March 16, 2015
…be racing Xray’s 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road cars at all major races in Germany and Europe. Tom says: I am happy to join the Xray factory Team for the 2015 season. I look forward to cooperating with such a professional team and I am sure that we can work successfully together. I am particularly pleased to continue my racing career with Bertram Kessler and the whole SMI Motorsport team at my side. In the upcoming season we will be participating in the European Championships, Euro Nitro Series and the National Championships with the NT1 and RX8. Source: Xray [teamxray.com]…
February 25, 2015
Xray has announced that Marco Kaufmann has re-signed with the Slovakian team to race the company’s T4 and NT1 in the 2015 season. Marco is a young and talented driver and he has been a main driving force of the Xray team in Germany. Marco will participate at all major national and international races and he has the following to say about the deal: I am very happy to re-sign with Xray. I have been racing with Xray since I have started to drive RC cars and I am very proud to represent this finest company and to be part…
November 28, 2014
To celebrate their success at the recent 2014 IFMAR 200mm World Championships Xray release a special limited edition kit of the NT1 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road car featuring plenty of option parts that Alexander Hagberg used on his car to win the World Championship title. Together with a full NT1 kit a set of option parts, worth of more than 370 Euro, is included in the bundle that is available for only a short time and only in limited quantities. Included parts: 330009 Xray NT1 – full kit with all parts 331101 Chassis 4mm Swiss 7075-T6 331180 Brass cassis weight…
November 12, 2014
After two difficult opening qualifiers, top seed Teemu Leino managed to put together a clean 5-minutes to TQ the third round of qualifying at the 200mm World Championships in Thailand. Top Qualifier of the previous Worlds, which also took place in the city of Bangkok, the HB driver topped the round ahead of the Serpent’s of Dominic Greiner and the Sahashi brother’s Yuya and Tadahiko. Fastest in the opening two rounds, Xray’s Alexander Hagberg would end the day with a fourth for the round with the evening conditions not suiting his NT1. Continue reading this report here or view our…
September 18, 2014
Following our exclusive interview with Xray’s on-road designer Martin Hudy about the forthcoming T4’15 electric touring car we now have a more in-depth article in which Martin explains the challenges of making an already proven car even better. It has been a few years since we internally reorganised the responsibilities of project development, and at that time I assumed full responsibility for the entire Xray on-road platform development while Juraj took over off-road platform development. This arrangement has allowed both of us to fully focus on the cars we are responsible for, which in my case are the T4, NT1,…
September 17, 2014
…do, there will always be customers who are not happy with the decision. To streamline and unify our product line branding, we decided to stick with the car names a few years ago and to just add a year version. Keeping the same car name helps to build a strong reputation and recognition of the brand, while adding the year version gives assurance that Xray has been constantly developing the entire portfolio. Currently our racing line-up includes the T4, NT1, RX8, X12, X10, XB4, XB8 and XB8E – simple and clear. The new T4’15 is not a revolution, but the…
September 9, 2014
ZZRacing have new lightweight hardware sets available for a range of Xray kits such as the XB4, T4’14, NT1’14 as well as the X10’15 and X12’15. The sets contain titanium and stainless steel screws, anodised aluminium lock nuts and countersunk washers to scrub around 50 percent of weight on the hardware. The aluminium parts come orange anodised to match Xray’s colour theme and the sets are available now. Source: ZZRacing [zzracing.net]…
August 1, 2014
…cars. The latest version is meant to offer improved durability and efficiency thanks to a new clutch shoe material that features a new PTFE formulation as well as a pre-lubrication for increased durability of the contact surface between the clutch bell and the shoes. Other new features include a new “double reverse” mass made from the same material as the shoes and with a different weight compared to the previous versions. Last but not least is a new calibrated spring. The ver. 3.0 clutch is available for Xray NT1, Capricorn Lab C02 and Shepherd Velox V10 cars. Source: Blacktarmac [blacktarmac.it]…
