The second round of this year’s JBRL Winter Indoor Off-road Series was held at SDRC Raceway in San Diego, California this past weekend. In the 2WD Open Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Austin Pannone with the win from Tyler Hicks 2nd and Matthew Gonzales 3rd, making it an all-Team-Associated podium.
Famous Japanese RC car racer Kazuki Endo recently held its annual Kazuki Cup at the Kyosho R246 outdoor tarmac track in the Kanagawa prefecture. The event saw the running of six electric on-road categories one of which was a budget cap class that had the competitors built their race cars within a 20,000 Yen (150€/180US$) budget – including motor, body and tyres. However the premier category was Touring Modified with Kyosho’s Hayato Ishioka taking the TQ and new Destiny driver Yugo Nagashima putting his car on the 2 spot. Hayato had the hole shot at the rolling style start as Yugo made a mistake and lost his position. Although Yugo finally moved up to 2nd again, Hayato’s race was pretty much smooth sailing and he ultimately won the A-main as up and coming racer Ion Shionoya took the overall 3rd spot with his Xray. Videos and more results from the event can be found here.
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The third round of this season’s Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena recently. The weekend kicked off on Friday with free practice followed by more free practice on Saturday morning and three round of qualifiers. In the Touring Modified class there were some close battles for the overall TQ with Martin Hudy, up and coming Oliver Havranek and Zdenko Kunak all being in the mix. In the end Martin Hudy gained the TQ just 0.6s in front of Oliver Havránek and Zdenko Kunák. In very close finals it was again Martin Hudy who came out on top of Oliver Havránek and Zdenko Kunák.
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Capital City Raceway played host to the 5th Annual Big Bend Shootout recently. Challenging racing conditions with a rough yet high grip track and cold weather made things interesting for the racers and in Pro Nitro Buggy it was Xray’s Landen Lewis who made the best out of the conditions, taking home the win in front of Tekno’s Kenny Morris Jr. and Serpent’s Will McGiver.
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Thornhill Raceway of Hutto, Texas held their Toys for Tots race last weekend, raising $3000 and lots of toys for the good cause. Jason Woolridge (Xray) was top qualifier in Nitro and would also bring home the win from Xray teammate, Nick Vanderpool while Elliott Martinez rounded out the top 3 results. Over in E-Buggy it was again Jason Woolridge (Xray) with the win as Daniel Grobe (Xray) and Sean Gallagher (Mugen) completed the podium.
Last weekend saw round 3 of the RugRacers 2017/18 race series take place at Wodson Park. With severe weather warnings in place, some racers chose not to make the journey to a heavy snow covered Hertfordshire. The 44 drivers that braved the conditions were greeted by one of the best track layouts the RugRacer team have ever set out.
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The opening round of the Swiss SITCC series was held recently. In the Touring Car class it was HB Racing’s Kevin Zwahlen who took a narrow TQ from Cham Dassanayake (Xray) who returned to the series after two years of absence. After the triple A-mains it was again Kevin on top with Cham Dassanayake, who had some mixed races, in 2nd and Briac Berthoud (Xray) 3rd. Over in the Formula class it was Nicolas Albina with the win from Sergio Ramos and Ulrich Bader in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The annual PMTC electric touring car race was held at the AMA track in Panyu, Guangzhou, China recently. In the Modified class Gary Huang would lead the way in practice and the qualifiers, taking the overall TQ for the triple A-mains. However due to a mishap in the opening A-main he had to make way for teammate Alfred Lao but with wins in the remaining two legs, Gary would walk away with the overall win after the mains.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
