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February 7, 2014

HB HPI Racing Challenge Rd2 – Report

Orange County’s only remaining permanent road course played host to the second round of the 2014 HB HPI Challenge Series on Saturday, February 1st. 41 Racers from San Diego to Bakersfield and in between gathered at Cal Raceway in Orange, California anticipating another exciting round of the HB HPI Challenge Series. Cal Raceway’s Charlie Barnes began track preparation on Friday afternoon to ensure track conditions were ideal for racers arriving Saturday morning. With a total of 47 entries dialed in, round two of the 2014 HB HPI Challenge Series was set to begin.

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February 7, 2014

Marco Kaufmann re-signs with Xray

Xray announce that Marco Kaufmann has re-signed his contract with the Slovakian company. The young talented driver who showed excellent results in the recent years has been a main driving force of the German Xray team. The multiple ETS A-finalist will race the T4 platform in the 2014 season and will participate all major national and international races including the EFRA Euros and IFMAR Worlds as well as the ETS. Marco says:

I am very happy to re-sign with Xray. I have been racing with Xray since I have started to drive RC Cars. I choose Xray because the quality and performance are both perfect. I am very proud to represent this finest company and to be part of the Xray world racing team. I’m looking forward to great and successful future. In 2014 I will concentrate mainly on 1/10 electric touring modified class and I am sure some more great results will come.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 6, 2014

2014 Snowbird Nationals – Report

The 2014 edition of the Snowbird Nationals were held in Orlando, FL at the Park Inn Resort. The “Birds” is the largest RC race in the world with well over 600 total entries and many countries represented this year. The Snowbirds is a unique race due to the 24 hours a day racing schedule, 12 hours of road and 12 hours of oval makes for a very unique experience that can only be witnessed here. In the Blue ribbon Modified TC class it was Paul Lemieux who would get things figured out for the second day of qualifying to set TQ, then again TQ the final round of qualifying. Paul would then take a convincing tone to tone victory in the final, Marc Fischer would finish second with Kevin Hebert in third.

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February 4, 2014

Birinyi & Toth win at Speedpassion Challenge Rd5

The 5th round of the RCProf Speedpassion Challenge took place at the RCArena track in Budapest. In the Touring Car Stock class it came to a close fight between Janos Birinyi and Peter Taal. In the first final Janos attacked the leader for the whole leg but could not find a way past and following a final-lap collision Janos had to settle for second place. The second A-main again saw Peter and Janos battling it out, this time with the better end for Janos who could profit of a tangle with the leader. The third and decisive final then had Janos taking a more easy win handing him the overall victory in the Stock class. Peter Taal and Tamas Pongho came in second and third respectively. In the Modified class Barnabas Toth took the win from Zsolt Kalnay and Christian Faur, who completed the podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 4, 2014

Thomas Ek doubles at MSEC Rd6

The 6th round of the MSEC was held in Norrtälje in the North of Stockholm and hosted by Norrtälje RCM. The track was a small and technical temporary track, almost square in layout. In the Modified Touring class Thomas Ek managed to grab TQ by 7/10th over Andreas Husman. Andreas then also went on to take the pole position in the Stock class ahead of Kenneth Malkusson and Lars Hägerman.

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February 2, 2014

IFMAR U-turn as 1/12th Worlds back on carpet

IFMAR have made the surprise announcement that the upcoming 1/12th scale World Championships will be held on carpet having originally made the decision to have the event on asphalt with a control tire. The U-turn seems to have come about following pressure from racers who made their feelings known regarding the choice of surface. We would expect that with the event returning to carpet that tire choice will once again be open. We wait for further details.

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February 2, 2014

Dominant Hagberg wins ETS Round 2

Alexander Hagberg has claimed a dominant victory at Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Germany, the Team Xray driver wrapping up the Muelheim-Kaerlich event by backing his A1 performance by again cruising to an easy win in A2. His second ever ETS success, the first being Poznan in 2011, Hagberg’s win ends both defending champion Ronald Volker and Yokomo’s domination of carpet races for the past two seasons. It was an ultra successful weekend for Xray with their drivers Marek Cerny and Jan Ratheisky also wrapping up the overall Pro Stock and Formula honours in the second round of A-Mains.

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February 2, 2014

Hagberg cruises to A1 victory

Alexander Hagberg cruised to a very convincing victory in the opening A-Main at Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series this morning in Germany. Starting from the TQ position having dominated qualifying, the Team Xray driver raced unchallenged to take the win over Ronald Volker and Viktor Wilck despite almost not completing his final lap. Thinking his race was finished but having just crossed the line 1/10th of a second before the 5-minutes was complete he pulled up just in front of race control where team-mate & Pro Stock A1 winner Marek Cerny was about to pick up the car. Already celebrating his win, he was informed he had still to finish but being the only driver to do 23-laps even with the loss of 8-seconds official register the win with a finishing time.

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