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June 4, 2014

Haaheim takes TC Mod title at Nordic Championships

The Nordic Championship was held at the Lørenskog Modelbilklubbs track near Oslo, Norway. The 2-day event attracted about 30 drivers in the Modified Touring Car class. A Stock class was also run as a support class with some 20 drivers in attendance. The race format saw 5 rounds of round by round qualifying with 4 of them being run on Saturday and the last one on Sunday, followed by triple mains. In qualifying it early came clear that it would be a three horse race for the TQ, with local star Helge Johannessen, Swedish ace Daniel Carlsson and the youngster Nikolai Haaheim outpacing the rest of the field. Local star Helge Johannessen would eventually claim the overnight TQ in front of Nikolai Haaheim who had his best result deleted as he was late for marshalling in a leg.

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June 3, 2014

Alexander Hagberg doubles at Xray Challenge Korea

The 2014 edition of the Xray Challenge Korea was held at the Kirina circuit, one hour away from the capital of Seoul. Drivers joined the race in three different classes and hot weather conditions on Sunday helped making the race a successful one. The Kirina circuit is of medium size, but challenging in both nitro and electric classes. Xray’s Alexander Hagberg was able to TQ the electric touring car class in front of Mr. Ahn in 2nd and Mr. Ryan Lee in 3rd place. Alex went on to win the triple A-finals as well as setting a new track record of 16.0 seconds.

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June 3, 2014

HotRace Cup Rome – Announcement

July 18th to 20th sees the HotRace Cup run in Rome on a track halfway between the centre of the city and the sea. International drivers like Eric Dankel and Alexander Hagberg are already confirmed for the race that will be run in touring car modified and 13.5T stock classes. More information about the event, that will also see a Saturday night beach party, can be found on the official event site and on Facebook.

June 3, 2014

Martin Wollanka wins at Austrian Buggy nationals Rd1

This past weekend the first round of the Austrian nitro off-road nationals took place. Martin Wollanka was able to TQ the meeting by scoring the only 8 lap qualifying runs. The Xray driver started to struggle in the 1/2 final when the track conditions changed from low to high grip so he ultimately started from 3rd position into the final but some quick wrenching during the break before the main allowed him to up his pace and to end a fight with Dominic Bauer successfully. At the end of the 45 minute final Martin won with a 20 second marking in front of Dominic Bauer and Rene Kargl.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 3, 2014

Hupo Hönigl sweeps Austrian EP off-road nats Rd2

Hupo Hönigl sweeps Austrian electric off-road nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the Austrian 1/10th electric off-road nationals saw Team C’s Hupo Hönigl walking away with the TQ and win in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. Run at the TSA Krieglach track, Hupo took quite easy wins in A1 and A2 of the 2WD class allowing him to sit out A3. Philip Stocker finished 2nd, Martin Kreil completed the podium in 3rd. The 4WD class had again Hupo taking wins in A1 and A2 although he had quite a competition in the form of Team Associated’s Stefan Pfeifhofer in A2. Stefan then went on to take the overall runner-up spot from team mate Peter Pinisch by winning A3.

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June 3, 2014

Nejc Mihelic wins at Serpent Challenge Slovenia

The Serpent Challenge Slovenia was held last weekend in Tolmin, Slovenia in dry weather conditions although the weather forecast predicted rain interruptions. The race was held in 1/10th electric, 1/10th touring, 1/8th track, 1/8th, GT/Rally and 1/5th scale classes with a factory driver supported workshop on Saturday while Serpent designer Michael Salven was present for additional support. In the premier class of 1/8th on-road Jernej Vuga tookthe TQ in front of Nejc Mihelic and Michael Salven. Salven then took a time-out before the start allowing Mihelic and Vuga to run off. Vuga was able to hold a lead of a few seconds in front of Mihelic, but Mihelic managed to slowly catch on him. After 20 minutes Vuga ran into engines problems allowing Mihelic to take control of the race and to take the win in front of Salven and Vuga, who completed the podium.

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June 3, 2014

Edu Escandon wins Spanish 200mm nationals Rd2

The 2nd round of the Spanish 1/10th 200mm National Championships was held in Gijon in the North of Spain. Defending champion Edu Escandon took TQ honours, setting a new track record and being the only driver able to manage 16 seconds laps. Nacho Lopez was 2nd after the qualifiers and with Juan Hidalgo in 3rd and Sergi Franch in 4th.

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June 3, 2014

Tom Cockerill wins at TORCH round of BRCA nats

This weekend the BRCA 10th Off-Road National series visited TORCH club in Titchfield, the deep South of England. A new venue to the 6 round national series for this year, having previously hosted an end of season final. The club had done a good job of laying a fairly open, race-able track, with plenty of features to keep drivers busy, but nothing too difficult that it was make or break for any level of driver. The national format sees just 2 rounds of 3 minute practice runs before drivers in to 4 rounds of qualifying and then finals, with just the A main having 3 legs to battle it out, 2WD on the Saturday and 4WD on the Sunday.

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