June 12, 2007
…Blanchard racing a Mugen, while 3rd place went to another Mugen, that of Aurélien Gouriau. Click here for the final results… Elite class results: 1. BA Arnaldi – 94L 30:00.24 [RRR/Picco] 2. Basile Concialdi – 94L 30:00.56 [XRAY NT1/JP] 3. Arnaud Chaussard – 94L 30:00.89 [SERPENT 720/RB] 4. Sébastien Wartelle – 93L 30:08.70 [RRR/Novarossi] 5. Michaël Derderian – 93L 30:14.43 [SERPENT 720/Mega] 6. Nicolas Bougnoteau – 93L 30:15.46 [XRAY NT1/RB] 7. Jacky Mouton – 93L 30:15.91 [SERPENT 720/RB] 8. Renaud Monin – 89L 30:11.33 [MTX4/Ninja] 9. Arnaud Soulignac – 78L 30:12.18 [SERPENT 720/JP] 10. Thomas Desmaries – 47L 18:55.17 [MTX3/Ninja]…
June 10, 2007
The fourth round of the BRCA 200mm National Championships was run this weekend by the Cotswold Model car club on their track in Gloucestershire. Qualifying saw top Team Magic man, and round 3 winner, Darren Johnson take the top qualifying spot ahead of Serpent ace Mark Green in 2nd. At the start of the Main final Mark was knocked off the track and bumped to the back of the field as Darren pushed away at the front followed by a closing Robin Hammet driving his Xray NT1, who eventually took the lead only to drop back at the mid point…
June 10, 2007
Xray are reporting on their site from last weekends opening round of the Greek Gas Open / Xray Challenge held at the Fanatix race track. Qualifying for the event saw Xray NT1 racer Louis take the pole position ahead of team mates Halim and Antoniou in 2nd and 3rd respectively. After a very fast start for the 45min final Louis and Karabelas were fighting for 1st place. After a small incident between the two Louis went for some repairs and Vrettos took the chance to lead with Halim and Loukakis in the same 5sec gap until 35min mark of the…
June 8, 2007
We briefly covered the multi-diff in our NT1 options round-up a few days ago, and at the time i thought it was just the same system as used in the front of the Serpent 720, and basically it is in that it allows you to run a oneway or, with the insertion of a steel pin, a solid front axle. What is unique about the multi-diff though is that is also allows you to run a solid one-way axle as well. A lightweight machined steel hex-style locking axle can be inserted into both outdrives to lock them together and create…
June 4, 2007
Last weekend the Adcaz club in Zaragoza played host to the 2007 TecRace, which was organised by importer TecroTec and supported by Team Magic and Team Orion. Spanish GP winner Darren Johnson, engine tuner Oscar Jansen and multiple World Champion Adrien Bertin were present for tech support and to give seminars, while Johnson was also competing at the event too and duly took put his Team Magic G4+ on the pole position for main final. Unfortunately the recent BRCA National winner ran into some problems in the final and fell over 20 laps down which allowed Xray NT1 racer Johnny…
May 30, 2007
Xray have updated their site with a large number of new optionals and tuning parts for their 200mm racer, the NT1. Far too many to write about individually, we have copied in some images of the main parts and we have put a link to the whole lot at the bottom of the page. New parts include a machined LCG chassis, lighter transmission parts, new CVDs and Multi diff, rear anti-roll bars, spur gears, pinion gears, new clutch parts and lots more. Click here to see photos of the option parts… Click here and go to the bottom of the…
May 30, 2007
Our partners RC Infos have a full report on last weekends first round of the Swiss Nationals that was held in Wallisellen. Qualifying saw European ‘B’ finalist Beat Walti, driving the Xray NT1, take the pole position ahead of Mattia Pesenti racing the Team Magic car in 2nd with another Xray, that of Traugott Schär lining up in 3rd. In the race Walti was able to ease away to the win while behind the battle for 2nd was fought which saw Pesenti sidelined with a broken 2nd gear on his car early in the race, allowing Dirk Stammler racing for…
May 27, 2007
The 2007 FEMCA Championships are over and 2 new champions have been crowned at the JITC in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the 1/10th scale class it was Serpent 720 racer Teddy Syatch that came out on top with a 4 lap advantage over Singapore Kyosho racer Philip Lee, while Xray NT1 racer Sadikan came home in 3rd. Pole position sitter, Japanese racer Ken Furukawa, racing for Kyosho, had a difficult race and came home in 5th. In the 1/8th scale main final, there was drama at the end of the 45 minute final when Serpent 960 racer Suruth V. took the…
