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February 28, 2017

Swiss Indoor Masters – Report

The Swiss Indoor Masters was recently held in Chiasso, Switzerland and it saw Marco Manzo (Yokomo) walking away with the TQ and win in the Touring Modified class. Florian Hauser and (Xray) and Oliver Krähemann (Xray) would round out the top 3 result. The Touring Stock 13.5T category had Noah Asendorf (Xray) taking the top qualifier honours but in the finals he had to settle for second behind Andrea Valerio (Xray) while Nico Catelani (Xray) came in third. 1/10th Pan Car had Luca Martinelli (Xray) taking the day’s win from Simon Del Monego in second and Claudio Pasquin (Xray) in third while the 1/12th scale class saw Erol Sehirtoy (Xray) bringing home the win from Khounmy Bui (Xray) and Raphael Wicki (Serpent).

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February 28, 2017

California Touring Series CTS2 – Report

The opening round of CTS2 was hosted by TQ Hobbies in Chino, California. In the Modified Touring division, Xray’s JJ Wang set TQ for Q1 and an even faster run in Q2 giving him pole position for the A-main. Team Associated drivers Rick Hohwart and Randy Caster drove defensively in Q2 to lock up P2 and P3. Defending Champion Team Yokomo driver Eric Albano would then qualify in P4. Special guest appearance from Shanghai, China and Awesomatix driver “Rocket” would qualify P6 just behind EJ Evans in 5th.

Continue reading the report here

February 27, 2017

Volker bounces back with convincing ETS Germany win

Ronald Volker bounced back to his former carpet racing glory days with a convincing ETS Germany win, the Yokomo driver carrying his impressive form from the opening practice on Friday right through the weekend to wrap up the overall win with another dominant performance in the second A-Main. Having made A1 look easy, A2 would see a slight error from the Top Qualifier just before the halfway mark. While it would allow Bruno Coelho to close, Volker was never really under threat and at the end would finish with more than a second lead over the Xray driver with Marc Rheinard again completing the Top 3. The German’s 14th Euro Touring Series career win, matching Rheinard’s record tally, the win was an important one both in terms of closing the gap to ETS championship leader Coelho but also mentally with the World Champion having struggled since winning the sport’s top prize in China last August.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

February 27, 2017

Vesa Yli & Ilari Lamminsivu win Finnish 1/12th titles

The final round of the Finnish 1/12th scale Championships was held this past weekend. In the Modified class, Destiny’s Vesa Yli brought home the TQ to take the overall Championship from Destiny team mates Panu Vehniäinen and Ari-Pekka Kyykkä. In 13.5T GT-12 it was again Vesa who scored the TQ and win at the season finale but with only two races done he had to settle for 5th overall with Ilari Lamminsivu (Destiny) taking the overall title from Jukka Häkämies (Roche) and Niko Vuorenmaa (Xray) in second and third respectively.

View the GT-12 top 10 here

February 27, 2017

Protoform tease new 190mm touring car bodyshell

During last weekend’s opening round of the California Touring Series, Xray/Protoform factory driver JJ Wang was spotted using a new Protoform prototype bodyshell. Taking the overall TQ and finishing on the podium the body seemed to work well on the somewhat tight carpet track. No details are available yet but we keep you up to date.

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February 27, 2017

Capricorn welcomes Meen Vejrak

Capricorn RC have announced the signing of 2012 IFMAR 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring World Champion, Meen Vejrak to their team. The Thai driver will campaign the company’s the C-03 1/10th 200mm and C803 1/8th nitro platforms at national and international events including the Worlds in France, select ENS events and at most major races around the Asian region.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

February 27, 2017

Xray Racing Series Alpe Adria – Announcement

Xray have announced the Xray Racing Series Alpe Adria, a 3-race event series in Slovenia, Croatia and Austria. Kicking off on the weekend of the 26th of March in Tolmin, Slovenia the series will also see races in Zagreb, Croatia and Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Austria where the series will have its third and final race on the 28th of August. Classes run are nitro 1/8th, 1/8th GT and 1/10th 200mm as well as 1/5th TC, 1/8th electric, 1/8th GT electric, 1/10th Touring and 1/10th Formula. More information can be found here.

February 27, 2017

Yokomo BD8 Pitch Control System

Coming from Yokomo and made for the World Championship-winning BD8 electric touring car is the new Pitch Control System. Used by Ronald Völker to sweep the recent second round of the 2016/17 ETS, the system utilises a tie-rod brace that runs along the centre of the chassis, connecting the kit’s standard 1-piece servo mount and the updated motor mount bulkhead for reduced chassis pitch and increased forward traction. In addition to stiffening the chassis in longitudinal direction the set will also allow to take influence on the top deck’s flex characteristics with an additional mounting point. The set will become available by end of March.

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