2WD On Site Champion Presentation

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4WD On Site Champion Presentation

Tebo absolutely nail the 4WD class. He TQ'ed 4 out of 5 rounds of the Heats, although he only need 3. And to top off his peak performance, he nail the Championship by winning Round 1 and Round 2 of the A Mains. He sat out Round 3 just as all the congrats pour in after his impecable runs.

Tebo of USA

2007 Ichirino iFMAR 4WD EP Buggy World Champion. He ace it by round 2 with both wins.

4WD Finals

tebo
maifield
masami
cavalieri
hara
hayato
neumann
billy
rick
naoto

pavidis
hupo
hartson
adachi
fischer
truhe
gardner
thielke
nei
masatsugu

Round 5 ended

Tebo nailed it with another TQ, doing 12 laps in 5:02.57s. In this round, the fastest so far, only Tebo and Hara manage to turn in 24.Xs laps, the rest were doing 25.Xs laps. We are still waiting for the final sort.

4WD after 4 rounds

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1. Tebo USA 310 pts
2. Maifield USA 306 pts
3. Masami Japan 305 pts
4. Cavalieri USA 305 pts
5. Hara Japan 302 pts
6. Steven Hartson USA 301 pts
7. Billy Easton USA 300 pts
8. Naoto Japan 300 pts
9. Hayato Japan 296 pts
10. Shinnosuke Japan 296 pts

4WD Round 2 just ended and we are doing lunch now

So far, Tebo TQ'ed both rounds 1 & 2. Maifield is second and Cavalieri is third and the following are:
Hara
Billy
Hayato
Masami
Naoto
Steven Hartson
Shinnosuke
Jorn Neumann
Billy Fischer
Rick
Mark Pavidis
Henigl
Neil
Tatsuya

4WD Round 1 Heats Just Finished

Can't tell who is the fastest yet, all the top guys are doing 25s laps, no one broke the 25s barrier yet.

4WD Control Practice

Surikarn
This would be Hayato's car.
To the best of my memory, Maifield did a fastest lap of 24.8xxs, while Masami did a 25.XXXs, here are some of my pictures:

4WD Practice Runs

I can't say for sure, as I don't have all the run records, but I chance upon some run times, Hayato's best lap clock in at 26.7s with 11 laps at 5:08, Surikarn was doing 27s laps and if my memory serves me right, I remember seeing Masami doing a 25.XXXs

That's it for 2WD

I'm pooped, so I'll start again in 2 days time for 4WD. And I'll go digitize my videos from my trusty Panasonic vidcam to stick up into youtube.

2007 iFMAR 2WD EP Champion

Hayato of Japan, he is also the TQ.
Tebo finished 2nd
Maifield finished 3rd

Masami finished 4th

Hayato, the new boy under HotBodies arm nail it with a perfect run in round 3. Masami was chasing hard, well maybe (in my own personal opinion) too hard. Masami made 3 mistakes that got his bug flipped over so Masami's round 3 was pretty much over midway. Hayato have a good clean start which left the mid section of the crowd to slug it out. It was a well competed and professionally slug fest out there, so I guess that gave Hayato an added edge.

Round 2, we see Masami putting on a fantastic fight for pole with Hayato. It was really a tooth and nail fight, right till the last hairpin after the dino egg section. Masami was seen to be all set to take the leaf off Hayato from the left straight - which is Masami's strong area, but alas, luck was not with Masami, his bug lost traction temporarily and by the time he got it back, Hayato cleared his win in round 2. It was really a trilling round 2.

We saw a repeat of such tension with Matt Griffin in his D Main win down to his last lap. Congrats Matt for winning the D Mains.

This is a video of the B Main finalist getting up on the driver stand

This is the A Main Finalist Introduction up the driver stand

A Main Round 1 & 2

1. Tebo 17 pts
2. Maifield 16 pts
3. Masami 16 pts
4. Hayato 14 pts
5. Cavlieri 13 pts
6. Mike 10 pts
7. Mark 8 pts
8. Lee 6 pts
9. Paul 6 pts
10. Travis 4 pts

A Main Round 1

Ryan Maifield
Tebo
Ryan Cavalieri
Masami
Mark Pavidis
Lee Martin
Hayato
Mike
Paul
Travis

Drivers getting into the driver stand, I miss Hayato on this one, he was first to walk in and I was not fast enough with my fingers on the start button. :-)

Hayato bump another car in the front group, at the triple jump in front of the driver stand (I miss this as I was in charge of the middle group), so he got a "Stop & Go" penalty from Dallas (iFMAR Referee).

This just happened

A Main Finalist Briefing

2WD Qualifying Results

1. Hayato Japan 460 pts
2. Mike Truhe USA 457 pts
3. Ryan Maifield USA 454 pts
4. Ryan Cavalieri USA 452 pts
5. Masami Japan 450 pts
6. Lee Martin G.B. 449 pts
7. Jared Tebo USA 447 pts
8. Paul Bradby G.B. 446 pts
9. Travis Amezcua USA 445 pts
10 Mark Pavidis USA 443 pts

Hiroshi
Sinnosuke
Billy fischer
Steven Hartson
Masatsugu
daisuke
Joe Pillars
Satoshi
Kiyokazu
Henigl Hupo

Neil Cragg
Billy Easton
Kohta Akimoto
Rick Hohwart
Brent Thielke
Marc Rheinard
Tatsuya Sanpei
Craig Drescher
Atsushi Hara
Felles Jeremy

Scott Brown
Matt Griffin
Kuniaki Noguchi
Naoto Matsukura
Jason Ruona
Craig Laughton
Jern Neumann
Ronnie Gardner
Takaaki Kametani
Hidmine Ono

Josh Pain
Kiyohiko Sugiura
Pinisch Peter
Kurt Wenger
Kenji Tsuruta
Yutaka Takizawa
Masahiro Otsuka
Shinzo tokod
Yusuke Kobayashi
Akihisa Morii

Ben Painic
Hitoshi Ishikawa
Takumi Inoue
Takehito Onoda
Minoru Utsugi
Mathew Iverach
Shiro Saito
Andrew Gillott
Andrew Molkentin
Ashley Peeler

Yuichi Aoygi
Si Chang Su
Isaku Serizawa
Kenta Seo
Jirou Ozaki
Takahiro Omi
Anthony Campbell
David Church
Chantrel Cedric
Devillers Cedric

Kosuke Kotani
Jason Dyckhoff
Jaco Van Eeden
Pain Frederic
Hideaki Kawano
Tomoharu Tangi
Naoki Ohara
Petit Geoffrey

Tony Kavanagh
Naoto Hase
Yasuhiro Seki
Yang Kwang Sub

Very Draft Report

Hayato TQ the 2WD and Masaki drop to position 6

Round 5

Well we just completed Round 5 of the 2WD EP Buggy qualifying. In my OWN personal opinion, it was a disaster for Masami, being in Heat 10 and so was on the first heat of this round, he could only manage 31s laps. While Hayato is in Heat 8 and was in the last heat of the whole round, Hayato turn in a 27.xxx fastest lap and finish with a very good 11 lap result.

On another note, I've seen Surikarn at the HPI / HotBodies tentage, so he is here for 4WD.

According to Masaki-san this is the ZX5-S

12 Sep 07 Time Stamp 9:24 am

Okay, the International Jury and the Organizers have come to an agreement to hold back round 5 for an hour to let the track dry out. We had rain last night and the track is pretty wet.

You probably have the results for the first 4 rounds, but just in case, here's what I got: So after 4 rounds, we have a point tie for the top position with Masami having an edge over Hayato due to a faster finishing time on his best result. This greatly affects round 5 because of the rain, because Masami is in heat 10 and in round 5, the heat order is 9, 10, 1, 2 to 8. While Hayato's heat is heat 8, if I remember correctly. So the above delay would greatly level out the round 5 results and would be a lot fairer. That is why the International Jury and the Organizers agreed to it.

So after 4 rounds here is the top rankings
1. Masami Japan 308 pts
2. Hayato Japan 308 pts
3. Mike Truhe USA 307 pts
4. Ryan Maifield USA 307 pts
5. Ryan Cavalieri USA 304 pts
6. Tebo USA 301 pts
7. Masatsugu Japan 300 pts
8. Hiroshi Japan 297 pts
9. Paul Bradby Great Britain 296 pts
10. Lee martin Great Britain 296 pts
Shinnosuke 295
Travis 294
Mark Pavidis 294
Billy Fischer 291
Henigl 290
Satoshi 289
Billy Easton 289
Steven Hartson 288
Kiyokazu 285
Daisuke 282
Neil Cragg
Scott Brown
Craig Drescher
Kohta Akimoto
Brent Thielke
Pinisch Peter
Joe Pillars
Tatsuya
Atsushi Hara
Marc Rheinard
jason Ruona
Matt Griffin
Ronnie Gardner
Rick Hohwart
Felles Jeremy
Kuniaki Noguchi
Jern Neumann
Takaaki
Kurt Wenger
Craig Laughton
Kiyohiko
Josh Pain
Yutaka
Kenji Tsuruta
Masahiro
Hidemine
Naoto
Andrew Gillott
Takumi
Minoru
Ben Panic
Shinzo
Akihisa
Mathew Iverach
Yusuke
Isaku
shiro
Hitoshi
Takehito
Kenta
Yuichi
Jirou
Anthony Campbell
Takahiro
Andrew Molkentin
Kosuke Kotani
Jason Dyckhoff
Pain Prederic
David Church
Ashley Peeler
Si Chang Su
Jaco Van Eeden
Chantrel
Devillers
Hideaki
Naoki
Michael Bolger
Tomoharu
Petit Geoffrey
Naoto
Tony Kavanagh
Kohichiroh
Yasuhiro Seki
Yang Kwang Sub

More pics and videos

2WD Practice

Some more pictures of the event

Track view from left to right. I was standing at the far left corner, takin g reference from the driver stand.
2WD Opening Ceremony - sorry, youtube fail to encode this one, I'll have to recreate it and upload again later.
Dallas putting on his yukata.
Radio Impound and Car Inspection
Here's Kenny (iFMAR Electric Chairman) and Masaki-san getting cosy. Kenny says this is the before and after picture - what do you think ?
Mr Futaba helping out at the registration table.
Registration Queue.
Car Inspection and chasis marking.
Opening Ceremony - left picture; sorry my Sony K610i phone doesn't have a very wide lens
Opening Ceremony - Right side picture.
2WD Concours judging
Winner of the 2WD concours de elegance - sorry, I didn't get his name, he seems to be a local and well liked by the hakusan spectators.
Atomic with the cover on.
Atomic the car, Mark from Racing Lines told me that this is the only one at the race.
Here's Mr Atomic
Mr Durango - it has a fully machined aluminum tub chasis, almost every part I can see is machined

Airport and Air Planes

7th September 2007

Queue at the gate
The Plane that took me to Narita
Outside of Narita Airport
Narita's departure hall
Sunset at Narita
My 1050 yen dinner at Narita
Colourful scuplture at Narita's departure hallway
Plane that took me from Narita to Komatsu
In-flight service is delivered by 2 hostess and this is one of them.
Finally reached Ichirino Kerie at 10pm and this is the most welcome sight - the bed.
8th September 2007 morning