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February 25, 2008

Puerto Rico National Championship Rd2

The 2nd round of the Puerto Rico National Championships was run last weekend at the country’s Isabela Track. Qualifying in 1/8th scale went the way of round 1 winner and Mugen racer Andy Báez and he carried forward that form to the final, taking an easy win ahead of the Kyosho pairing of Ito Nieves and Fernando Méndez. In the 1/10th 200mm class, the pole position went to Serpent racer Alfred Aeschliman but he had bad luck in the final and this enabled the Mugen driver Juan “My Bad” Rodríguez into the lead from where he could take the win. Just behind a recovering Andy Báez came up behind Serpent racer Edgar Tirado and with 3 minutes to go in the 45 minute final, was able to take the 2nd position from him.

Thanks to Zobeida Ocasio for the report

February 25, 2008

Teemu Leino wins 2008 TITC

Seen as the warm up race for the World Championship held on the same track in November, this years running of the TITC in Thailand was very well attended by factory teams from around the World. Run on a tight smooth circuit under warm conditions, qualifying saw Xray racer Teemu Leino set down the fastest runs to take the top qualifier spot with 3 round wins in front of former World Champion Atsushi Hara in 2nd and current European Champion Ronald Volker in 3rd, both racing the Hot Bodies Cyclone. The finals were easy for Teemu, who could win the first 2 to claim the overall win with 1 final left to be run. With Teemu sitting out the 3rd run, this allowed Andy Moore to take the leg 3 win, which combined with his 2nd spot from leg 1 gave him 2nd overall in front of Ronald Volker in 3rd.

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February 23, 2008

GiBon Goo wins KORG Series Rd1

Xray have a report from round 1 of the Korea On road Race Grand Prix series that was run last weekend at the Girina Raceway in Kyunggi-do, Seoul. Xray NT1 driver GiBon Goo showed again that he would be the racer to beat in 2008 took by taking a spectacular win in the final after starting from second on the grid. The 2nd spot went to SeYoung Oh, while in 3rd spot was another Xray racer
GiYeul Kim

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 21, 2008

ETS Denmark – Marc Rheinard confirmed

ETS Denmark - Marc Rheinard confirmed

Tamiya Factory driver, and 2004 IFMAR World Champion, Marc Rheinard from Germany is just one the big name racers to have confirmed his entry for round 2 of the Euro Touring Series that takes place on the 14th – 16th of March in Vejle, Denmark. Running in the modified class he will be joined by other mod entrants that include 2008 DHI Cup winner Viktor Wilck, HB team driver Toni Rheinard as well as super quick locals Steen Graversen for Kyosho and Jonas Kaerup racing for HB. With more big names expected to enter, we will keep you informed when we find out more.

Do you want to race against some of the World’s top touring car racers, while being commentated on by the legendary Scotty Ernst, in a fun and friendly, yet professional racing atmosphere then be sure to get your entry in for round 2 of the ETS by going here.

Find out more about the ETS Series by going to the official site.

February 21, 2008

Chris Kerswell wins 1/12th British GP

Last weekend saw the 19 turn British 1/12th scale GP run in Hereford, where the organisers created a challenging layout that was very unforgiving and punished small errors very heavily. Qualifying saw the TQ spot go to Russ Williams but he suffered worse luck in the 3 leg finals, crashing out of the third leg while leading. In the first leg of the A-final the win went to Corally racer Chris Kerswell ahead of Matt White with Mark Stiles in 3rd. The 2nd final saw a battle between HB team mates Mick Farrell and Mark Stiles until pressure saw Mick make a mistake eventually ending in 3rd behind winner Stiles and Keith Robertson in 2nd. This meant the winner would be decided in leg 3 and following the demise of Russ Williams, Chris Kerswell could take the lead and eventually the win, giving him the overall win ahead of Mark Stiles in 2nd.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]

February 20, 2008

Ralph Burch wins 200mm Winternats

Xray team driver Paul LeMieux has a report from last weekends 1/10th 200mm race at the 2008 Winternats in Florida. Held on the very unforgiving Ft Myers track, the Xray team had a successful event despite Ralph Burch starting 2nd on the grid behind pole man Paolo Morganti for Serpent. In the end Burch managed to get ahead of Morganti and take the win by half a lap with Paul coming home in 3rd half a lap further back.

Things were now spread out a bit with Ralph and I running 1&2 but Paolo was not content with 3rd and made a hard charge and was reeling me in. Now with the race winding down the order was still Ralph followed by myself and Paolo running third. Paolo caught me with around 15min to go, he got into the back of me but waited for me to get back by him (very nice), but over the next few laps he made a nice pass on me to take back 2nd place. From there Ralph was on cruise control with a half lap lead over Paolo with 5min to go. Paolo pulled away from me by a few seconds.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 20, 2008

ETS Denmark – Stock Handout motor

ETS Denmark - Stock Handout motor

The organisers of the upcoming round of the Much More backed ETS (Euro Touring Series) in Vejle Denmark, which will be run from the 14th – 16th of March, have confirmed that the handout stock motor for the event will be the Team Checkpoint Money 19T Spec Motor. This is a great spec motors and thanks to series sponsors Team Checkpoint you will get this as part of your entry to the Danish event. The series organisers have also confirmed that this same motor will be used at the Dutch round of the ETS in Heemstede, which takes place on the 11th – 13th of April.

Find out more about the ETS Series by going to the official site.

Entry for ETS round 2 in Denmark is now open and you can sign up by going here.

February 20, 2008

Norwegian Winter Series Rd5

The 5th and final round of the Norwegian Winter Series took place last weekend hosted by VMBK and going into this last round all top 3 spots were wide open. In qualifying for the modified class it was Xray driver Helge Johannessen that claimed the TQ spot in front of Truls “ShortCut” Solberg in 2nd for Tamiya, while in the 3rd starting spot was Adrian Berntsen also for Xray.

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