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September 7, 2015

2015 KO Propo GP – Report

The KO GP incorporating the final race of the Schumacher BTCC Championship took place at the West London track this last weekend. Well over 100 drivers took part in the three classes Modified, 13.5T boosted and 17.5T Blinky over two days of tough competition with the UK top drivers plus Schumacher’s young star Michal Orlowski from Poland. Unusually for West London the weather stayed dry all weekend with beautiful sunshine on Sunday. The Modified class was dominated by Elliott Harper taking a comfortable TQ with three TQ rounds from the five rounds of qualifying. Lining up behind Elliott was Olly Jefferies, Colin Price and Chris Grainger.

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September 7, 2015

Altmann & Klier win at German Pro10 Championships

The 26th International German Pro10 Championships were held at the MCC Rhein Ahr club in Bad Breisig over the weekend. A total of 33 drivers from France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Germany attended in the Modified and Stock classes. The event started out on Friday with open practice that, like the first two qualifiers on Saturday, was held in dry conditions. Unfortunately during the third qualifying round of the Stock class the heaven opened its gates and it was decided to run the third round of the Modified class on Sunday morning. Thankfully Sunday started out dry but it was pretty windy but that further helped to dry the track so the event would go ahead as planned. In the Modified class warm-up winner Tim Altmann made a clean sweep to grab the TQ from Patrick Miltat and Kai Altmann.

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September 7, 2015

Ginting & Izzah win at East Speedway pre-opening race

The East Speedway pre-opening race was held with a total of 45 racers attending in the 1/10th 13.5T Boosted, FWD and Mini classes. In the 13.5T Boosted TC category Bowie Ginting was able to grab the TQ with the only 27-lap run from Muhammad Izzah in second, who narrowly missed the 27-lap barrier with a 26 laps 5:00 run. Arya Seta and Christian Mamesah came in third and fourth after the qualifiers. In the FWD class Muhammad Izzah took the TQ from Bowie Ginting and Arya Seta.

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September 6, 2015

Zsolt Bajusz wins at RCProf Summer Series Rd5

Round five of the RCProf Summer Series was held at the MAMSE outdoor track with the 13.5T Touring class being the most popular category. Hot weather was predicted for the race day and so everyone was eager to grab the TQ in the first of the three qualifiers as the grip level would decrease over the day. Zsolt Bajusz made the best out of a new set of Rex34 tyres and he would take the TQ in round one and with it the pole position for the triple A-mains as no one was able to get near his time in the following two qualifying rounds. The opening A-main then saw a close fight between Zsolt and the second placed driver with loads of position changes happening. At the end of leg one Zsolt held the upper hand an scored the win. A2 then had Zsolt cruising to the leg and the overall win and he is now in a good position to secure the overall title at the forthcoming sixth and final round of the RCProf Summer Challenge. Second at round five was Gabor Forrai, Janos Birinyi completed the top 3 result in the 13.5T class.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 5, 2015

Alex Hagberg & Olly Jefferies – Exclusive Interview

As previously announced, today we are publishing an exclusive interview with Xray’s Alexander Hagberg and Olly Jefferies ahead of the forthcoming release of Xray’s new X12 2016 Spec. This interview from the Slovakian manufacturer will shortly be followed by an exclusive write-up with more in-depth information on what racers can expect from Xray’s latest 1/12th pan car.

Read the full exclusive interview here

September 4, 2015

Patrick Folman takes Danish Modified TC title

The final round of the Danish National Electric Touring Car series was held at the Odense R/C Minirace track. Saturday was devoted to practice and everybody was trying to find a setup for a track that started out dusty with low grip, but ended up with medium grip. Much focus was on the Modified class and before the final round several drivers had changed sponsors, teams and cars. This was going to be the first race for Patrick Folman, now driving for Schumacher with the Mi5Evo, Frederik Hovgaard with his new Danish-developed Gizmo touring car, and Gustav Pind driving the Yokomo BD7. During Saturday’s practice Frederik Hovgaard demonstrated some really fast lap times with his Gizmo while the developers of the car were at the track to support Frederik. Only Patrick Folman could match the pace and behind the two Frederik Broløs Mikkelsen and Gustav Pind were working hard to catch up. Further down the field Stefan Finnich (Xray), Lars Holm (Yokomo) and Anders Dyrlund (TOP) were also in the mix.

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September 4, 2015

Mansson wins as Karlsen takes Swedish 4WD title

Round three of Swedish National Cup series was held in the small village of Viskafors, hosted by the Boras MRK club. Usually used for 1/8th off-road racing the track was pretty big for the 1/10th scale buggies and also the jump sections held some difficulties for the drivers as these were critical to score consistent and fast lap times. In the 4WD qualifiers Alexander Landen was able to TQ the first two rounds, but Niclas Mansson stroke back and took round three and four and he was also able to grab the overall TQ with a better tie-breaker to line up on the pole position for the triple A-mains.

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September 4, 2015

Mara & Novotny win at Czech Buggy Nats Rd3

Round three of the Czech 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held at the RC Club Radotin track in Prague. In the Nitro Buggy class Jiri Mara (Serpent) took the win from Karel Novotny (Team Durango) and Max Götzek (Xray), who made a last lap move to secure himself the final podium spot. Elsewhere in the E-Buggy class Karel Novotny (Team Durango) grabbed the win from Ales Bidovsky (TLR) while Max Götzel scored his second third place finish of the day to round out the podium.

View the E-Buggy podium here