XRAY has celebrated two wins and two more podium visits at round two of the Nitro-West-Masters, a popular on-road racing series mainly held in Western Germany. Furthermore, XRAY was the leading chassis brand with 17 competitors in the field of 55 participants.
In the 1/8 scale class (VG8) Tobias Hepp was on third in the heats ranking with his RX8â™2014 ahead of XRAY fellow Uwe Baldes and with young Philipp Roemer on sixth and Josef Dragani on eleventh spot. Bad luck hit Hepp, the winner of the season opener at Oberhausen, in the main race when an electronic issue forced him to retire after less than five minutes. Finally Uwe Baldes brought his Orcan powered RX8â™2014 home on third to achieve his first podium visit after his move to XRAY. Roemer came on fourth.
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Final results 1/8:
1. Frank Schewiola
2. Christian Wurst 3. Uwe Baldes - XRAY RX8
4. Philipp Römer - XRAY RX8
5. Danny Claes
6. Martin Figge
7. Ralf Vahrenkamp
8. Rainer Rosskothen
9. Ralf Wacker 10. Tobias Hepp - XRAY RX8
Beside the regular 1/8 and 1/10 nitro on-road classes, the two hobby cup classes (HC8, HC10) are an inherent part of the Nitro-West-Masters with mandatory engines from Sonic and Novarossi.
In HC10, the 1/10 scale hobby cup class, Thorsten Lewandowski gave another victory to XRAY. Following his TQ he led the 30 minutes finale from lights to checkered and had a six lap advantage over Sures Velauthapillai on second to make it a 1-2 for XRAY. Rookie Timo Niedling finished on fifth place while Oberhausen winner Hans-Werner Dietz was a bit disappointed to bring his NT1 home only on position seven with XRAY fellows Marc Oschewski and Florian Trapp on eight and ten. Sures Velauthapillai is now leading the HC10 point standings.
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Final results HC10:
1. Thorsten Lewandowski - XRAY NT1
2. Sures Velauthapillai - XRAY NT1
3. Philipp Wisniewski
4. Matthias de Keyser 5. Timo Niedling - XRAY NT1
6. Guido Burghartz 7. Hans-Werner Dietz - XRAY NT1
8. Marc Oschewski - XRAY NT1
9. Werner Vogel 10. Florian Trapp - XRAY NT1
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In HC8, the 1/8 scale hobby cup class, the XRAY racers Heinz Faigle and Detlef Spiess won both semi finals and finished on fourth and fifth in the main race with newcomer Holger Hinnendahl on seventh spot. Faigle and Spiess, at Oberhausen on positions three and two, are now leading the HC8 ranking equal on points.
Final results HC8:
1. Marco Muscara
2. Matthias Guenther
3. Jens Kopetzki 4. Heinz Faigle - XRAY RX8
5. Detlef Spiess - XRAY RX8
6. RĂĽdiger Hepp
7. Gerhard Bemelmans
8. Holger Hinnendahl
9. Gunnar Blumendahl
10. Helmut Hoessler
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Round three out of six of the 2014 Nitro-West-Masters will be held at the Rhein-Ahr-Motodrom in Bad Breisig, located between Bonn and Koblenz at the river Rhine, on 05/06 of July and is as usual open to all racers, no license is needed.
