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May 1, 2007

Team Kyosho win Israeli 3h Endurance

Our partners RC Zone in Israel have written to us to report on last weekends Israeli Endurance race took place at the Hot-Wheels racing club. The event attracted many top drivers from all over the country to participate in the event. Each team consisted of 3 drivers, and with the race 3 hours long, each driver in the team had to run for 1 hour making it a true test of endurance for both man and machine. The event was won by Team Kyosho who came out on top by 2 laps ahead of the Pro Line Racing Team in 2nd while Team GS finished 3rd a further 4 laps back, pretty close running considering the length of the race.

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May 1, 2007

Juho Levanen wins Fintrack Rd4

Fintrack Rd4

Round 4 of the Fintrack series was run 2 weekends ago at the mid sized Laukaa track, the last indoor race of the series, with 4 outdoor rounds to follow. As seems to be a recurring result it was once again Associated racer, and last weekends LRP masters winner, Juho Levanen that took the top spot in qualifying ahead of team mate Christer Andersson in 2nd and Corally driver Simo Ahoniemi in 3rd. In the race it was Levanen all the way, taking the win easily ahead of Ahoniemi in 2nd with 3rd place falling to Xray driver Pekka Koivula.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 1, 2007

Jerome Sartel takes Rd2 of French Nats

Last weekend saw the second round of the French 1/8th scale buggy nationals take place at the USB Racing Car track in Bergerac. In qualifying it was European Champion Yannick Aigoin driving for Xray that was the fastest qualifier, but it was Crono racer, and Belgian GP winner, Jerome Sartel that started from the number 1 spot in the race with Yannick starting from 2nd and Renaud Savoya from 3rd. The race saw a close battle between Sartel and round 1 winner Guilliame Vray, racing for Mugen, with the pair only seperated by 13 seconds after the 45 minutes with Sartel taking the win, Vray in 2nd with 3rd position going to Kyosho racer Jerome Aigoin who finished just ahead of his brother Yannick who came home 4th.

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April 30, 2007

Cyril N’Diaye wins Rd2 French EP Nats

Cyril N'Daye wins Rd2 French EP Nats

While the rest of the top European racers were at the LRP Masters this weekend, the French drivers had to run the 2nd round of their National championships at the amazing permanent indoor track in Rumilly. Qualifying saw Xray driver Cyril N’Diaye take the top qualifying spot ahead of second placed Corally racer Jeremy Delalondre while in the race Cyril could carry his form through the main event and take the win ahead of 2nd placed fellow Xray racer Aurelien Threhout with 3rd place going to Jeremy Delalondre. Expect a complete report from our partners RC Infos in the next few days.

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April 30, 2007

King Headz Jammin Shock towers

King Headz, the metal optional parts specialists, have added 2 new products to their large range of machined parts by adding 2 new shock towers for the Jammin X1 CRT. These shock towers have been machine from 6mm 7075 aircraft grade aluminium and then anodised, which offers a huge increase in strength and rigidity over the original parts with the rear tower offering the addition of a 7th camber link hole for more tuning possibilities.

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April 30, 2007

Hot Bodies WC Edition Black CVDs

Hot Bodies continue to release options for their World Championship winning Cyclone touring car, with the latest being these black MIP CVDs. These are the same MIP CVDs as the purple versions that come as standard on the Cyclone Moore-Speed World Championship Edition, but obviously these are black, and when installed they aid durabilty and performance. Suitable for any Cyclone or Cyclone S car, this set comes with 2 CVDs and includes parts to add MIP CVDs to either the front or rear of the Cyclone.

Source: Hot Bodies [hbeurope.com]

April 30, 2007

Riccardo Perin wins Rd2 of Italian Nats

Riccardo Perin

The second round of the Italian 1/8th scale off road championships took place last weekend at the S.M. di Sala. We have little information from this event other than the results sheet where we see that recent Xray signing Riccardo Perin took the win by 1 lap ahead of Crono racer Carlo Jacopini. Fabio Boero took the final step of the podium for Mugen in 3rd while Xrays latest signing Alex Laffranchi claimed 5th position on his national debut with round 1 winner Teghesi finishing in 7th ahead of his Crono team mate and current National Champion, Davide Tortorici, in 8th.

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April 30, 2007

Martin Lissau takes Rd1 of Ã–resundsCupen

Rd1 of Ã–resundsCupen

More news from Xray, this time they are reporting on the Ã–resundsCupen, which saw round one of this series, that includes four different races split between Sweden and Denmark, take place at the weekend in Staffanstorp, south Sweden. TQ for this event went to Xray NT1 driver Matin Lissau who was un challenged in Sundays main final with the main race battle taking place behind him for 2nd between Serpent driver Per Ola Hard and Xray driver Niklas Hakansson, with Per Ola eventually coming out on top to finish in 2nd position, with Hakansson in 3rd.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]