The 2020 Grand Final of the Xray Racing Series will be held at the world famous Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia from the 29th to 31st of May 2020. Full details will be announced soon but participators can expect a world-class top drivers line up, racing action in many popular classes as well as a Saturday night party.
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Capricorn RC have announced the addition of German nitro on-road frontrunners Thilo Tödtmann and Melvin Diekmann to their line-up of international drivers. Regular ENS and Euros A-finalists the duo tested various platforms and choose Capricorn’s Lab C03 Evo as their weapon of choice for the 2020 season. The duo had the following to say about the deal:
We are happy having the opportunity of joining the Capricorn team. Capricorn and Patrizio Rossi in person always have been very open-minded when it comes to developing new ideas and revolutionary solutions. Always focusing on providing the fastest and best product to their customers. This is reflected in the fact that many of his ideas have already been imitated. We are looking forward of playing a decisive part in this development representing the brand on all major races worldwide.
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The Deerdale club in the UK hosted a round of the their 1/8th Off-road Winter Series last weekend and it was Team Associated’s Neil Cragg who took the overall TQ in the pretty stacked out Nitro Buggy class. After a super close race in the main final Matt Lewis (Team Associated) and Neil would miss the top step of the podium to local veteran Graham Alsop (HB Racing) and they would finish 2nd and 3rd.
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The final round of the Chilean 1/8th Nitro GT Championship was held recently and when the dust had settled it was IGT8’s Tomas Ramirez who would be crowned the 2019 Champion. Behind him it was Alvaro Jara Jr. and Benjamin Ramirez who completed the all-IGT8 overall podium result.
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The final round of the Peruvian 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held in Lima, Peru recently. IGT8’s Fabrizio Martello took the overall TQ and also the win with his pre-production buggy from Xray’s Sergio Suarez in 2nd and Mugen’s Alejandro Nieto in 3rd. Mugen’s Ian Alencastre and Xray’s Marco Alvarez would complete the top 5 results.
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Gary Huang has taken an emotional win tonight in Xiamen, China in the 1/8th Main final. The Xray driver overcame a flameout to take a very popular win in front of a partisan crowd at the SIGP. Behind it was Merlin Depta who finished in 2nd place, one and a half laps back, the German driver leading following the Chinese driver’s flameout. Completing the podium here at the ARC International Raceway was veteran Italian racer Marco Vanni. Pole sitter Jeff Hamon had a troubled race as he lost touch with Gary Huang early on before hitting major engine troubles, the result of the Australian having set his engine too lean prior to the final. Feeling the win was retribution for not being able to travel to the Worlds last month in California due to visa problems, long time mechanic Gavin Kwok was overcome with emotion as his driver took the checkered flag. Explaining his flameout, he said he was on his in-lap when the Max engine rolled to a stop near the end of the lap. The Xray driver was running 2 laps more than everyone else but he believes it was the smaller tires that had increased consumption and caught them out. Restarted and back on track he battled his way back from 4th, pushing like crazy to take over the lead again with 15 minutes left and hold on for the rest of the race and take his first SIGP nitro win.
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Thunder Alley Raceway of Beaumont, California held the inaugural Buggyland USA race this past weekend, attracting nearly 170 entries for the usual USA mix of Open, intermediate and Sportsman nitro and electric off-road classes. In Open Nitro Buggy it was Tekno RC’s Jared Tebo with the overall TQ and he would also come out on top in the 45-minute A-main event after a flawless run, leaving behind 4th place qualifier, Mugen’s Ryan Maifield in 2nd while CJ Jelin (Kyosho), runner-up after the qualifiers, would round out the top 3 result. Joe Bornhorst and Tanner Denney would round out the top 5 results.
With EP now over, attention turns back to Nitro, which will run through the rest of Saturday and all through Sunday. With the nitro action again taking place under flood lights it was the perfect conditions to set a fast time but drama in the fastest heat as the car of Meen Vejrak, who was on TQ pace, start to spew smoke out the rear of the bodyshell for about 2 laps before going off at the end of the straight and going on fire. A dragging battery cable seemingly the culprit but the car is completely destroyed from both the fire and the impact. This misfortune allowed Jeff Hamon to take over at the front and claim the TQ spot ahead of another Thai Maxima driver Charlee P, with top seed Kim Ki Heung in 3rd, Motor King in 4th and Meen Vejrak with his Q2 time giving him P5 for tomorrow’s 45 minute A-main. Jeff felt he had a slipping clutch throughout his run but said it stayed consistent for the entire run. Happy with a change he made to softer springs, he thinks for the final the car is easy to drive and apart from setting the clutch properly will work out strategy closer to the race time.
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