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August 17, 2007

Geisendorf takes Rd5 of Swiss 1/8th Nats

The 5th round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Nationals were run last weekend at the fast, but tight, Schaffhausen track in the north of the country. The event saw the pole position go to Serpent 960 driver Markus Geisendorf in a rain interrupted qualifying, with 2nd spot going to Motonica racer and round 3 winner Mattia Pesenti. In the 45 minute final it was Geisendorf all the way as he was able to pull away and take the win from 2nd placed Mugen driver Marco Mueller with 3rd spot going to Simon Kurzbuch.

Source: Trading Tech

August 16, 2007

Graham Alsop wins Truggy Pro Rd3

The 3rd round of the UK Truggy Pro series took place last weekend in Ledbury near the England Wales border and with 100 participants present the weather gods were kind to the racers with the event evntually turning out to be warm and dry. Qualifying saw Kyosho Masters winner Elliot Boots take the TQ spot by 3 seconds ahead of round 2 winner and HoBao racer Graham Alsop in 2nd. After a bit of banging and scraping at the start of the main final it was Boots that emerged in 1st only to be passed 4 laps later by Xray driver Hazlewood and then also eventually by Alsop. With Boots clearly in 3rd it was left to Alsop and Hazlewood to battle it out for the win with the lead swapping a number of times and after the last pitstop it looked like Hazlewood had the win secured, but a coming together with a back marker handed Alsop the lead and despite heavy pressure he could also take the win, with Hazlewood in 2nd and Boots in 3rd.

Source: UK Truggy Pro [uktruggypro.com]

August 15, 2007

Acer Racing Corally RDX Phi bearings

Acer Racing, makers of after market bearing sets, have announced that they have begun selling their Ceramic Nitride Pro Series bearing kits for the Corally RDX Phi US and EU versions. These lightweight bearings have been made using diamond polished ceramic nitride balls for the lowest friction, lowest heat build-up, freest movement & smoothest operation. Available now.

Source: RCCA [radiocontrolzone.com]

August 15, 2007

Manuel Huber wins Austrian Champs Rd4

Xray have a report from their team driver Manuel Huber on the recently held 4th round of the Austrian 1/10th 200mm Nationals. Qualifying saw Huber claim the TQ but with Austrian rules all drivers must race a Semi final and in this race Huber was once again quickest, winning the semi and taking the pole position for the main final. At the start of the final Manuel made a good start, but a split second loss of concentration sent him off the track and back to the back of the field, which allowed Serpent racer Daniel Tomaschko into the lead. A mistake just after 5 minutes forced Tomaschko out of the race and allowed a fast recovering Huber into the lead where he was unchallenged for the remainder of the race and could take the win by 2 laps ahead of Xray team mate Manuel Singer in 2nd and Mugen driver Michael Klausner in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

August 14, 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:

> Check out our coverage of the European 1/10th scale Champs – Link [events.redrc.net]
> Tony Newland joins OCM Racing in the US – Link [neo-buggy.net]
> Report from the 4wd regional race in Batley – Link [oople.com]
> Ian Whittingham takes his third Torc title – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> GRP Consespike clean sweep at Batley Regional – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Report from the 2wd regional race in Batley – Link [oople.com]
> Jon Howells wraps up the RRCI 1/8th Rallycross series – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]

August 14, 2007

Felicio wins Ceara State Champs Rd5

The weekend just gone saw the 5th round of the Ceara State Championships held in Braczil on the countries best track, and host of the 10th running of the Brazilian off road Nationals later in the year, the Asa Branca Speedway. In qualifying for the buggy class it was a TQ for CEN racer Rafael Felicio who also TQ’d the truggy class and he went on the win both classes, beating out Jesus Fernandes and Francisco Alcantara in the buggy class and Cleyton Viana and Joao Bruno in the truggy class. With this win Rafael Felicio becomes the 2007 Ceara State truggy Champion with 4 TQ’s and wins from 5 rounds while in the buggy class he is the leader in the series but has yet to clinch the title, battling with CEN team mate Francisco Junior who currently lies in 2nd place with 2 rounds still left.

Source: CEN [cenracing.com]

August 14, 2007

XRAY Column – Bling-bling Mentality

XRAY Column - Bling-bling Mentality

The 11th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about after market parts and goes about justifying the use of genuine performance enhancing parts from Xray as opposed to those anodised bling bling parts from other companies.

After the huge initial success of the NT1 worldwide, aftermarket companies jumped right in and introduced plenty of aftermarket “bling-bling” option parts for the NT1. Looking at the parts I just can only say one thing: “You get what you pay for.” Of course anybody is free to produce any parts they want and every customer is free to purchase any product they want, but here are my tips and explanations why Authentic XRAY Products are the best products for your XRAY car.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

August 14, 2007

Daniel Reckward wins German West Rd1

The first round of the West German 1/8th scale off road qualification races for the 2008 Nationals took place last weekend at the MAC Essen track. The event was open to both buggy and truggy classes and in the buggy class it was a win for Kyosho racer Daniel Reckward ahead of team mate Denis Macek in 2nd and Mugen driver Frank Derksen completing the podium in 3rd. Daniel managed to do the double for Kyosho, taking the win in the truggy class also in front of 2nd placed Mugen driver Alexander Munsch and Team Losi racer Thomas Wüller in 3rd.

Source: Vita Racing [vita-racing.de]