November 6, 2006

Rodrigo Luis TQ’s & Wins the Torres Vedras Cup

Rodrigo Luis

Rodrigo Luis has TQ’d and won last weekends Torres Vedras Cup held in Portugal driving a Picco powered Hong Nor. Buggy-Sport.info have the full story with a statement from Rodrigo himself:

“In the qualification i made TQ after 3 rounds, i only made 2 of them and i TQ booth. In the main final, i managed to get 1st place after a bad start and an engine cut in the middle of the final. I had to fight hard with the very good driver Fernando Almeida to get the 1st place.”

Source: Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info]

November 5, 2006

Xray lead the Carioca Championship

Xray Brazil Rd 2 top 3

Xray have a brief report on their site concerning the recent Brazilian electric Carioca Championship that they are now leading after winning rounds 1 and 2.

Braz Spinato of XRAY TEAM BRASIL won all the heats and won round 2 of the Carioca Championship, and is now leading the championship with 8 points ahead the 2nd place driver Sylvio Padinha (also from XRAY TEAM BRASIL). In 3rd place is Khelmo Freitas of XRAY TEAM BRASIL, too.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com] 

November 5, 2006

Keisuke Fukuda is Japanese 1/8th National Champion

2006 Japanese Nationals Podium

1/10th scale World Champion Keisuke Fukuda has won the 2006 Japanese 1/8th Scale National Championships. Starting his Mugen/Ninja from 2nd on the grid Keisuke managed to take the win by a full lap ahead of Takaaki Shimo to claim his first 1/8th National title. Second placed Shimo for Kyosho had a 4 lap advantage over the third place racer 由留木一也 after the 45 minute final. Pole position man Tadahiko Sahashi had problems in the race, as did Tanaka who went out after 15 minutes.

You can view the final results here and you can view some more pictures here (day 1), here (day 2) and here (finals).

Image: Hokusei [www12.ocn.ne.jp/~hokusei]

November 3, 2006

Tanaka heads qualifying at Japanese Nats

Masao Tanaka

After 2 rounds of qualifying for the 1/8th scale Japanese Nationals being held at the Hokusei Circuit in Japan, Masao Tanaka heads the leaderboard. The Kawahara driver, and Worlds finalist, is in 1st position just ahead of current Japanese national champion and Worlds finalist, Takaaki Shimo. In the next two spots are the Sahashi brothers with younger Tadahiko in 3rd, the Japanese 1/10th national champion just ahead of his brother Sukenari. World 1/10th scale champion Keisuke Fukuda is just outside the top 4 in fifth position with the top 6 racers doing 17 lap runs on this 340 meter long track.

Qualifying continues tomorrow and we will bring you the news as we get it.

Image: Kawahara [kawahara-racing.co.jp]

November 3, 2006

2006 Halloween Classic, Cleveland

Halloween Classic

Robert over at RC50.com has posted the results, pictures and even some videos on his site of last weekends Halloween Classic held at ‘The Gate’ in Cleveland. This was a very big race with both 1/10th Sedan and 1/12th classes being run and over 260+ competitors. In the premier event, the Touring car modified, it was Bobby Flack who took the win ahead of Barry Baker with Paul Lemieux in third, making it a 1-2-3 for the Xray T2007.

You can view all the results list here.
You can view the event images here.

Source: RC50 [rc50.com]

November 3, 2006

Martin Bayer 2006 Czech Off road Champion

Martin Bayer

Martin Bayer (left) has won the 2006 Czech off road championships for Xray, driving his XB8, he secured the title with a win at the penultimate round at Hradec Králové. Whilst having problems in the final round, this allowed Martin Pater, his Xray team mate to take the win and secure the 2nd position in the championship.

The last race was held in Slavkov u Brna on a new track. This race attended 43 drivers, the champion was already knowed from the previous race so now the drivers battled for 2nd and 3rd place in the 1/8 Czech Off-road Championship, there were especially Martin Pater a Lukáš Zeman.

You can read Martin’s write up on the last 2 events here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 2, 2006

De Fuoco 2006 Italian Champion Senior Rally

Giuseppe De Fuoco

Italian news site RC Bazar have written about the 2006 Italian Champion in Senior Rally, Giuseppe De Fuoco. In only his first year in the class, having normally raced 1/8 on road before this, the Team SPM driver used his Technokit chassis to great success by taking 2 wins on his way to the title.

You can see the full report here.

Source: RC Bazar [rcbazar.net]

November 2, 2006

Alex Hagberg wins Nordic Championships

Nodic Championships

Top Swedish Xray racer Alex Hagberg has won the recent Nordic Championships event held in a large sports hall in Sarpsborg, Norway. The event was well attended with top racers from Sweden and Norway and Alex has his report up on the Xray site.

The third and deciding final was coming up. It was really tense as the drivers got together for the third main. The start went smoothly, and it was really close, during the second lap, I hit a dot and soon Helge took the lead in front of Niclas. The two got together so I could pass. I had the lead and started to pull away for the Nordic Championship win.

Read the full race report from Alex here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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