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November 29, 2017

Pablo Fernández & Rubén Rodríguez win at EL1TE Race

The newly refurbished indoor track of Team Astur RC played host to the EL1TE Race 2017 recently. The race, held in Gijón, in the north of Spain, saw an attendance of 60 drivers coming from all parts of northern Spain keen to race their 1/10th 2WD Buggies and Short Course trucks. Most drivers took the opportunity to practice on Saturday morning in order to adapt their rides to the grippy and bumpy astro surface until the seeding heats started early in the afternoon. In the 2WD buggy class, it was Pablo Fernández Rodríguez (Team Associated) who set the fastest three consecutive laps followed by David Bárcena (Xray) and Vari García (Xray), ahead of a pack of drivers where laptimes were incredibly close. Qualifying would be no different as Pablo managed to set an incredible pace –being the only driver to go around the track 12 times in all the five qualifying sessions and coming ahead in four out of five qualifying heats with only David Bárcena (Xray) managing to win only one heat and setting the fastest lap as Vari García took the 3rd position.

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November 28, 2017

Milan Mudra doubles at Lestr Cup Rd2

The city of Prague in the Czech Republic played host to round 2 of the Lestr Cup this past weekend. Xray’s Milan Mudra was in control of things in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes as he took the overall TQ in both categories. With flawless runs in the 2WD finals he also secured the overall win from Marcel Dostal 2nd and Vaclav Broz 3rd (all Xray). Over in 4WD, where Milan won two of the three A-main legs, he left behind Jiri Dvorak in 2nd and Jindrich Jirak (all Xray) who rounded out the podium result.

View the 4WD podium here

November 28, 2017

Kohta Akimoto wins at Stock Combat Rd2

The second round of the Japanese Stock Combat was held at the RC Maniax Arena in Osaka this past weekend. 87 entries made for some competitive racing and in Invitational 2WD Stock Buggy it was Kyosho’s Kohta Akimoto with win from Kyosho teammate Yusuke Sugiura 2nd. In 3rd Hiroshi Nishio (Yokomo) would round out the podium.

Image: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

November 28, 2017

Nicolas Floudas sweeps Astro Buggy Challenge

The Astro Buggy Challenge took place recently at the RC Brushless Park track in Greece. In the 2WD A-main the racing was intense, finding Nicolas Floudas 1st after driving his Team Associated to the top of the podium. Coming in 2nd was Dimitris Foteinos with his Kyosho and Sakis Papacharisis, after another great performance, claimed the 3rd spot on the podium with his Yokomo. Behind them Elias Routsolias (Kyosho) and Nikos Micahlodimitrakis (Yokomo) battled for the best-of-the rest positions with the newcomers to the class Nikos Kostroglou and Nicolas Karavanas as well as Dimitris Tatsakis and Kostas Bougalis all delivering good performances.

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November 28, 2017

Nico Schmid wins 2WD class at MRTO Challenge

Last weekend’s MRTO Challenge in Altnau, Switzerland saw Nico Schmid walking away with the win in the 2WD Buggy class. Nico would lead an Xray 1-2-3 as his brother, Florian Schmid and Philip Jeisy rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 28, 2017

Jason Nugroho TQs & wins Solo Year End Race

The HTS indoor track in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, played host to the Solo Year End Race last weekend. A total of 53 drivers from Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Jogjakarta, Medan, Batam, Kendari, Makasar, Pontianak, Balikpapan as well as local drivers attended the event. Because the track is a semi-indoor facility the rainy weather on Sunday had little to no effect on the racing action and after the six qualifying rounds it was Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) who took the TQ honours and also the win from John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) 2nd and Adrian Sutanto (Kyosho/O.S.) 3rd.

View the final results here

November 28, 2017

Micha Widmaier successful at MRTO Challenge

The MRTO Challenge was held in Switzerland last weekend and in the 4WD Buggy class it was SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier with the TQ and win. Xray’s Nico Schmid came in 2nd from Xray driver Luca Rau 3rd.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

November 28, 2017

JConcepts B64 Mono front wheel

Coming from JConcepts is a purpose designed front wheel for the Team Associated B64 1/10th 4WD buggy kit. The Mono 2.2” wheel is designed in the popular dish style and available in bright white and fluorescent yellow. The wheel is the maximum size allowed under ROAR rules and it features a slight convex dish shaped design and superior inner rib design. The wheels incorporate an outer glue catch that resists excess glue from running down the wheel face during the gluing process and they come in convenient packs of four pieces.

View the white colour wheel here