The winter season kicked off for the UK X4F team at the HUGE 38*24metre carpet track at the Teflord Tennis Centre in the UK. This season there was a change to the FWD regulations that saw the Ride Slick tyre being used for the first time and a change to 17.5K RPM with 5.0 gear ratio.
The team had been busy pre season testing to get to a base setup, we were confident of a strong result going into MICC with lots of positive feedback on setup and directions we could go. Lets just say we had a plan to suit the track requirements as we were not sure what we would get!
Practice went very well for the team even though the grip was very low as the carpet had not been run on for over a year. We were hoping for the grip to come up to suite us more but already we were in a very strong, happy position.
Qualifying went great for the team with Ben Cosgrove and Matt Lax leading the charge, quite a few tenths clear of the rest of the pack being lead to by Ricky Copsey with his XF4 25 after not having much if any pre season running with the car at all. We had a total of 5 X4F cars in the top 5 after qualifying. Ben took all 4 rounds, fastest time and fastest lap on the way to pole position.
Fabien Simonini was unluck BQ with the XRAY X4F 24 and Andy Bird made the B Final with his XRAY X4F 25 car.
The finals saw a few different battles happening throughout. Ben and Matt had a nose to tail race with a huge margin back to third. Ricky had a close yet scrappy race to take 4th. Greg had a bit of a lonely run to improve to 7th and Sid had a great battle with young Alfie Hart (superstar of the future) to get 9th.
Well done to the whole team, we worked hard leading upto the event, during the event and we will continue to work hard after it. We have lots of ideas to keep improving the setup and we will use this great result as a strong foundation to progress. If you need anymore info about the XRAY X4F 25 please contact RC Disco (Greg hill) or check out the XRAY website!!!!
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Results:
1. Ben Cosgrove - XRAY X4F´25
2. Matt Lax - XRAY X4F´25
3. Stephen Rogers 4. Ricky Copsey - XRAY X4F´25
5. Stephen Davies
6. Graig Nutting 7. Greg Hill - XRAY X4F´25
8. Stewar Woodend 9. Sid Lawrence - XRAY X4F´25
10. Alfie Hart