May 28, 2011

Xray Column – Racing Season ‘11 Full Running

Xray Column – Racing Season ‘11 Full Running

The 52nd installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about this year’s races so far with a focus on their 1/8th scale World Championship debut with the new RX8 chassis.

Considering that some of the drivers only got their cars a few days before leaving for the Worlds, it was no surprise to see some of them building or finishing the car at the track. We handed out some of the last-minute new option parts for set-up tuning to all the team member, and then got to work.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 28, 2011

Pro-Line’s new ‘Dirt’ track

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Pro-Line Racing have published a video showing their new 1/8th offroad and Short Course track at their premises in Beaumont, California. Designed and built by superstar track builder Joey ‘The Dirt’ Christensen, it incorporates two layouts, a smaller infield section for Short Course, while the 1/8th scale cars take in the outside perimeter which is bigger and features larger jumps. Aside from Pro-Line using it to help develop their future products, we can also expect some races to be held on this track in the near future so we will let you know when that happens.

May 27, 2011

Xray sign Ales Bayer

Xray sign Ales Bayer

Xray have announced the signing of top Czech driver and multiple junior national champion Ales Bayer to their team. The former Losi driver, and brother of European finalist Martin Bayer, Ales will run his XB808 buggy and XT8 truggy at all upcoming National and International events.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 27, 2011

RC Hill-Climbing World Games – Announcement

RC Hill-Climbing World Games - Announcement

The organisers of the RC Hill-Climbing World Games in Faistenau/Austria on June 11th got in touch to tell us about this fun event. Every kind of RC-car can compete, it doesn’t matter which scale or whether its electric or nitro, you just have to try to get to the top of the hill. Each run will be judged by the highest height as well as action & style, which will be voted for by 3 judges. Deadline for entry will be on Wednesday June 8th 2011 and you can find out more information here.

May 27, 2011

Bro & Linder win Nordic Championships

Bro & Linder win Nordic Championships

This year’s Nordic Championship was held at the nice Spydeberg Raceway in Norway with drivers from Norway, Sweden and Denmark taking part, however regrettably no Finnish drivers this year. There was a total of 17 drivers in the 1:8 class and 34 drivers in the 200mm class and the event was very well organized, with excellent food and beverages all weekend. Practice Friday and qualifying Saturday were run in dry and sunny conditions and local young hotshot and rising European star Adrian Berntsen (N) showed who was the boss and TQ’ed both 1:8 TR and 200mm.

Continue reading the report here

May 26, 2011

TLR Super Cup 2011 – Announcement

TLR Super Cup 2011 - Announcement

Eden Park Raceway will be hosting a two-day meeting on 25-26 June at their famous multi-surface racetrack in Beckenham, Kent. Although the organisers aim to attract top drivers from around Europe, it is hoped that the TLR Super Cup in association with Spektrum and Electrix will appeal to local drivers as well. The format sees a change to the norm with racing on both days for each class. On Saturday there will be two practices and three qualifiers, with a short practice, two qualifiers and multi-leg finals on Sunday. Qualifying will use the FTD format and there will be three legs for the A finals in 2WD, 4WD and Short Course with two legs for the other finals. Awards will be presented to the podium finishers in 2WD, 4WD and SC as well as the top three in U14 and U19 classes. There will also be a concourse competition prize kindly donated by RudeBits. Full information can be found here.

May 26, 2011

Kostas Zacharopoulos wins 1/8th Rd1 in Greece

Kostas Zacharopoulos wins 1/8th Rd1 in Greece

Last weekend the first round of the Greek 1/8 On road Championship was held in Athens at the Arena Racing club. A well attended event, the race was won by the pole man Kostas Zacharopoulos driving a Blitz shod Mugen, taking the fastest lap, to win ahead of 5 time Greek Champion John Sotiropoulos in 2nd, driving a Serpent. Kyosho driver Vaggelis Totomis took 3rd, only 3 seconds back from 2nd place.

Source: Team Titan [team-titan.com.tw]

May 26, 2011

European Short Course Masters – Announcement

Thunder Tiger Europe got in touch to tell us about the European Short Course Masters 2011, that takes place at MC Welden, close to Munich Germany, from the 9th to the 12th of June. The race is open to all racers across 4 classes, 2wd hobby class (only SC10 RTRs), 2wd modified class, 4wd modified class and a 1/8th 4wd Modified and Nitro class. Team Associated will be sending over US superstar Ryan Maifield and they will likely send another named driver also. Entry is now open and you can find out the full details of this event by going here.

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