Tamiya wins for the third time the ISTC Class IFMAR World Championship with TRF 416 and Marc Rheinhard
Championship Round 1.
A crash immediately followed after the start which gave fifth placed driver Hirosaka the chance to go on and claim first position with Hara also claiming 4th. TRF drivers Marc Rheinard, Viktor Wilck, and Jilles Groskamp finished 5th, 6th, and 8th respectively.
Championship Round 2.
From start to finish Hara and Marc both kept their cool with both going on to finish the race as they started with Hara claiming 4th. Jilles finished 9th and Victor 10th.
Championship Round 3.
After the previous exciting rounds, it made for an edge of your set exciting final round leaving Marc only one more win away to claim the World Championships! During the race Hara was leading the race with Marc snapping at his tail. Soon after with some very slick driving by Marc, he passed Hara and set up for an intense finish. Soon after the unthinkable happened, CRASH! Hara crashed, which in turn gave Marc the World Championship. Victor finished 3rd, Jilles 8th, Hara 5th, and Hirosaka 10th.
Congratulations to the TRF team for winning the World Championship Title!
Furthermore current World Champion Marc Rheinard along with TRF team mates Viktor Wilck, and Jilles Groskamp will be at Tamiya Fair on November 22 and 23 at the Twin Messe in Shizuoka City and will compete in the GP World Champion division. Come on down and check out the techniques used by world champions.
Final Overall results
1. Marc Rheinard (Tamiya/SpeedPassion) - 19pts
2. Ronald Volker (HB/LRP) - 18pts
3. Masami Hirosaka (Yokomo/Nosram) - 17pts
4. Atsushi Hara (HB/Team Orion) - 17pts
5. Elliot Harper (Xray/Nosram) - 15pts
6. Viktor Wilck (Tamiya/SpeedPassion) - 13pts
7. Andy Moore (HB/Team Orion) - 10pts
8. Hayato Matsuzaki (HB/LRP) - 9pts
9. Meen Vejrak (Xray/LRP) - 7pts
10. Jilles Groskamp (Tamiya/SpeedPassion) - 6pts
posted by tamiyablog.com at 10:03 AM
5 Comments:
As usual with those godawfull mazda -insert random number here- bodies... and their white nose / fluo lightning paint. Is it just me who prefer crashing into the first wall rather than driving with a body totally uninspired, and overdone paint sheme making a combination borderline on bad taste ?
It's barely anybetter than the non-scale crawlers with bodies who have lost 80% of their shape...
11:11 AM
Well, as much as I also dislike those race bodies, with a scale-ish BMW M3 body you have no chance at the current high end race level. For scale-ish appearance there are other classes like the M-Chassis and TamTech-Gear racing http://tamiyablog.com/2007/05/tamiya-tamtech-gear-japanese-race.html and beautiful and creative bodies have their own awards http://tamiyablog.com/2007/05/award-winning-japanese-tamiya-car-body.html
11:11 AM
By the way this "phenomenon" has been part of model car racing since long before RC. The most advanced classes of slotcar racing did run unrealistic bodies with "artistic" unrealistic paint schemes already in the early '70's (possibly late '60's), and even tether cars from the '30's and onwards had "performance-oriented" unrealistic bodies with creative unrealistic paint schemes. Also, through practically all classes of highend RC-racing (1/12 and 1/8 pancar, 1/10 and 1/8 buggy, 1/10 stadium trucks etc.), unrealistic but wellperforming bodies with unrealistic paint schemes have totally dominated for 30+ years. If somebody is to be blaimed for the lack of unrealistic bodies, it's more the organising bodies than the drivers themselves, who only exploit the posibilities that the regulations offer, and when the best performing bodies don't look like real cars, it can hardly be expected that they are painted with authentic paint schemes.
12:20 PM
Its not Tamiya's third WC in a row, Andy Moore with a Hot Bodies Cyclone won the Worlds in 2006.
2:01 PM
True, my brain isn't working today, after 2002 and 2004 comes 2006 and then 2008...
2:07 PM
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