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November 24, 2017

Adalberto Pinto takes 200mm win at Portuguese Cup

The Travessas track located in S. João da Madeira recently played host to the Portuguese Cup and in the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class it was Adalberto Pinto (Serpent) who took a maiden win in the nitro class. Adalberto started into the A-main from the 10th spot on the grid following some issues in his semifinal but with a strong pace and on only a single set of tyres he was able to bring home the silverware from Frederic Santos (Xray) 2nd and Pedro Grandao (Xray) 3rd.

Thanks to Rui Reis for the report.

November 23, 2017

AMK RC club race Rd2 – Report

The recent second round of the AMK RC club race saw Igor Liptak (Xray) taking the TQ honours in the Touring Stock 17.5T class. Igor went on to win the A-main final also, completely sweeping the competition with the Xray duo of Tomas Valent and Milos Svihran rounding out the top 3 results.

Continue reading the report here

November 23, 2017

Serpent sign Fangzhou “Rocket” Zhang

Serpent have announced the signing of Chinese frontrunner, Fangzhou Zhang, better known as Rocket Zhang. Rocket is a multiple A-finalist at events such as the TITC, AOC and Chinese National Championships. Rocket will pilot Serpent’s Project 4X touring car at national and international events and he has the following to say:

Thank you very much to Serpent and Mr. Liu for giving me the opportunity to join the team. Serpent has always been a well-known RC brand, has a very complete product lines. I ran Serpent for the first time with the 710 GP to participate in the competition more than 10 years ago. With joining Serpent and be able to get the opportunity to help for researching and development as well as testing is a very wonderful thing. I do really honoured to join the team.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

November 23, 2017

Andrea Pirani rolling on Hot Race rubber for 2018

Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of Italy’s Andrea Pirani to their team. The multiple national Champion and European podium finisher will use the company’s tyres at open races world-wide while also helping with product development.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

November 22, 2017

Danish DRCMU Electric Indoor Nats Rd4 – Report

The Danish town of Tinglev near the German border played host to round 4 of the DRCMU series recently. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Mike Gosvig made a clean sweep in the qualifiers and finals, winning all legs with a two to four second margin. Awesomatix driver Patrick Hornum would come in 2nd from Patrick Danielsen (Xray) 3rd.

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November 22, 2017

Czech Open Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Czech Open Electric On-road Series was held recently and in the Touring Modified class it was Matej Šulc (Xray) who took all qualifiers by over seven seconds from Petr Grof (Yokomo) 2nd and Michal Blahovský (Xray) 3rd. In finals Petr found some speed and got close to Matej but ultimately it was Matej with the win over Petr and Michal.

Continue reading the report here

November 22, 2017

Xray sign Toni Santana

Xray have announced the signing of European GT8 champion, Toni Santana to their factory team. Toni is also a multi-times Spanish GT8 champ and he will be using Xray’s GTX8 platform at national and international events such as the Euros and Worlds. Toni says:

I am following the work of Xray for a long time and I have been always amazed by the professionalism and dedicated approach for the continuous development of the cars. I am very happy to be part of this great family, to be able to participate on the further development of the GT platform and I am really happy to be part of the team. I hope to return that trust with work and results and I will work very hard to showcase next year at the European and World Championship.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 22, 2017

Roberto Alessandrelli wins at TIT Cup Rd1

The opening round of the TIT Cup was held in Schöftland, Switzerland in Touring Pro Stock and Formula classes. In Pro Stock it was Roberto Alessandrelli with the TQ from Philipp Huber, who took two round TQs in the opening two qualifiers, and Maurice Lüscher in 3rd. In the finals Roberto was able to conserve his qualifying performance to take the win from Maurice in 2nd, while Philipp had to settle for 3rd despite two 2nd place finishes in the triple mains.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]