Xray have announced the dates for the Xray Racing Series Germany that will be held on four weekends between January and March 2017. The season will kick off on the weekend of the 15th of January in Adenau and finishes on the 12th of March, again in Adenau. Drivers of select classes will receive an Xray promo package and each driver has the change to win a T4 kit at the series finale. More information and all dates can be found here.
The 2016 U.S. World Nitro Cup was held at Full Throttle RC Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida over the weekend. As usual the event attracted some of the country’s fastest nitro on-road racers to compete against guests from abroad and it would be Australia’s Jesse Davis (Infinity) that would lead the way in 1/8th Open qualifying to take the TQ after four rounds of qualifying. In the 45-minute main final though it would be Italy’s Alberto Picco (Mugen) that took the overall win some 7.6s in front of Jesse while Lamberto Collari (Infinity) completed the podium result in third, one lap down.
Source: Mugen [mugen.eu]
Round three of the popular MRC Longwy Winter Series attracted more then 100 drivers to compete in a total of five electric on-road classes. After three qualifiers and triple mains it was Ronald Völker who came out fastest in the premier Touring Modified class from Remi Callens in second and Loic Jasmin third. Matthias Keding and Nicolas Delise would round out the top 5 result.
The newly opened indoor asphalt track of Graha Tamiya, located in Gading Serpong, just outside of Jakarta City, Indonesia, played host to the Tamiya Invitational Race 2016. The first official race since its opening in April the event attracted about 50 entries in the three classes of Super GT, Stock and M-Chassis. The race attracted some international top drivers such as UK’s Andy Moore, as well as Thailands Charvit and Trin and also some guests from Singapore as well. With the top guns in the Super GT class all running the Tamiya TRF 419X, it provided the crowd with the maximum entertainment as results from two out of the four rounds of qualifying would count. At the End, it was Charvit (Thailand) who took the top spot, winning two rounds with Andy Moore (UK) lining up on P2 and Alvin Koh (Singapore) on P3 both TQing a round each.
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The final FinTrack Tour TC round of the year was held in Oulu over the weekend with about 80 entries for the three Touring Car classes and the supporting Formula category. In the Touring Modified A-main Viljami Kutvonen would come out fastest in the A-main from Miko Teponoja in second and Kalle Lehto in third.
The third round of the Essex Winter Series championship took place this weekend. As the last major event of 2016, everyone wanted to end on a high, but also take the opportunity to stand out as a championship contender. In the Modified Class, Elliott Harper was heading the standings with two perfect scores from the two rounds so far. The first round of qualifying showed that his run of success was possibly about to end, after an incredibly close round saw Elliott only just snatching the fastest time on the final lap, pipping young Harley Eldridge to the top spot by three-hundredths of a second. Kyle Branson took third in the round ahead of Chris Grainger, but the top eight were covered by less than four seconds.
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Round three of the Swedish Cup was held this past weekend with about 60 drivers making their entry. The track was laid out using the popular ETS carpet with the layout being very technical and pretty narrow at places. Viktor Wilck would come into groove quickly and he took the overall TQ in the Touring Modified class from Marcus van Elling and Fabian Vernersson in second and third respectively. In the final Viktor made a clean sweep to take the overall win while behind him, Marcus and Fabian battled it out for the runner-up spot. Fabian would get second in the opening final and he was on the 2 spot in the second final until he had a crash with back markers on the last laps. In the deciding final Marcus would take the second place to secure the overall runner-up spot while Fabian showed improving performance and finished on a well deserved third place.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Xray have announced the signing of Hungarian Formula champion, Balint Rajki to their team. The former ETS Stock, Hungarian 1/10th 200mm Nitro, and HPI Nitro Stock European and World Champion will focus on electric touring car and formula racing at all major electric on-road events including the ETS and he has the following to say:
I’m very happy to announce and also feel honoured to be able to join the Xray factory team. I have been following the formula project since the beginning and I truly believe that the X1 car is the best car at the moment so far and I’m sure it will remain the same. Besides the X1 I will also race T4 cars in our National Championship, ETS and some XRS races. I had been basically racing the past 10 years with one brand, but now I feel that this is the right brand to join with having all the different cars I had raced before and also planning to race in the future. I would like to thank Jan Ratheisky and the Hudy family for the opportunity, I will do my best. I also would like to say Thank You to Modell & Hobby and Arpad Kocsis for supporting me with cars over the past years.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
