The 6th and final round of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin last weekend in several electric on-road and off-road classes. In the premier electric on-road class of Modified Touring it was Martin Hudy with the win on home soil from Oliver Havranek on the runner-up spot. Michal Wojcik came in 3rd to round out the all-Xray podium.
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The first round of the 2020 South-African ORE 1/10th national championship series was held at the KMR Club last weekend. A slightly smaller field than normal, but great driving throughout, and a new Truck class was also run as an exhibition class. The track was well prepared and the weather was hot, which made for some fantastic on-track action! The Modified Touring class was the highlight of the event with extremely close qualifying rounds throughout. The TQ spot finally went to local man, Wouter Ferreira (Awesomatix). The mains was super exciting with a number of drivers being in contention for the win. Wouter Ferreira finally took his maiden Modified victory ahead of the Xray duo if Deon Gove and Alex Ribeiro.
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The final round of the Essex Winter Series took place last weekend. Concluding once again with a sell-out entry, the overall championships in the Modified, Super Stock and Front Wheel Drive class had already been wrapped up but the other podium places were still to be decided. Olly Jefferies made his return to the EWS at this event, now driving a privately entered Xray following his departure from Schumacher last month. He got things underway by setting the best time ahead of Champion-elect Elliott Harper, with Harley Eldridge taking third ahead of Kyle Branson and Chris Grainger. Elliott moved his Xray to the top in Q2, with Olly taking second. Kyle was best of the rest, in third for Capricorn, ahead of Harley’s Yokomo and Aaron Rose’s Schumacher in fifth. Round three had Olly moving back up top, beating Elliott by two tenths of a second. Kyle and Harley were again third and fourth, with Florian Joos (Xray) in fifth this time. Olly secured pole by taking the last round ahead of Elliott, with Kyle locking up third with another P3 result. Florian jumped up the grid with his fourth place in round and Harley stayed in the mix with fifth.
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The city of Monsanto held the opening round of the Portuguese On-road Nationals last weekend. The good weather made for great racing conditions and in 1/10th Nitro Touring it was multi-time IFMAR World Champion, Bruno Coelho with the overall TQ and he also brought home the win in the A-main event, leaving behind Carlos Manuel in 2nd, some three laps behind. Fabian Ramos came in 3rd to round out the podium result.
The opening round of the Uruguayan Off-road Championship was held at the fast and super technical San Jose de Mayo track recently. Due to the track being new it changed it nature throughout the day permanently and in the end it was Xray’s Nicolas Bregante who made the best out of it by taking the win in the Nitro Buggy class from Javier Biurrum (Xray) in 2nd and Nicolas Demicheri (Mugen) in 3rd.
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Last weekend was the final round of the 2019/20 EssexCarpetClash championship, and it came down to this meeting to finalise the top positions in both 2WD and 4WD. 4WD had already been won by Stephen Brown, who wasn’t present at this round allowing the others to fight it out for the podium positions. Qualifying was close between John Painter and birthday boy Luke Mills, being decided on count back time which Painter snatched with a far round 4 run. After 3 legs of finals, it was Mills that would triumph, winning all legs and giving him the overall win of the day. Painter managed to hold 2nd place, in front of a fast Lee Hedges who qualified in 3rd.
Round 5 of the Danish Electric On-road Nationals was held in Tinglev last weekend. While Kevin Nielsen walked away with the win in the Modified Touring class it was Casper Lund (Xray) who would bring home the win in Super Stock Touring Car from Xray teammate, Stefan Finnich in 2nd and Schumacher’s Phillip Pedersen in 3rd. Over in Stock Touring it was Villiam Bulow with the win from Lasse Stokholm in 2nd and Jens Otto Frederiksen in 3rd.
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MW RC Cars have announced the signing of Jörn Neumann to the Maclan Racing factory team. The IFMAR World and multi-time EFRA European Champion will use Maclan Racing motors and speed controllers to power his rides this season and he has the following to say about the deal:
I am looking forward to be apart of the Maclan Racing team. A massive thank you goes to Max and Willie for the possibility to join the team. From now on I will use Maclan Racing’s ESC‘s and motors in my cars.
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]
