April 27, 2007
Xray are reporting on their site from the first round of the Austrian nationals held last weekend at MRC Eruhwirth. The event catered for both the expert and sport class with the expert class being dominated by NT1 driver Manuel Huber until a problem dropped him back to 2nd gifting Mugen driver Hubert Honigl the win, with Serpent driver Christian Scheidl in 3rd. In the sport class it was NT1 racer Martin Pittner that took the win ahead of Harald Hofer and Julian Schober in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Source: Xray [teamxray.com]…
April 24, 2007
…was able to work his way back up to 1st to win by 2 laps at the flag. Andreas Hammerl finished 2nd with Serpent racer Michael Eisele in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale class it was Thomas Günsel, driving the Xray NT1, that took the pole spot from team mates Robert Pietsch and Dirk Wischnewski, who qualified 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the race it was Robert Pietsch that could take the win after pole man Günsel ran into troubles which also allowed Wischnewski move up into 2nd at the end with Christoph Pietsch claiming the final podium spot in…
April 15, 2007
…closing and eventually take the lead, only to have to pit suffering from problems to his right rear rim on a track that was causing huge tire wear. Jilles, once back in the lead, took the win followed home closely by Daan in 2nd with another Xray NT1 driven by Maarten van Lierop in 3rd. Click here to see the final results… 1. Jilles Groskamp – 105L 30.07.868 2. Daan Jacobs – 105L 30.17.353 3. Maarten van Lierop – 104L 30.03.933 4. Ruud Schuitmaker – 102L 30.06.681 5. Remy Moller – 101L 30.01.814 6. Jurgen Geerligs – 95L 30.04.938 7….
April 8, 2007
…(FIN) – 78L 45:11.086 – Xray NT1 3. Rafael Ortiz (E) – 77L 45:32.247 – Serpent 720 4. Oscar Cabezas (E) – 62L 45:08.947 – Serpent 720 5. Niklas Hakansson (SE) – 58L 45:03.086 – Xray NT1 6. Tony Mur Jr (E) – 56L 41:44.117 – Mugen MTX-4 7. Joao Malveiro (POR) – 56L 45:23.051 – Serpent 720 8. Victor Palaez (E) – 44L 45:10.131 – Team Magic G4S 9. Manuel Huber (A) – 8L 9:34.601 – Xray NT1 10. Carlos Peracho (E) – 0L 0:15.122 – Xray NT1 View the full results here (PDF) [youtube]Aa9xC1Jo9ug[/youtube] Image: Team Magic [teammagic.com.tw]…
April 7, 2007
This weekends EFRA Spanish GP, being held at the ARCA track in Madrid, has been heavily disrupted by rain and low temperatures. The event, which was being treated as a warm up race for this summers European 1/10th 200mm Championships, is being attended by most of the top teams in Europe with some very serious competition entered. Despite the wet weather and 8 degree temperatures today, qualifying was run and it was topped by local driver Victor Pelaez driving a Team Magic G4S, 2nd position going to Serpent racer Rafael Ortiz with Swedish NT1 racer Niklas Hakansson in 3rd, reigning…
April 3, 2007
SMI, the German importers of Xray cars, has announced on their site the 11 strong team that will contest the German Nationals driving the Slovakian manufacturers new 200mm chassis, the NT1. For the southern region they have Alexander Stocker, Thomas Günsel, Michael Heinrich and Robert Pietsch, the latter if you recall is the designer of the Shepherd Velox 07. For central Germany they will have Dirk Wischnewski and Patrik Garbi, in east Germany they will have Wilfried Stecker and finally in the west they will be represented by European 235mm Champion Alain Levy, Alex Piperato and the brother team of…
April 2, 2007
…the chequered flag. Click here to see the final results… 1. Mark Green – 136L 30m05.966 – S720 2. Chris Slater – 135L 30m05.146 – RRR 3. Steve Brown – 134L 30m09.754 – RRR 4. Kyle Branson – 133L 30m03.057 – S720 5. Steven Lander – 132L 30m10.262 – G4S 6. Ben Cosgrove – 122L 30m06.909 – NT1 7. Mark Gilliand – 115L 30m07.339 – NT1 8. Darren Johnson – 105L 22m52.217 – G4S 9. Peter Hastings – 84L 19m08.183 – MTX4 10. Neil Diver – 69L 16m16.544 – MTX4 Read the Kyle Branson Serpent report here. Image: Serpent [serpent.com]…
April 1, 2007
Following on from last months column by Juraj Hudy, comes the second part of this great insight into the development of Xrays new gas touring car, the NT1. In this part Juraj talks us through the pre production and testing phase of the car as well as highlighting the problems and the solutions to some problems that arose in testing. With the new geometry on the suspension arms, the geometry of the steering blocks and rear uprights had to be modified too, which again required modifications to the moulds. With the changed geometry the roll center positions on the rear…
