Updated on:18-Aug-2008


XB808 2nd at GS Racing Cup Malaysia Jul. 07, 2008



Final results:
1st - Wayne Walker *2nd - Meen. V - XRAY XB808 *3rd - Paphon Chanyasak
4th - Champ Kuntien *5th - Huang Shie Jie *6th - Glenn Phuah - XRAY XB808/singapore
7th - Sunny Wong *8th - Joe Hwee *9th - Aeknarin J PRC
10th- Chester Chua - XRAY XB808/singapore *14th - Stanley - XRAY XB808
15th - Charlee Phutiyotin - XRAY XB808

Xray Singapore also: Jack Lim,Daniel Lim,Gerard Gan,Donald Foo.

Team Xray Singapore at the Race.

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 2008 Turf City Championship on February 24th 08


The inaugural event for 2008 was held at Singapore’s Turf City on February 24th, with the event being organized by iRacingWerkz (who are also the track owners). The track conditions were very dusty, bumpy and loose, however most were able to come to a compromise on tire and set-up combinations. 

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.


 

A Main:
1. Glenn Phuah XRAY XB8EC
2. Ben Seet
3. JY Mok XRAY XB8EC

 

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.html

27th 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:

Pos

Car

Driver

Make

Engine

Country

1

 

Surikarn C

Hotbodies

HPI

Thailand

2

 

Meen V

Xray

Novarossi

Thailand

3

 

Yeh Hsia Ching

HN

RB

Taiwan

4

 

Sam Cheng

Xray

RB

Singapore

5

 

Gems

Mugen

OS

Thailand

6

 

Chen Yi Kuan

HN

RB

Taiwan

7

 

Hwang Sun Young

Kyosho

RB

Korea

8

 

Charlee

Mugen

Novarossi

Thailand

9

 

Surasak k

Kyosho

OS

Thailand

10

Yuhtana D

Hobao

Werks

Thailand

Report by: Sam Cheng/ Team Hobbylink

Pictures by: http://www.femca.in.th

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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:

POS

NO

NAME

CAR

ENGINE

1

1

Glenn Phuah (SIN)

Xray

RB

2

3

Sam Cheng (SIN)

Xray

RB

3

6

Danny Teh (MAL)

Kyosho

OS

4

4

Luigi Venturi (SIN)

Xray

RB

5

8

Owen (CHN)

Nanda

Novarossi

6

9

Eric Lim  (MAL)

HoBao

Xxxxx

7

7

Lai Kok Heng (MAL)

OCM

RB

8

5

Chester Chua  (SIN)

Xray

RB

9

2

Ah M (SIN)

Hong Nor

OS

10

10

Didian Ho (TWN)

OCM

Novarossi

Report by: Sam Cheng/ Team Hobbylink        

Pictures by: Sylvia Lim

Team Xray Singapore & Malaysia

Glenn Phuah overall 1st

HPC open Race Top Ten Drivers

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JB UTM Race 9-9-2007

Luigi Xray/RB

Sam Xray/RB(Yellow) TQ/1st

Glenn overall 2nd

Alright bro! Don&GG

What u think Mike is doing?

Sam Cheng /Chester Chua

Team Xray/Rb engine won TQ and 1st at the JB UTM open Buggy Race

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SINGAPORE NATIONAL Day 9-8-2007 /8 GP OFF-ROAD RACE

 

                                          Top 3 A drivers                             Ah Siong                 Mike Tan     QUALIFYING :
During the qualifying rounds, Chester Chua and Glenn Phuah and Luigi Venturi did very well and they were clocking the best time at the track. Sam Cheng was close behind them. The consistency during the race proof worthwhile for the XRAY drivers as Chester Chua, Glenn Phuah and Luigi Venturi qualified for the A-Main Final, while Sam Cheng and Razif were in the B-Main Final.
All of the XRAY Drivers were using RB Engines. Chester, Glenn and Luigi were using RB C6BBT7 with the polished Inline manifold 92mm and the new 3 chambers pipe 2045P.


Sam Cheng      Chester Car          Luigi Car             Glenn Car    Sam Car

1. Chester Chua – XRAY EC/RB
2. Glenn Phuah – XRAY EC/RB
3. Luigi Venturi - XRAY EC/RB
B 1st . Sam Cheng - XRAY EC/RB
B 10th . Razif - XRAY EC/RB
D3rd Ah Siong Xray/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

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SINGAPORE NATIONAL 1/8 GP OFF-ROAD RACE


The Singapore Local 1/8 GP Off-Road Race attracted many locals in the RC arena to pit the skills against each other. There were 53 buggy drivers and 15 truggy drivers altogether. The track and the weather was in excellent condition as there track was ry and smooth while the weather was hot. Perfect to have a race day! There were many X-Ray drivers from Singapore that were there to win the competition! X-Ray drivers from Singapore: Sam Cheng, Chester Chua, Glenn Phuah, Mok JY, Luigi Venturi, Razif, Michael Tan, Rashid, Xiong and Sufian.

There were 7 heats altogether; 1 for truggies and 6 for buggies. Each heats, there were 3 qualifying rounds for the buggies and 2 qualifying rounds for the truggies. After the qualifying rounds, we went straight to the finals in different categories (A-Main Final to E-Main Final) for the buggies.

During the qualifying rounds, Chester Chua and Glenn Phuah did very well and they were clocking the best time at the track. Sam Cheng was close behind them. The consistency during the race proof worthwhile for the X-Ray drivers as Chester Chua, Glenn Phuah and Sam Cheng qualified for the A-Main Final, while Mok JY, Luigi Venturi and Razif were in the B-Main Final. The rest of the X-Ray drivers also qualified for the D-Main Final and E-Main Final respectively. Chester Chua emerged as the Top Qualifier (TQ) for the race.

The finals for the A-Main and B-Main were very exciting! In B-Main, Mok JY and Luigi drove their buggy with precision to emerge 2nd and 3rd place for the B-Main Final. Both of them gave their best to outwit other drivers.

In the A-Main Final, It was a great fight between the 4 racers, 3 X-Ray and 1 HN driver. They were neck to neck as they took turns to lead during the race. They were well ahead before the other drivers manage to get their momentum. Hong Nor driver were close behind. Sam Cheng suffered engine frame-out before the first refill. Glenn, Chester and Ah M, were battling out till the end. It was Glenn Phua who won A-Main Final with Ah M got 2nd place Chester Chua clinched the 3rd place after the 45-minutes A-Main Final.

Overall, the X-Ray drivers did their best in this race.

We would like to thank the organizers for putting up a good race. Everyone enjoyed themselves and looking forward for next race!
Report done by Hobbylink / Sufian

Fastest Driver of the day!

Happy Bro! Of Xray Singapore

The Top 3 Winner of A main.

Ah M 2rd,Glenn 1st,Chester TQ&3rd

 

Luigi Xray/RB & Juang Yew Xray/RB

Sam XRAY?? Flame OUT!!

 

Glenn XRAY closing the finishing Line

 

 

Singapore Invitational Challenge april 2007

The Happy Team!

Team Xray, Cheers Bro!

John- Sam's JR

Stanley with his Xray EC

Chopin & friends from Indonesia

Team Kyosho-John Agus

from Indonesia

Sam XB8-EC w/RB engine combo

Top 3 Winner and TQ boy

My friends from Indonesia

Track (Left side)

Track (Centre)

Long striaght-Track (right side)

Truggy Jump Double

Truggy Final!

Buggy Qualifying

Glenn w/his Xray/RB in action

 

Chester Xray/RB

flying over the Jumps

 

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!

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LRP Master Race in Malaysia april 07

All Drivers!

Chester Xray Taking Big jump

Glenn doing the triple jump

Truggy jump triple

Mok Juang Yew Xray/RB

Sam Cheng A main 6th Xray/RB

Glenn Phuah A Main 5th Xray/RB

 

Jono The Happy Boy of HN/RB

Powered By RB Engines

Our Happy Pit Man/Camera man Damien (Car? Sony Power)

RB singapore & Malaysia Drivers

Happy Luigi Xray SH engine

 

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!

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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

 

Chester TQ & 2nd Xray/RB engine

Wenyi A Final 1st HN/RB engine

Xray Buggy & RB C6 engine


 

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

Weather:Dry and dusty

Drivers:39 buggy.7 Truggy

 

Pos.

Driver

Car/Engine

1

Sam Cheng

Xray/RB CONCEPT C6BB /Best Lap: 47.235

2

Glenn Phuah

Xray/RBCONCEPT C6 BB/ Best Lap :49.082

3

Ah M

HN/RB CONCEPT WS7/ Best Lap: 48.342

4

Wenyi

HN?RB CONCEPT C6 BB /Best Lap:48.561

5

Jeo Hwee

Hot B./H.B /Best Lap:49.972

6

Razif

XRAY/RB CONCEPT WS7 /Best Lap:52.662

7

Kent

? /Best Lap:51.410

8

Timothy

HN/? /Best Lap:52.605

9

Pason Phua

GS/?/Best Lap:52.962

10

Pegan Teo

GS/Falcon/Best Laps:51.757

Last RaceTQ Wenyi This Race TQ Ah M

Both With RB engine Power.

Ah M

 


B main Winner 1st Chris Sze,2nd Dickson Lim,3rd PK Tan.
 

 C main winner 1st Ng say Joo,2nd Kai,
3rd Jonathan Lane(RB S7 engine/HN)

 

D main winner 1st Adrian Wong(RB S7engine/HN)2nd Faizal,3rd Micheal Tan(Xray/RB S7engine)

 

Sam Very Old Friend Ah Leng

                                                

Kevin Lane Working On His son Jonathan Lane

RB S7 Engine/HN Car.   

Seef the man! 

  Mike Tan Happy boy with his car!


Finaly I will like to thanks the organizer and all the drivers that make this race possible.till then happy racing.

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Race @ Turf City 21-5-06

Ben Wong,Sam,Marion

Jansen Tan The Drift boy!

The Father & Son team

Wenyi & Danny Teh

Andrew Chin,Domo& Erick

 

            

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.

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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

Pos

No.

Name

Laps

Engine

Car

Total Tm

Best Tm

In Lap

Nat/State

1

141

ATSUSHI HARA

103

 OS

HotBodies

1:00:17.731

33.337

5

JPN

2

150

KENJI OSAKA

101

JP

MBX-5

1:00:03.421

33.454

5

JPN

3

142

ANDRE SUPRYANATA

99

JP

MBX-5

1:00:15.107

34.212

45

INA

4

136

YOSHIO OTSUKA

99

JP

MBX-5

1:00:26.994

34.508

33

JPN

5

143

CHEN WU CHUNG

98

SH

Mayhem

1:00:02.191

34.458

94

TAIWAN

6

149

MARTIN WOLHUTER

97

?

H.N

1:00:16.269

34.613

10

AUS

7

146

JOHN AGUS

97

JP

MBX-5

1:00:36.855

34.168

54

INA

8

135

SAM CHENG

96

RB WS7

Xray XB8

1:00:05.599

34.158

6

SIN

9

127

IAN HALEY

96

?

H.N

1:00:16.734

34.755

3

AUS

10

134

YEH HSIA CHING

78

?

H.N

48:58.616

34.439

24

TAIWAN

SEMI FINAL A

Pos

No.

Name

Laps

Diff

Gap

Total Tm

Best Tm

In Lap

Nat/State

1

141

ATSUSHI HARA

35

 

 

20:25.109

33.556

4

JPN

2

136

YOSHIO OTSUKA

34

--1 Lap--

--1 Lap--

20:17.303

34.108

15

JPN

3

149

MARTIN WOLHUTER

33

--2 Laps--

--1 Lap--

20:01.305

34.717

2

AUS

4

1