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Updated on:18-Aug-2008
Xray Singapore also: Jack Lim,Daniel Lim,Gerard Gan,Donald
Foo. Team Xray Singapore at the Race. *************************************************************************** 2008 Turf City Championship on February 24th 08
Team XRAY Singapore turned up with 9 drivers and managed to put 5 into the A-main. Early in the day Glenn Phuah suffered engine problems in his buggy and finally settled in 3rd after the qualifiers behind Sam Cheng in an RB-powered XB8EC. TQ was made by Wenyi in his Hong Nor. Chester Chua and Luigi Venturi did some excellent driving to place themselves in the A-main. In the Truggy qualifiers, Glenn made TQ with the only 13 lap qualifier for the whole event. The Truggy ‘A’ Main was a 35min final and Glenn took a commanding lead followed closely by Ben Seet and Wenyi. At 20 minutes into the race, Glenn was already pulling a comfortable lead. Unfortunately he clipped a metal spike and that tore a front arm, ending the race for him. Ben was the eventual winner in his Sirio-powered Kyosho.In the Buggy main event, TQ man Wenyi, Sam and Glenn managed to have a good start and proceeded to slightly pull away from the second pack. Wenyi, Ben and Glenn were fiercely battling it out and the lead exchanged amongst them several times. Glenn’s XB8 suffered a broken wing towards the last few minutes of the race, but he managed to hang on and to eventually win the final.
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2007 1/8 FEMCA Buggy Championship in Thailand Pataya FEMCA 1/8 Buggy 2007 PATAYA Asia Cup The bi-annual FEMCA buggy championships event attracted 96 drivers from all over Asia, namely Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia and of course the host country Thailand. Most of the factory teams from Taiwan and China were present to compete for this prestigious title. Team Xray/ Hobbylink from Singapore led by Sam Cheng followed by Chester Chua and Luigi Venturi arrived at the beautiful Pattaya city in Thailand on Sunday night 21st October. Glenn Phuah and Kelvin Ngow (Malaysia) would arrive later on the 23rd due to work commitments. On Monday morning 22nd after a short phone call to race organizer Mr. Chalee we were shocked to know that the track would be open for practice as it was supposed to be closed until 23rd for open practice followed by 24th Controlled practice. Nonetheless we went ahead to get in on much needed familiarization and practice. Upon arrival at the Pattaya RC Powerboat track we had agreed that the track was indeed a beautiful one. Surface at first glance seemed to be dusty and possibly slippery but at closer inspection we knew it was going to be a nice blue groove once practice session were done and racing commenced. Track layout was interesting with many obstacles to boot, medium length straight sections flowed into high speed flat out 180 deg banked turns, off camber sections on nearly all apexes certainly tested drivers skill and patience. An almost blind under bridge section certainly added to the adrenalin rush. In a nutshell, a very nice flowing track with tricky obstacles and skill testing rhythm sections. On 23rd, we were still trying to get our RB C6 T7’s tuned up and functioning reliably as they suffered numerous flame out’s during Monday practice. The controlled fuel was Cosmo RC buggy special 30% which we suspected was giving us tuning headaches. Eventually after some advice from the locals we tried other means to make our engines behave. All in all practice times were made to full use and we were pleased with our Xray XB8EC setups thus far. 24th Wednesday, we were strained by another shocking piece of information from the organizer, especially for those who had just arrived on 23rd night. Today was going to be opening ceremony and qualifying round 1 and 2 of 6 rounds. Majority drivers were quite affected by this as they had expected controlled practice and re-seeding followed by qualifying on 25th, however drivers showed great sportsmanship and went along with the new race schedule. Team Singapore After 2 rounds of qualifying per day from the 24th to26th, the final race order was realized. Sam Cheng 14th (semi B), Chester Chua 15th (quarter A), Glenn Phuah 21st (quarter A) and Luigi Venturi 42nd (1/8th A).
Full results available here: http://www.femca.in.th/FEMCA%20Results/Results_For_Scale_0.html27th Saturday, after unfortunate flameouts during qualifying Luigi Venturi was to run the 1/8th Final "A" starting in 7th position. During the grueling fast paced 20 minute 1/8th final "A", Luigi Venturi shrugged off the nerves and unfortunate qualifying rounds and managed to put on the pace to steer his Xray XB8EC superbly to finish in a convincing 2nd place bumping him up to the ¼ Final "A" where he would join fellow team mates Chester Chua and Glenn Phuah. Luigi XB8EC in action. Chester Chua would start the ¼ A Finals in Pole position, Glenn in 4th and Luigi in 9th. As the final got underway it was obvious that it would be a hard battle. Chester was in good position when he suffered engine problems that ended his race at the 11th minute. Glenn and Luigi continued and showed great spirit coming back from a bad start but positions 1 and 2 were well established ahead. 3rd spot was up for grabs and it was an exciting battle between Glenn and Luigi to close in. The pace was extremely fast and the final ended with Glenn in 5th just milliseconds behind Luigi in 4th, a mere few seconds behind the 3rd place. This final was to mark the end of the race for Chester, Glenn and Luigi. Results available here: http://www.femca.in.th/FEMCA%20Results/Scale_0_4th%20-%20A.html
Sam Xray/RB Chester Xray A main Starting Femca Track FEMCA Top 5 The final was hardly dramatic and most drivers settled into their respective positions pretty early into the race.
Final standings are as follows:
Report by: Sam Cheng/ Team Hobbylink Pictures by: http://www.femca.in.th -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HPC International 1/8th Buggy 2007 15-16 September The annual buggy event attracted 60 drivers from all over the region, namely Singapore, Macau, Taiwan and the host country Malaysia. This included OCM and Nanda factory team. Team Xray/ Hobbylink from Singapore led by Sam Cheng arrived at the beautiful Glenmarie facility in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday night leaving only time to check in to the hotel. Not having any practice time, qualifying began on Saturday morning. By late afternoon, 3 rounds of heats have been completed. At this time local Malaysian ace driver David Lim with his Werks powered Losi was already sitting on a comfortable pole position. The final round of qualification was to be held on the Sunday morning. Sunday morning started out with the truggy heats, Ah Leng from Singapore TQ’ed the truggy event and eventually came in to win the main event as well. It seemed that David Lim was destined to TQ the Buggy heats although Singaporean driver Glenn Phuah in an RB powered Xray came in a close 2nd after all the qualification rounds were completed. This meant that David and Glenn would sit 1st on the grid in their respective ½ finals. The ½ finals began after a brief rain shower that groomed the track as well. As dark clouds were present, everyone was eager to get race underway. Team Xray Singapore put on a good show to put 4 cars in the main event. They are Glenn Phuah, Sam Cheng, Luigi Venturi and Chester Chua. Last years’ Champion Ah M from Singapore displayed some excellent driving to put his X1CR into the top ten. The main event began with Ah M pulling into the lead after managing to overtake Sam, Glenn and after the first few minutes into the 45 minute final. Luigi and Chester suffered flameouts, Luigi put on a good fight to reduce the gap with 3rd place finisher Danny Teh in his OS powered Kyosho only to finish a close 4th with just 7sec difference, however he managed to do the fastest single lap of 43+ seconds. It was a tough final and the lead exchanged several time times between Sam, Glenn and Ah M. Sam made a slight mistake that left Glenn an opportunity to overtake to lead the race. This seemed to be a crucial mistake that left Sam in 2nd close behind champion Glenn Phuah. The final results are as follows:
Report by: Sam
Cheng/ Team Hobbylink
Pictures by: Sylvia Lim
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Team Xray/Rb engine won TQ and 1st at the JB UTM open Buggy Race ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SINGAPORE NATIONAL Day 9-8-2007 /8 GP OFF-ROAD RACE
Top 3 A drivers
Ah Siong
Mike Tan QUALIFYING : Sam Cheng Chester Car Luigi Car Glenn Car Sam Car 1. Chester Chua – XRAY EC/RB
In the A-Main Final, it was a great fight between the 4 racers, 3 XRAY and 1 HN driver. They were neck to neck. It was an exciting race! They were well ahead before the other drivers manage to get their momentum. Hong Nor driver were close behind. Glenn, Chester, Luigi and Ah M, were battling out till the end. In the end, Chester Chua won A-Main Final with Glenn Phuah got 2nd place and Luigi Venturi clinched the 3rd place after the 50 minutes A-Main Final. XRAY/RB finished 1-2-3 on podium for the A-Main Final. Well Done Race report/Sufian& some picture by Marah ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SINGAPORE NATIONAL 1/8 GP OFF-ROAD RACE
Fastest Driver of the day!
Singapore Invitational Challenge april 2007
All of us had a great time and are very happy with our cars and engines performance. With the new track and new car, we are definitely competitive. Congratulations go to the winners and all the best to our club, organizer RCMC. "Thank You for the wonderful event!". Till then, Happy Racing! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LRP Master Race in Malaysia april 07
All Drivers!
It Was A good race at LRP master. we have 3 Xray Car/RB and Wenyi HN/RB engine set in the A final due to heavy rain we couldt run the final had to give away trophies according to qualifying, contrag go to David Lim From Malaysia that TQ and win! Till next time Happy Racing! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Race Report On Our Turf City Track,Singapore 1/8 Buggy
National warmup Race 28 feb RB Engine win A final 45 mins and TQ in Sinapore Open Race 28-1-07
total 50 drivers 45 mins final
Race Date:15-10-2006
Alright!Happy Brothers, A Main Top 3 Winner all with RB engine. Luigi with SHengine power/Xray car
1/8 off-road A main 45 mins Results
*************************************************************************** Race @ Turf City 21-5-06
Desmond Tan TQ& 1st with His Xray/RB engine on Turf City Buggy Championship. Aug 06 Glenn Phuah A main Champion after a 35mins Run with his Xray/RB engine powered War Machine.
Sam Xray/RB Engine on his TQ Run and 2nd Runner Up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Off Rd Race 1/8 Buggy FEMCA Championship 2005Malang, Indonesia 7th July to 10th July 2005 Asia Cup This is an event that all manufacturers from Asia looked forward to race.It is also the first ever FEMCA Buggy Championshipheld at the beautiful track in Malang, Indonesia.There were altogether 149 drivers from all parts of Asia.Most of the racers were factory drivers from the following manufacturers, such aCasterRacing, GSracing, Hot Bodies, Hong Nor, HoBao, Kyosho, Mugen Seiki,Mayhem, Sacker, Xray, etc.Some of the top FEMCA on- road drivers were also there to compete.
Above photo was taken during the Top Ten Drivers’ introduction session forFEMCA Championship, just before the 60-minutes Finals race
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