Xray’s Martin Wollanka had a very successful campaign in this year’s Austrian 1/8th nitro buggy championship and ended the season in first place after winning three out of the four rounds. Dominic Bauer and Thomas Mayer ended tie on points with the better end for Dominic who secured the runner-up spot. In fourth place overall sits Rene Kargl in front of Jürgen Trieb.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The Polish Cup Final and Open Championship of Szczecin was held on a fast and technical track this year. The 4WD class of the Polish Cup was won by Jakub Pietrzak in front of Jakub Wawrzkiewicz with young Szymon Luczak completing the podium. Pietrzak also went on to win the Open Championship of Szczecin with his Xray XB4. Szymon Luczak came in second followed by 9 years old Szymon Luczak.
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The final round of the French national touring car championship took place in Emerainville near Paris on a very small and technical track. The race schedule saw five practice rounds and three qualifiers on Saturday followed by two more qualifiers and the triple mains on Sunday. In the Stock class qualification went well for Nicolas Schwendimann (Xray) to TQ’d all five qualifiers letting him take the overall TQ. In the finals Nicolas made a clean sweep by winning the first two A-mains handing him not only the day’s win but also the French Stock class title. Thomas came in second with Jean Delorme and Valentin Lehmann finishing third and fourth respectively. The final of the Modified class had Cyril N’Diaye taking the winning honours in front of Lucas Urbain and Jeremy Limoges.
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The 2013 Gas Championships were held this past weekend at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, CA. The weather was perfect and Levi Jackson built another great layout with Jimmy Babcock making the race director keeping the sold out program running smooth. The Gas Champs is a unique race that runs a heads up racing format for both qualifying and the finals. Each driver had 1 round of practice on Saturday morning, followed by three rounds of qualifying and double A Mains on Sunday. Team Losi Racing and Pro-Line were two of the major event sponsors. In the 1/8th Expert Buggy and Expert truck class TLR’s Adam Drake had a great weekend TQ-ing both classes and also winning them both later on.
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The Italian C.I. UISP Championship took place on beautiful track in Gubbio. This year, unlike in the past, it was only a single race championship run in touring car modified, stock F1 and stock F2. Qualification started on Saturday and it was Mattia Collina in stock F1 who showed immediately that he was going to be the man to beat. In just three laps he built a 1 second gap ahead of the second place driver. He took TQ followed by fellow Xray driver Alessio Tolomelli with Nico Catelani in third. The stock F2 qualifications were all about the duel between Xray driver Marco Marino and Andrea Senni until the end with Senni having more luck taking the pole position on the final grid. The modified category was a much closer affair. Francesco Martini was able to get the TQ followed by fast Diego Macchioni and Alessandro Ciaccheri. Alessio Menicucci, last year’s champion, finished 7th in the qualification.
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The 4th round of the Portuguese electric touring car nationals took place at the track of Maiorca close to Figueira da Foz. During Saturday’s practice Xray’s Bruno Coelho proofed to be the fastest of the modified class drivers, being 2 seconds faster than his closest competitor. Sunday’s qualifiers did not went as expected despite Bruno’s dominance the day before. A crash in heat one costed Bruno valuable time so he decided to sit out the qualifier to save on tyres and even the second run was a disaster as he torpedoed his team mate Pedro who flipped his car right in front of Bruno. In leg number three he finally got everything together scoring a 19 lap run taking TQ. Come the finals Bruno again kept his cool winning the first two mains in style one lap ahead of its closest competitor taking the day’s win early.
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The Novarossi Trophy was held at the famous Fiorano track with 94 drivers participating in the 1/8 and 1/10 class. In 1/8 the pole position went to Lamberto Collari (Capricorn/Novarossi) followed by Dario Balestri (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Andrea Lorenzi in third place. The 1/10 class pole position was captured by David Loppini (KM/Novarossi) who had Christian Costanzo (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Dario Basaglia (Capricorn/IDM) in tow.
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The AMCA Apledoorn track saw the final round of the Dutch 1/10th nitro on-road championship. This time no Kyosho World Cup driver attended due to the KWC International Race but a couple of guests filled up the NK clas field nicely. Daan Stuiver finally got it together having a perfect weekend, just beating Pedro Rombouts to the pole in front of Julius Kolff. Sander Borghoff completed the top 4. In the final Daan took the gamble and selected a car that was good in the beginning of the race. Julius gambled as well but it did not work out for him. At the end Daan took the win one lap ahead of Pedro with Ruud Schuitemaker completing the podium. Milan Holthuis came in fourth, Julius Kolff completed the top 5. In the championship, it was between Roy Bakker and Pedro Rombouts. Pedro missed one race and had to end up in front of Roy Bakker while Roy had to finish five places in front of Pedro. Unfortunately Roy did not have the speed this weekend to challenge Pedro so the latter took the championship again.
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