The first round of the XRAY Challenge was held on March 13-14 at Banwol Race Park near Seoul, Korea. The event was attended by 60 drivers. Since it was kind of the first Korea off-road race this year, not many drivers participated because of the cold weather; however, most of Koreaâ™s top drivers participated, making the race very fun with great competition.
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The race was very well represented by XRAY drivers, who have become much stronger than last year. XRAY dominated the race from qualifying taking 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th positions making them Final.
Pro Class Qualifying Results:
1. SunYung Hwang 2. DongWoo Nam XRAY XB8EC
3. SungGi Jo 4. TaeWan Kim XRAY XB8EC
5. Choong Yeul Shin XRAY XB8EC
6. YongKi Park XRAY XB8EC
7. JongSuk Oh
8. HyungKyu Yu 9. Ryan Lee XRAY XB8EC
10. WookTaek Lee 11. DongKwan Kim XRAY XB8EC
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From semi-final, Team XRAY driver DongKwan Kim had very good runs... making one more XRAY driver for the final. Ryan Lee had some problems although he was also very fast.
Pro Class Order:
1. SunYung Hwang 2. DongWoo Nam XRAY XB8EC
3. SungGi Jo 4. TaeWan Kim XRAY XB8EC
5. Choong Yeul Shin XRAY XB8EC
6. YongKi Park XRAY XB8EC
7. HyungKyu Yu
8. JinYeul Jo
9. WookTaek Lee 10. DongKwan Kim XRAY XB8EC
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In the final, all XRAY drivers were very fast driving especially DongWoo Nam (who joined Team XRAY only a few days ago) who was super fast and showcased the race with his XB8EC and winning the Pro Class. It was his second race with XRAY. One of the other top XRAY drivers, ChoongYeul, could have had a better result, but he had some engine problems which resulted in inconsistent driving.
Pro Class Final Results:
1. DongWoo Nam XRAY XB8EC
2. SunYung Hwang
3. HyungKyu Yu 4. YongKi Park XRAY XB8EC
5. JinYeul Jo 6. DongKwan Kim XRAY XB8EC
7. WookTaek Lee
8. SungGi Jo 9. ChoongYeul Shin XRAY XB8EC
10. TaeWan Kim XRAY XB8EC
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XRAY was also well represented in the Truggy class and Buggy Sports class.
Truggy Final Results:
1. HyungKyu Yu
2. ChongSuk Oh 3. NamHo Kim XRAY XT8
4. DongSuk Myung 5. BumRak Choi XRAY XT8
6. SungKi Jo
7. JongWon Lee
8. HongKyu Jung
9. Hoon Lim 10. EunKyun Lee XRAY XT8
Buggy Sports Final Results:
1. ByungSoo Lee
2. MinKyu Cha 3. WonHyung Sohn XRAY XB8EC
4. JoongChul Kang
5. JinHyun Park
6. JangHo Jung 7. WooChul Kim XRAY XB8EC
8. DongSuk Myung
9. TaeWhe Lee
10. JungYen Kim
