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September 9, 2014

Sagi & Kalnay win at Xray Challenge Hungary

The Xray Challenge Hungary was held at the famous Hungaroring track that, beside the full-scale race circuit, also has an RC racing track to offer. In the 1/8th nitro on-road class Tamas Sagi came out successful in front of Peter Keöberz and Bendeguz Gyulai in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Tamas then also went on to win the 1/10th scale 200mm Stock class in front of Peter Varsanyi and Bela Pogatsnik. The electric touring car class had Zsolt Kalnay walking away with the win from Zoltan Polyak in 2nd and Peter Loncsar in 3rd.

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September 9, 2014

Bruno Coelho takes Portuguese Nitro Buggy title

During last weekend’s final round of the Portuguese 1/8th scale Nitro Buggy national championship in Ortigosa Serpent’s Carlos Duraes (Serpent) took the win, but the race was also on for the overall championship between Bruno Coelho and his Xray team mate Miguel Matias. In the 45 minute final Bruno and Miguel started from 3rd and 4th respectively and in the beginning stages Miguel quickly moved into the lead, constantly opening a gap on Bruno. In order to save tyres and to keep the car in one piece Miguel started to drive very conservatively, eventually falling back to 3rd place only 2 seconds behind 2nd placed Ricardo Monteiro (TLR). Bruno ended 2 laps down in 4th place and this meant Miguel and Bruno would be tie on points with the better end for Bruno as Miguel had a DNF to count that handed Bruno Coelho the 2014 national championship title.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 8, 2014

Spiniello & Cazzolo win at Italian 200mm Nats Rd3

Spiniello & Cazzolo win at Italian 200mm nationals Rd3

The final round of the Italian 200mm nitro on-road championships was held at the Il Lombrico track in Milazzo, Sicily. In the Expert category Alessio Mazzeo took the TQ six tenth of a second in front of Mario Spiniello. The one hour main than saw Mario Spiniello and Davide Stefanizzi fighting for the win with the better end for Mario who opted only to change the corner outside tyres on his car. Francesco Tironi completed the podium in 3rd. In the overall championship Luca Redaelli took the title from Mario Spiniello. In the F1 category Luca Cazzolo came out successful in the race and also the championship followed by Francesco Meddaloni.

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September 8, 2014

Dutch 1/8th nitro on-road nats final round – Report

Last weekend the small and technical track of the MBC de Sluis club in the Dutch “cheese city” of Gouda held the final race of this year’s 1/8th nitro on-road nationals. In the NK class Gunther van Steay had already secured this year’s overall title due to a brilliant year but there were still many other top positions to fill at the final round. Sadly due to illness Belgium ace John Lenaers was unable to attend this last race, giving away his 2nd overall position at the NK Master class.

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September 8, 2014

Carlos Duraes wins at Portuguese buggy nationals

Last weekend’s Portuguese 1/8th buggy nationals saw Serpent’s Carlos Duraes take the win, having earlier taking the top qualifying spot, in front of TLR driver Ricardo Monteiro. Xray’s Miguel Matias finished 3rd to round out the podium.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 8, 2014

Martin Wollanka wins Austrian national championship

The final round of the Austrian 1/8th off-road national championship took place in Graz. Bad weather on Saturday meant the race would actually start on Sunday. In the main final Martin Wollanka (Xray/FX) took the win from tone to tone for a clean sweep of the championship as he won each of the national rounds this year.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 8, 2014

Bloomfield takes 2014 BRCA 1/8th nitro buggy title

The final round of this year’s BRCA 1/8th nitro buggy nationals took place at Slough Remote World Model Car Club. Kyosho’s Elliott Boots put his Reds-powered buggy on pole position for the 45 minute final in front of TQ Lee Martin (Mugen/Beat) and Neil Cragg (Team Associated/LRP). In the main Neil only managed to turn 3 laps until he had to retire making way for a battle between Lee and Elliott. Both ended the final being separated by only 6 seconds with the better end for Lee. Jack Embling (Mugen/Novarossi) came in 3rd to complete the podium. Graham Alsop (Hot Bodied/Bullitt) finished in 4th position while championship favourite Darren Bloomfield (Agama/Bullitt) had to settle for 5th. In the overall championship Darren then ended tie on points with Lee Martin but a better tie-breaker handed Darren the overall title from Lee in 2nd and Elliott Boots who ended his 2014 BRCA campaign in 3rd overall.

Image: Lee Martin

September 7, 2014

Kerry & Beal win at BRCA Rd6 in Halifax

Last weekend the Halifax Track in Yorkshire hosted the sixth round of the BRCA 1/10th IC Championship. The Saturday free practice started out damp but quickly dried allowing fast laps to be set. Mark Green led the way in the 200mm class with his Serpent 748 Natrix ahead of the European Junior Champion, Alex Thurston, with his Serpent 747. Joe Kerry was very close behind, running his Serpent 748 Natrix for the first time. In the Sports GT class, again Glyn Beal was setting the pace with his new Serpent 748 Natrix with Peter Hellawell and Paul Bellinger his closest competitors with their Serpent cars.

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