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August 9, 2013

Xray Challenge Hungary – Announcement

The Xray Challenge Hungary will take place at the famous Hungaroring full-scale racing track on the weekend of the 8th of September. The race is run in several classes including electric touring car 13.5T boost and non-boost, touring car modified, 200mm stock and EFRA nitro touring car, 1/8th and 1/5th EFRA on-road. Tyres are free for all classes and the 200mm stock nitro class is being run with a controlled low-budget engine. You can find more information here and register for the event here.

August 8, 2013

Schöffel & Günther win at Southern German regionals

Last weekend saw the 6th and final race for the Southern German regionals, hosted by the famous MAC Nürnberg club. With scorching hot temperatures and beautiful weather right up to the finals, racing action in the 1/10 IC and 1/8 IC classes was close and intense. Due to a rough qualifying with some incidents caused by traffic 15 year old Class 2 racer Max Günther had to start his finals day in 12th place and therefore in the quarter finals. Max was able to win his final easily leaving a number of Class 1 racers behind him and he progressed into the semifinals where he faced a very strong field of mostly Class 1 racers.

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August 8, 2013

Adrian Berntsen wins at ’13 Norwegian Outdoor Series

Adrian Berntsen wins at '13 Norwegian Outdoor Series

The fourth and final round of the Norwegian national outdoor series was held at the Sorlihavna race track in Lorenskog, just outside of Oslo. The race saw a record entry of drivers with 27 drivers attending in the 1/10 touring modified class which is more than at any other race this season. The Sorlihavna racetrack is a pretty small and technical track which suits the modified-class perfectly but as Q1 started, many drivers struggled to finish their 5 minute heats without troubles. The only driver to finish his race without issues was Xray driver Oskar Fjeld who actually had his fastest overall qualifier in Q1. Adrian Berntsen held the runner-up spot despite a body tuck during the run.

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August 6, 2013

Johnson TQ’s and wins at the ROAR outdoor regionals

Johnson TQ's and wins at the ROAR outdoor regionals

The 2013 Outdoor ROAR regionals were held in Cincinnati, Ohio and after two rain cancellations, the race finally took place at the end of July. On a last minute notice, the rain held off and the qualifiers started with VBC Racing’s Dave Johnson taking TQ after a first place finish in the third qualifier. In the main Johnson pulled away from the field to establish a 5 second lead and securing the victory with the upcoming VBC Wildfire D06.

Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]

August 6, 2013

John Ermen wins Dutch 1/8th nationals Rd5

The fifth round of the Dutch 1/8th on-road nationals took place at the legendary Apeldoorn track under scorching hot weather conditions. During Friday’s practice the drivers tried to adapt the chassis, tyres and engines as good as possible as the temperatures in the 36°C range caused the teams some problems here and there. Come Saturday the temperatures dropped a bit and this was reflected in the lap times that become more than half a second faster with the lowest temperatures and fastest times being achieved on Sunday. After three rounds of qualifying Robin d’Hondt took TQ followed by John Ermen and Steven Cuypers. Rick Vrienlijnck and Gunther van Staey followed in fourth and fifth place. In the semifinal B John Ermen had a very clean run and took the pole position for the final as Robin d’Hondt was some 13 seconds slower compared to the Xray driver.

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August 6, 2013

Michael Orlowski wins Junior European TC title

On last weekend‘s EFRA European Electric Touring Car championship Team Durango’s Michael Orlowski won the Junior European title by finishing 7th in the B final. The young Polish driver, who also is a successful competitor in the Euro Offroad Series, used a prototype of Team Durango’s forthcoming DETC410 touring car as did Michal’s team mate Elliott Harper who finished third overall.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

August 6, 2013

Christian Wuntschek wins 200mm at Alpencup Rd3

The third round of the Alpencup was held at the Kematen track in Tirol. The race started under good weather conditions and it was Serpent driver Christian Wuntschek who took TQ in the 1/10th 200mm class after the qualifiers with Michael Wopfner pulling the fastest lap times but he was not able to run the 5 minute legs without refuelling. Unfortunately as the day went on a huge thunderstorm washed everything away and the race had to be cancelled for security reasons. This handed Christian Wuntschek the win of the third Alpencup round as the qualifying result was taken to appoint the winner.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 6, 2013

Ricardo Nogueira wins Portuguese on-road nats Rd5

The 5th round of the Portuguese 1/8th nitro on-road nationals saw a clean sweep of Serpent driver Ricardo Nogueira (Serpent/Novarossi/Xceed). Ricardo took TQ after qualifying and finished the A-final some four laps ahead of the second place driver with Serpent team mate Claudio Lopes (Serpent/Novarossi/Xceed) completing the podium. With only one round left in September Cladio Lopes leads the championship table followed by Serpent’s Fernando Dantas in second.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]