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February 9, 2017

Xray welcome Armand Lantheaume to their factory team

Xray have announced the signing of former French Champion, Armand Lantheaume to their factory team for the 2017 season. Armand will race the XB2 and XB4 platforms at both national and international level events and he has the following to say:

After extensive testing of all Xray cars last year I was just amazed by the performance and quality of the cars and I am really happy that I was given the opportunity to be part of the Xray team for 2017. I will attend all the major French races and will do my best both in racing as well helping all Xray customers. Big thanks to Xray for the trust in me and I cannot wait to hit the track.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 8, 2017

Protoform WCICS Rd5 – Report

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 5 flew into the Pacific island town of Victoria, British Columbia. With a huge turnout, and racers flying in from Quebec, New Mexico, North Dakota, California and Washington, this was an all-star affair. The Touring Modified class offered some of the best racing WCICS has ever seen, with some of the world’s top racers battling it out, and a different winner of each AAA main. Xray’s JJ Wang would set a fast TQ over a top field, and would hold off Team Associated’s Keven Hebert and Xray’s Max Kuenning for the win in leg one.

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February 8, 2017

Gubbio to host HotRace Summer Cup

Following the recent announcement of the Tonisport-supported HotRace Summer Cup the organisers have now published information of the hosting track. The fourth instalment of the popular race will take place in Gubbio and all information about the event are available here.

February 8, 2017

Hot Race Trophy Rome – Report

The Hot Race Trophy Rome was held at the Gianni Modellismo track in both electric and nitro classes. The 1-day race saw three qualifiers of which the best round counted. In Electric Touring Car Modified Alessio Menicucci took the pole position for the mains from Nicola Marrone and Simone D’Ottavio while the Touring 13.5T blinky class was lead by Valter Cola from Flavio Buzi and Djalma Bochicchio.

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February 8, 2017

XRS Australia Rd1 – Report

Round one of the Xray Racing Series Australia was held at the revamped Sydney Model Autosports track. The surface was treated with sugar and the grip was perfect but as for the weather; mid to high 30 Degrees on both Saturday and Sunday was hard to deal with for man and machine. In the premier ISTC Modified class Awesomatix’s Jeffery Mackie would bring home the win from Ari Bakla (Xray) in second and Lionel Saunders (Yokomo) third.

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February 7, 2017

British Winter Open – Report

This past weekend saw the annual British Winter Open event, a type of indoor national – this year hosted by the Maritime Raceway in Kent and run by the BRCA. The track was extremely fast but had a nice flow to it and average laps of 18s for 4WD and 19s for 2WD. The surface was very short pile blue Astro which had previously been surface utilised by the Silverstone club. The Saturday saw the 2WD class and odds on favourite for the event was TLR’s Ellis Stafford, former European champion and a regular at the Maritime venue. Qualifying was fast and furious with the TQ position to be decided in the fourth and final round – on the tight indoor track, passing places were limited so pole was highly sought. Coming down to the final few laps of the final qualifier, Ellis would put his local experience to use and just edge out Tom by a second to take TQ, with Schumacher’s Tom Yardy 2nd and Jack Neal in 3rd from Richard Barton and Charlie Ware who lined up 4th and 5th.

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February 7, 2017

SWorkz welcome Simon Reeves

SWorkz have announced the signing of UK veteran racer, Simon Reeves to their team. Simon brings many years of experience and outstanding pace to the SWorkz family and this is what Simon Reeves has to say:

During testing I have been highly impressed with the materials and construction of the S35-3 and found great pace even early on with the platform. I look forward to a fantastic 2017 with SWorkz.

Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]

February 7, 2017

DJ Apolaro wins at Region 4 Championships Rd1

This past weekend was the first of four rounds for the Region 4 Championships held at the Arcadia track in Florida. DJ Apolaro (Capricorn) took the overall TQ of the 200mm class after sweeping each round of qualifying. In the main final, DJ continued to dominate, bringing home the win two laps ahead of second placed Junior Castellanos (Mugen) and third placed Jerry Guerra (Mugen).

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]