Date of the race:   Sepember 20, 2008
Place:   Buenos Aires
Circuit :   C. A. Vélez Sársfield
Weather :   Cold
6th race of the year, the pilot Gustavo Alberdi (XRAY/RB) already is the champion of the Metropolitan Championship 2008, at the same time the fight for the following places is still very hard.

A Main final results:

1. JOE GRECO (53 vueltas) - XRAY / RB
2. HERNÁN VALERIANO (52 vueltas) - XRAY XB808/ RB C6 - RCNews Argentina oficial pilot
3. JAVIER CATALDO (52 vueltas) - XRAY XB808 / RB
4. LUCAS CRIBARI (51 vueltas) - CEN / O.S. - CEN Argentina oficial pilot
5. GUSTAVO DUARTE (50 vueltas) - XRAY XB808/ RB C6 - XRAY GL Competicione oficial pilot
6. LEONEL DORES (50 vueltas) - XRAY XB808/ RB C6 - XRAY GL Competicione oficial pilot
7. ALDO ANDRELLO (48 vueltas) - XRAY / RB
8. JAVIER CAGGIOLA (47 vueltas) - MUGEN SEIKI / RB
9. SEBASTIÁN LENGER (42 vueltas) - HOBAO / HYPER
10. ROBERTO FRANKOSKI (38 vueltas) - XRAY / RB

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Source : RC Car Action

Souring from neobuggy.net that Hara win the 2008 IFMAR 1/8 Buggy World Champion.

Final Standing

1. Atsushi Hara - HB/OS/Proline
2. Mike Truhe - Losi/GRP/Proline
3. Renaud Savoya - Mugen/Ninja/Proline
4. Jared Tebo - O’Donnel/OS/Proline
5. Ryan Maifield - AE/Reedy/JC
6. Taylor James - Jammin/OS/Proline
7. Ty Tessman - HB/OS/Proline
8. Robert Batlle - HoBao/GRP/GRP
9. Cody King - Kyosho/Sirio/AKA
10. Jesse Robbers - HB/GRP/Proline
11. Ryan Cavalieri - AE/Orion/Proline
12. Travis Amezcua - HB/Ninja/Proline

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Round 7 of the Danish Onroad Championships. Martin Lissau and Martin Christensen had just been doing well at the WC in Portugal, but for the National title it was XRAY NT1 driver Claus Ryeskov who was heading for the overall 2008 national title.

For Saturday qualifying the weather were sunny and 15°C. After the four rounds, it was not surprising that Martin Lissau took TQ:

1. Lissau XRAY NT1
2. Christensen XRAY NT1
3. Ryeskov XRAY NT1
4. NO. Hansen

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Round 4 (final round) of the 2008 Indonesia EP Touring National Championship was held at the JITC Senayan track, using the same track as the previous series but with a different (more technical) layout. Traction was low and it was dusty. The organizers sprayed sugar water before the start of racing to give a bit more traction, but only it was only on the racing line; if you got off the racing line your car collected dust and sand!

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The last round of the Italian National Championship was held in Battipaglia at the beautiful new Speedy Car track. A smallish number of drivers (around 70) attended the event due to the poor weather conditions: rain!

Thursday and Friday where dedicated to testing and the high temperatures gave the track high grip; superfast laptimes were the result. After the two controlled practice sessions Barbera was fastest, followed by De Felici, Gentile, and Crea.

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The fifth and final round of the 2008 Portuguese EP Touring Car Championship was run last weekend at the Sintra track in Lisbon with both the Stock and Modified titles still to be decided. Good weather and good grip levels at this beautiful and large track saw XRAY driver Nuno Gancho take the TQ and win ahead of team mate Daniel Ferreira (2nd) and Tamiya driver Ruben Francisco (3rd). With this win Nuno Gancho secured the 2008 Modified title ahead of Ruben Francisco and Daniel Ferreira. In the Stock class it was Pedro Pita that won the title after placing 2nd in this race.

National 10EP Championship
1. Nuno Gancho XRAY T2′008
2. Rúben Francisco
3. Daniel Ferreira XRAY T2′008
4. Fernando Cordeiro
5. Joao B. Inácio XRAY T2′008
6. Artur Aires
7. Bruno Castela
8. Miguel Braga
9. Jorge Simoes
10. Miguel Macieira

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Race report by Florian Laux
Again Team XRAY showed a great performance at round 2 of the German Nationals in Bischofsheim near Frankfurt where 127 drivers attended to crown the 2008 German Champion. XRAY was one of the most popular brands with 25 drivers running the XB808.

Final ranking:
1. Tim Bremiker
2. Daniel Reckward
3. Patrik Fetschenko
4. Oliver Simon XRAY XB808
5. Dario Vita
6. Dennis Macek
7. Cords Maximilian
8. Eirenschmalz Markus XRAY XB808
9. Martin Achter
10. Phillip Guschl

Source : XRAY

Team Unico Modellsport enjoyed an excellent performance last weekend at the fifth round of the National Championship at the Hungaroring circuit as their drivers won all three categories wrapping up both 1:10 titles in the process.

In the 1:10 200mm Final Serpent’s 720 claimed victory in the hands of Rajki Balint with team-mate Cristian Faur making it a 1-2 on the podium.  The win was enough for Balint to be crowned the 2008 Hungarian National Champion.

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The Japanese Nats — JMRCA 1/10th nitro touring Sports and Open class — was held on September 5-7 at the Hokusei circuit.

There should have been six rounds of qualifying (3 rounds each on Friday and Saturday) and a Christmas tree final on Sunday, but it rained on Friday and so the three rounds of qualifying were cancelled. This left only 3 rounds of qualifying for both the Sports and Open classes. Qualifying heats were set at 5 minutes and grand the final was 40 minutes long for both classes. Only two drivers were able to go directly to the grand final according to qualifying results.

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