XRAY - Model racing cars

Tricksy, only changed the pistons and oil. 1.5 holes and 45w in rear, 1.4 holes and 40w in front and tyres were m3 bowties with soft inserts
Yes it was grantham, rain held off till round 4 quallies so we voted not to run the finals. I didn't want a mudbath for the 808 either

Good thing, i used to do 41 to 42 seconds lapping that track with my E.C and since we were last there they added 6 seconds to the track with a triple a raised corner table top and a tight section. This 808 did 42 - 44 seconds

After the first 2 weekss of racing I can honestly say this buggy is amazing! At the track I keep hearing things like man that thing jumps great and I have never seen you drive that good before. It shows up in my race results as well and is so much easier to drive than the EC. Proof that what Xray set out to do was a total sucess! I see some guy's talking about changing shock settings and so forth but I see no need (for Me) to change a thing. Its nice to not have to question my set up so much like on the old buggy. Probably upgrade the towers but other than that Im just goin racin!

yeah would love to,heck of a long drive tho for a club day!
pic of my car and the track..and a freak stone that got jammed in the bellcrank in dry practice 5 mins before the rain fell.

the picture of the track was taken about an hour before it was cancelled,it got much worse.

I will say again... "this car makes racing feel like I'm cheating"!

In preparation for the US Nationals this coming week, I raced a packed local Southern California track last night. I did very well finishing 4th in the pro/Expert buggy A-main. All of the drivers who beat me (1st-3rd) are sponsored drivers (I am not sponsored), and quite few that I beat where also sponsored. I fell a couple seconds off the lead lap late in the race due to an incident with a certain distracted turn marshal, but thats racing. I also felt a bit under powered running an RB S3 budget motor in Pro class racing, but the car made up for that with ease. Next time that buggy starts up, it will have my OS speed in it... As I was the only one running the 808 last night, we defiantly turned some heads again out here is SoCal.

I was testing a very interesting setup that I'll post later for you guys to laugh at, but man was it fast and easy to drive!

-- BUGGY EXPERT - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 2 14 10:20.38 JIMMY PIERCE 4 15.83
2 4 14 10:24.62 HENRIQUE WINIK 22 15.73
3 3 14 10:45.30 ANDREW SMOLNIK 32 15.22
4 7 13 10:03.52 JAMES H 55 15.11
5 6 13 10:04.86 KEVIN SMITH 2 15.08
6 5 12 9:00.14 MATT SCHREFFLER 25 15.59
7 11 12 10:08.74 ROBERT WICKHAM 83 13.83
8 9 9 7:10.37 AJ FREEMAN 34 14.67
9 10 7 5:44.49 RICKY RACER 60 14.26
10 8 2 8:30.23 GREG MONISE 54 2.75
11 12 1 0:47.43 RAY SHERBURN 84 14.79
-- 1 --- DNS --- COLBY POH 57

Keep in mind this was on a very difficult US style super cross track, with 35 foot big air jumps all over the place.
lap time
1 44.4
2 44.9
3 45.3
4 49.5
5 51.0
6 45.1
7 46.1
8 44.0
9 43.5
10 45.8
11 44.4
12 53.6 (10 sec turn marshal incident)
13 45.3
14 44.5

Track Cam of the race location...
http://71.246.60.25/cgi/viewerframe


This buggy rocks! rocks.... ohhh sorry..!