An exciting penultimate round of qualifying has brought Day 2 of the IFMAR 1:12 World Championships to a close with Marc Rheinard topping Q5 to end the domination of defending Champion Naoto Matsukura. Rheinard was the only driver to record 37 laps for the round which saw the overnight Top 3 qualifiers all make mistakes.
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Defending World Champion Naoto Matsukura has topped the opening round of qualifying for the 2010 IFMAR 1:12 World Championship. The Japanese star set the pace with a 37 lap run in 8:06.802 which was almost 4 seconds up on his closest rival Ronald Volker. The only other driver to record 37 laps for the first of six qualifiers was Dutch driver Jilles Groskamp.
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Day 2 of the IFMAR 1:12 World Championship at Burgdorf, Germany, has a new air of excitement after it was decided this morning to allow a second tyre additive to be used. Yesterday the cars didn’t look good on track and drivers complained of a complete lack of traction. Despite a full day of running on the CRC carpet no black line appeared raising concerns about the batch of controlled additive provided by the race organisers. Following a team managers meeting IFMAR made the decision to allow the use of a second additive and immediately the results could be seen with a black line appearing after just two groups of drivers completed 4 minutes each on the track.
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Defending 1:12 World Champion Naoto Matsukura has ended the opening day of the 2010 IFMAR World Championships here in Burgdorf in the perfect position by putting his new Yokomo at the top of the time sheets ahead of Touring Car World Champion Marc Rheinard. Both drivers really upped the pace in the final round of controlled practice recording 3 consecutive laps in 40 seconds. Having set the pace in the opening controlled practice Marc Fischer failed to improve on his time but made three different cars in the Top 3.
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Two years of waiting to lay claim to the greatest crown in the sport are over for the World’s top electric drivers with the 2010 IFMAR Electric Track World Championship having just got underway here in Burgdorf, Germany. Kicking off the event is the 15th running of the 1:12 World Championship with 8 of 10 Finalists from Thailand including reigning Champion Naoto Matsukura present. The now 16-year-old Japanese protege of r/c legend Masami Hirosaka, is very relaxed despite having the huge weight of defending his title on his shoulders and this has been further increased by the fact he is debuting Yokomo’s first competition 1:12 chassis.
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Last week saw the 2010 Futaba OS Jakarta Open held on the Jakarta International Twin Circuits track in Indonesia. In 1/10th scale, qualifying started on the Saturday with 3 heats. The first qualifier saw Steven Jovanovic set the pace with 17 laps in 5:08.271sec. Azri Amri taking 2nd with 17 laps in 5:17.841 & Erwin Luhur taking 3rd with 17 laps in 5:18.389. In the 2nd round Steven J ran out of fuel so he couldn’t improve, but Sadikin From Jakarta bumped up to 2nd place with 17 laps in 5:09.354 & Erwin Luhur in 3rd place. The third qualifier saw Sadikin take TQ with 17 laps 5:06.274 & Erwin Luhur in second with 17 laps 5:06.686. Steven J dropped down to 3rd position after setting a blistering lap time of 17.326sec but to then run out of fuel at 4:42.562sec. The fourth qualifier was rained out on Saturday afternoon, so the final qualifier was on Sunday morning and it saw Bowie Ginting move up into 4th position with 17 laps 5:10.290.
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The German 1/10th scale EFRA GP took place last weekend at the Ettlingen track in the south west of the country. Practice was on from Thursday till Saturday noon and most of the only 20 drivers participating arrived on Saturday. What it lacked in quantity the event made up for in quality attracting the likes of Dirk Wischnewski, Robert Pietsch, Patrick Schäfer, Eric Dankel, Martin Lissau and double electric touring car World Champion Marc Rheinard. After qualifying it was current European Champion Wischnewski that took the pole position 2.5 seconds clear of Marc Rheinard, with Robert Pietsch and Eric Dankel completing the top 4. These 4 direct qualifiers were joined in the main final by Martin Lissau, Patrick Nähr, Simon Balk, Remy Möller, Patrick Schäfer and Patrick Gassauer. The start of the final saw Rheinard take the lead in front of Wischnewski, but after 20 minutes it was Wischnewski with a 3 lap advantage over Remy Möller in 2nd. But bad luck struck Wischnewski when he stripped his 2nd gear, which allowed Patrick Gassauer to take over the lead and eventually claim the win by 9 seconds over 2nd place Robert Pietsch who was recovering from an earlier problem and Dirk Wischnewski in 3rd.
The now legendary 24 hour race that takes place every year on the Motodrom Andernach track in Germany was held last weekend in typical damp conditions. Started 11 years ago, this year’s event attracted drivers from Austria, Luxembourg and Netherlands as well as a big contingent from Germany to the home of RC car family Rheinard. Uwe Rheinard, father of Marc and Toni Rheinard, started this 24h race in the year 2000 with Tamiya FWD chassis’ but now all teams are running Tamiya TT 01-chassis with the kit silver motor and last weekend all cars were powered by 4200mAh Speedpower LiFe-batteries. 24 teams took part, with each team consisting of 7 members meaning nearly 170 drivers were fighting for the victory. On Sunday afternoon at 13:45 team ‘Wilde 13’ took the win as they had done last year and previous times in the past, while in position 2 and 3, were the two Dutch teams. The winning team drove 3072 laps which is a distance of around 700km, a lot of kilometers for a plastic Tamiya TT01. In September on the same track, Uwe Rheinard will organise the first European endurance championship (EEC) with nearly same rules. 14 European nations will participate and if you are interested to participate in the EEC please contact Uwe Rheinard (info@teammotodrom.de).
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