Updated on :20-Aug-2008
Additions : LATEST ON-RD RACE NEWS
NT1 TQ & WIN AT JUST HOBBY NITRO CHALLENGE 2008
Round 6 of Just Hobby nitro challenge kick off at 10.00am in the morning. The weather was good with slight overcast in the morning.
Qualifying start off with 3 rounds of 7minutes heats. All the drivers were trying to put in a good run in the heats so as to climb to a higher main.
Qualifying was run in a fast and furious pace with 5 Xray NT1 in the top 10 position.
Tom Goh Xray NT1 in pole position with 29laps 7min 05sec 2nd position James Loke also in a Xray NT1 did a 29laps 7min 08sec 3rd position Jesse Wu
Xray did a 29laps 7min 11sec putting 3 Xray NT1 in the top 3. This impressive qualifying was a result of exchange of setup tips among the Xray drivers.
Qualifying order
1) TQ Tom Goh Xray NT1 *2) James Loke Xray NT1 *3) Jesse Wu Xray NT1 *4) Ben Seet *5) Nelson Lee
6) Leslie Baker Xray NT1 *7) Noordin *8) Don Ng Xray NT1 *9) Hengster *10) Mazlan Mazz
In the final 45min
A main final Tom and James both pull off with a comfortable lead with both
driver exchanging position for 15min. It was a real close fight between Tom and
James as both have very similar race pace. At the 20min mark Tom experience
engine problem and have to pit a few times for engine tuning thus losing
position to James. With fast and consistent driving Leslie move up to 2nd
position behind James. Jesse had a bad start and his Xray suffer damage on his
brake making him lost precious time in the pit repairing making it
impossible to regain back the lost time despite a very good handling car.
Don Ng Xray was running consistent race pace putting him very close to podium
position just behind Mugen driver Nelson Lee but time is not on his side and Don
eventually finish behind Nelson.
Tom trusted mechanic and racing buddy Nelson. Bryan ,James ,Ah weng ,Leslie ,Ryan
Final finishing order
1) James Loke Xray NT1 *2) Leslie Baker Xray NT1 *3) Nelson Lee *4) Don Ng Xray NT1 *5) Hengster
6) Tom Goh Xray NT1 *7) Mazlan Mazz *8) Noordin *9) Jesse wu Xray NT1
Team Xray Driver – Dennis ,Ryan ,James ,Leslie ,Tom and Jesse
Race report by Tom Goh
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NT1 TQ-ed Singapore Open Invitational Championship 2008
Saturday (Qualifying Rounds)
1) Danny Iswahyudi XRAY NT1 ,2) Daniel Chee ,3) Philip Lee ,4) Sadikin Sutrisno XRAY NT1
,5) Tom Goh XRAY NT1
6) Barry Ng ,7) Hengster ,8) Hj. Irman XRAY NT1 ,9) Erwin Luhur XRAY NT1
,10) Andrew Chin
Sunday (Qualifying round 3 & finals)
The third qualifying round was run on Sunday with many drivers pushing very hard
to improve their qualifying positions. The traction had change little from
Saturday and therefore there was a good chance that many drivers would improve
their positions. At the end of the third round, Sadikin and Danny improved their
qualifying positions and the final qualifying results are as follows:
1) Erwin Luhur XRAY NT1 ,2) Daniel Chee ,3) Philip Lee ,4) Sadikin Sutrisno XRAY NT1
,5) Barry Ng
6) Nelson Lee ,7) Jesse Wu XRAY NT1 ,8) Danny Iswahyudi XRAY NT1 ,9) Hengster
,10) Roy Chong
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Just Hobby Nitro 1/10 Sedan Challenge 13 April 2008
The Just Hobby 1/10 Sedan nitro challenge in Singapore (Just Hobby Race Circuit)
was held last Sunday. There were a total of 40 drivers including a 1/10 Truck
Fun Race.The morning began well with sunshine that dried the dew off the track.
However, it threatened to rain with storm clouds overhead, but soon subsided.
The track is smooth and fairly tight with several tricky corners and a
high-speed chicane. The first round of qualification began and had local ace
driver Nelson Lee setting a fast pace to put his Novarossi powered Mugen into
provisional pole. Several drivers came close to his time of 21 Laps 5:02. This
time was hence beaten by old-timer Ben Seet in his Sirio powered Kyosho with a
time of 21 Laps 5:01 and to take the eventual pole position. Tom Goh in an OS
powered Xray came in to sit 3rd on the grid, also with a very fast time.5 Xrays
made it to the top 10, including Sam Cheng and buggy driver Glenn Phuah who just
managed to squeeze into position 10. Teamxray Singapore’s Jesse Wu turned up
late for qualification and only had the opportunity to run 1 round of
qualification. This proved deadly as an accident during his run left him with a
broken exhaust and sitting out the A Main. Jesse however managed to clinch the B
main champion.
The 45-minute A main Final began
around 4pm and the spectators were all eager to watch the start. During the
start Ben Seet, Nelson Lee and Tom Goh began gaining a slight advantage over the
rest of the pack. Glenn met with an accident during the start and was almost
half a lap behind the pack. Both Tom and Nelson began experiencing technical
problems and slowed down ever so slightly, this allowed Sam and Glenn to close
up the gap. By the halfway mark, Ben was already pulling a comfortable lead and
the Fight for 2nd place was between Sam and Glenn. It got exciting as pit crew
worked hard to gain any little advantage from quick pit stops. Spectators were
also getting excited as they watched this battle. A small mistake by Sam allowed
Glenn to overtake into 2nd place, during the last call for fuel; Glenn lost a
couple of seconds caused by a slight miscommunication between him and his
mechanic. This proved to be a bad mistake as Sam gained in and managed to pull
out of his pit stop before Glenn.
Final Results:
A Main
1. Ben Seet/ Kyosho / Sirio / Sanwa
2. Sam Cheng / Xray / RB / KO
3. Glenn Phuah / Xray / RB / KO
Glenn’s Setup: http://forum.teamxray.com/xform/index.php?act=view&ID=514&setup=nt1
B Main
1. Jesse Wu / Xray
2. Don Ng / Xray
3. Othman / Xray
C Main
1. Brian Cheah / Xray
3. Nus /Xray
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Malaysia-Meleka Challenge 2007 1/10 & 1/8 On-Road
Drivers: 40
Weather:Rain in the morning, afternoon dry
Track: Small, tight and technical
Qualifying:
It was a race organize by Meleka RC Club, we arrived there on a sat afternoon. The track was very tight, bumpy and tire wear rate was very high, After a few runs, We decide to use both front&rear soft diff.On Sunday qualifying, I suffered some engine problem as a result, I could only qualify 9th, My teammate Barry did some fast laptimes, but due to backmarkers it could only bring him to 4th in the A-Main.
Final:
In the 45 mins final, we had 10 cars, I had a bad start and was behind the pack. Barry was fighting for position until he made a mistake and his front driveshaft came out. He also did the fastest lap of the day with 14.175sec, After half way mark into the final , I was catching up with race leader Anthony Wee, with less than a sec behind him, my engine flamed out. That brought me back to 3rd pos. I manage to do some fast laptime and close in on the 2nd pos, into the last 5mins I manage overtake the 2nd pos and finished the race.
A Main Final
1st - Anthony Wee, 175 laps... Fastest lap (14.258)
2nd - Jesse Wu, 173 laps...X-Ray NT-1 Fastest lap (14.328)
3rd - Raymond Chan, 172 laps... Fastest lap (14.543)
4th - Hengster, 169 laps... Fastest lap (14.706)
5th - Vincent Tan, 168 laps... Fastest lap (14.564)
6th - PC Lai, 163 laps... Fastest lap (14.967)
7th - CH Tay, 100 laps... Fastest lap (14.497) DNF
8th - Barry Ng, 60 laps...Xray NT-1 Fastest lap (14.175) DNF
9th - Albertino Sang, 41 laps...G4 Fastest lap (14.563) DNF
10th - Mizan, 40 laps... Fastest lap (14.375) DNF
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PA East Coast Campsite 1/8 & 1/10 race 5-11-07
RCMC Club Race 5-11-2007 we had 15 for 1/8 Scale and around 15 for 1/10 Scale.It was great weekend with a 35mins A-Main final. In the 1/8th scale final, top qualifier went to Erwin with a Kyosho (top left) losing out in the TQ position by half a sec was Serpent driver Jesse Wu (2nd from left). In the final, Jesse Wu led the final with 3 laps into the 20mins mark when his con-rod failed him. In the end, Barry won the 35mins A-final. It was a fun weekend with old timers like Sam Cheng, Don Chng and many others back in action.
Hope to have more of this fun in future. See YA guys!!! Happy Racing!!! ..by JW
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Bukit timah Turf City 1/10 Race 30-9-07
A very Happy Team Xray NT-1 Singapore @ the Just Hobby Turf City Race 1/10 open 30-9-2007.
More Race report will Follow up! Thank you.
5 NT-1 in the A final and B final 123 Podium. D Final Winner Taihub (In Chinese "Big Hero")
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1:10 FEMCA Championship Jakarta, Indonesia
Team Serpent at Jakarta 07 FEMCA race
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Sam Cheng in Jakarta FEMCA Race 07 |
Team XRAY at 2007 FEMCA Race Jakarta |
Jesse Wu in Jakarta FEMCA race 07 |
Main Final Result
1. Teddy Syach (Serpent 720/Mega) - 156 laps
in 45:16.894
2. Philip Lee - 152 laps in 45:06.909
3. Sadikin (XRAY NT-1)- 152 laps in
45:13.963
4. Kris Heriana - 151 laps in 45:02.255
5. Ken Furukawa - 151 laps in 45:03.357
6. Benjamin Seet - 148 laps in 45:03.093
7. Erwin Luhur (XRAY NT-1)- 147 laps in
45:01.574
8. Philip Woodburry - 146 laps in 45:06.100
9. Charlee Phutyotini - 140 laps in 45:11.163
10.Suruth V. (Serpent 720/Max) - 122 laps in
36:16.772
In the 1:8 FEMCA Championship held at the same time in Jakarta, Serpent team driver Suruth V. from Thailand took the win only to be disqualified when his Serpent 960 failed to meet the minimum weight by just 10 grams in the post race technical inspection. Serpent still managed a podium double however with 1:10 Champion Syach claiming second ahead of Yokoyama Masaki who steered his 960 to third.
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XRAY NT-1/RB engine TQ (pole position) at First Race in Turf City May 2007
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Singapore PA 1/8 Championship Feb 2007 Drivers: 1/8 30. 1/10 touring 45 It was a good Sunday and also our first Femca qualifying race. This year FEMCA will be held in Indonesia. Our track have new layout had been quite awhile and is very nice to drive and very technical and you need to get your clutch work properly, I just got abit of time on Friday so I went for a test run and this is the 2nd time I ran my friend’s 960 and I must say the car is a lot better then all the previous models I ran, a few changes like blue spring in front and red spring rear with the 2nd upper hole and the car was just wonderful.so this is my first race at our new layout,
In qualifying Sam Cheng TQ with his Serpent 960/RB engine on left is Jesse Wu also with Serpent 960 clock the fastest single lap and broke the track record @17.6 sec In the final it was a good start for me I went into the lead for about 4min and at the left far end corner had a flame out car and I collided into it and damage my front and lost a front left drive shaft. So follow up closely it was Hie kie and Nelson lee to battle for the 45 mins a final.
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Trophies!
Indonesia Oris Watch Championship.
Korea 1/8 On Rd Championship
Open Race In Malaysia
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