Xray have announced the Xray Racing Series Italy, a 3-race event tour held between March and June. The series kicks off on the 19th of March at MiniRace in Casoria and concludes on the 25th of June in Rome. Classes run are Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T HW team driver, Touring Stock 13.5T HW, Formula 21.5 HW and 1/12th pan car. More information and sign-up are available here.
The third and final round of the 2017 Northeast Indoor Regional Series took the local drivers to Batley Buggy Club and the MB Models Raceway near Leeds. The 86 racers that attended the event were greeted with a testing track laid out with EOS carpet, jumps and a difficult 90 degree table top at the end of the straight. In 2WD James Helliwell and Jonathon Skidmore battled it out for TQ with James taking the honours with two 1st places and a 2nd to Jonathon’s 1st and two 2nd places. Unfortunately Jonathon would not feature in the A-final for long as a mechanical failure would take him out of contention early on. The crowd were treat to and exciting final nonetheless as Jack Hirst slowly hunted down James Helliwell for the full five minutes. James hung on though and took the win by only 0.2s in the end.
Serpent have announced the signing of Fung Wai Yin, better known as “Stickking” to their racing team. The Hongkong resident will campaign Serpent’s Project 4X touring car at races in Hongkong, China and around Asia.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Over the last four month Winter Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas hosted their 7-round Winter Series that attracted some of the state’s fastest drivers. With constant performances Xray’s Ethan Lefebvre was able to bring home the overall from Tekno driver Edwin Hartman while Chris Allison (TLR) would round out the overall top 3 result.
View the top 10 overall results here
The second round of the Puerto Rico On-road National Championship was held at the Barceloneta RC Track. Peter Alvarado took the overall TQ in the 1/10th 200mm class but in the main final he got into trouble in the opening stages. On the sixth lap Alvarado traction-rolled trying to push his car on big tires, passing the track near to the loop. He decided to wait for the second and third car, but recovered but got back into the lead on lap 19 and from that moment on he never looked back. With a flame out 20 minutes into the race, but still with a large enough margin on the field, he finished in 1st, about a lap ahead of 2nd placed Franco Machado who also suffered a flamed out, as did 3rd placed Yamil Ruiz who had problems earlier.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Last Sunday Kuala Lumpur saw its first race in 2017 and it was Nick Chong in the 1/8 GP class who managed to take the victory at the well attended event. On the RC Malaysia race track Nick was able to secure the TQ spot and the final saw a clean start of him but just before the first round of pit stops Nick ran out of fuel, dropping him down to 5th position. With some flawless driving he was able to make up the lost time and to take over the lead again. After the tyre change at the 30-minute mark he controlled the race from the first position and ultimately he took the victory in front of Anthony Wee with Yee Kok Leong taking the final podium spot.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Xtreme Aerodynamics have announced the signing of reigning Brazilian Champion, Flavio Elias to their 2017 factory team. The 31-years old Capricorn driver will use the 1/8th range of Xtreme Aerodynamics’ bodies on his C803 in the upcoming season to try and defend his national title.
Source: Xtreme Aerodynamics [xtremeaerodynamics.com]
The Pista Off road Le Pescine track in Rosignano Marittimo, Italy played host to the Tropheo di Natale last weekend with some of Italy’s fastest drivers in attendance. In the Expert Buggy class it was Riccardo Berton who set the pace in the 45-minute main final that he would win with a margin of about 13 seconds from second placed Davide Ongaro. Marco Natale would end the day some two laps down on the final podium spot.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it] | Image: David Menichetti
