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October 7, 2007

Erik Dankel wins Oktoberfest Cup

Erik Dankel wins Octoberfest Cup

Last weekend saw the annual Oktoberfest Cup run at the Turkheim track, and is considered as the final race in the 1/8th scale season for a lot of drivers in this region. This years event saw Mugen racer Erik Dankel, racing the new MRX-4X, take the pole position in qualifying ahead of his brother Jan, but due to an unfixable problem caused to his car he withdrew and gave the position to the next driver. In the final Erik won easily ahead of team mates Norbert Mayrhofer in 2nd and Markus Stegmann in 3rd.

Source: MID [mid-mugen.de]

October 5, 2007

XRAY Column – Hot Summer Washout

XRAY Column - Hot Summer Washout

The 12th instalment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about this summers busy racing schedule and goes into details about the good, the bad and the unfortunate from each of the major events that they attended.

With great results at the Euros B where Team XRAY won the European Championship title, and also with good performance results at all the national races and the result at the Warm-up, I was very confident for the Euros. The race actually started very well and not only Yannick but also the rest of the team were doing very well. Clearly it was Yannick who was super fast from Day 1 and in the last qualifiers was having a “good battle with Robert Battle” who at the end TQ’d just 0.5 sec in front of Yannick.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 3, 2007

2007 RC Pro East Series Rd3 – Report

2007 RC Pro East Series Rd3 - Report

We received a report from Gene Hickersen from the 3rd and final round of the 2007 RC Pro East Series, which was held last weekend in Savannah Georgia at Phil Hurd Raceway. It was a good turnout of about 140 entries as the best of the East battle for the title of RC Pro East Champion. The track was a good combination of fast sections and really slow sections with tons of small double jumps and 1 huge double jump in the middle. There was no place to make up any time on the layout, but many places where you could easily loose time; so the racing was very close as everyone had about the same lap times.

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October 3, 2007

N’Diaye is 2007 French National Champion

The last round of the French 1/10th EP Touring car National Championship was recently held at Manspach, in the East of France. Qualifying in the Open A class saw Cyril N’Diaye, racing the new Xray T2’008, dominate the qualification sessions, putting himself into pole position ahead of Tamiya racer Loic Jasmin in 2nd and Lucas Urbain in 3rd. In the Open A final, N’Diaye benefitted from his pole position and was able win the first two finals, taking the overall win with Jasmin just behind in 2nd, with another Xray racer Aurélien Threhout in 3rd place. With this result Cyril N’Diaye was able to clinch the 2007 French National Championships.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 3, 2007

Massimo Esposito joins GO Technology

Massimo Esposito, or Espomax to his friends, a well experienced Italian driver has agreed to join GO Technology and use their engines for the rest of the 2007 season and the whole of the 2008 season. After some extensive tests, he found that GO Tech engines were capable of giving him all the power he needs combined with reliabilty, all from an inexpensive engine.

Source: Modellismo RC [modellismorc.net]

October 3, 2007

Jimmy Maddison wins IIC Stock class

Schumacher are very pleased with their performance at last weekend IIC event with Jimmy Maddison (UK) and Alan Hewitt (USA) taking 1st and 2nd in the Stock Rubber Sedan class, with Maddison having TQ’d the class. Their Mi3 was also at the top of its game in the 19T Rubber Class with class TQ Randy Caster coming home in 2nd, Jimmy Madison in 4th and 4th qualifier Alan Hewitt in 6th and Foam guru Chris Goetz also took 4th in the Stock Foam A main.

But the REAL story of the race was an astounding display of teamwork and cooperation in the Schumacher pits. As UK team member Jimmy Maddison was struggling with his primary car just an hour before his qualifier, the US team as a whole decided to “team build” his backup kit for him. The team members went to work, and in a flurry of activity they completed the car for him just minutes before his qualifier. Madison then went on to take TQ of the class with that qualifying round! This kind of team effort, friendly attitude and helpfulness were displayed throughout the event, and no single action could do more to personify exactly what it means to be a part of TEAM Schumacher.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

October 3, 2007

Petr Klatovský Win Czech Open Race

Xray have a report on their site from the Czech Open that was run recently at the RC Buggy Club Most. About 50 drivers were in attendance and most used it as a warmup race for the future round of the Czech Nationals that will be held at this track. In qualifying it was Kyosho racer Martin Vinš that claimed the top qualifer spot ahead of Xray racer Petr Klatovský in 2nd, he would go on to win his semi final and claim the pole position spot for the main final. In that final Petr could use his position well and kept out of trouble to lead off the grid until lap 4 when he made a mistake on the track allowing 2 cars to get ahead of him. However, in a short time he was able to catch them and pass them again and go on to increase his lead, eventually finishing 2 laps ahead Kyosho driver Jan Vostatek in 2nd and Martin Vinš in 3rd

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 2, 2007

Daily News Round-up

Red RC - Daily Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Report from the German final of the Kyosho World Cup – Link [kyosho.de]
> Team Orion celebrate their class wins at the IIC – Link [teamorion.com]
> Interview with new Losi signing Yannick Aigoin – Link [neobuggy.net]
> Dirk Wischnewski dominates German Regional qualifier – Link [teamxray.com]
> Austria announce strong Nations Cup squad – Link [serpent.com]
> Darren Johnson finishes in Winning Style – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> Junior ‘B’ Off road 1/8th Italian Championships – Link [rbproducts.com]