The Xray Turkey Onroad Championship is a 5-round race series held alternating at the Bursa and Izmir tracks between April and September 2016 with a pilot race taking place on the weekend of the 13th of March in North Cyprus. The championship is run in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock, 1/8th Nitro on-road and 1/10th Nitro on-road and more information can be found here.
The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series was held for the first time ever in the beautiful mountainside wine country of Kelowna, British Columbia. Round 4 was hosted by the KRC Club, with great teamwork and support from all the B.C. clubs for their premier WCICS event. Great weather helped racers from all around Western Canada make the drive, and in their first event ever they had the second highest registrations of any race so far in WCICS 25th season. In the Touring Modified class Xray driver Blake Bell drove his T4 from pole to checkered without looking back-for almost the 9th time in a row, three full events. Awesomatix’ Korgae Scales, driving the new A800 belt car, was in his draft the entire race, just 1 second behind at the line. WCICS President, top privateer Josh Carter, drove his Xray T3 to a solid 3rd.
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The annual US Nitro World Cup was held in Kissimmee, Florida with some of the nation’s fastest racers as well as guests from abroad in attendance. In the premier 1/8th on-road class DJ Apolaro and Italy’s Daniele Ielasi battled for the TQ with the better end for DJ who would grab the overall TQ by 3 seconds. In the 1/10th Sedan class the race for the TQ would be between Thilo Toedtmann, Scotty Gray and DJ Apolaro and ultimately it would be Thilo who would grab the overall TQ.
Round two of the Rug Racers series welcomed all drivers with a familiar track and somewhat unfamiliar sound, between the last round the organisers had listened to driver feedback and based on this feedback re-invested the money straight back into a new sound system amongst other more subtle changes including allocated pitting being trialled and a larger rostrum. Controlled practice got underway just after 8 for 11 heats of 4 classes. After a re-sort for those that didn’t show this was reduced to 10 heats. In Open Modified Elliott Harper was clearly then man to beat taking 3 of 4 rounds but with Kyle Branson close behind and Elliot unable to finish round 4 Kyle would take pole position.
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New from Yuki Model comes the HC-2284GG digital brushless servo. The standard-size item is high-voltage compatible, allowing to use it with up to 8.4V input. It features an all-alloy case, a brushless motor, durable titan gears and the servo is ideal for all applications that require swift transit times and a high torque such as 1/8th off-road and on-road cars.
Xray have announced the signing of multiple French Champion Jeremy Limoges to their team for the 2016 season. The electric on-road specialist will attend at all major regional and national races along international events such as the EFRA Euros and the ETS. Jeremy will run Xray’s T4 and X1 cars and he has the following to say:
I have been racing as a private racer with Xray since 2006 starting back in the time with my first T2 and over the years continued through the T3 platform until today. Thanks to the performance and reliability of the Xray cars I was able during the years to grab several major achievements and victories and being satisfied with the team work and team spirit there is no other choice for me than Xray. I am happy to be part of the Xray team to represent the team in France and I will do my best also at international races in 2016. Thanks to Xray for the given trust in me.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Serpent have a first teaser of their forthcoming S100-LTR 200mm pan car kit available. The World GT car will feature a new centre pivot design, new adjustable steering blocks and upper arms, a redesigned chassis and top deck as well as a longer centre shock absorber. More information will become later this week.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The opening round of the Finnish 1/10 Touring Nationals was held at the Fullspeed RC raceway in Helsinki on a small and challenging track. In qualifying Karri Salmela was the man to beat and after the four qualifying rounds he took the overall TQ from Henry Salmen and Kalle Lehto. The opening final then saw the top 3 finish in the starting order but in A2 Karri crashed at the three minute mark, resulting in a DNF for him. Kalle made maximum use of the situation and took the win and going into the third and decisive leg Karri, Kalle and Henry all had the chance to grab the overall win. At the end of A3 the top 3 again finished in the starting order, handing Karri the win in the final main and also the overall victory at the opening round of the championship.
Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]
