Last weekend saw round 3 of the RugRacers 2017/18 race series take place at Wodson Park. With severe weather warnings in place, some racers chose not to make the journey to a heavy snow covered Hertfordshire. The 44 drivers that braved the conditions were greeted by one of the best track layouts the RugRacer team have ever set out.
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The opening round of the Swiss SITCC series was held recently. In the Touring Car class it was HB Racing’s Kevin Zwahlen who took a narrow TQ from Cham Dassanayake (Xray) who returned to the series after two years of absence. After the triple A-mains it was again Kevin on top with Cham Dassanayake, who had some mixed races, in 2nd and Briac Berthoud (Xray) 3rd. Over in the Formula class it was Nicolas Albina with the win from Sergio Ramos and Ulrich Bader in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The annual PMTC electric touring car race was held at the AMA track in Panyu, Guangzhou, China recently. In the Modified class Gary Huang would lead the way in practice and the qualifiers, taking the overall TQ for the triple A-mains. However due to a mishap in the opening A-main he had to make way for teammate Alfred Lao but with wins in the remaining two legs, Gary would walk away with the overall win after the mains.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
New from Schumacher and coming for the Mi6evo touring car is a 2mm diff weave carbon fibre main chassis plate. Ideally suited for medium to high grip conditions and especially good on carpet the chassis has a similar feeling to that of an alloy chassis yet it is lighter. The 2mm thickness gives a low roll centre and centre of gravity increasing corner speed.
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The recent third round of the Czech Open electric on-road series again attracted a lot of entries and in the premier Touring Modified class it was Matej Sulc (Xray) with the TQ and win from Jirka Mara (Serpent) and Marcel Dostal (Xray) who had to settle for 3rd overall following some mishaps.
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A round of the Czech Speed Challenge series was held recently and it was Simon Horak who lead an Xray 1-2-3 in the Formula class. Such was his dominance that he won all 7-minute A-mains to take the day’s win from Radek Rusmich and Jirka Rocnak.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The annual Charity Race was held at the RC Landia track in Scandiano, in the region of Emilia Romagna in Italy. More than 100 drivers joined the race in multiple classes, with the main purpose being to collect money for a local children’s hospital. In the 1/12th Open Modified category, Alexander Hagberg managed to put his car on the TQ spot after three perfect runs to secure overall TQ. Alexander’s team mate, Bui Khounmy, had a great run in qualifying as well, winning Q4, to eventually line up 2nd on the grid. The finals started well for Alex with a win in A1, which he was also able to repeat in A2, with a big margin, while also setting a new sub-ten second track record. Ultimately Jonni Pagani would obtain the runner-up spot from Bui Khounmy 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The annual East RC Invitational Year End Race was held at East Speedway, Jakarta with Touring Open Brushless as the primary class of the race. It was Yokomo’s Charlee Phutiyotin who secured the pole position for A-main by one second ahead of fellow Yokomo racer Bowie Ginting. Former ISTC World Champ Surikarn Chaidajsuriya (Destiny) would be line up 3rd ahead of local Christian Mamesah (Serpent) and Arya Seta (Mugen). The main final was run under the lights and Charlee would convert his pole position into an overall win ahead of Bowie and Muhammad Izzah (Xray).
