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Race report by Jan Ratheisky & Bruno Coelho
Jan Ratheisky:

Past weekend I was racing the first time in beautiful Italy at the X-Race 2015 at a very cool track in Bientina. I arrived on Wednesday afternoon and stayed one day in Florenz. It was so hot... Thursday I finally arrived at the track. Thank you Claudio Brandi for picking me up.

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Grandmaster Martini explained to me the rules of the race and I prepared my formula and stock car. Someone skipped his mod entry, so luckily it was possible for me to start also in mod class. Three classes whenever it’s possible ;) ;)

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Friday and half Saturday we had free practice. I enjoyed and much appreciate very friendly and funny mentality of all Italian drivers. Smiling all the time and no bad words. Very cool! After short brake caused by burning LiPo battery inside the hall we changed the timetable and set 3 qualis and the best counted. In the end I was able to set TQ in Stock and F1 class. Especially Stock class was very very close fight with Mattia Collina. In Mod I could set 5th place in qualli.

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Also in the finals Mattia pushed very hard. In the first one I was able to hold my 1st place. In the second final Mattia found a way to pass me after sitting 4 mins directly on the rear of my car. Very very good run mate! In the 3rd final I was able to take a tone to tone win without pressure because of some troubles behind me. So finally I won Stock ;)

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In Formula I was able to set TQ and win the first 2 finals. I like how this class is growing in Italy too. For the first time I ran with the Hot Race tires and I tried a lot of set-up changes in order to find a good set-up and understand the work with these tires.

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In Mod my car worked well but in all runs we got in some troubles in the middle of the field and I got also some bad luck. In the end I was able to finish 5th.

Once again I want to thank all of you for this wonderful event. I enjoyed it very much and hope to come back next year!

Bruno Coelho:

This weekend was one of the most enjoyable weekends I've had in my RC career, everything was perfect – track, people, food, the stay and all those various activities that provided extra fun to all racers! A great interaction between drivers allowed for sharing new ideas.

I wanted to thank everyone for the work they’ve done to make this event a success, also wanted to thank the XRAY who offered this magnificent experience to all drivers that could enjoy an unforgettable weekend.

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X1 results:
1. Ratheisky Jan
2. Brocca Simone
3. Materassi Maurizio
4. Paoletti Paolo
5. Berlincioni Matteo
6. Arisi Alessandro
7. Carbone Davide
8. Rampini Roberto
9. Selva Andrea SMR
10. Bandoni Alessandro

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Touring Stock 13.5 results
1. Ratheisky Jan
2. Collina Mattia
3. fabiano roberto
4. bertuzzi davide
5. Wagner Manuel
6. Ghilotti Andrea
7. Bertora Paolo
8. Sodini Saverio
9. Valerio Andrea
10. Borgogni Tiziano

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Real Stock 17.5 results
1. Verbicaro Biagio
2. Agnoletti Emanuele
3. Raffo Christian
4. Vazzana Vincenzo
5. Furelli Sergio
6. Peafrini Gabriele
7. Cocca Fabio
8. Papi Samuele
9. Gavi Andrea
10. Tancioni Pericle

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Mod results:
1. Coelho Bruno
2. Hudy Martin
3. Mancini Alessio
4. Menicucci Alessio
5. Ratheisky Jan
6. Marletta Gilles
7. Torreggiani Luca
8. Marrone Nicola
9. Manicardi Fabrizio
10. Campanini Davide

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Pan Car results:
1. Pernice Umberto
2. Team XRAY
3. Valerio Andrea
4. Alessandro Bianchi
5. Rampini Alessandro
6. Ciarlone Cristiano
7. Bettazzoni Stefano
8. Grisenti Nicol?
9. Rota Alessandro
10. Brandi Claudio

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