News: Miguel Matias joins XRAY

XRAY is happy to announce that European Champion and multi-time Portuguese National Champion Miguel Matias has joined the XRAY team. Miguel is a professional off-road car racer with many years of experiences and a stunning list of achievements and victories. Miguel joins the factory team and will work closely with the R&D team on the further development of the XRAY electric & nitro off-road car platforms including XB8, XB4, XB9E & XT9.

Miguel’s best achievements:

• European Champion 1/8 off-road
• World Championship vice-Champion 1/8 off-road
• Multi time European Championship podium finisher
• 13x Portuguese National Champion 1/8 off-road
• Multi time Portuguese National Champion 1/10 off-road 4WD, 2WD and 1/10 electric touring

Miguel says:

“I am very excited to join the XRAY team. Over the years I have admired the constant growth of the XRAY company which is in my opinion a result of their very dedicated and professional work. Having tested both XB4 and the new XB8 I was surprised by both reliability and performance. Since the 2014 is the year of Worlds I wanted to have an absolute confidence in the car and to have a strong team backup and as such it was an easy choice to join the forces with the XRAY. I am looking forward to work with the R&D team and I would like to thank to XRAY for this opportunity. I will do all my best in 2014 in both 1/10 & 1/8 off-road and hope to see you all during the season.”

Miguel will in 2014 attend all the local, regional and international races including:

• European Championship 1/8 off-road
• World Championship 1/8 off-road
• European Championship 1/10 off-road
• Neo race
• Portuguese Nationals series 1/8 off-road
• Portuguese Nationals series 1/10 off-road

Fonte: XRAY