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April 13, 2018

Xray Racing Series Slovenia Rd1 – Report

Round 1 of the 2018 Xray Racing Series Slovenia took place at a new track to the calendar, the Pista Verde Fener in Italy. A lot of drivers made use of Saturday’s practice in order to get some laps under their belt following the winter indoor season. The EP categories were run using mandatory Hudy hand-out tyres, Hobbywing motor and Hudy additive while in 1/8th track a mixed set of rules is used with drivers who compete in the championship having to use Contact tyres while all other can use free tyres and additives. Following two controlled practice runs on Sunday everyone jumped straight into the qualifying action. In the 1/8th IC Track class the overall TQ went to ARC’s Mattia Collavo while the best control tyre pilot was Xray’s Jernej Vuga Štendler. In the Touring 13.5T Stock class it was Gabriel Benvenuti (Xray) with the TQ from Alessandro Arisi (Yokomo) and Lovro Šušteršič (ARC). Over in Formula 21.5T Andrea Ghilotti (Xray) snatched the TQ from Andrea Grigoletto (Roche) and Flavio Brun.

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April 13, 2018

Fabio Callegari wins at Italian North-East GT regionals

The second round of the Italian North-East GT regionals was held recently and it was Fabio Callegari with the win in the single speed class. Egidio Bellon came in 2nd as Marco Modolo rounded out the top 3 results.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 13, 2018

Simon Horak doubles at Rebels Race Rd5

The fifth round of the Czech Rebels Race series was held recently and it was Simon Horak who would sweep the Touring Stock qualifiers to take the overall TQ. Karel Kratochvíl was hot on Simon’s heels the whole day and in the opening A-main he would snatch the lead for a couple of moments following a mistake of Simon, however, the latter would regain the lead later on to take the win in A1. With flawless drives in the second and third A-main Simon would later seal the day’s win from Karel Kratochvíl as Ondřej Kohoutek rounded out an all-Xray podium. Over in the Formula class it was again Simon with the TQ and win as Dalibor Valder and Jiří Ročňak completed the top 3 result.

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April 13, 2018

Jari van de Wal wins at ERCE Open Champs Rd1

The opening round of the 2018 ERCE Open Championship was held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands with 15 racers attending in the 17.5T Touring class. Jari van de Wal took the TQ after the qualifiers and in the finals he was hotly chased by Mark Tullemans in A1 and A2, but ultimately it was Jari who hold the upper hand to take the win from Mark Tullemans 2nd and Dave Lunenburg 3rd.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

April 13, 2018

Rheinard & Coelho share lead as ETS moves outdoors in Spain

With the two carpet races on this year’s Yokomo Euro Touring Series leaving Marc Rheinard and Bruno Coelho sharing the lead in the points table, the championship moves to Spain this weekend (13-15 April) for Europe’s first major international outdoor race of 2018. With the large Asoger track having made a popular debut on the ETS calendar 12-months ago, it was to be Coelho who would go down as the first winner in Madrid enroute to the successful defence of his championship title. Like last season, the Xray driver again starts off the switch to asphalt at the top of the points but this time he shares it with Rheinard. The Infinity driver won the season opener in Austria ahead of Coelho with the duo swapping positions at Round 2 and now they each want to leave Spain with a second win and break clear of their rivals.

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April 12, 2018

IFMAR EP On-road Worlds warm-up – Announcement

The warm-up race for the 2018 IFMAR Electric On-road World Championships will be held on the weekend of the 29th of April at the Welkom RC Arena in Welkom, South Africa. It is a joint event with round 2 of the SARDA Nationals and the race also marks the opening of the new asphalt indoor facility. Scotty Ernst has been confirmed as race control and the announcer at this event with ten professional and International drivers attending the warm-up. The owner and host Antonio Caroli is working day and night to prepare the facility to ensure that a memorable event is presented with the track’ most important features are complete such as main building, asphalt track and drivers stand, toilets and showers, bar area, on site hobby shop and the kitchen and bar area. The purposely built pit tables will be installed next week and then all other cosmetics and final touches done over the next few months.

April 12, 2018

Jerome Sartel wins at French BL Champs Rd2

The second round of the French Brushless Championship was held at the Pierrefeu track last weekend. TLR’s Jerome Sartel took the TQ in the E-Buggy class and he would also come out on top after the A-mains to take the win from Kyosho’s Rayan Medjoubi 2nd and Team Associated driver Cyril Baldini 3rd. Over in the E-Truggy class it was again Jerome with the TQ and win, leaving behind TLR’s Felix Koegler and Mugen’s Gerald Delaguette in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Image: Rayan Medjoubi

April 12, 2018

2018 Asian Onroad Championships Rd1 – Report

The first round of this year’s Asian Onroad Championships was held at Shanghai’s RCIv2 facility. In Modified Touring it was the two Team Destiny drivers Yugo Nagashima and Jin Sawada, claiming a win each in the opening A-mains, who would decide the race for the overall win. In the hunt though for a top spot also was 2nd qualifier Xray driver JJ Wang who had a 2nd and a 4th place finish coming into the A3 final. The top four on the grid got away cleanly at the sound of the tone and freight trained through the field with only 3-seconds separating them. They would carry this momentum along with super clean racing and finish the way they started. Yugo Nagashima would claim his second win and overall win. JJ Wang claimed 2nd and with his other finishes put him 3rd on the podium and Jin Sawada finished 3rd, but with his other finishes he would claim the over all 2nd.

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