The Xray Challenge 2015 Grand Final will take place at the World-renown Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia on the weekend of the 10th of May 2015. The race will be held in various classes with all details becoming available soon.
Team Associated announce the soon release of their new 61mm disc wheels for 1/10th scale 2WD and 4WD buggies. They are designed to fit the new generation of buggy tyres, they are light of weight, offer pre-drilled vent holes and a rough, textured gluing bead for enhanced adhesion. A glossy finish helps to prevent the wheels from staining over time. The wheels sport a 12mm hex design and are available as 2WD front, 4WD front and general rear wheels in white and fluorescent yellow colour.
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Dominic Greiner is the Top Qualifier for the 200mm World Championships in the Thailand, the Team Serpent driver putting in a stunning drive in the deciding final qualifier at the Huge RC Circuit in Bangkok to secure pole position on his World Championship debut. With just one direct qualifier for the 1-hour Main, the German needed to take Q6 to deny Alexander Hagberg the coveted position and that’s exactly what he did TQ’ing the round from the Swede to tie on points claiming an emotional overall TQ on tie break with the Xray driver. Behind, a strong drive saw Capricorn driver Kyle Branson take the top heat to claim third for the round with his former mentor Mark Green completing the Top 4. For reigning World Champion Meen Vejrak the final qualifier would be his best of the six with the factory KM Racing driver posting the sixth fastest time which leaves him to start his title defence from the 1/4 Finals.
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With the recent addition of Lewis Jones LMR welcome another young talented driver to their team. Lewis has been driving for a few years now and he is getting better each year, in fact so good that he started kicking his dad’s backwards and in doing so, forcing him into retirement and onto the tools for young Lewis. Since then he has improved his driving and his maturity and for 2015 he will pilot an MBX7R along with the range of LMR’s products.
Source: LMR [l-m-racing.co.uk]
The final round of the Greek Electric Touring Car nationals was held at the Zorri track in Athens. Going into the final round three drivers were tie on points and able to take the overall championship. Right from the start of the qualification Georgiades made his intentions clear as he won two out of the five qualifiers and nobody else came close to the times he set.
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The second round of the Silverstone Winter Series attracted a full entry in the main 2WD buggy class, on a high grip indoor astroturf track. Nathan Waters drove superbly to take the TQ and a convincing win with his Schumacher Cougar. Team mate Simon Moss set the fastest single laps by far but a couple of errors left him with too much ground to make up and he had to settle for 2nd. Associated driver Greg Williams completed the podium. The smaller 4WD class was won by new Schumacher driver Dave Burton.
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A round of the East German division LRP-HPI-Challenge was held at full time carpet indoor track in Leipzig in five different classes including the fastest Stock class of 10.5T Blinky. This class saw many fast guys attending such as Fabian Ehrhardt, Tony Streit and 1/8th scale drivers Michael Kammer and Merlin Depta. Fabian Ehrhardt took the TQ honours after the qualifiers from former ETS Stock class winner Tony Streit and Karsten Hartinger with all three being separated only by a few tenth of a second.
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Dominic Greiner has TQ’d the penultimate qualifier at the 200mm World Championships in Thailand. The result puts the Serpent driver in contention to become the overall Top Qualifier with him set to go up against Alexander Hagberg in the final round, the Xray driver ending the fifth round second fastest. With Mugen’s Takehiro Terauchi completing the Top 3, the top heat provided plenty of late drama. On a TQ round, Q3 & 4 pace setter Teemu Leino ran out of fuel with 45-seconds still to run. With Dario Balestri taking over at the top of the timing screen he too would once again have run time issues, his Caparicorn coming to a stop on the final lap. This left Mark Green on target to top the round but he would crash out saying afterwards the last lap off was simply down to ‘an old man driving like shit’.
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