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October 17, 2009

Tim Bremicker wins German National Truggy title

The 2 round German Truggy National Championship took place on both the Dachsbach and Landshut tracks. Round 1 in Dachsbach was won by Mugen driver Tim Bremicker, ahead of his team mate Daniel Reckward with LRP driver Moritz Gaul taking 3rd spot. In the deciding race in Landshut it was Stefan Scheunpflug that took the win easily ahead of Patrick Feschtschenko in 2nd, with race 1 winner Bremicker in 3rd. This position combined with his win was enough to give Tim the National title, with Scheunpflug taking the runner up spot by 1 point ahead of Daniel Reckward who place 3rd in the standings.

Source: RMV [rmv-deutschland.de]

October 17, 2009

Xray Column – Time to Move on

The 35th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj gives his feelings on the busy summer of events, as well as talking about he development of the new T3 touring car platform.

All the different prototypes had specific advantages, but their mutual characteristic was that every one of the designs was faster and more easily handling than the T2’009 if you can believe it! It was interesting that the most noticeable differences were on the outdoor track. Some of the cars used to “push” more in the corners, while some of the others had less steering. Of course these differences were very small and for typical drivers might have seemed insignificant, but for professional drivers those were big differences; to reduce a lap time by a fragment of a second it may mean at the end of a 5min run the difference of 2 seconds, which may be difference between making the main final or a lower sub-final.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 16, 2009

Perfect day for new Xray at ETS opener

Xray couldn’t really have asked for more today as their new T3 topped the practice times sheet for the opening round of the 2009/10 Xenon Racing Euro Touring Series in both Modified and Pro Stock. In the final session of the day Alexander Hagberg and Matthias Lang posted the fastest runs of the day in their respective classes.

View the full event coverage on the ETS site here.

October 16, 2009

New Xray sets early pace in Kastellaun

Xray’s new T3 chassis is setting the early pace here in Kastellaun at the opening round of the Xenon Racing Euro Touring Series with the new car holding the Top 4 placings after 3 of the 5 practice runs. Over 5-minutes it is Alexander Hagberg who posted the fastest run putting with 25 laps in 5:08.422. In terms of lap times it is again Xray on top with lead factory driver Teemu Leino producing a best time of 11.751 with the next best time coming from fellow countryman Juho Levanen at the controls of his Associated TC5.

View the full event coverage on the ETS site here.

October 15, 2009

Chris Tosolini joins Capricorn RC

Capricorn are proud to announce that they have teamed up with international driver Chris Tosolini. Both parties are looking forward to working together, with Chris in charge of the final development of the 1/10th scale 200mm car and other Capricorn products.

We know he will be able to push the products to the limit so we believe joining with him will make our already great products that much better for the public.

Source: Capricorn RC [capricornrc.com]

October 15, 2009

Elliot Harper dominates RugRacers Rd1

The first round of this year’s Muchmore Racing UK RugRacers took place this weekend and the racers were greeted by a track which was flowing, yet technical in places, rewarding drivers with accurate consistent driving. A new control tyre and additive was implemented for this year and both seem popular with all the drivers with Sweep 32 EXP combo working better the more it is used. The majority of drivers found they went faster the older the tyres were, which is always a good sign for a long lasting tyre, which is one reason it was chosen for the championship. Congratulations go to Elliott Harper taking victory over Chris Kerswell and David Bowen. Ultimately Elliott ended up dominating the day with his new Xray T3 and took TQ by 1.6 seconds over Chris Kerswell and David Bowen, but went on to win all 3 finals comfortably. In TC3 Malc Hall took the win from Philip Randall and Azman Sulaiman. Malc Took TQ over Phil “the power” Randall by roughly 3 seconds and was the only driver to reach 25 laps.

Click here to see the TC3 podium

October 15, 2009

Ryan Maifield wins 2wd Mod at AZ State Champs

Every year drivers converge at SRS Raceway to crown the Arizona State Champion and always draws heavy interest from the top Arizona drivers and surrounding states. For the 2nd year in a row the JConcepts with their Bar Codes took home the win in the 2wd modified class with ace driver Ryan Maifield behind the wheel. The dry, black groove conditions provided the ultimate test of durability and performance and he was able to win from Associated team mate Brent Thielke in 2nd and Losi racer Mike Friery in 3rd.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

October 14, 2009

Recio wraps up Argentinian title with Rd3 win

Last weekend saw the third round of the 1/8th scale Campeonato Argentino take place in Córdoba, host track of the 2007 World Championships. Pole position for the race went to Mugen/Sirio driver Sebastián Recio, who converted his starting position into the win. Runner up on the day was team mate Agustín Cutini with third place going to Serpent driver Francisco Rinaldi. After this race the Championship standings saw Sebastián Recio take the title followed by Agustín Cutini, with Juan Ignacio Matticoli in 3rd.

Thanks to Roxana Palazzo for the report.