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Great Weekend For X Factory

Old 05-12-2009, 10:35 PM
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A great weekend for the X-Team with two of our new drivers winning National Championship races May 9 & 10.

First, the X - 6 Squared dominated qualifying at the first U.K. Championship race held at Talywain, Wales. Team Captain Ellis Stafford won two qualifiers and new Team driver Phil Sleigh took the other two. Stafford won the tie breaker to start from the pole. The Talywain track featured an extremely rough straight-away, which caught many drivers out, and Stafford crashed while in the lead of all three A mains, breaking the car twice in massive high-speed cartwheels.

Meanwhile, Phil Sleigh took A-2 and led A-3 after Stafford's crash until just the last couple of corners. By the three minute mark Sleigh had almost a 5 second lead, and wisely chose to drive very carefully kinowing that a second would give him the overall win. That's just how it worked out, and Phil Sleigh, in his first National with the X - 6 Squared, won his first ever U.K. National.

In France, current 4WD National Champion Cyril Baldini switched to X Factory for the '09 season, and on Sunday he won the 3rd French National race at Montigny. Cyril TQed and won driving the X - 5 Squared. Faites Le Calcul, Cyril!.

Also on Sunday, back at Talywain, Tom Cockerill qualified third and finished second with his X - 5 Squared. Ellis Stafford, after uncharacteristically poor (for him) qualifying runs put him 7th on the grid, came back in the last two A mains to finish the race in third.

Also of note, there were five X -6s in the A at Talywain, including three drivers not sponsored by X Factory, and three more X - 6s in the B, including BQ and B winner Tom Cockerill. In the A it was :

5 X Factory
4 AE
1 Losi

So the X - 6 Squared TQ & win in U.K. with Phil Sleigh and the X - 5 Squared TQ & win in France with Cyril Baldini! A great weekend for the X - Team!!!
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