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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.

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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]

August 16, 2020

Kurzbuch, Greiner & Salven win at ENS opener

The first round of the 2020 Euro Nitro Series took place this weekend at the popular MAV Aigen-Schlagl track in the Austrian countryside. In the 1:8 Scale Class, Simon Kurzbuch secured pole position for Shepherd after the organisers were able to conduct the fifth qualifying round on Saturday morning, beating Infinity’s Dario Balestri in the shootout. In the Main Final, Balestri pressured Kurzbuch over the first few laps, as third place starter Carmine Raiola dropped back and allowed Robert Pietsch into third. However, an early tyre stop didn’t work out for Balestri as taking just two tyres made his car unbalanced and hard to drive. This allowed not only Kurzbuch to pull a big advantage, but also Pietsch and Raiola to pass Balestri and move into second and third respectively. However, following a later four tyre stop, Balestri was back on pace and moved up to second once again – however too far back to challenge Kurzbuch for the win. Pietsch and Raiola battled hard for third, with the positions switching during pit stops. Raiola eventually made up for his bad start, and secured third at the finish line to make it two Infinity cars in the top three.

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August 15, 2020

Balestri & Greiner lead at ENS Austria

With the weather improving significantly throughout Friday, the ENS organisers made use of the unexpected good conditions to conduct as much of the planned five qualifying rounds as possible for the opening round of the series. As Saturday currently forecasts rain for most of the day, the 1:8 Scale and +40 Masters Classes were able to complete four rounds of heats, with 1:10 Scale finishing three rounds at the MAV Aigen-Schlagl circuit.

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August 14, 2020

Norwegian Electric On-road Nationals – Report

The 2020 Norwegian Electric On-road Championship was hosted by the Stavanger Modellbilklubb and held at the huge Klepp RC track in western Norway. While Nikko Haheim took the win in the Touring Modified class, it was Odd Helge Johansen with the victory in Touring Stock. Thor Bjorn Gabrielsen came in 2nd overall from Vidar Gunderson in 3rd. Bjorn Ole Haagenvik came in 4th, Anna Nedrebo rounded out the top 5.

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August 14, 2020

Manfred Neuhold wins at Xray Challenge 2020

The Austrian MORAC-Ring hosted the Xray Challenge 2020 last weekend in several nitro and electric 1/8th and 1/10th scale classes. In the 1/8th scale Electric GT class it was Manfred Neuhold with the overall TQ from Klaus Saurer on the runner-up spot. Klaus would take the win in the opening A-main event, however it was Manfred who came back for A2 and A3, taking the overall win from Klaus Saurer in 2nd and Harald Schneller in 3rd.

Source: Hong Nor [hongnor-racing.com]

August 13, 2020

Wong KokWai wins Malaysia Nats / Arromax Cup Rd1

Postponed from March due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Malaysia National Championships took place last weekend and for the first time in its history was run alongside another race series, the Arrowmax Cup. A much anticipated race as everyone was not able to race for the last 5 months they received more than 70 entries across 4 different classes, ranging from 13.5T Boosted, 17.5T Blinky GT, 17.5T FWD and 17.5T Racing Truck. With Arrowmax being the main sponsor for the series, the controlled tire was the 30 shore Asphalt NC tires.

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