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August 24, 2020

Dominic Greiner takes German 200mm title

The MCC Rhein-Ahr club hosted the 2020 German 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Nationals this past weekend. Capricorn’s Melvin Diekmann took the overall TQ some 0.4 seconds in front of Dominic Greiner with Toni Gruber sitting in 3rd overall after the qualifiers. In the 45-minute main final, that started on a wet track, it was Dominic who would take the win some two laps in front of Shepherd’s Toni Gruber as Thilo Tödtmann (Capricorn) rounded out the top 3 result another three laps down.

Image: Thilo Tödtmann

August 24, 2020

Heat of America Series Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the Heart of America Series was held this past weekend in 1/8th Open, 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan, and 1/8th GT classes. 1/8th Open would see John Peck with the overall TQ, however it was Jason Reger (Capricorn) with the win in the A-main, some nine laps in front of fellow Capricorn racer, Chris Nichols. Bob Block (Mugen) came in 3rd overall, another three laps down.

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August 20, 2020

EWS Summer Edition race – Announcement

The well-known EWS Essex Winter Series team has announced that the EWS Summer Edition event will return in 2020. Following the delay to racing due to the Coronavirus situation, the event will take place on 5th and 6th September at the Colchester Model Car Club venue in Essex, UK. With classes for Modified Touring, Super Stock Touring and Front Wheel Drive, Saturday is an optional day of practice, with the race event taking place on Sunday. All the rules and further information on the race, along with the entry form, can be found here.

August 19, 2020

Manzo, Huber & Kroos win at Swiss EP On-road Rd2

Round 2 of the Swiss Electric On-road Nationals was held at the AMCS Schaffhausen club last weekend. The race saw the running of six different 1/10th and 1/8th scale classes and in Touring Modified it was Michele Manzo with the overall TQ from Khounmy Bui in 2nd. In the finals Michele continued to stay on top and with three straight wins he took the overall victory from Philipp Huber in 2nd while Khounmy had to settle for 3rd overall.

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August 18, 2020

Nielsen & Morgan win at Danish Onroad Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the Danish Onroad Nationals was held in Odense over the weekend. The race saw the running of 1/10th Nitro, 1/8th GTE and 1/5th scale gas classes and in 1/10th Nitro Touring it was Rasmus Nielsen who would lead the way to take the win from Claus Ryeskov in 2nd and Lars Bo Larsen in 3rd, all running Xray cars. The 1/8th GTE class had Caspar Morgan taking the TQ and win, leaving behind David Hansen in 2nd and Alex Bremer in 3rd.

View the GTE podium here

August 18, 2020

XRS UK GP 2020 – Report

The 2020 Xray Racing Series UK GP was hosted by the Cotswold Model Car Club last weekend. Saturday was hampered by the wet weather and only a few dry runs in the afternoon were actually possible so everyone was looking forward to a much better race day. Unfortunately, the day started out damp with the first two rounds of qualification needing wet tyres. After the morning mist broke the sun finally made it onto the track and things quickly started to heat up, the track started drying and rounds 3 and 4 were dry and proved to be a super-fast track with Xray factory Modified racer Elliott Harper breaking the track record over five minutes and also the hot lap record. In the end and behind Elliott it was Olly Jefferies (Xray) with the runner-up position in the Touring Modified class from Chris Grainger (Awesomatix) in 3rd.

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August 18, 2020

Nielsen & Ehrbar win at TOS Central-West Division Rd4

Round 4 of the 2019/20 Tonisport Onroad Series Central-West Division was held at the Andernach track in Germany last weekend. In the Touring Stock class it was Xray’s Kevin Nielsen with the TQ and win. Awesomatix driver, Simon Lauter came in 2nd overall as Alexandere Duchet ended the day in 3rd. Over in the Formula class it was Serpent’s own David Ehrbar who took with the win from Serpent teammate, Sören Sparbier in 2nd. Infinity’s Jitse Miedema came in 3rd to round out the top 3 result.

View the Formula class podium here

August 17, 2020

Alexandre Duchet joins ORCA team

ORCA have announced the signing of French driver Alexandre Duchet to their team. The 2016/2017 ETS stock champion and 2017 EFRA European stock champion will use the full line-up of speedos, motors and batteries in his Xray rides. He had the following to say about the deal, “I’m very happy to sign with ORCA, the performance of the new combo and the new range of LiPo batteries are really good and so is the feeling. I hope that with this material I will have very good results and I thank the ORCA team for trusting me for the years to come.”

Source: ORCA [orcarc.com]