Last weekend the Cyprus International 1/8 Nitro Buggy Race was held in Nicosia with drivers from Cyprus, Greece and Israel in attendance. The weather was extremely hot and the new track layout with high jumps and a lot of bumps made for challenging racing conditions. In the A-main Andreas Thrasyvoulou (Xray) brought home the win from Rafail Panayi (Xray) and Marios Christodoulou (Mugen).
Round three of the Polish On-road Championships was held at the recently refurbished Jelcz-Laskowice track. Offering fast sections and a low grip level the track was a bit of a handful for many of the EP Formula class drivers especially those who prepped their cars according to the EFRA rules with rubber tyres and slower motors than the boosted 17.5T and foam tyres that are allowed in the Polish Championship. In the qualifiers, run in very hot weather conditions on Saturday, the battle for the TQ was on between Michal Milanowicz and Robert Okonski with the better end for Robert. The final on Sunday were a much different affair with 20°C and some rain. Robert though would bring home the win from Michal who suffered from bad luck in A1 and A2. The third and final A-main was than dropped by the organisers due to too much rain. Overall, Jan Ruman would round out the top 3 result, making it an all-Xray top 3.
The third round of the Dutch BL Cup was held at the MACH One club in Helmond. Agama’s Bart Mullink would take the win in the A-main from Xray’s Jarno Pijpers, who suffered problems early in the final but he was able to recover grab the runner-up spot on the podium. Sander van Genechten (Xray) rounded out the podium in third.
The 2016 Byron Challenge recently wrapped up at Leisure Hours Raceway with some fantastic racing among drivers from across the eastern half of the United States. While the forecast was for heavy rain on Sunday, the conditions were high temperatures and sunny skies throughout the weekend. In 1/8th Open 4WD, Xray teammates Eric Jones and Jason Conley battled all weekend for the TQ starting position with Joseph Wright (Serpent) right on their heels. With Jason and Eric both TQ’ing two of the four qualifying rounds, Eric’s better tiebreaker gave him P1 for the start of the main event.
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This past weekend, the second round of 2016 Muchmore Touring China Series was held at the Shanghai-based RCI V2 indoor circuit. The rain season brought nice and cool weather to the early Summer which made for a good day of racing. In the 1/10th Touring Blinky class, local Xray driver Robert Lu was on fire right from the start. He took the TQ after the three rounds of qualifying and he would then continue to dominate in the finals by winning the first two legs to claim the overall victory early. In A3, Robert would sit out and so Xray young star Nicolas Koh took the win, securing his runner-up spot. Huang Hua finished 3rd place to round out an all-Xray podium.
Source: Rossel Hobbies [rossellhobbies.com]
The Laszlo Timar memorial race was recently held at the Morac Graz track in Austria with about 80 racers from the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia in attendance. The race format saw independent races on Saturday and Sunday with the combination of both would make up the final result. Xray’s Michal Abrahamek won the Saturday portion and he would take the TQ on Sunday but due to heavy rain making it impossible to drive the main final, the results were taken from the qualifiers, handing Michal his third title in a row after winning the event in 2015 and 2014. Gergö Lehner (Shepherd) and Sagi Tamas (Serpent) would round out the top 3 result.
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The second round of the Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Dolni Bukovsko track. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class, Xray’s Kaja Novotny took the win in the opening qualifier but technical issues for Kaja in Q2 and Q3 made way for David Kukla (Xray) who left Jiri Mara (Serpent) and Max Gotzl (Xray) behind in second and third.
The recent 2016 Winter Champs in Australia saw Aaron Lee walking away with the triple of TQ, fastest lap and new track record as well as the win in the competitive A-main event. The victory is even more impressive as this was the first outing for his new chassis sponsors after having only received the kits on the Monday before the race.
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