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October 31, 2013

AllStar Speed Passion Championship – Report

The grand finale of the five round AllStar Speed Passion Championship was held at the 3Stone Park Malaysia with 50 racers attended to battle for the title. The AllStar race series is aimed at promoting different platforms of RC racing such as F1, GT and FF to set it apart from the usual Touring car races. The rules only allow to use Speed Passion Cirtix Club Race speed controllers and 17.5 turns motors to cut costs and to make for close racing. Running in its second year the series attracts more and more racers and the season culminated at the 3Stone Park round. The race started with the FF class and the qualifying heats were won by Simon Yew driving a VBC FF Twelve. Dino who recently changed his chassis from a TOP FWD to Serpent proves that he does have the might to compete with the top drivers in this category and qualified 2nd on the grid. The finals had Simon taking the win from Yeop and Captain, who completed the podium.

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October 31, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins Portuguese touring car nationals

The 5th and final round of the Portuguese touring car championship was held at the Armaia track in Oporto in the North of the country. During practice and qualifying Xray’s Bruno Coelho made his intentions clear to win the race and the overall title as he was some 1.5s faster than the competition. He later took the TQ with the only 18 laps run in qualification and then went on to win the final and with it the overall championship. The podium of the final round was completed by Helder Silva (Xray) and Pedro Moura (Xray).

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October 30, 2013

ETS descends on Czech Republic for start of Season #7

The World’s top electric touring car racers and teams will descend on the Czech Republic this weekend (1-3 Nov) for the opening round of Season #7 of the Euro Touring Series. Once again defending champions Yokomo are to be title sponsors of the world famous championship and the Japanese manufacturer will be looking to get the start of their title defense off to the perfect start just as they have done by winning the opening race of the last three seasons. With Ronald Volker chasing a fourth consecutive ETS title, in addition to ETS race winner Yannic Prumper Yokomo have bolstered their team for Round 1 by entering their reigning 3-time 1:12 World Champion Naoto Matsukura. However once again Volker’s biggest challenger is set to be fellow German Marc Rheinard, Tamiya’s 3-time former World Champion having finished runner up for the past three seasons having been champion of the 2009/10 season.

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October 30, 2013

Middle Swedish Cup Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Middle Swedish Cup for electric touring cars and 1/12 scale cars was held at the brand new permanent carpet track of Swedish Xray distributors Minicars. The track is fairly big compared to the old one and allowed for some fast paced racing in all classes. The race saw some 70 entrants divided in three different classes. In Modified there was very close racing between Alexander Hagberg and Niklas Johansson, battling it out for the TQ position. In the end Alex managed to snatch the TQ spot with only a few hundreds. Magnus Vässmar and Niclas Nilsson qualified 3rd and 4th respectively. In the finals, Alex managed to win the first two finals with ease. The others would battle it out for the remaining podium spots. Niklas Johansson drove a flawless A3 to take the runner-up spot in front of Niclas and Magnus.

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October 30, 2013

Novarossi Tropheo Gubbio – Report

The beautiful Gubbio track hosted the 2013 edition of the famous Novarossi Trophy, a race that every year gathers some of the best on-road drivers on Italian soil. This year’s edition attracted some 106 participants and once again the race proofed to be one of the biggest classics at the end of the season. Despite a bit of fog that slowed down the start of the event, the race went on flawlessly thanks to the great job done by the Gubbio track staff, supported in the best way by Novarossi representatives. Qualifying saw Novarossi drivers De Felici and Balestri TQ’ing easily in 1/10th and 1/8th respectively, opening a good gap between them the rest of the competition. In 8th scale, Balestri went on to complete a perfect race winning the final with a comfortable 6 laps lead on Rinaldi, with Puccinelli to complete the podium. Unfortunately, during the 10th scale A-main a serious crash on the main straight involving the polesitter forced Giorgio to retire and preventing him to bring home the victory honours, that then went to former World Champion Daniele Ielasi, finishing in front of Adami and Festuccia.

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October 29, 2013

Erol Uçar wins Turkey Touring Series

This year’s Turkey Touring Series, a six round championship, culminated at the carpet track of the Team NCRC Arena. After five rounds run on asphalt the drivers had to adapt to the unknown surface and at the end it was Mustafa Alp who took the winning honours of the final round in the Modified class in front of the Xray duo of Erol Uçar and Halit Körpe. In the overall championship the second place was enough for Erol to grab the 2013 title in front of Mustafa and Halit.

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October 29, 2013

Pancho, Lucindo & Go win in Manila

The Extreme Speed Alley raceway in Manila, Philippines held the first 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road race after nearly 20 years of absence. The molasses treated track provided perfect grip conditions for the racers who attended in the 1/8th, 1/10th 200mm and 1/8th GT classes. The race attracted some veteran racers in the form of Ricky Tangan, Clemen Pancho both driving a Serpent Viper powered by Novarossi, and Nani Tagle driving his Novarossi-powered Xray to name just a few. Laptimes in the 1/8 scale class on this track prior to the race was in the 21 seconds range with Clemen Pancho being able to pull 19’s but since the track was treated and had a good grip, laptimes dropped significantly on race day with many drivers achieving laps in the 20’s and 19’s with Serpent driver Edward Sio setting the fastest lap of the day with a 19.08.

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October 25, 2013

Michal Abrahamek doubles at Czech Championships

The final round of the Czech nitro on-road championships took place 60km away from Brno. The race saw a huge attendance of driver as everyone was keen to score the final championship points. 1/10th qualifying saw Jirka Vyšín taking the TQ honours followed by Michal Abrahamek who later won the final after some great battles with Jirka Vyšín and Michal Jansa. The win handed Michal the overall championship title in front of his Xray team mates Jirka Vyšín and Ondřej Kulhánek. Beside the 200mm title also the 1/8th championship went to Michal making it a perfect double.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]