November 2, 2015

Viljami Kutvonen wins Invitational class at LTCC 2015

Viljami Kutvonen wins Invitational class at LTCC 2015

The Lahti Touring Car Challenge was held this past weekend in Lahti, Finland, in several electric classes including a Pro Stock Invitational race that saw some of Finland’s fastest racers battle it out. After twelve rounds of Reedy style racing Viljami Kutvonen took the overall victory by winning ten of the twelve rounds. Christer Andersson with seven wins ended the day on the runner-up spot while Tomi Mairue completed the top 3 result. Vesa Yli and Kalle Lehto would round out the top 5.

Image: Vesa Yli

November 2, 2015

Laverychev & Karpov win at Palace Cup Rd1

Laverychev & Karpov win at Palace Cup Rd1

The opening round of the Russian Palace Cup was held in the city of Vladimir in several electric on-road classes. In the Touring Modified class Maxim Laverychev (Awesomatix) took the win from Stanislav Glebov (Xray) and Ilya Plakhotnik (Serpent) while Alexey Butuzov (Xray) rounded out the top 4 result. The Touring 13.5T Stock class had Vitaly Karpov (Awesomatix) walking away with the day’s win from Alexander Smirnov (Awesomatix). Alexander Naumov (Xray) completed the podium.

View the Touring Car Stock podium here

November 2, 2015

Wesley van Helmond wins at MIO Championship Rd1

Wesley van Helmond wins at MIO Championship Rd1

The opening round of the International Indoor Off-road Cup held at the Dutch Model Indoor Oss track attracted some 100 drivers to compete in several electric off-road classes. In the 2WD Buggy category Bart Mullink came out fastest after the qualifiers in front of Wesley van Helmond, Tom Maquel and Olvier Speith. After having tyre problems in A1 Wesley van Helmond (TLR) stroke back in A2 and he would ultimately take the overall win from Oliver Speith (Schumcher) in second and Tom Maquel (Team C) in third place.

Image: Wesley van Helmond

November 2, 2015

Kazuya Tanaka wins JMRCA 1/8th Buggy Nationals

Kazuya Tanaka wins JMRCA 1/8th Buggy Nationals

This year’s JMRCA All-Japan 1/8th Nitro Off-road Championships were held in the Chiba prefecture over the weekend. Kyosho’s Naoto Matsukura would take the TQ spot after the qualifiers in front of team mate Kazuya Tanaka. In the final Kazuya would then hold the upper hand, adding another national championship to his belt following his nationals win in 2012. TQ holder Naoto would end the main on the runner-up spot.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.com]

October 30, 2015

Kyle Francis triples at Western Australian titles

Kyle Francis triples at Western Australian titles

For the first time the Western Australia titles were held outside the metropolitan area in Kalgoorlie, some 580km from the Capital, Perth. In the Nitro Buggy Kyle Francis took the win in the main final after an eventful 45 minutes. Coming from the 3 spot on the grid, Kyle got caught up in someone else’s crash, dropping him to 11th. Slowly the comeback started and he began gaining positions and the gap to the first placed driver was 18 seconds. A few laps later and it was back to 15, then 12. Kyle had the fastest car out there, it was just a case of keeping it on four wheels and having enough time to reel in the leader. Another 10 minutes passed and the gap was down to 6 seconds, then 3 seconds. The race commentator was getting excited.

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October 30, 2015

South African On-Road Gas Nationals Rd5 – Report

South African On-Road Gas Nationals Rd5 – Report

The season finale of the 2015 South African On-Road Gas National Championship took place at RC Zone in Middleburg, about two hours away from Tshwane, Pretoria. A favourite among the 200mm drivers for its technical layout, the track is fast and unforgiving with a brick wall barrier on the outside of the fast “horseshoe” section, which means that one small mistake would send the cars into the wall. The track offered a very high grip level all weekend, with some drivers complaining about too much grip later in the late afternoon. With the national series running a concurrent separate championship called the “Sprint” championship, which is based on qualifying results, first decisions in the championship would made when qualifiers kicked off on Saturday morning. This time the event had attracted more 200mm entries than 1/8 scale, which was not the norm for a national event and only four entries for the 235mm class means this class will likely not be run in the future. Mike Meyers would again dominate over Derrick Plank, Peter Plint and Tony George to take the TQ and seal his spot as Sprint champion for 2015.

Continue reading the report here

October 29, 2015

Max Götzl team up with Xray

Max Götzl team up with Xray

Xray have announced the signing of young and talented Czech off-road driver Max Götzl to their junior team. Max is a long time Xray supporter and a regular winner of the junior categories at national off-road events. Max says:

I’m very happy to be part of the team Xray. I have started with racing in 2009. During this time Xray have been producing the best products for us. With Xray’s cars I was able to grab several junior titles in different categories as well as finishing on podium among the best Czech drivers. I am very happy to be given this opportunity and hope this will help me to improve myself even more. I will race all the main races in Czech Republic including the XWS Czech Republic as well as some international events including EOS, Euros, etc.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 29, 2015

Xray Work.Shop Czech Republic – Announcement

Xray Work.Shop Czech Republic – Announcement

Xray have announced another of their famous Work.Shop events with the next one being held in the Czech Republic on Saturday the 7th of November. Held in the sport hall in Kolin during the opening round of the Czech Xray Winter Series, Xray’s Martin Hudy will be present to give setup help for the T4’16 touring car while factory team driver Martin Bayer is there to introduce the all-new Xray XB2 1/10th 2WD off-road buggy. More information about the workshop can be found here.

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