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February 4, 2013

King & Drake win Revelation Winter Nationals

Cody King took the win at Revelation Raceway’s Winter Nationals held last Saturday. TLR’s Adam Drake TQ’ed both rounds of buggy qualifying running the new 8ight 3.0. Starting on P1 Adam Drake led the first lap but suffered a disastrous lap 2 & 3 as he dropped to 12th position, 13 seconds back from leader Cody King. Drake pushed hard and would climb back to 2nd but Cody ran clean laps and took the win by 8 seconds over Drake and Mike Truhe, who was running a new TOP / Novarossi engine package, finished third. Jeremy Kortz would end up retiring with six and half minutes left on the 30 min clock. Pro-Line locked down the podium with all three drivers running Holeshots. Adam Drake took the win in the truck class at the Winter Nationals. Drake TQ’ed both rounds of qualifying in the track class and lead the 20 minute final from start to finish. Tyler Brown finished third also running a TLR 8ight T 2.0. Adam used Pro-Line M4 Holeshots to take the victory.

View the truggy podium here

January 31, 2013

JConcepts Scalpel GP debuts at Village Raceway

Village Raceway in Royal Palm Beach Florida along with JConcepts debuted a new, one of a kind racing event recently featuring the new Scalpel conversion for the Traxxas Slash 4×4 and Rally 4×4 vehicles. Racers were on their A-game taking their vehicle setups seriously trying to find that magic setup to put them in the top spot. It wouldn’t be a South Florida R/C event without rain, right? Well, even the Scalpel Grand Prix is not exempt from Mother Natures’ watermark. After an hour rain delay, track crew and racers got busy drying the track.

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January 30, 2013

Racing Lines Summernats report

The Racing Lines Summernats is held every year towards the end of January at IMCC’s track in Wollongong New South Wales Australia and Tim Lee sent this report. The format includes practice Friday, nitro racing on Saturday and EP classes on Sunday. The track is one of the most flowing technical layouts around and always attracts a good entry list and makes for close racing. Entry numbers were quite high this year and it was great to see a lot of new faces. In nitro there were close to 50 entries over the open and pull start classes meanwhile in EP there was close to 100 entries spread over F1, 1/12th scale, 21.5, 17.5 and modified.

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January 25, 2013

Jiří Mára wins at Open Challenge Rd4

The fourth round of the Czech Open Challenge off-road race series took place at the purpose-build indoor track in Brandys. More than 50 drivers attended with the 4WD class was being dominated by Xray driver Jiří Mára in front of Marcel Dostal and Kamil Řečinský. With only minor changes to the car Jiří went into the finals and easily won a lap ahead of Marcel Dostal who ended up second with Lukáš Zeman in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 25, 2013

Surikarn C & Meen V win @ Futaba Cup

The 2013 Futaba Cup in Thailand took place at the famous RC Addict track in Bangkok, Thailand. The race saw a 13.5T open brushless and a 13.5T non-boost class with 70 drivers attending in both classes. In the non-boost class Xray’s Surikarn C started from second place with a win in the first and a second place in the deciding final handing him the overall win. Second place went to Kitipong R with Trin T in third place. In the open class Surikarn took TQ but due to bad starts ended up third overall. Meen V was able to take the win followed by Xray’s Kitipong R.

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January 25, 2013

Hai Feng wins Super GP Formula 1 League Rd1

The first round of the Chinese Super GP Formula 1 League took place at the RCI Track in Shanghai. The race series is in its second year now and consists of six races with the first three of them are being run on rubber tires indoor while the last three races are carried out outdoor on foam tires. The first race of the year was won by Wang Hai Feng (T.O.P. Rebel R-F01) with Zhang Fang Zhou (Tamiya F104 WGP) taking second and Bob Peterson (Tamiya F104) taking third place. TQ JJ Wang finished fifth.

Source: T.O.P. [top-racing.jp]

January 23, 2013

Paparegas wins Attiko Offroad Championships Rd2

The second round of the Greek Attiko Offroad Championsships took place at the FRT4 astroturf track near Athens. The race saw a 2WD and 4WD buggy as well as a 2WD SC class and especially especially in the 4WD class a high class field was present including 1/8 buggy Greek Champion Tasos Paparegas with the all new XB4. Tasos adapted to the electric buggy pretty fast and managed to secure TQ with John Papanikolaou starting second and Dimitris Amaxas third in the grid. Paparegas went to win all A finals with dominant performance pulling the fastest times of the day. The second place went to John with Dimitris in third place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 22, 2013

Mats Angseryd wins VBC Cup

The Xray XB4 made its first appearance in the VBC cup through Mats Angseryd and Lukas Jerresand. The race was held in Eskilstuna Sweden on a tight medium grip carpet track. The day started out in the best possible way with Team Xray Sweden Mats Angseryd leading the field after the first qualifier ahead of Schumacher driver Christer Carlsson and Daniel Björkquist, and on fourth place was XB4 local driver Lukas Jerresand. Normal quick driver Niclas Månsson for Team Associated was looking as quick as ever but had some trouble and had to sit Q1 out after 9 laps due to breaking a front suspension arm. Qualifying would eventually end up with Mats Angseryd as the TQ after winning 3 of the 4 qualifiers, and Angseryd also was the only one in the field reaching 24 laps, and Lukas Jerresand on 5th putting two XB4 in the A-main.

Continue reading the report here