The highly contested championship took place over eight rounds throughout Western Canada. The series started in British Columbia and ended in Red Deer Alberta. After signing with Canada R/C, the XRAY CANADA distribution, towards the end of the series Wayne Mah took the XB8 to the final two races of the season. Wayne utilized the detailed set up guide in the back of the instruction book to quickly get his car super dialed for the events. The results speak for themselves, as Wayne won the overall series with his XB8.
Race report from Wayne Mah
Wayne Mah has won the 2004 Western Canadian Off-road Championship Series 1/8 Nitro Buggy title driving the newly released Xray XB8. The final mandatory series race held on Sept 4, 5 &6 in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada was the most anticipated and attended race of the season. The series consisted of a points earned system accumulated with attended races in 8 cities in Western Canada. The series title is up for grabs between at least 8 racers. I was tied on top of the pointâ™s standings with only several pointsâ™ advantage over the rest of the racers. The track consisted of high speed sweepers, washboard section, banked corners, massive whoop section, huge table top and high speed big air jumps. The track offered setup challenges and punishing jumps to push the survival limits of all cars. During the practice and qualifiers, I was focused on achieving the best suspension setup possible, the key to success on this harsh track. After the qualifiers ended, I came away as the top qualifier and held the pole position for the mains the next day. The A main 1/8 nitro buggy was the grand finale of this event. The day started out with the warm sun and slowly eroded to threatening dark clouds. By the time our main begun the cloud opened up and started to rain. The traction went from slightly loose to high bite to mushy drift all in a matter of 15 minutes. Our fuel stops lengths were determined prior to the start of the day at around the 7 min mark, however I ran out of fuel twice before our targeted time. It was determined by my pit persons that the accumulated weight from the mud had the engine consume more fuel. With that and a steering linkage ball end popping off I was several laps behind from the field. From this point on, I had no choice but to drive this car past the limit. With a bit of luck, I worked myself back to 2nd place and on the same lap as the leader when the time ran out.
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While a number of cars had broken, the XB8 completed the 45 minute main and was willing to do more. The debut of this car offered superb durability, tune ability and is a major contender in the very competitive 1/8 nitro buggy market.
