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November 29, 2017

2017 Scottish on-road regionals – Report

The Grampian meeting was the final round of this year’s Scottish on-road regionals series and with all of the class championships still to be decided it was sure to be a hotly contested days racing. In Touring Car the TQ was settled by tie break as both title hopefuls Peter Eagles and John Simpson had both taken two round wins during qualifying. It was John who would take first spot on the grid ahead of Peter, sadly for Mr. Simpson his reign at the top was short lived as a few little mistakes in the finals cost him dearly and left him chasing Peter who drove two very quick and steady runs to take the win on the day and the championship overall. The final championship standings then saw John Simpson 2nd from Chris Mitchell 3rd.

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November 28, 2017

P.Y.Tang wins at Indonesia Year End Race

The annual Indonesia Year End Race was held at the Sunter International Speedway in North Jakarta last weekend. Classes run were Touring Modified, FWD and Mini and four qualifying rounds were planned for Saturday with a final qualifier on Sunday. The weather was hot and humid on practice day with track temperatures as high as 60 degrees Celsius. Qualifying was held under the thread of rain but all four rounds could take place and in the Touring Modified class to was Bowie Ginting from Indonesia who topped Q1 ahead of P.Y.Tang and M. Izzah. Suwardi found himself topping Q2 after P.Y. retired with a broken ball bearing, with Bowie and M. Izzah made some mistakes. P.Y. recovered later by taking Q3 and Q4, handing him the overnight TQ position.

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November 28, 2017

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd2 – Report

The challenging Eifel-Ring, the permanent indoor track of MAC Adenau located next to the famous Nurburgring, played host to round 2 of the Xray Racing Series Germany recently. It was already the third XRS appearance at the 111-metre indoor track during 2017. After some drivers already took the opportunity to practice on Friday, Saturday was full of action with nearly all drivers present and enjoying eleven hours of practice to fine-tune their car’s set-ups during thousands of laps. Touring Car Stock with hand-out XRS 13.5T motors and mandatory Hudy C1 tyres was the most popular class of the event. The fight for the TQ has been tight and exciting. Finally, Majuran Tharmalingam took first spot with just a 0.4-second advantage over Melvin Diekmann in his best qualification heat over five minutes. René Puepke in his first attempt was another 0.2 seconds down to catch third spot in the grid. Tom Kraegefski brought placed 4th.

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November 28, 2017

Keitune Carrera Cup R/C Tour – Announcement

Keitune Speedway, home of the 2013 IFMAR 1/8th On-road Worlds, have announced the Keitune Carrera R/C Tour Championship for 2018. The 10-race series will kick off on the weekend of the 25th of February and concludes on the 25th of November and it is run 1/8th Nitro, 1/10th Nitro Touring, 1/8th Nitro GT, 1/5th Touring and 1/5th Formula classes. To make the event attractive to foreign drivers, Keitune will offer an exclusive free-off-charge airport and hotel pick-up service for all oversea pilots to make for hassle-free and enjoyable racing experience. The service includes pick-up from Tokyo’s Haneda or Chiba’s Narita airport, reservation service for the Goi Grand Hotel, daily hotel-track-hotel transport, as well as optional services such as an english translator and more. More information, all dates and details can be found here or by emailing Keitune Speedway owner Kijima (info@keitune.co.jp).

November 28, 2017

Markus Hellquist takes Modified win at SSIC Rd2

The second round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Alvesta and was hosted by the Wäxjö MS club last weekend. The track was very grippy and the qualifying result was based on the best single result out of three rounds in total. In the Touring Modified class Markus Hellquist (Xray/ORCA) won all qualifying rounds as Fabian Vernersson (Serpent/Hobbywing) was the best of the rest to claim P2 on the the A-main grid. Daniel Carlsson (Team Associated/Hobbywing) would round out the top 3 results. Going into the finals, Fabian was close to overtaking Markus after a mistake in A1, but Markus managed to hold onto the win in the opening main. The following A2 and A3 were a slightly smoother affair and Hellquist would manage to secure the overall win. Fabian made sure to grab the runner-up with two 2nd places while Daniel had a decent run in A3, but it was not enough to challenge Fabian, and he had to settle for 3rd overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 27, 2017

Xray Racing Series Poland R3 – Report

For round 3 the PLMS RC & Xray Racing Series Poland the participants traveled to the town of Ścinawka Średnia. The event was held in several electric on-road classes and the fastest category, Touring Modified, was a dominated by Jakub Różycki, who was chased by Martin Korinek, Jarosław Siwek and Jakub Michalski. After some entertaining A-mains it was Jakub Różycki with the day’s win from Jarek Siwek and Jakub Michalski.

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November 27, 2017

Xray Racing Series Italy Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Xray Racing Series Italy was held at the Pista Minirace track in Casoria. More than 90 racers signed in for the six classes of Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T “Teamdriver”, Touring 13.5T Stock, Touring 17.5T Stock, Formula and 1/12th pan car. In the Touring Modified class it was Alessio Menicucci with the win from Alessio Mazzeo and Nicola Marrone. Alessio Mancini and Antonio Di Prisco would round out the top 5 results.

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November 27, 2017

2017/18 RugRacers Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of this season’s RugRacers series was held this past weekend in Ware, Herts. In the 13.5 Blinky class, Zak Finlay picked up right where he left off last round, taking FTQ to place his Xray on pole just ahead of Tony Broad’s Xray, while the 3rd place would be taken by Darren Lee for Schumacher. In the finals, both legs would be taken by Zak with Tony 2nd and Billy Fletcher of Awesomatix in 3rd after moving up from his 5th placed start.

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