August 4, 2007
…countryman Ronald Volker in 2nd, racing for Hot Bodies, while 3rd spot goes to Snowbirds winner Jilles Groskamp driving another Xray. Lets see tomorrow if Xray can finally break their electric touring car Euro’s jinx and finally turn a pole position into a win. Click more to see the final top 10 qualifiers… 1. Steven Weiss – Xray 2. Ronald Volker – Hot Bodies 3. Jilles Groskamp – Xray 4. Viktor Wilck – Tamiya 5. Marc Rheinard – Tamiya 6. Andy Moore – Hot Bodies 7. Teemu Leino – Xray 8. Hupo Honigl – Tamiya 9. Jasmin Loic – Tamiya…
July 2, 2007
Last weekend at the Roeselare track in Belgium saw the 2007 Benelux Championships take place for 1/8th and 1/10th scale classes. The event is open to drivers from within the Benelux – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, and despite the predicted bad weather a lot of top drivers turned up for the event. Qualifying took place on Saturday in damp conditions and in the 1/8th scale class it was Steven Cuypers that claimed the pole position, heading a Serpent 1-2-3 with John Ermen in 2nd and Robin D’hondt in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale class it was Xray driver Jilles Groskamp…
June 17, 2007
This weekend saw the rain affected 3rd round of the Dutch National Championship for 1/10th 200mm take place at the small technical Gouda track in the center of the country. The first rounds of qualifying saw a wet track for all the racers but this cleared up and allowed some quick times to be set, the quickest of which being set by round 1 winner Jilles Groskamp with his Xray NT1. Just before the semi finals were to be run it started to rain once more which made conditions very tricky, but this started to dry up and by the…
May 23, 2007
…in the Sunday’s finals and won all three rounds. He showed not only the car’s performance but also his driving skills especially in the first final when he tried a not-so-good additive and was sliding around the track for the first 3 laps; however, he did not give anyone a chance to pass him and after few laps he was able to pull away. Jilles showed his enormous talent as well and he finished in overall 2nd position from his 8th qualifier post. Bart Wubben was lucky in the finals as well and finished 3rd from his 9th place and…
April 30, 2007
Last weekend saw the last major indoor race of the year, the 2007 LRP Masters, run in Eppelheim, Germany with the event attracting a huge number of quality drivers from around the world meaning the racing was very close and very tough. The event was TQ’d by Associated / LRP driver Juho Levanen with Tamiya driver Victor Wilck in 2nd and Dutch Xray driver Jilles Groskamp in 3rd. The racing was close but Juho made it look easy and managed to win the first 2, of the 3, A-mains to take the overall title with the positions behind him left…
April 25, 2007
Xray are reporting on their site about the first round of the Dutch EP National championships that took place last weekend on the famous MACH circuit in Heemstede, near Amsterdam. With Jilles Groskamp in Slovakia preparting for this weekends LRP Masters, it left the door open to reigning Dutch Champion Bart Wubben to shine which he did by taking the TQ spot. In the race Bart was once more able to show his skills by taking the win for Xray ahead of Kyosho racer Stefan Jansen in 2nd with Vasco Christiaanse taking 3rd with his Schumacher. Source: Xray [teamxray.com]…
April 15, 2007
Today saw the first round of the Dutch 1/0th 200mm Nationals held at the Gronignen track in the north of Holland. In qualifying it was Xray driver Jilles Groskamp that took the TQ spot followed by Serpent racer Jordy Blok in 2nd with Kyosho racer Daan Jacobs claiming the 3rd qualifying spot. In the race itself, Jordy Blok was the first retirement after 10 minutes which left Jilles in a clear lead but he immediately suffered from a 2nd gear failure which meant he only had 1st gear for the rest of the final. This allowed Daan Jacobs to start…
February 25, 2007
…the second final Andy put it all right and despite some mechanical issues with his car lead from start to finish to take the leg win ahead of Hupo Hoenigl in 2nd and Jilles Groskamp for Xray in 3rd. Atsushi Hara had been in 2nd position until a cooling fan failure put and end to his run with little over a minute left, leg 1 winner Voelker had similar bad luck having inherited the 2nd position after Hara’s exit came into contact with Pumpler dropping both drivers back. The third and deciding final was once again dominated in fine style…
