Hirosaka heads Japanese EP Nats qualifying - Friday » Red RC

Friday, November 17, 2006
Hirosaka heads Japanese EP Nats qualifying - Friday

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Yatabe Arena

At his home track, Multiple World Champion Masami Hirosaka is in TQ position after the first 3 rounds of qualfiying today at the Yatabe Arena. Masami was the only driver to get 20 laps and in his last run managed to improve his time by nearly 3 seconds to take the top spot even further out of reach of 2nd place Atsushi Hara who is less than a second off a 20 lap run. Naoto is in third and in a close battle with Adachi, the two seperated by less than 2 tenths of a second.

The non Japanese racers seem to be struggling somewhat, perhaps due to the non familiarity of running 4 cells in their cars or maybe its just they dont have the home track knowledge that the Japanese obviously have. The top non Japanese racer is Billy Easton who is in 10th position, Marc Rheinard is in 16th, Chris Grainger is in 21st position and current World champion Andy Moore all the way back in 31st. Qualifying continues tomorrow with the final 3 rounds.

View the top ten results after the jump…

1. Hirosaka - 20L / 5:15.625
2. Hara - 19L / 5:00.092
3. Naoto - 19L / 5:02.282
4. Adachi - 19L / 5:02.432
5. Matsuzaki - 19L / 5:02.897
6. Kimura - 19L / 5:03.318
7. Yokoyama - 19L / 5:03.863
8. Yoshioka - 19L / 5:04.284
9. Oyaizu - 19L / 5:04.564
10. Easton - 19L / 5:04.702

You can view the full results list here.

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