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June 3, 2015

Jarno Pijpers joins Xray Junior Racing Programm

Xray have announced the signing of young and talented Jarno Pijpers to their Junior racing team. The 14-year Dutch racer has so far shown an exceptional talent in off-road racing and he will be racing the full line of Xray off-road cars in his upcoming campaign including the XB8, XB8E, XB4, and XB2. This is what Jarno has to say:

I am very pleased to be given this unmatched opportunity to join the junior Xray team and to represent the greatest RC car company. To be part of this team has been my dream since I started racing few years ago and it was Xray that was my first car. I am honored and also fully motivated to work as much as possible to improve my racing results. Thank you Xray for your trust in me.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 2, 2015

Owen wins electric class at Swindon Nitrocross Rd6

The recent sixth round of the Swindon Nitrocross saw Ashlee Owen taking the win in the E-Buggy class. Coming from the 3 spot on the grid Ashlee had a great start that allowed him to pull away from the pack early. He then made a mistake and briefly dropped back to 3rd position but from there he made a couple of passes and took a comfortable win by 21 seconds at the end of the 15 minute final. Chris Lovell came in 2nd while Mick Butler rounded out the top 3 result. Further down the field Sean Wiles and Mark Hicks rounded out the top 5.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 2, 2015

Schumacher BTCC Rd2 – Report

The superb and very fast venue of Mendip was the host of the second round of the Schumacher BTCC this past weekend. Many drivers turned up on Saturday for some track time with the weather being dry but cool all day. Come Sunday the weather changed with the track being wet with a few puddles on it. The organisers decided that there would be open practice running until 10AM to give the track plenty of chance to dry out. Also due to the entry being somewhat lower than usual, mainly due to many of the regular drivers attending the ETS race on the same weekend, it was decided that six rounds of qualifying and single mains would be held. The format therefore was three from six rounds to count on round by round qualifying. This was hugely welcomed by the racers who were in attendance, making for plenty of track time before the National in a couple of weeks. After the qualifiers and the single mains Kyle Branson came out successful in the Modified class from Chris Grainger and Stefan Chodzynski.

Click here to view the final results

June 2, 2015

Jerome Aigoin doubles at RCMBT Rd4

Round 4 of the RCMag Brushless Tour 2015 was held at the MRCL Longvic track in France. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin came out successful in front of Lorenzo Crolla (Xray) and Mugen driver Kevin Michaudet. In the 2WD Short Course class it was again Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho) who took the overall win, this time in front of runner-up Jean-Pierrick Sartel (TLR) and Armand Lantheaume (Team Associated).

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

June 1, 2015

Coelho endorses huge following with first ETS win

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Bruno Coelho has won the fifth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg, a fourth place in the final A-Main enough for the A2 winner to secure his first overall win in the world famous electric touring car championship. An event that would see four drivers go into A3 with a chance of the overall win, the new star of touring cars Coelho would become only the 11th different winner of the ETS’ premiere class helped by Xray team-mate Alexander Hagberg taking the win ahead of Marc Rheinard. Again briefly taking the lead only to again roll his HB Jilles Groskamp would complete the podium at the unique Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg” track. For reigning champion Ronald Volker his chance to secure a fifth consecutive title will have to wait until the season finale at the Hudy Arena after he put his Yokomo on the grass while leading, leaving him to end the event 5th overall. Rheinard’s second today means the Tamiya driver still has a very slim chance of the title.

Continue reading this report here or our full event coverage here.

June 1, 2015

Jorge Simoes wins at Portuguese TC Nationals Rd3

Jorge Simones wins at Portuguese TC Nationals Rd3

The third round of the Portuguese Electric Touring Car Nationals was held at the Associacao Academica de Coimbra race venue. Team Durango’s Jorge Simoes took the TQ in the Stock class from Helder Silva (Capricorn) and Joao Jardim (Xray) and in the triple A-mains it was again Jorge who came out successful despite having some mixed results. Helder Silva ended the mains tie on points with Jorge in 2nd place while Joao Jardim rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]

June 1, 2015

Martin & Batlle win at Mugen Seiki Cup

The 2015 Mugen Seiki Cup was held in Reims, France this past weekend. The race brought together Mugen’s international star racers, local talent and newcomers alike for a workshop and race weekend. As for the racing side of things, in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class UK’s Lee Martin came out successful from Spaniard Robert Batlle and Italy’s Davide Ongaro while in the triple E-Buggy mains Robert Batlle took the winning honours from Stephane Couchon and Davide Ongaro.

Click here to view the E-Buggy podium

June 1, 2015

Martin Bayer wins 1/8th E-Buggy Euros warm-up race

The 1/8th E-Buggy European Championship warm-up was held this past weekend in Fehring, Austria. On Saturday four rounds of practice and three round of qualifying would be held with Xray’s Martin Bayer coming out as the fastest driver. Overnight rain and a wet track on Sunday morning meant round four of the qualifiers needed to be called off so everyone went straight into the finals in which Martin again came out successful after some dramatic situations. Winning A1 and A2 meant the overall win for him in front of Jürgen Trieb and Hupo Hönig (Serpent). Martin Wollanka (Xray) and Kaja Novotny (Team Durango) rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]