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May 6, 2019

Xray Racing Series Grand Final – Report

The 2019 Grand Final of the Xray Racing Racing Series was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia this past weekend. The race was held in electric and nitro classes and it was run both at the Arena’s indoor and outdoor tracks due to the unpredictable weather conditions. The electric classes were run on the facility’s indoor asphalt track with the Touring Modified class being the most exciting. Bruno Coelho took the overall TQ in front of Xray’s own Martin Hudy. Ultimately the finals ended as they had started with Bruno being pretty much unbeatable while Martin had to settle for 2nd overall and in front of Alexander Hagberg in 3rd.

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May 6, 2019

CTS4 Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the CTS4 was held at the beautiful Steel City RC Speedway in Fontana, California this past weekend, the soon to be new home track for the Reedy Race of Champions. Round 5 would not only be the second California race this season but is also Reedy Race warm up. In Modified Touring Brandon Clements would take the TQ and overall win. With the early cold weather shaking things up in the pits race started a little later hoping for better weather. In A1 Brandon takes off with the field scrambling to the front. In A2 a big accident in the carousel occurred giving Clements the lead taking home the win success as he sits out A3.

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May 6, 2019

Mack & Wischnewski win at German Nationals qualifier

The Minicar Club Wiesbaden played host to a round of the Central German Nitro On-road regionals this past weekend. In 1/8th IC Track class 1 it was Infinity’s Oliver Mack with the TQ and win from Shepherd’s Toni Gruber while Serpent’s Philip Sting rounded out the top 3 result after the 30-minute main final.

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May 5, 2019

Westenfelder & Jannik win at GT Euro warm-up

The GT Euro warm-up race was held in Leipzig, Germany this weekend. In the Nitro GT class it was SWorkz/Picco’s Uli Westenfelder with the win from Holger Schmidt (Serpent/O.S.) in 2nd while Denis Mlivic (JQRacing/Alpha) completed the top 3 result. Over in the 4S GTE category it was Jochen Jannik (HB Racing) with the win from Uli Wstenfelder (SWorkz) as Armin Junge (Mugen) completed the podium result.

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May 3, 2019

Erich Heshiki wins at Brazilian State Champs Rd2

The second round of the Brazilian State Championships was held at the AARC Racing Track in Santo André, Brazil last weekend. Erich Heshiki (Xray) took the overall TQ in the 8.5T Modified Touring class, tie on points with Awesomatix’s Dennis Pickthall. The triple A-mains saw Erich coming out on top in all mains for the overall as Cesar Salvadori (ARC) snatched the runner-up spot from Dennis in 3rd overall.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

May 3, 2019

Rino Lino TQs & wins at Miami Grand Prix

Homestead in Florida played host to the 2019 Miami Grand Prix last weekend. Racing was on in several nitro on-road classes and in GT8 it was IGT8’s Rino Lino with the overall TQ and also the win in 45-minute A-main final. Lazaro Alonso, despite not completely recovered from an accident and having to drive sitting on a chair, raced hard and strong and finished in 2nd place while Avery Pierce rounded out the top 3 for an all-IGT8 podium.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]

May 3, 2019

Miguel & Lima win at Portuguese TC Champs Rd2

The second round of the Portuguese Touring Car Championship was held at the AMVR track with nearly 30 drivers in attendance. The weekend was blessed with great weather, temperatures in the mid-20s, no wind, a clean track and good traction. In the Touring Car class both Carlos Manual and Hugo Miguel showed a strong pace and even made that extra lap in the fourth qualifying round. This set the stage for the finals with Carlos taking the pole position from Hugo on the 2 spot. When the dust had settled, it was Hugo who came out successful, taking the win for Serpent with Capricorn’s Carlos Manuel on the runner-up spot. Mario Miranda (Xray) was on fire in the finals, taking the final podium spot coming from the 5th spot on the grid.

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May 2, 2019

2019 RC-Lemans Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the 2019 RC-Lemans Series was held as a joint event together with the first International Foam Race IFR at the MAC de Baanbrekers club in Rucphen, The Netherlands. The weather forecast saw wet and windy conditions, however the weekend kicked off with dry weather on Friday and parts of Saturday. The opening qualifier for the 1/8th Electric Stock and Pro10 Modified, Stock and Super Stock classes was also held in dry conditions, however things went down from there. The 1/8th Stock class saw Adrien Viallet taking the opening qualifier from the Smits brothers, Martijn and Jeroen. Jeroen in turn would take the second qualifier in front of Martijn while Jeroen Smits came in 3rd. During Sunday’s wet qualifiers the drivers opened to not start meaning Martin would take the pole position for the finals. Martin would then take the opening A-main with quite a margin, however Adrien came out on top in the wet A2 and A3 for the overall. Martin and Jeroen would complete the top 3 podium.

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