The XRAY Touring Car Team ventured down to Aldershot for the latest round of the BRCA Championship, with the Team raring to go we were looking forward to an exciting weekend.
The Aldershot track is very popular and has, like many tracks, an element of local knowledge, and this time we had a bit of that on our side – so we were looking forward to pushing the competition all the way, and picking up some decent points for the Championship challenge.
The Team have continued to work on new style set-ups for the T3 chassis and “lightweight Lipo regulations” brought in this year, and now just before the mid point in the season that hard work is turning into on-track performances so it was great to see the strongest qualifying results in both classes by the Team – and set to continue to the end of the year.
The 10.5 Class has evolved into a super tight class and Speed Control technology is directly effecting the capabilities of drivers to push to the front of the Grid, and equally effecting poor results when Speed Controls and motors bring all the hard work to nothing with none finishes!!
RC Disco has recently claimied the distribution rights to the famous Tekin brand, and the Tekin RS / RS Pro Speed Controls are arguably ‘up there’ with the best availible, and although not an XRAY Team Driver himself, Jonny Bowden (The Defending British 10.5 Class National Champion) choose to run the RS Pro to great effect to take Pole Position and go on to take the Win on Sunday at the first time of using the Speedo!! The comments reported back are along the lines that Jonny’s car was so fast it could’ve be forgiven for thinking he was running a Modified motor such is the efficient Timing Advance from the Tekin Speedo!! Hmmm, i’ll look forward to trying those settings in my car…… it’s a world away from when we used to simply ‘Gear Up’ to go faster ha ha!!
Over in the Modified Class, and local XRAY boy Glenn Westwood clocked his fastest run around the Aldershot track closely followed by Phil Chambers & Stefan Chodzynski to put in the XRAY Modified Class’s best result so far. Glenn in particular was pushing for the Win come Finals day, and was unlucky to end up 2nd Overal in what was reported to be a slightly ‘messy’ series of Finals on the tight and technical layout. Better luck next time dude!!
All in all thou, a great weekend for the Team down at Aldershot, well done guys.
For the official Report and some great action photo’s on the www.brca.org site, check out the link – Here
For further info and details on the TQ / Winning – Tekin Speed Controls click – Here
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