Round 6 of the Xray Racing Series and Polska Liga Modeli Samochodów PLMS was held in Ściwawka Średnia recently. In the premier Touring Modified the race for the win was on between Michal Blahovsky, Jarosław Siwek and Jakub Michalski. In the end and after a lot of action on the tight, technical and demanding track it was Michal with the win from Jaroslav and Jakub, making it an all-Xray top 3.
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The 2018 CML Off-road Masters was hosted by the BCL club and held on a purpose-built indoor track in Louvres, France recently. In the 2WD Stock Buggy class it was young Noha Ben Mohamed (Xray) who laid town a perfect and impressive performance by taking the overall TQ with two out of four won qualifiers and he would also walk away with the overall win in front of Lee Russell (Team Associated) and Philippe Hautecoeur (Schumacher) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Serpent have announced the signing of German electric on-road frontrunner, Dionys Stadler to their European team. Dionys joins the company after having a short break from RC in 2017 and he will campaign Serpent’s soon-to-be-released Project 4X Evo touring car alongside his teammates such as Viktor Wilck, Tim Benson and David Ehrbar at all major national and select international events.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The Spanish nitro on-road season kicked off last weekend with the Club Automodelismo Autet holding a regional race for 1/8th, 1/10th and 1/5th scale classes. Nacho Lopez was in control of things in the 1/8th category as he took the TQ a lap in front of Ruben Olivares and he would also take the win in the half hour long A-main, some two laps in front of Ruben as Jose Gil completed the podium result from Miguel Solon 4th and Eliseo Boters 5th.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The recent Ace Cup race in Korea saw Shepherd’s Jae Kuk Yoo walking away with the TQ and win in the 1/8th nitro on-road class. Kiyong Hong and Serpent’s Yanghyeon Kim would complete the podium result as Shepherd’s Min Hee Lee rounded out the top 4.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The Cap Go Meh race was held last weekend at the Forluck RC Raceway Track in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. “Cap Go Meh” means the 15th day and the last day of the Lunar New Year celebrations for Chinese communities around the world and the race schedule saw four rounds of 10-minutes qualifying followed by bump-up finals. Xray’s Jason Nugroho would put his Novarossi-powered buggy on the TQ spot after the qualifiers and he would also come out fastest after the 45-minutes main race with Stanley Wangsanegara (HB Racing/O.S.) and Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/O.S.) completing the top 3 podium result.
Maclan Racing have announced the signing of UK on-road front runner, Harley Eldridge, to the fast growing factory team. Harley is a super proactive young talent who will be racing for Team Maclan with MMax Pro ESC and MRR motors in 2018 ETS and BRCA events.
Source: Maclan Racing [maclan-racing.com]
Last weekend the TRAP RC Venue in Pretoria, South Africa hosted the final round of the Infinity Prostock Challenge. In the Touring Modified class it was Miguel Haasbroek (Infinity) who had a strong run in qualifying to secure the overall TQ. However Jason Hillcoat (Infinity) made a few small adjustments after qualifying which Miguel had no answer to, and Jason secured the win and with it a 2nd overall for the series. John Steyn (Tamiya) stepped onto the podium for the 3rd spot on the day. Overall winner of the Modified Series went to Hein Kotze (Xray) which was secured already after round 2.
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