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February 15, 2017

Hadley & Munn sweep Cabin Fever 2017

Widely considered to be the official kickoff to the outdoor season in the Pacific NW, the annual Cabin Fever race was once again hosted by the RC Car Club of Lewiston, Idaho. The highly anticipated event drew 296 entries despite adverse weather conditions that closed mountain passes in the region, causing many racers to travel much longer distances than normal. Racers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Canada were all in attendance. Ironically the “outdoor kickoff” is held inside a covered arena at the Lewiston, Idaho Rodeo Grounds. The track is a bit larger than most tracks in the area, and while made to allow the smaller 1/10th scale cars to have great racing, the tracks for the Cabin Fever race tend to feature large obstacles and cater more to the 1/8 vehicles. The cold temperatures and changing track conditions made a lot of racers rethink tire choices throughout the weekend as the building was not heated. In the premier 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Keith Hadley too the TQ and win with Taylor Wonders and Jason Hunt coming in second and third respectively.

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February 15, 2017

Joel Eaton wins at Addiction RC Raceway club race

Addiction RC Raceway recently held a club race and in the 2WD Buggy class A-main Joel Eaton, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, fell back to third due to a bobble on new tyres in the opening stages. A mistake by Jenkins put Brady Anderson to the point with Joel in close pursuit. A clean pass for the lead by Eaton on Brady was the last time the lead would change hands just a few laps in. Brady was able to keep toe for a few more laps until Joel’s tyres finally broke in and he was able to click off high 14 second laps repeatedly to the end to bring home the win.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 15, 2017

Dominic Quek wins at Urban Touring Series Rd2

Round 2 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held this past weekend in downtown Singapore. With the Chinese New Year festivities still in the air, racers were looking forward to a great racing start in the Year of the Rooster. This time only a single Touring Car class, 17.5T Blinky, was run. In qualifying, run over four rounds with the best-2 points score to count, Dominic Quek (Xray) would secure an early overall TQ after three consecutive TQ runs. In Q4, Colin Tong (Xray) and Leonard Sim (Awesomatix) started Q4 in front, but a racing incident allowed Chee Lip Keong (Yokomo) to capitalise and secure a surprise TQ for the round. This shook up the final qualifying standings as Lip Keong secured P2 on the grid on the tie-break. Leonard would start in P3, with Colin in P4.

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February 15, 2017

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Xray Racing Series Germany was held recently and it saw Jannick Namyslo sweeping the Touring Stock qualifying by taking all three rounds in style. Felix Reichold and Tobias Höfflin completed the qualifying top 3 and the order would stay the same after the A-main to make for an Xray 1-2-3. Luka Fecher and Thorsten Reichold (both Xray) rounded out the top 5 result.

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February 15, 2017

Riederer, Huber & Jeisy win at Islikon Masters Rd3

The third round of the Swiss Islikon Masters saw over 70 entries and in the 4WD Buggy class it was Adi Riederer (Xray) who brought home the win after the A-mains. Team Durango’s Philipp Huber came in second from Xray driver Kevin Prinz. In the 2WD class Philipp Huber (Team Durango) took home the hardware from Nico Schmid (Xray) in second and Fabian Luca Widmer in third while in the Mod Truck class Philip Jeisy lead an all-Xray podium with Martin Weidmann and Silvio Pietroboni coming in second and third respectively.

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February 15, 2017

FinTrack Tour Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the Finnish Touring Car Nationals took place just outside of the southwestern city of Kouvola. Nearly 100 entries were on hand for the two-day event that featured Touring Car and Formula classes. In the Pro Stock 13.5 class Kalle Lehto, Kim Elfstrom and Vesa Yli were battling closely for the top spots. Previous round winner Kalle Lehto eventually earned the TQ position, followed closely by Kim in second with Vesa earning a second-row start in fourth. In the finals, Kalle took advantage of his pole position start to win in all three legs. Kim finished a close second with Vesa moving up a spot to finish third. With three rounds completed and one remaining, the 2017 Pro Stock championship comes down to a showdown between Kalle and Vesa – the dominant drivers in the class over the last two years.

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February 15, 2017

2017 Winter Indoor National Series – Report

This past weekend kicked off the first race of the 2017 JConcepts Indoor National Series at SmacTrac. Now in it’s 7th year, tweaks were made to add more top drivers, more support, and the results were already felt at the Winter INS with over 300 entries of the region’s best drivers along with top world talent as well. Smac Trac is no stranger to hosting the Winter INS and this year’s layout was extremely challenging, technical, and a whole lot of fun. The design consisted of a full-length straightaway paired with a classic sweeper that increased in radius which all flowed very well. Next, racers had to navigate a cut back step-on, step-off pie turn that required trigger mastery and timing genius. Perhaps the most difficult section on the track was the 90-degree hill turn that flowed into a double which landed into a left turn. Many cars were crashing or losing time here, but the ones that could execute it perfectly would gain a huge advantage. The risk was entirely up to the drivers as this section clearly marked the separation of driver skill level.

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February 15, 2017

Ethan Lefebvre triples at Thornhill Jr. club race

The recent Thornhill Jr. club race in Hutto, Texas saw Xray driver Ethan Lefebvre taking the TQ in the 2WD Buggy and Mod Truck classes. Ethan would then also take wins in both classes thanks to decent runs in the A-mains. Tyler Hooks (TLR) and Alex Vaughan (Xray) would round out the 2WD Buggy podium while Alex Vaughan (Xray) and Bill Delong (TLR) completed the Mod Truck top 3. Elsewhere in the 4WD Buggy class it was again Ethan Lefebvre (Xray) who came out on top of things after the A-main. Starting from the 2 spot on the grid after some troubled qualifiers, he was following the leader for about six minutes and with about one minute to go he was able to capitalise from lap traffic to take his third win of the weekend. The TLR duo of Tyler Hooks and Chris Allison would complete the top 3.

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