May 27, 2007

Jonas Kaerup signs to GM Racing

Jonas Kaerup signs to GM Racing

Former European 1:10 Touring Car Champion, Jonas Kaerup, has made the change to GM racing. The Danish driver will be using the GM Genius Brushless speedo’s, GM’s EVO 3 brushless motors along with GM’s VISCommander battery management system. Furthermore his cars will sport Graupner’s receiver and servo’s.

Jonas comments on the change: ” I felt that the time for a change was right, now that Touring Car is entering a new era of brushless motors and 5 cells. I have signed a 2 year deal with GM/Graupner, and I am already impressed by how professionel they are. In my mind GM has one of the very best electronic speedcontrol systems in the world, as my German Corally Teammate Marc Fischer, has already shown on more occasions. I look really forward to racing for GM “.

Source: Race RC [racerc.dk]

May 26, 2007

Furukawa & Kazuya head FEMCA qualifying

Ken Furukawa

This week sees the FEMCA championships held for both 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm at the Jakarta International Twin Circuits in Indonesia. All the top racers from around the region have come together to race at this annual championships and as to be expected from Indonesia in May, the conditions are hot and the facilities and athmosphere are really good. After 4 rounds of qualifying, its Japanese Kyosho racer Ken Furukawa (above) that has occupied the top spot for the 1/10th class, ahead of Kyosho Singapore racer Philip Lee in 2nd, local Serpent racer Teddy Syatch in 3rd with 4th going to Indonesian Xray driver Sadikin. In the 1/8th scale qualifying, its Japanese Mugen racer Yuruki Kazuya that has claimed the top position ahead of Thai racer Suruth V, racing a Serpent 960, with local Mugen racer Ryan in 3rd and Teddy Syatch, once again, lining up 4th.

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May 26, 2007

Indonesian EP 1/10 Nationals Rd1

Indonesian EP 1/10 Nationals Rd1

Xray are reporting on the 1st round of the Indonesian Electric Touring car Nationals that took place last weekend at the 1/8 scale super track in BSD city area. In qualifying Xray racer Yung Yung showed great racing skills by taking the TQ spot in rubber, while team mate Didi took TQ in foam and second spot on the grid in rubber.

Unfortunately the weather was not cooperative and it was raining lightly right before the mains. Racers and organizers decided to run the finals before the track became too wet. Right after the first leg of the A-final foam tire, the rain poured heavily and the organizer had to void the result for the final, and therefore the results from the qualifications counted.

Read the full race report here.

Soruce: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 26, 2007

Jernej Vuga is EC ‘B’ Top qualifier

Jernej Vuga is EC 'B' Top qualifier

Local ace Jernej Vuga continues to stamp his authority on this years 1/8th scale European B Championship, held this week in Slovenia, by TQ’ing the event for the very first time. The Mugen driver set a fastest time of 18 laps 5:03.283 in the 3rd round to finish over 2 seconds clear of his nearest rival, German Serpent racer Philip Eberle, who put in a blistering final qualifier to jump 5 places to line up on the front row alongside Vuga. Third was Mugen racer Giuseppe D’Angelo from Italy who leap frogged ahead of fellow countryman Michele Romagnoli following a strong final heat, meaning that Romagnoli dropped from 2nd to 4th after failing to improve on his time set in yesterday’s opening heat.

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May 25, 2007

Vuga takes overnight pole at EC ‘B’

Vuga takes overnight pole at EC 'B'

This week sees the European Championship for B drivers take place at the scenic, but tricky, Tolmin circuit in Slovenia. Wet weather has plagued the event so far, with only limited running taking place before todays qualifying, which saw round 1 run in near 40 degree heat, before heat 2 was abandoned due to heavy rains. With 2 more qualifying rounds left to be run it is top local racer, and EFRA GP runner up, Jernej Vuga (above) that has clinched the overnight pole position. The Mugen racer ended the day only 1 second ahead of Serpent racer Michele Romangnoli with fellow Italian Nicola Ometto, racing for Mugen in 3rd. Top Dutch racer and winner of the first 2 rounds of the Dutch Nationals, John Ermen, lines up in 4th place for Serpent.

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May 25, 2007

Robert Pietsch wins German South Rd3

German South Rd3

Robert Pietsch continues to win in the South of Germany as the 3rd round of the regional championships took place last weekend in Rosenheim. Qualifying on Saturday and Sunday resulted in Robert Pietsch taking the TQ spot on his home track with Thomas Günsel in 2nd and Sebastian Feller in 3rd, all 3 drivers racing the Xray NT1. At the start of the main final, Robert took off into the lead leaving Günsel and Feller to battle it out for the 2nd step on the podium, eventually being decided when Feller had a coming together with another car, dropping him back, but still managed to recover to 3rd behind the winner Pietsch and 2nd placed Günsel.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 24, 2007

Michal Bok wins Rd2 of Czech Nats

Michal Bok wins Rd2 of Czech Nats

Xray have a report from last weekends 2nd round of the Czech Nationals that were run on the small but technical Blansko track. In qualifying it was Martin Kořínek that took the top spot, heading an Xray NT1 lock out of the top 4 with Martin Bayer in 2nd, Michal Bok in 3rd and Martin Pater in 4th. In the race, after some confusion at the start, pole man Kořínek was the first retirement with engine trouble, which left Michal Bok to take the win from Martin Pater and Martin Bayer in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 23, 2007

Teemu Leino wins Euros Warm up race

Teemu Leino wins Euros Warm up race

Xray are reporting on their site from last weekends European Championship warm up race held in France in the small city Montbrison, not far from Lyon. Thursday free practice had been lost due to rain but the weather picked up Friday lunch time for the rest of the weekend and so the racers could get some practice runs in, prior to Saturdays qualifying. Teemu Leino set the pace in qualifying for Xray while Tamiya racer Loic Jasmin was 2nd with another Xray in 3rd driven by Aurélien Threhout, in fact 8 of the 10 finalists drove Xray.

Teemu was unbeatable 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 showed that he is the driver that would join the top drivers very soon.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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