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January 25, 2013

Cavalieri doubles up in Round 2

Ryan Cavalieri has made it 2 wins from 2 races at the Reedy Race of Champions in California, the Associated driver again converting his second pole position start into a victory to put himself in an early lead of the standings. In the other two races that made up the second round of 2WD Buggy at the famous event HB’s Atsushi Hara and Tamiya’s Lee Martin secured the wins. The drive of the second round came in Race 2 from Ryan Maifield who starting 10th on the grid came through to finish second just a second behind Martin. Afterwards the Team Associated ace said it was a ‘good result’ but he wished he had been able to get through the pack a little faster, his fastest lap almost 6/10th faster than that of European Champion Martin.

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January 25, 2013

Cavalieri biggest winner of opening Reedy Race encounter

Cavalieri

Ryan Cavalieri, Brent Thielke and Travis Amezcua have opened their Reedy Offroad Race of Champions with victories of their respective races with former champion Cavalieri taking the biggest win in a race that featured four electric offroad World Champions. The opening race of the 19th running of the famous event, the current World Champion cruised to a 7-second win over Jared Tebo with Ty Tessmann coming from 8th on the grid to complete the Top 3.

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January 25, 2013

Jiří Mára wins at Open Challenge Rd4

The fourth round of the Czech Open Challenge off-road race series took place at the purpose-build indoor track in Brandys. More than 50 drivers attended with the 4WD class was being dominated by Xray driver Jiří Mára in front of Marcel Dostal and Kamil Řečinský. With only minor changes to the car Jiří went into the finals and easily won a lap ahead of Marcel Dostal who ended up second with Lukáš Zeman in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 25, 2013

Tebo tops practice at Reedy Race

Kyosho’s Jared Tebo set the pace in practice for the Reedy Race of Champions, the America topping the times sheets at West Coast RC Raceway in California in both 2WD & 4WD. Although times have no meaning due to the head to head race format of the world famous race, they do give an indication of each drivers form with Tebo declaring himself happy to end Day 1 as the fastest of the 29 invited drivers who will battle for the 19th Reedy Race title over the next three days. In 2WD it was defending Champion Joern Neumann who was 2nd fastest, with his Durango team-mate Travis Amezcua the closest on pace to Tebo in 4WD.

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January 25, 2013

World’s best ready to battle at 19th Reedy Race

World's best ready to battle at 19th Reedy Race

The Reedy Race of Champions is one of the most famous races in the world and was the brainchild of one of the sports greatest pioneers Mike Reedy. Looking to celebrate his birthday by hosting a race, in 1987 the motor guru created an all new concept for an event in which 32 of the best offroad drivers in the World where invited to race both 2WD and 4WD buggies in a series of head to head races with the driver achieving the best points tally over the 8 races being declared Champion. First run in 1987, when Chris Allec took the title, the 2013 Reedy Race of Champions is the 19th running of the event which after an 8-year break due to a decline in the 4WD class was resurrected in 2009 when Ryan Cavalieri won the title at the Yatabe Arena in Japan, which is so far the only time the event has been hosted outside of the USA.

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January 24, 2013

Elliott Boots joins Pro-Line

Pro-Line have announced the signing of Elliott Boots to their factory team. The World Championship top qualifier has made the decision to return to Pro-Line rubber following a successful term with AKA, with the new deal set to take him through to the 2014 Worlds. Boots had this to say:

Hey everyone, just wanted to say how good it feels to be back with Pro-Line for the 2013/2014 seasons. I’m really looking forward to getting to know everyone at the factory and working with my teammates. I believe together, as a team, we can accomplish great things. Thanks to everyone at Pro-Line for the support. It’s good to be back.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 23, 2013

Paparegas wins Attiko Offroad Championships Rd2

The second round of the Greek Attiko Offroad Championsships took place at the FRT4 astroturf track near Athens. The race saw a 2WD and 4WD buggy as well as a 2WD SC class and especially especially in the 4WD class a high class field was present including 1/8 buggy Greek Champion Tasos Paparegas with the all new XB4. Tasos adapted to the electric buggy pretty fast and managed to secure TQ with John Papanikolaou starting second and Dimitris Amaxas third in the grid. Paparegas went to win all A finals with dominant performance pulling the fastest times of the day. The second place went to John with Dimitris in third place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 22, 2013

Mats Angseryd wins VBC Cup

The Xray XB4 made its first appearance in the VBC cup through Mats Angseryd and Lukas Jerresand. The race was held in Eskilstuna Sweden on a tight medium grip carpet track. The day started out in the best possible way with Team Xray Sweden Mats Angseryd leading the field after the first qualifier ahead of Schumacher driver Christer Carlsson and Daniel Björkquist, and on fourth place was XB4 local driver Lukas Jerresand. Normal quick driver Niclas Månsson for Team Associated was looking as quick as ever but had some trouble and had to sit Q1 out after 9 laps due to breaking a front suspension arm. Qualifying would eventually end up with Mats Angseryd as the TQ after winning 3 of the 4 qualifiers, and Angseryd also was the only one in the field reaching 24 laps, and Lukas Jerresand on 5th putting two XB4 in the A-main.

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