March 19, 2007
Ben Cosgrove has won the Handy Models Grand Prix run by the Cotswold Model Car Club, leading home an Xray NT1 1-2-3. Competing for the first time as a team the 3 UK Xray NT1 team drivers, Ben Cosgrove, Mark Gilliland and Robin Hammet, had to cope with tricky damp conditions on the Sunday of the event but a quick run in the dry Saturday qualifying gave Cosgrove the pole position which couldn’t be bettered on the final 2 damp qualifying runs on Sunday. In the final Ben managed to stay on the lead lap despite a tricky tire choice…
March 4, 2007
Today saw the running of the 1st round of the Spanish National championships for 200mm held in Gijon. The race was won by 3rd placed qualifier Javier Hidalgo, driving a Serpent 720, who managed to pull out a lap on Kyosho racer Luis Cayetano who finished 2nd while a lap further back in 3rd place was Jose Casas who gained the final podium spot driving a Serpent 710. This race was the first national event for the Xray NT1 with the new car gaining 3 spots in the main final with Carlos Peracho bringing the car home the highest in…
March 1, 2007
Xray have published the 6th in the series of columns from designer and company owner Juraj Hudy in which he gives us an insight into what its like to be in the hot seat at one of the larger RC manufacturers. In this column he talks about the design and production process of the new NT1 and all the different decisions he had to make in order to get the car to his liking and as always it makes for an interesting read. Most of the details we focused on during development are not radical or innovative at first glance;…
February 27, 2007
Marc Kreisig has shown he was the class of the field at last weekends Kyosho on road Masters held in Wiener Neustadt near Vienna, Austria. The Kyosho racer managed to win the aggregated finals to take the overall win and was followed home by Xray NT1 racer, and race TQ, Manuel Huber who finished 2nd. In third was the NT1 designer and Xray owner Juraj Hudy who had a very good result despite the tough competition and a few problems in the race itself. Although the driver had some bad luck they were very satisfied with the car’s performance because…
February 21, 2007
Although we already covered the Winternats I thought it was interesting to get an insight on how the Xray team felt they had performed, considering the hype surrounding the event and the debut of their new 200mm racer, the NT1. While the car definitely performed, it suffered from some off track problems when it mattered most such as poor pit stops as well as the problem that got Jilles Groskamp disqualified after the B-main, but they showed some good speed in the A-main but suffered major tyre wear problems as the track conditions on the finals day changed. Despite using…
February 18, 2007
…Morganti – 185L 45:10.29 (Serpent 720) 2. Chris Tosolini – 179L 45:01.65 (Kyosho RRR) 3. Ralph Burch – 179L 45:04.48 (Xray NT1) 4. Danny Horta – 176L 45:01.99 (Serpent 720) 5. Martin Hudy – 176L 45:02.91 (Xray NT1) 6. Martin Christensen – 175L 45:16.46 (Xray NT1) 7. Jared Scott – 175L 45:17.40 (Mugen MTX4) 8. Paul LeMieux – 174L 45:04.86 (Xray NT1) 9. Ron Atomic – 163L 45:04.70 (Kyosho RRR) 10. Jamie Corrado – 157L 45:03.69 (Mugen MTX4) 11. Andrew Duperrouzel – 150L 45:07.79 (Mugen MTX4) 12. Josh Cyrul – 118L 30:11.21 (Kyosho RRR) You can view the full results…
February 17, 2007
…making their tire choices. The big story of the day however was in the 1/10th 200mm class were the unfortunate Jilles Groskamp, who we told you was disqualified for being under weight after setting the 3rd fastest time in qualifying, managed to move up from his H-main position to win 5 finals in a row (completing over 500 laps) and will take his position in Saturdays C-main. And incredible drive and he is lucky to make it to the Friday evening where he can now get his Xray NT1 rebuilt for his attack on tomorrows main finals. To view all…
February 16, 2007
…23L 5.08 (Serpent 720) 2. Ralph Burch – 23L 5.11 (Xray NT1) 3. Josh Cyrul – 22L 5.04 (Kyosho RRR) 4. Danny Horta – 22L 5.04 (Serpent 720) 5. Paul LeMieux – 22L 5.05 (Xray NT1) 6. Martin Christensen – 22L 5.05 (Xray NT1) 7. Chris Tosolini – 22L 5.06 (Kyosho RRR) 8. Andrew Duperrouzel – 22L 5.07 (Mugen MTX4) 9. Jared Scott – 22L 5.08 (Mugen MTX4) 10. Ron Atomic – 22L 5.09 (Kyosho RRR) 11. Jamie Corrado – 22L 5.10 (Mugen MTX4) You can get the full final sorted results here. Images: The Border [the-border.com] Mike Myers [sgrid.com]…
