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October 8, 2013

Martin Hudy wins Automodelli Race in Italy

The Automodelli Race was held on a large and fast asphalt track near Milan, Italy with around 100 drivers attending in four classes. The Touring Car Modified class saw the attendance of Xray’s Martin Hudy who ran some indoor carpet tests in Scandiano before and who took the opportunity to race at this club meeting. The schedule saw three qualifying rounds with the best one to count and Martin already took TQ with his first run while in the Stock class Marco Puleo (Xray) put his car on pole position. In the Modified class finals Martin made a clean sweep and took three out of the three legs. He was chased by Andrea Simari though who was able to put serious pressure on him especially in the beginning of each of the finals due to a clever tyre additive choice. Xray’s Francesco Martini finished 3rd coming from the 5th position on the grid. In the Stock class the race was among three drivers, Marco Puleo, Nico Catelani and Umberto Pernice. TQ driver Marco made a mistake in the first final that was won by Nico and Marco also had issues in the last final allowing Umberto to win. At the end Marco and Nico were tie on points but Nico had faster final run handing him the win in front of Marco and Umberto.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 8, 2013

Hepp & Wischnewski win at Nitro West Masters Rd5

The 5th round of the Nitro West Masters was held at the MRC Oberhausen track. In the 1/8th on-road class Tobias Hepp took the winning honours in front of Christian Wurst and Ralf Vahrenkamp. 4th place went to Martin Baumann with Michael Woeste completing the top 5. In the 1/10th 200mm class Dirk Wischnewski grabbed the biggest trophy, Daniel Tönnessen and Sebastian Bürge came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Fähd Labik and Thilo Tödtmann rounded out the top 5.

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October 8, 2013

Tadahiko Sahashi tops first qualifier

Tadahiko Sahashi set the pace in the opening round of qualifying at the 1:8 Onroad World Championship in Japan, the Serpent driver one of only two drivers to complete 36 laps of the Keitune track. Producing a time of 10:14.886 the younger of the Sahashi brothers was 9/10ths of a second faster than his nearest rival Mugen’s Takaaki Shimo. Missing out on a 36 lap run by just over a second, KM Racing’s Meen Vejrak completed the Top 3 for the round which saw practice pace setter Jilles Groskamp not finish.

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

October 8, 2013

Xray Challenge Czech Republic – Announcement

Xray announce the seven round Xray Challenge Czech Republic that will be held in the Sportovní hala, Prague, starting at the 26th of October and ending with round number seven on the 22nd of March 2014. Classes run are Short Course 1/10, 2WD and 4WD Buggy, Formula, Touring Car Stock 17.5T “blinky” and Touring Car Modified. All dates, rules and additional information can be found here.

October 8, 2013

Marco Rizzo wins at final round of Swiss nats

Xray’s Marco Rizzo has won the 1/8th Armateur class at the final round of the Swiss nitro on-road nationals. A second place after the qualifiers behind Andy Geisser and in front of Rudi Scherer made for a good position to grab the number one spot in the A final. At the end Marco won the class in front of Andrea Hächler and Noah Asendorf which also secured him the vice championship.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 8, 2013

Groskamp top seed for qualifying in Japan

Jilles Groskamp

Jilles Groskamp is the top seed for qualifying at the 1:8 Onroad World Championships, the Dutch ace again putting his Shepherd top of the time sheets in Japan in the second controlled practice. Groskamp managed 3-laps in a time of 50.330 on the slower track his CP1 time some 8/10ths faster. Continuing to impress, Italy’s Raiola Carmine set the second fastest time in CP2, his Xray just 9/1000th off the European Championship pace. Japanese National Champion Takaaki Shimo, the widely tipped event favourite, posted the third fastest time having struggled in CP1 with a lack of steering.

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

October 7, 2013

Nick Georgiades wins Greek Touring Car champs

Nick Geo wins Greek Touring Car championships

The 4th and final round of the Greek touring car championship took place near Heraklion, Crete. After qualifying local driver Terzis (Xray) took TQ in front of Nick Georgiades (Xray) and John Doucakis (Awesomatix). The first A main saw John passing both Xray drivers in lap 1 but he got hit by Nick sending the Awesomatix on its roof and creating a chain reaction. John found himself at the back of the field while Nick received a stop-and-go penalty. Both soon recovered and Nick took the win with John in second place. The 2nd A final again had a lap 1 carnage to offer, this time Nick Georgiades hit Terzis causing lots of confusion but now Nick escaped further action against him and ended in second position behind John. The decisive third A final saw John losing a position against T.O.P. driver Jim on lap 2 but the Awesomatix driver soon regained the third place and went on to chase the two Xrays of Nick and Terzis. The latter showed great sportsmanship by letting John by as he was clearly faster. John now was on a mission to try and catch Nick. After a short coming together as Nick went wide and John tried to pass him Nick ended in second place with John close behind. The result handed Nick the race win after the tie breaker and this also secured him the Xray driver overall title win of the series. John Doucakis ended the season sitting in the runner-up sport.

Source: JD & Racing [jdandracing.blogspot.com]

October 7, 2013

Arrowmax Super Diff spur gears

Arrowmax introduce their Super Diff spur gear series. Specially designed to combine toughness and a light weight the special shape of the teeth also makes for super quiet running. The gears fit many of today’s electric touring and pan car chassis and are available as 86T to 110T 64dp and 68T to 88T 48dp variant.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]