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July 24, 2015

Chris Tosolini wins at Nitro New York State Champs

Over the past weekend the Nitro New York State Championship held at the historical Floyd Bennett Field Park in Brooklyn, New York. The atmosphere was great and racing was tight down to the finest tenth of a second. In the 200mm Sedan class it would be Capricorn team driver Chris Tosolini and Serpent team driver Vincent Jackson who would lead the way until Jackson would experience mechanical failures. Hot on their trail would be Xray driver Mike Cruz who would respectively finish second with Rob Bendall, also driving an Xray, would round out the podium.

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July 24, 2015

Lemes wins Argentinian Metropolitan Champs Rd3

The third round of the Argentinian Metropolitan Championship took place last weekend. After two qualification rounds Luca Lemes (Xray) grabbed the TQ and he would start into the main from pole position in which he took the win from tone to tone with a 1 lap margin on runner-up Enzo Branciforte.

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July 23, 2015

Vasiliadis wins at Greek Xray Off-road Challenge Rd1

The opening round of the Greek Xray Off-road Challenge was held at the Fanatix racing track. The schedule was pretty unusual for a nitro race with four qualifier and triple mains and at the end it was Geogre Vasiliadis (Xray) who took the win from George Abdel (Xray) and Dokos Panos (Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 23, 2015

Carlos Peracho wins Spanish Nats Rd3

Last weekend the third round of the Spanish 1/8th On-road Championship was held at the Cavi Club track in Vigo. Thanks to excellent weather conditions, everybody had a great practice day on Friday. Saturday started with some rain but just in time for the qualifiers the track dried up. Carlos Peracho dominated the qualification and also set a new track record in the progress. Nacho Lopez ended the qualification in second place while Alberto Alonso rounded out the top 3.

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July 23, 2015

North German Nitro On-road regionals Rd4 – Report

Round four of the North German Nitro On-road regionals were held at the MAC Hamburg track with a total of 17 drivers attending in the 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm classes. Mixed weather conditions made things a bit difficult and in the 1/8th class it was the Serpent’s Merlin Depta who took the TQ from Lennart Skornia (Serpent) and Ingo Bobrowski (Mugen).

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July 22, 2015

Alex Schlatterer wins Nitro Fish Fun Race

The Nitro Fish Fun Race was held the multi surface track of the MAC Brombachsee in Germany. In the Nitro Buggy main final Alex Schlatterer (Xray) took the win from Xray teammate Andreas Heublein while Thorsten Geißler (Mugen) rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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July 22, 2015

2015 Summer Scorcher – Report

Last weekend drivers from all over the Southeast headed down to Savannah, GA to one of the oldest tracks in the country, Phil Hurd Raceway, for the annual Summer Scorcher. With a little over 160 entries in several nitro and electric classes, it was shaping up to be a great event with a very fitting name. With the temperature reaching 97 degrees and a heat index of 103, it was hot.

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July 21, 2015

Jarno Pijpers successful at Dutch Buggy Cup Rd5

The recent fifth round of the Dutch Buggy Cup saw an early end due to heavy rain pouring down on race day. The weekend started off with nice weather on Saturday but rain on Sunday only allowed for two qualification rounds until the organisers had to call it a day. This meant the results of the qualifiers had to be taken to announce the winner and so the victory went to Jarno Pijpers (Xray/FX) form Anno Storm (JQ/O.S.) and Kevin Cornelis (Xray/FX).

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