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December 6, 2013

Davide Tortorici teams up with Xray

Xray announce that multiple European and Italian Champion Davide Tortorici has joined the team to race the company’s 1/10th electric off-road cars. Davide will use the XB4 & XB4 2WD at all Italian races as well as internationally at the EOS and European Championship. This is what Davide has to say about the deal:

I would like to thank Xray to give me this opportunity to race with the currently best 1/10 off-road cars. I am really happy to be part of the extremely professional and dedicated team and the quality and performance of the car give me a real confidence. I hope to see you all at EOS or Euros.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 5, 2013

Dustin Evans re-signs with Team Losi Racing

Former National Champion and Reedy race winner Dustin Evans has re-signed with Team Losi Racing. Dustin just wrapped up an impressive season with many notable wins including titles at the JConcepts Indoor Nationals, Rumble in the Rockies, Proline Surf City Classic as well as multiple ROAR National podiums and a respectable finish at the IFMAR Worlds. Dustin will continue to play a vital role in contributing feedback to the engineering team as well as providing input on future Team Losi Racing innovations through the 2016 racing season and he had this to say.

I am very excited to continue with TLR for another three years. We have had some very successful years and with all the great products and people at TLR, there should be many more to come.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

December 5, 2013

Ryan Dunford doubles at Toys for Tots

Exeter Hobbies held a Toys for Tots race Thanksgiving weekend, to raise donations for the Marine Corp Reserve toy drive. TLR Ryan Dunford and Doug “Casper” Nielsen made the drive up to the Central Valley from Southern California to help support this great cause and to mix it up with the locals. The race generated 80+ entries and tons of toys. Exeter hobbies does not normally field a modified buggy class so Ryan and Casper put in some stock motors to have some fun with the locals with 3 full heats of Pro stock buggy in attendance. After qualifying was done Ryan would take TQ with a blistering 19 lap time and Casper would line up second also on a 19 lap pace. Exeter hobbies runs a 2 bump up format and 7 min mains for more track time.

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December 5, 2013

Scott Gilles wins 2WD at Victoria State champs

The prestigious Victorian State Titles were run last weekend in Australia, with entry numbers pushing 200 and temps over 30 degrees Celsius for the weekend, there was sure to be some hot action. Sunday saw some very strong fields assemble for the 2WD competition, and it was Schumacher’s Scott Gilles who topped the leader board of the Spec motor class in rounds 2 and 3, seemingly securing him the TQ. However, the round 1 winner had other ideas and drove a superb race to eclipse Scott’s time and take the round win in the 4th. This meant Scott would start 2nd on the grid. Leg 1 of the finals saw Scott get off to a great start, shadowing the leader for three laps until he made a small error, the Schumacher driver then made a clean pass and went on to win. Leg 2 saw Scott get involved in the typical first corner struggles and he ended up in 3rd place after some mid-field chasing. In the third leg, Scott made a clean start and put his Cougar buggy into the lead on the second corner, never to be headed or challenged, winning the state title right after taking the runner-up spot the day before in the 4WD class.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

December 5, 2013

Maifield doubles at Arizona State championship

Maifield Wins Final Arizona State Championship at Hobbytown/SRS!

In what was the final Arizona State Championship at the Scottsdale location of Hobbytown/SRS, Team Associated/Reedy driver Ryan Maifield once again stamped his legacy on the event by claiming the top two titles in the state. With 28 years of heritage, the “States” have always been a staple of racing in Arizona and Ryan has been a part of the event since he was six years old, some 21 years ago. With a unique one-day event for each electric and gas, Maifield took the TQ and win of 2WD Modified Buggy on Saturday with his Centro-converted B4.2. Facing ever-changing track conditions, Maifield won A1 and A2 convincingly ahead of Billy Fischer and Tommy Hinz.

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December 5, 2013

South Norwegian Winter cup Rd1 – Report

The South Norwegian Winter cup kicked of in Kvinesdal, Norway and was held at the athletic hall in Kvinesdal allowing for a huge track. 55 drivers attended the race that had the best two qualifiers counted followed by triple A-mains. In the modified class Oskar Fjeld, driving a Yokomo BD7 set the pace in the first qualifier. The time would prove to hold for TQ. In the second qualifier the round had a battle between Xray driver Rune Svestøl and Øyvind Stusdal, in the end Øyvind took the win and the second spot on the grid two tenths in front of Rune. On the fourth spot sat modified debutant and youngster Tobias Sanden.

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December 4, 2013

Chris Cristo wins 2WD SC at Gobbler race

For the past eight years R/C Excitement in Fitchburg, Massachusetts has hosted the Gobbler race, and the ninth annual event took place last weekend. X Factory team manager Chris Cristo TQed 2WD Short Course and took a wire-to-wire win in the 8 minute A main. John Cravotta qualified his X Factory truck third and finished second, putting the X-Team 1-2 on the podium.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

December 4, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins at Portugal Off Road Series

A round of the Portugal Off Road Series was run at the RC Indoor Oeste track and in the 4WD buggy class it was Xray’s Bruno Coelho who dominated the field in qualifying. Due to the very technical layout of the track the finals were very demanding for all, but Bruno transformed his TQ spot into an overall win with Nuno Rebelo following him in 2nd place. Rodrigo Luis completed the top 3 while Nuno Roque and Tiago Vieira came in 4th and 5th respectively.

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