. The opening A-main went to Oliver but an improving Michal stroke back in A2 so the third and final main would decide over the day’s win. With Oliver laying down a flawless run he would take the win in a heartbeat final and with a margin of only 0.5 seconds on Michal so Oliver would take the overall victory from runner-up Michal. Miroslava Jurenka rounded out the podium result.

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October 26, 2015

KS Huang wins at China On-road nationals

This past weekend the China On-road Nationals were held in Fentai, Beijing, host of next year’s Electric World Championships. The event saw drivers from all over China participating in the China national team selection race. In the 190mm Sedan class it was HB team driver Huang Kui Sheng who took the overall win from runner-up Felix Law (MTS) while TOP Racing’s Zhu Xiao Feng finished third. Because Felix being a US citizen, the organisers promoted Feng to joint-second, allowing 11 years old Xray driver Lao Ming Hao to grab the final podium spot. In the 1/12th scale class, Jimmy Qian from Shanghai took the National title.

Source: HPI [hpiracing.net.cn]

October 26, 2015

Tessmann & Cavalieri win at 1st annual SikCross

The first annual SikCross was held this past weekend at Pro-line’s test facility in Banning, California. Levi Jackson was promising to bring supercross to RC with a brand new event, totally different than any other format in RC. Practice, seeding, qualifying was supercross style with side by side, heads up racing and at the end it was HB’s Ty Tessmann who would come out successful in the 1/8th Pro Buggy class from Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri and Kyosho’s Cody King.

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October 26, 2015

Steve Deblaere wins at Lovan RC Challenge Rd1

The opening round of the Belgium Lovan RC Challenge was held this past weekend in Kortemark. In the Formula class Steven Deblaere and Nicolas Delise battled for the pole position with the better end for Steve whose TQ time was only 0.18 seconds faster than Nicolas’. Dimitri de Baeker lined up in third for the finals. In the triple A-mains Steve would make a clean sweep to take the day’s win from Nicolas Delise who came in second but not without having another close fight with Steve in A1 when the two separated less than three tenth of a second. With two third place finishes Dimitri de Baeker would end the day on the third spot.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 24, 2015

EOS announces cost reduction tyre ruling

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After a hugely successful opening round to Season #5 of the Euro Offroad Series at the famous full size Nurburgring race track in Germany, the championship is pleased to officially announce two changes in relation to the handout Schumacher tyres. Coming into effect for Round 2, which takes place at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia next month (20-22 Nov), drivers will be limited to two sets of preglued tyres per class.

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October 22, 2015

ENS Season finale to decide 2015 Champions

Both of this year’s Euro Nitro Series Champions will be decided this weekend (23-25 October) at the world famous Minicar Fiorano circuit in Italy with four drivers in contention for each of the titles. The fourth & final round of the high profile nitro onroad championship, the conclusion to Season #2 has attracted a record entry of 170 drivers but the focus is on who will lay claim to the prestigious titles come Sunday evening. A season that has seen three different winners from the opening three rounds it is very much all to play for among the title protagonists.

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October 22, 2015

Xray Work.Shop Germany – Announcement

Xray have announced the Xray Work.Shop Germany for the Saturday the 7th of November at the TSV 1871 Augsburg club. Held by Xray factory team driver Marco Kaufmann in cooperation with RC Kleinkram the workshop will focus on individual setup held and driver coaching. Included in the entry fee of 19 Euros is an Xray T-shirt and more information can be found here and also on the hosting club’s Facebook page here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 22, 2015

RCProf Challenge Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Hungarian RCProf Challenge was held at the RC Arena track in Budapest. In the Touring Car 13.5T Stock class Janos Birinyi took the TQ but in the opening A-main Barnabas Toth stroke back with a win after Janos made a mistake. A2 then brought a clean win for Janos, so the decision for the day’s win would fall in the third A-main and it was again Janos who came out successful to take overall victory from Barnabas Toth and Peter Miko.

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