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September 23, 2015

Alexander Hagberg doubles at Xray Challenge Greece

The second running of the Xray Challenge Greece was again held at the Fanatix Race Track just outside of Athens with some 50 entries for the electric and nitro classes. Held over a single day the fun and entertaining event would see the attendance of Xray’s Alexander Hagberg who competed in the electric and nitro classes. In the nitro class, Alexander managed to take the TQ position after a fast and clean run, some 8 seconds in front of Greek driver John Sotiropoulos, and the Xray pairing of Nikiforos and Dimitrios.

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September 23, 2015

Traugott Schär takes European 200mm 40+ title

The Nitro On-road 40+ EFRA European Championships were held in Lostallo, Switzerland in mixed weather conditions. The five qualifying rounds were run in both dry and wet conditions and at the end Traugott Schär grabbed the TQ in the 200mm class. From the Super Pole Bernd Hasselbring bumped up into the main final as did Hartmut Rose and Andreas Husman who won their respective semifinals. Thankfully the main could be run in dry condition and it was again Traugott Schär (Xray) who came out fastest after some nice fights with Andreas Husman (Mugen). Hartmut Rose (Xray) completed the podium result in third place.

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September 23, 2015

IDEA – Andreas Myrberg Column #2

Why are Touring Car drivers the ‘best’ drivers? Or to put it differently, if you make it in touring you can make it anywhere. Yes, now a lot of you are upset, I understand but give me some of your time and I will try to explain why, as well as try to back this statement up. First of all how do you define a Touring Car driver? Especially the world class drivers, as most drivers have driven many different classes during their careers. So maybe I should write, why is it that so many drivers who succeed in Touring Car racing ALSO have great results in other classes also? There are definitely more of those, than drivers from other classes who ALSO make it in Touring Cars. So I need to give some examples.

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September 23, 2015

Hinz wraps up double PL Indoor Champs victory

The Pro-Line Indoor Championships race was recently held at Warehouse3. Friday started out as all-day practice, with everyone trying to find the hot setup. On Saturday the track opened for three rounds of qualifying with rocket round times. About halfway through the 18-heat program was Mod 4WD Buggy. Tommy Hinz set the TQ time to beat by over 15 seconds. Up next was 2WD. Hinz again had the TQ run by 4 seconds over teammate Ashe Deering. In the second round, Hinz again TQd 4WD. However, 2WD racing got a bit closer. Deering was in the first heat and had a good run going the extra lap. Hinz followed him to go the extra lap and take TQ back over by half a second. Sunday was the triple A-mains and Hinz would win A1 and A2, wrapping up the win for both 2WD and 4WD classes.

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September 22, 2015

Alessandro Remia takes Italian F1 buggy title

The Italian 1/8th Buggy Championship was held this past weekend. In the F1 class Alessandro Remia had a tough final as he looked to secure an easy win until 15 minutes to go when he ran out of fuel several times due to a faulty fuel gun. But at the end a fourth place was enough for Alessandro to grab the overall F1 category title. Francesco Piccinetti came in second at the final round while Giuseppe Tescione rounded out the podium in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 22, 2015

Sebastian Recio wins Argentine 1/8th On-road Champs

The Argentine 1/8th On-road Championship was recently held in Cordoba in several classes. In the 1/8th “Free” category Sebastian Recio came out successful from second placed Juan Pablo Golobic. Natalio Maringolo in third would round out the podium. In the “3 Transfer” category it was again Sebastian who ended on top of the class while Agustin Cutini and Emilio Lanzilota came in second and third respectively.

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September 22, 2015

Mickael Brandt wins at Swedish On-road Cup

The final round of the Swedish On-road Cup was recently held at the MK Eskils track, host of next year’s EFRA 1/8th On-road Euros. The qualifying of the 1/10th 200mm class had Mickael Brandt coming out fastest from second placed Nicolai Hvid and third placed Jose Castro. Before the start the TQ holder ran into trouble due to a dying transmitter battery but a quickly borrowed pack got him on track in time. The start then went ok for Mickael but his nerves got the better of him and he almost got caught by the field. Mickael managed to cool down and he began to pull away quickly and some 25 minutes into the race he had managed to open a gap of several laps to the second place driver. A quick pit stop for tyres didn’t change much and while conserving the lead Mickael lost focus a bit and clipped a curb which cost him the 1st gear on his car. During the repair his pit crew forgot to refuel and so he soon after flamed out but he still had a 3-lap lead only to clip another curb which send his car on the roof. The following flameout cost Brandt the lead that was promoted to a happy Jose. While chasing the leader Mickael scored the fastest lap of the race with a 30.7 and after the final pitstop both were racing tail to bumper. With a pass on the straight Mickael regained the lead that he was able to conserve it until the end to take the win from Jose Castro and Hans Elmerfors. Rune Stokka and Ake Törnros rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 22, 2015

Adam Drake doubles at Western Cup

Revelation Raceway hosted its annual Western Cup this past weekend. World traveller Adam Drake was in attendance beside a vast amount of local talent and Mr. Drake would TQ’d and win both the Expert Nitro Buggy and Expert Nitro Truggy classes.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugenracing.com]