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ISRA WORLDS
- 22ND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SCALE RACING (ES24) - MILTON KEYNES (GB), OCT 17-8, 2008
(IOC-RACE
LEVEL 1) |
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HOW GORGE KIMBER SAW
THE 2008 ISRA WORLDS |
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ONCE MORE OUR BRITISH
FRIENDS FORGOT TO WIN AN OFFICIAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP |
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George Kimber is
one of the few British racers who showed different times at the IMCA
Worlds. In 2003 at Dison he won the non-official World Championship
for Modellers, beating Einari Fyhr (SF, left) and Jozef Miskolci
(SVK, right). The title was not recognised by the patent on the
world "world championship" (and derivates) as patented end 1985
before notary Von Tricht. |
ISRA Milton Keynes 2008 - A last report from our intrepid
Anglo-Belgian reporter who has finally retired to his Area Three
Lexan coffin. May his soul rest in Peace.
It is always hard to talk on the British and Slotracing. At Milton
Keynes they could find the nearly perfect Championships. This is the
third time since the start of ISRA that the English have secured the
ISRA Worlds and for sure this was their finest hour. The choice of
the MK centre was even better than in the Metro Centre of 1993 and
the overrated Southampton. Brian Saunders and his organisation could
bring slotracing to the great British Public, even National TV ran
coverage on Breakfast slots for the championships.
A second Public track was used to find Ł2.000 for Cancer Charities
and provide thousands of children the chance to try slotracing.
For sure Saunders could take big chances for a track with more curbs
than a bowl of Italian Sphagetti. A track made in heaven for a
Maresca, now not seen since his disqualification of 1992 in
Dordrecht . Surely the Sun of God could have saved the Italians from
those Czech Devils and the Darkside of Europe. Now free from the
Pale of Settlement and their communist masters Western Europe is
again on the brink of defeat. Once again Europe has to turn to
the misty shores of Britain for salvation.
It could have been else if only a Gooding and Kimber had not led
them from their Goop laden hell .
Now it seems only Britain has the right structures to fight for
victory lane . One by One they fall, the French not seen since
Latvia, even the Dutch and what of the Belgians who through IMCA and
Moneytron spend fortunes to find World Champions of their plastic
cars but it seems impossible that the can make the move. All that is
except one lonely Belgium, for sure one nice guy but badly beaten
even by Andy Brown Searle.
But God forbid I could say this of the once proud Italians they
could always count on the Holy Trinity of Maresca, Capra and
Trigilio, even a Noviello, a Niccolai, a Rudilosso, a Montiglio ,a
Giacobbi from the backbenches now no more. They make one last pray
to their Roman Gods but the barrel of talent has run dry, the wine
has turned sour. Only ' Il Bandito' ,Trigilio ,Guido Santarelli (not
seen again) and the unheard of Francesco Barbarillo stand proud
defending their Mother country. But what of Horky, surely after his
performance in the Warm Up races he could win with his eyes closing.
Cleave now on the brink of All time records of British Slotracing
history had no answering leaving the BSCRA 124 Nats. How to beat the
Czech Master, so he practiced Night and Day and called for the
skills of the 'King of Goop' Dave Harvey. But he needed not have
bothered for the 'Iceman Cometh'. Matti Fyhr not seen since his
Night of Sins in Malta came to 2008 ISRA Championships without
expectations. Horky Saunders, and Cleave surely with all their
training could leave poor Matti a Slovakian Stew. For certain it was
showing at the Team Race where Cleave 'The Bedford Bullet' and the
new Czech sensation Antonin Vojtik pipped Matti and Brian leaving
the Horky & Korec trailing by a county mile. Already in
Belgium at the offices of IMCA the headline 'Czechs Dominate ' is
lying
in scraps after not one Czech could been seen in the Formula
Final and Cleave proving to be a real deal. This time the British
can find four drivers for the first time since Ceska Lipa with
Graeme Stephenson and even Paul Shepherd and good old Charlie
Gooding.
It was a bad time for the Ultra professional Horky, first to be
outdriven by Matti Fyhr but surely not a Cleave. After three classes
Horky could only show for a second place in E/S 32 and even his
partner in crime Josef Korec disappointed.
So everything will go with the Eurosports 24 the Blue Ribbon of
Slotracing it was predicted for Fyhr ,Cleave, Saunders Gawronski,
even a Krcil and fast improving Vojtik could make the Main .But in a
championships full of surprises we find at the start Finland's Boy
wonder Atte Lyyski a total unheard of but first he could make E/S
32 and then produce a similar stunt for E/S 24. Maybe he just
returned from fighting in Afghanistan and let on his combats but no
matter surely he could not gun down favourite Horky. We,
Matti, have waited for a long time to see Horky looking so
invincible completely outdriven.
Matti Fyhr set off like a man possessed ,ok Horky did his usual
stunt of starting on the outside lanes but already he was seven laps
down but we knew Horky would fly on the middle lanes but not this
time, Matti simply played with him and Horky fell back into the
clutches of Saunders, Vojtik - for the second time the highest Czech
- and a very rapid Cleave who could lose ten laps after he lost a
wheel and nearly claw them back . Matti was just too good and took
two titles home for his mantle place, for next year in Finland he
will start as favourite and prepare his after dinner speech, for
itis certain that he is not a man of a million words.
Georges Van Rostrum, aka George Kimber
2008. |
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In 2004 George
Kimber won for the second time the non-official Modeller's World
Championship, now at Holland's Uden, ahead over Australia's Paul
"Split" Heath and Sweden's Claes Thörnfeldt. Last-named was already
very ill - he should die from cancer some months later - and his
brother Stefan came to receive the trophy in his place. |
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A POST SCRIPT BY JPVR
What hurts me is that the Britons, having always had some of the
best racers in the world, never succeeded to win an official World
Championship. That's not their fault, it's mine. When in 1985 I
patented with Gerard Caupčne (F) and Hans van Es (NL) the word
"slot-racing" and its derivates before notary Ernst von Tricht we
were too much focused on the promotion abilities of model car racing
as step in class for youngsters. We thus patented the title in (open
G7) wing car racing, in (initially ES32, later ES24) scale racing,
in 1/24th model car racing sprint, and in the three presumed
promotion classes: model car racing production (initially 1/32nd),
Mello Yello worlds for youngsters and model car endurance racing.
Now, a quarter century later, we understand that we had to patent at
least 132F1 scale racing also as an official world championship
together with Group 27 for wing car racing. That historical blunder
can no more be corrected. Since 2003-2005 model car racing is
absolutely no longer a step-in class for new slot-racers. The set-up
of a competitive model car is at least as difficult as the correct
set-up of a G7 car in wing car racing, or a ES24 and ES32 in scale
racing. One of the most painful experiences for me, as an
international promoter of all kinds of slot-racing is that the
country where slot-racing originated, has a complete wrong idea of
actual model car racing. If we wish that the Britons can play in the
coming decade a decisive role we must it do now. Indeed, the
evolution in model car racing goes so tremendously fast that we risk
to sit over ten years with the same situation as in G7, nl. that
there are nearly no new comers more as the step-in level is much too
high. For that reason I'll organise half September 2008 an
international meeting, where racers from nine nations, having no
experience of model car racing, are invited in a competition where
they receive RTR top model cars, all assembled by the 2008 Model Car
Production world champion Michael Niemas (D) - himself being
also a 1/1 racer. Each of the invited nine nations can show with its
best four racers racing two cars (2 racers per car) over 5 rounds of
8 x 5 minutes. The nation having collected
most points will receive a brand new Steve Ogilvie 45 metre wooden
8-laner which I'll let being built in Canada, before it's shipped
over to the winner's country. It is my holy conviction
that, when the Britons show with Brian Saunders, James
Cleave, Charlie Gooding and an experienced all-rounder (perhaps
Dave Harvey) they'll win the track. Now it's up to George
Kimber, having some experience with hard bodied model cars, to
convince them to make the trip. More info can be found
here and
there. [JPVR]
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MATTI "ICEMAN" FYHR IS
WORLD CHAMPION! |
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DESPITE HE HAD TO
CHANGE A TYRE HE WAS LEADING FROM THE FIRST TO LAST MINUTE |
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October 17, 2008 - No less than
100 racers start at the official World Championship Scale Racing,
already the 22nd in history as can be seen here.
Those official Worlds are contested with ES24 cars. At the start
five former world champions: Vladimir Horky (CZ) who won in
1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005 and 2007; Paul Gawronski (USA)
who won in 1999 and 2006; Josef Korec (CZ) who won in 2000;
Michael Landrud (S) who won in 2003 and Petr Krcil (CZ)
who won in 2004. The Britons never won an officially recognised
World Championship (term having been patented in slot-racing affairs
in 1985 before notary Ernst von Tricht) and there is only a
theoretical chance that they can win this year. They have only two
candidate winners: Brian Saunders and James Cleave.
Saunders is the organiser and I have enough experience to know very
well that organising and winning is an impossible combination.
Cleave won earlier this week both the production race and the F1
World Cup, but his ES24 is much too slow to have any winning
chances. I don't believe either that Vladimir Horky will win.
At the Main of ES32 Matti Fyhr gave him such an uppercut that
he's still groggy. He knows that his ES24 car is this year slower
than Matti's, thus in his mind - a very typical Slavic mind, the
combat is already over. Now he counts on his country mates Josef
Korec, Petr Krcil and Antónin Vojtik to hold Matti Fyhr off winning
his first official world championship, but he has such a brilliant
race instinct to know that they too make no great chances, as their
cars too are to slow. Among the Italians Paolo Trigilio won
never one of the 18 Scale Racing Worlds he entered, so why should he
win tomorrow? After the Italians lost Salvatore Noviello -
out with heart problems - the great generation of Sergio Maresca,
Alberto Capra, Giovanni Montiglio, Franco Gianotti, Silvio Giacobbi,
etc. belongs definitively to the past. Only Piero Castricone
is left, but more than a place in the Main he has not to expect.
If there is any danger it has to come from Matti's own country mates
Justus Pohjasniemi and Atte Lyyski (not from Harri
Nykanen performing once more under his intrinsic capacities) and
from the Swedes Michael Landrud and Anders Gustafson.
And then there is always Paul Gawronski, a born winner: with
him one never knows. Of the Latvians only Andris Podosinoviks
and Raivis Jansons are doing well. Rage-Ragis feels
the weight of the age and Janis Sneiders seems to be rather
the man of one lucky shot last year. I miss Ladislav Szalai (SVK)
to counter Matti. But if as a bloody egoist you deny that
students cannot have ten days free, then you have not to complain
that Matti will win this race with the fingers in his nose! Thus go
for it, Iceman! |
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I forgot to mention you that azt this borning
day, only the qualifications were a moment of thrill. As could be
expected Matti Fyhr was the fastest man in an unbelievable
sharp 4"111. Josef Korec (CZ) realised the second best
time, but more than one tenth of a second down to the Iceman:
4"245. Third time is for another Iceman, a younger one, Atte
Lyyski in 4"339 and Sweden's Michael Landrud in
4"371. Those four racers are free from the Consis. Let's look at
the composition of the two higherst Consis. Consi A:
Vladimir Horky (4"435, what a difference with Matti's
4"111), Petr Krcil (CZ), Janis Sneiders (LV), Antónin Vojtik
(CZ), Paul Gawronski (USA), James Cleave (GB), Anders Gustafson (S)
and Milos Hojer (CZ). That means four Czechs and only one
Briton. Consi B: Andris Podosinoviks (LV), Sandis Spricis
(LV), Graham Woodward (GB), Justus Pohjasniemi (SF), Paolo Trigilio
(I), Jiri Karlik (CZ), Ross Grogan (CZ) and Miroslav Vadlejch
(CZ). But where is Brian Saunders (GB)? Only in the C
Consi with Roger Schmitt (USA), Janis-Rage-Ragis (LV), Steen
Michaelsen (DK) and "Gugu" Bernardino. Worse for Piero
Castricone (I), condemned to the D Consi. But most bad luck was
for Charlie Gooding (GB), having had a miserable time in ES24
with a car not functioning as it should. After the Consis we were
underway for an unbelievable boring number of twelve Consis, with
all those back benchers and field fillers being not at their place
at a true world championship. Six of those miserable Consis were
contested today, six others tomorrow. Rob Lees must be made
out of a mixture of pure steel and concrete to watch that sad
spectacle without sleeping in. I think we should control that guy:
did he find the newest epo? Is he a friend from such bikers as Ricco,
Schumacher, that Austrian guy, etc. I mean of all bike racers except
two or three? And is it true that Lance Armstrong is his uncle? O,
now I understand, then Rob can watch still hundred more Consis if
necessary. Consis L to G
are now over and at least Ian Barker (GB) came in the
picture. At the provisional leader board he's now second with
270.15 laps, only headed by Paul Shepherd (GB) with
272.90 laps. For Dolzanskiy (RU, 3rd), Graeme
Stephenson (oh, deception, only 5th and virtually out), Erik
Noltensmeijer (DK, 6th), Paul Harwood (GB, 8th), the
Italians Bertocchi, Merlini, and Baldacchi chances to
make the move to the Semis are only theoretical, just as for
Peter Verdo (USA) and George Kimber (B), being with 48
racers to go res. 14th and 18th. |
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You ask me what happened with yesterday's hero, Mike Stahl (USA)?
Well, he's not such a fast qualifier as Roger Schmitt (USA),
but he seems to be the better racer of the two. He qualified for the
D Consi together with Castricone. I expect a fine performance on his
behalf tomorrow morning. The other American, William Bugenis
didn't start, just as Lee Vince, Greg Harwood, Dave
Mayo, David Austin, Chris Thomas, Ovens, etc. So, only 30 Britons at
the start, but still 25 too much. And Charlie Gooding (GB)?
He had the most impossible race of his life with a non functioning
car. After 85 laps he had to retire. Dave Harvey? Also for
him, in 1972 still the European Champion Scale Racing, it was that
race too much. He lets only 16 racers behind. Who more are
already mathematically out? Kennet Signal (S), Leonida Monti (I),
Theo Vanginderhuysen (he won his Consi, and is now 24th on 48),
Mia Ekman (S), Rino Frisoli (I), Cardillo Benedetto
(I), Helčne Bergman (S), Marcello Costa (I), Marco Viola (I), Bob
Hallums (GB), Ben Woodwards (GB, but what an unbelievable poor
Worlds for a reigning champion; why he didn't the same as that other
failing reigning champion, Greg Harwood, i.e. retiring before
being ridiculed), Marion Zenker (D), Berra Ljungdahl (S), Keith
Gibson (GB), Günther Zenker (D), and Francesco Barillaro (I).
I think, next year, my grandmom should subscribe for the ISRA
Worlds. I know, she was 102 and is already 10 years no more under
us, but the subscription will be accepted without the smallest
problems. You ask me why all those pics of Matti Fyhr?
There are two reasons for that. The first is that he already won the
race before the start: without technical woes nobody can beat him.
The second reason is that those Britons never change: if they
publish a pic on their site it's microscopic, as on Chris Frost's
site. Up to now they only published pics from the Black Monster (the
track) and from the winners. But where are pics of close combats?
Where a pic of the deception on the face of Charlie Gooding after he
had to quit the ES race so soon? Where a historical pic of George
Kimber, Ian Barker and Dave Harvey, having just finished their last
world championship. Where technical pics of the cars, of their
chassis, of their motor can? For the rest the communication with the
press is excellent. We can follow what happens at MK and updates and
results are posted nearly always immediately after. Tomorrow I'll
try to follow the rest of the Consis, but at noon I will be away,
because Youri is playing soccer. I think I'll be back when the Semis
are already over. But now that you already know that Matti Iceman
will beat Horky, Korec and Landrud, there is no more thrill no. For
me the ISRA Worlds seem already over. |
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October 18, 2008 -
Consis F to C are also over
now and already four racers are sure to make the move: Brian
Saunders (GB) who achieved 285 laps, ten more than the
second, Jiri Micek sr (CZ), eleven more than the third
Mark Harwood (GB), and twelve more than the fourth, Martin
Hojer (CZ). For the hero of ES32, America's Mike Stahl,
the game was over after 175 laps. Roger Schmitt (USA)
finished just ahead over Peter Verdo (USA) in the mid of the
pack. But the most important up to now is that Piero Castricone
(I) failed to qualify for the Semis.
Consis B has been won by Justus Pohjasniemi (SF)
with 296 laps, eleven more than the board leader after ten
Consis. Three other entrants of Coinsi B did also better than
Saunders: Paolo Trigilio (I), Ross Grogan (GB) and Andris
Podosinoviks (LV). Miroslav Vadlejch is out after
problems in the fourth and in the last heat. For "Gugu",
Rage-Ragis, Daniel Ax and the two Sinisaaris the Worlds
are over: a move to the Semis is excluded. Ian Barker (GB)
can still hope, just as Christer Helgesson (S), but then not
all Consi A racers may do better than them.
Consis A has been won by Vladimir Horky (CZ) with
298 laps, All eight entrants realise the move to the Semis,
so that Helgesson and Baker are definitively out. In the Semi A
we'll find, later today, Matti Fyhr, Atte Lyyski, Josef Korec,
Michael Landrud, Vladimir Horky, Petr Krcil, Paul Gawronski and
Pohjasniemi. Cleave will be found in Semi B, just as Saunders. Later
more, now I go to see Youri in his weekly soccer match. I am back
from soccer. Youri's team won 3 by 0. Semi
C has been won by Jiri Karlik (CZ) after a long
combat with Janis Sneiders (LV). They achieved res. 385.17
and 377.73 laps. To me that seems not enough to make the
move to the Main. Out are the Britons Mark Harwood (GB), Paul
Shepherd (GB) and Graham Woodward (GB). The Czechs
Martin Hojer and Jiri Micek sr and Ihor Kuropiy (UKR) are
also out. In Semi B three
racers did better than Karlik: James Cleave (GB) with
395.92 laps, Antónin Vojtik (CZ) with 389.70 laps
and Brian Saunders (GB) with 389.59 laps. The others
make no chance on the move: Podosinoviks, Trigilio, Gustafson,
Milos Hojer and Ross Grogan. That means that we go to a
Main without Italians. In Semi A
two of the four racers, having been free from the Consis miss the
Main. Josef Korec, the IOC #2, misses the move for ... less
than one segment. Michael Landrud - having had but troubles
after his fine performance in the team race - came more than 26 laps
short to make the move. Of the two brilliant Finnish youngsters
Justus Pohjasniemi failed to qualify, but his country mate
Atte Lyyski finished third, behind Vladimir Horky and
main favourite Matti Fyhr. All three they make the move,
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October 18, 2008 -
Main Final
has started with after the first segment our two Britons,
Saunders and Cleave, at the two last places. In front the
Iceman took immediately two laps on Vladimir Horky, with
Vojtik as third and Gawronski as fourth, both already at
four laps. Lyyski and Krcil are fifth and sixth at six laps.
After two segments the Iceman has already three laps
over Horky, four over Vojtik and five over Lyyski. Once more
the Britons will fail to win their first official world
championship: Saunders is always six laps down, Cleave ...
17. Gawronski dropped in one but last position, seven laps
down. After three segments Finland rules: Matti
Fyhr is always a strong first, followed at six laps by Atte
Lyyski, at seven laps by the trio Saunders, Horky and Voktik.
Another trio has no more winning chances as Gawronski
follows at 12 laps, Krcil at 13 and Cleave at 18 laps.
Everybody, except Saunders, realises already now that the
new world champion is Matti Fyhr. But Saunders still
believe that he can undo his seven lap arrear, since at the
two last segments he lost only one lap from the Iceman.
And then there is Vladimir Horky. At segment four
he took no less than four laps back from Matti Fyhr. At half
distance he's second at three laps. Brian Saunders
took one lap back from Fyhr and is now third at six laps.
Can he realise the miracle, on coming back from the last
place after the first segment to the first? I don't believe
it. Fourth is now Atte Lyyski at six laps. Vojtik is fifth
at nine laps. Gawronski follows at 12 laps, Krcil and Cleave
at 15 laps. During the segments five and six Matti
Fyhr increases his lead. He has at the end six full laps
over Vojtik and Horky. The Czechs seems be beaten
definitively. During segment seven Matti had to
change a tyre. He did it in his traditional way, without
stress, without emotion. Despite that tyre change he holds
still the lead, but only with one lap more than Antónin
Vojtik and ... two more than Brian Saunders. Now
more than ever Saunders believes that he'll be the first
official British world champion in slot racing. Horky
follows as fourth at five laps. Gawronski lost ten laps and
is now last at 28 laps. James Cleave passed Lyyski
and Krcil and is now fifth at eleven laps. The
Britons hit back after their difficult start. Still one
segments to go. Whole the UK is now behind Brian Saunders.
Can he do it? Yes he can! During the last segment
Brian Saunders fights as a devil. He can pass Antónin
Vojtik for the second place but sees how Matti Fyhr
is pulling away, and how he's four times lapped. As I
predicted yesterday Matti "Iceman" Fyhr is the new
world champion Scale Racing. Saunders is his runner up at
five laps, Vojtik is third. James Cleave did a
fantastic last segment and could climb up to rank four.
With
Matti Fyhr there comes an end of the Czech hegemony in
scale racing. I always admired Matti Fyhr. As all Finns he
always respects scrupulously the technical rules, and no one
on earth can give such loud track calls as Matti. I hope
that IMCA's new chairman, Mark Campbell, will
succeed to bring him with Atte Lyyski and Justus Pohjasniemi
at the start of the 2009 Toronto IMCA Worlds end
July. Admiration too for the two Britons, Brian Saunders
and James Cleave, who moved up to the Main from a
B-Final, who had too a real bad start, but who fought back,
res. into second and into fourth position.
The ISRA
Worlds are over. Qua organisation I believe that this were a
nearly perfect Worlds. Communication towards the rest of the
world was excellent. Coverage was undoubtedly the best
since the start of the ISRA Worlds in 1993. Only one
remark: why Saunders & Cie forgot to introduce a photo
gallery? Speaking in terms of quantity I have to admit that
there were many many racers, but let's not forget that this
is no unicum. At the real first World Championship in
slot-racing there were 125 starters (Gotheburg 1978). At the
Valkenburg Worlds there were more than 350 starters and at
the 1989 Chicago Worlds, organised by Andy Smith, there were
105 starters at the five rounds of the Endurance Worlds and
74 others in the wing car classes. But as I wrote earlier,
quantity can not replace quality. Only Friedrich Engels
believed quantity breeding quality. I maintain my
position that too many excellent racers were missing to
speak about a true World Championship. The last true World
Championship contested in slot-racing dates from 1989 in
Chicago. That year all the best racers of the world, as well
in wing cars, scale cars or model cars were present.
Congratulations to Brian Saunders as organiser, to James
Cleave as double winner, to Antónin Vojtik as co-winner, to
the forgotten Mike Stahl who caused a stir in ES32, and to
Matti Fyhr who has given full evidence that he's the
strongest of them all. [JPVR]
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MATTI FYHR |
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395.84 |
504 |
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2 |
Brian Saunders |
285.37 |
389.59 |
495 |
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3 |
Antónin Vojtik |
294.44 |
389.70 |
495 |
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4 |
James Cleave |
29371 |
395.92 |
494 |
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5 |
Vladimir Horky |
298.25 |
401.77 |
492 |
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6 |
Atte Lyyski |
- |
393.65 |
484 |
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7 |
Petr Krcil |
296.44 |
388.60 |
478 |
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8 |
Paul Gawronski |
295.66 |
390.43 |
471 |
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9 |
Josef Korec |
- |
386.60 |
- |
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10 |
Jiri Karlik |
273.78 |
385.17 |
- |
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11 |
Janis Sneiders |
284.72 |
377.77 |
- |
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12 |
Andris Podosinoviks |
288.05 |
375.44 |
- |
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13 |
Paolo Trigilio |
293.66 |
362.93 |
- |
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14 |
Martin Hojer |
273.63 |
360.29 |
- |
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15 |
Michael Landrud |
- |
360.18 |
- |
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16 |
Mark Harwood |
274.71 |
357.91 |
- |
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17 |
Jiri Micek sr |
275.69 |
357.58 |
- |
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18 |
Paul Shepherd |
272.90 |
356.68 |
- |
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19 |
Anders Gustafson |
289.60 |
354.87 |
- |
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20 |
Milos Hojer |
287.92 |
354.07 |
- |
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21 |
Ihor Kuropiy |
271.93 |
343.12 |
- |
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22 |
Justus Pohjasniemi |
296.11 |
342.71 |
- |
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23 |
Graham Woodward |
278.40 |
336.07 |
- |
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24 |
Ross Grogan |
289.44 |
297.00 |
- |
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25 |
Christer Helgesson |
270.19 |
- |
- |
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26 |
Ian Barker |
270.15 |
- |
- |
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27 |
Zaks Edijs |
268.37 |
- |
- |
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28 |
Gugu Bernadino |
267.72 |
- |
- |
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29 |
Janis Rage-Ragis |
267.63 |
- |
- |
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30 |
Nikolay Dolzanskiy |
266.45 |
- |
- |
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31 |
Daniel Ax |
265.69 |
- |
- |
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32 |
Kari Sinisaari |
264.81 |
- |
- |
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33 |
Heikki Sinisaari |
264.76 |
- |
- |
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34 |
Paul Austin |
264.64 |
- |
- |
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35 |
Steve Sargent |
264.55 |
- |
- |
|
36 |
Sandis Spricis |
264.44 |
- |
- |
|
37 |
Arunas Leonavicius |
264.08 |
- |
- |
|
38 |
Piero Castricone |
263.23 |
- |
- |
|
39 |
Graeme Stephenson |
262.78 |
- |
- |
|
40 |
Erik Noltensmejer |
261.79 |
- |
- |
|
41 |
Margus Jogilaine |
260.49 |
- |
- |
|
42 |
Simas Nemira |
260.05 |
- |
- |
|
43 |
Michel Lorin |
259.77 |
- |
- |
|
44 |
Stanislav Polic |
258.88 |
- |
- |
|
45 |
Paul Harwood |
258.18 |
- |
- |
|
46 |
Antonio Merlini |
257.69 |
- |
- |
|
47 |
M. Razauskas |
257.22 |
- |
- |
|
48 |
Kaiar Tammeleht |
257.19 |
- |
- |
|
49 |
Giancarlo Baldaccini |
256.69 |
- |
- |
|
50 |
Valeriy Pluta |
255.25 |
- |
- |
|
|
51 |
Valentin Iskandarov |
254.95 |
|
52 |
Jan Ekman |
253.79 |
|
53 |
Sergio Bertocchi |
252.72 |
|
54 |
Roger Schmitt |
249.08 |
|
55 |
Peter Verdo |
247.20 |
|
56 |
Eric Signal |
246.60 |
|
57 |
Birger Elfstrom |
246.18 |
|
58 |
Harri Kangasmaki |
244.92 |
|
59 |
George Kimber |
244.71 |
|
60 |
Lars Harrysson |
243.76 |
|
61 |
Sandy Parker |
243.45 |
|
62 |
Mario Azzopardi |
243.19 |
|
63 |
Torgny Nordgren |
242.51 |
|
64 |
Alan Lucas |
241.89 |
|
65 |
Miroslav Vadlejch |
238.00 |
|
66 |
Kennet Signal |
236.88 |
|
67 |
Steen Michaelsen |
235.72 |
|
68 |
Raivis Jansons |
234.77 |
|
69 |
Leonida Monti |
232.90 |
|
70 |
Pr. Dobrovolskis |
232.41 |
|
71 |
T. Vanginderhuysen |
232.04 |
|
72 |
Pat Skene |
230.29 |
|
73 |
Mike Gibbon |
230.22 |
|
74 |
Mia Ekman |
229.41 |
|
75 |
Casimir Iwaszkiewicz |
227.44 |
|
76 |
Rino Frisoli |
226.72 |
|
77 |
Salvatore DeRosa |
224.94 |
|
78 |
Stephen Siddall |
224.83 |
|
79 |
Aidas Zagaras |
223.22 |
|
80 |
Martin Ellis |
222.44 |
|
81 |
Dave Harvey |
219.00 |
|
82 |
Benedetto Cardillo |
215.99 |
|
83 |
David Sargent |
212.92 |
|
84 |
Richard Mack |
211.78 |
|
85 |
Neil Grogan |
208.70 |
|
86 |
Helene Bergman |
206.06 |
|
87 |
Marcello Costa |
205.20 |
|
88 |
Marco Viola |
200.26 |
|
89 |
Bob Hallums |
194.18 |
|
90 |
Marion Zenker |
190.97 |
|
91 |
Berra Ljungdahl |
186.10 |
|
92 |
Chris Frost |
184.40 |
|
93 |
Ben Woodward |
151.00 |
|
94 |
Peter Kerr |
150.20 |
|
95 |
Harri Nykanen |
144.00 |
|
96 |
Gunther Zenker |
125.00 |
|
97 |
Mike Stahl |
124.00 |
|
98 |
Keith Gibson |
115.00 |
|
99 |
Francesco Barillaro |
87.00 |
|
100 |
Charlie Gooding |
86.00 |
|
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The
IOC-list
has been updated. Matti Fyhr is now 27th, his
older brother Einari 16th. I feel shame that I am better
ranked than Matti, as he's lots better than I. I won most of
my points in the 1980s. Atte Lyyski has now 50 points and is
one of the 186 pros in the world. The status of pro is only
reached once a racer collected in his career 50 IOC points
or more. Matti Fyhr, Atte Lyyski and Justus Pohjasniemi
will be officially invited at the 2009 Toronto
21st IMCA Worlds. |
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ISRA WORLDS
- 32ND ES32 WORLD CUP - MILTON KEYNES (GB), OCT 15-6, 2008
(IOC-RACE
LEVEL 2) |
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FINLAND RULES: MATTI
FYHR BEATS HORKY & VOJTIK |
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WHAT A SHAME, NO
BRITONS, NO SWEDES, NO ITALIANS IN THE MAIN |
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October 16, 2008 - In total 97
racers entered the ES32. It's already the 32nd in the history of
scale racing as can be seen here.
The race started already yesterday with the qualifications. Fastest
was Matti Fyhr (SF) in 4"920. Three others could place
themselves directly for the Semis: Raivis Jansons, the
promising young Latvian, in 4"952; Vladimir Horky (CZ)
(who won already five times the ISRA ES32 World Cup) in 5"015,
and his country mate Antónon Vojtik in 5"039. No
less than 13 boring 8 x 3' Consis are now underway. Let's
have a look on the composition of the three last Consis, as the
semi-finalists come for the great majority from those racers and the
four being free of the Consis. Consi A: Two Czechs
(Krcil, Korec), two Britons (Saunders, Graham Woodward), one
American (Gawronski), one Italian (Castricone), one
Finnish (Pohjassniemi) and one Latrvian (Podosinoviks).
Consi B: Two Swedes (Gustafson, Landrud), one Italian
(Trigilio), one Britton (Cleave), one Latvian
(Sneiders), one American (Roger Schmitt, who caused a
stir by qualifying so good), one Brazilian (Bernardino), and
one Czech (Martin Hojer).
Consi C: De Rosa (I), Spricis (LV), Jogilaine (LV), Harrysson (S),
Ellis (GB), Nemira (EE), Milos Hojer (CZ) and Kuropiy (UKR). Among
the better racers having missed the three top Consis we find
Vadlejch (31st), Dolzanskiy (33rd), Karlik (only
36th!), Gooding (only 37th), Paul Harwood (38th),
Shepherd (39th), Rage-Ragis (only 44th), Harvey
(45th), Micek sr (48th), Baker (49th), Helgesson
(50th), Greg Harwood (56th), Ben Woodward (62nd),
Kimber (72nd - this is his second year too long!), Mark
Harwood (86th), Vanginderhuysen (96th: needless to show
at a world championship when there is no national competition to
practice). Consis J to C
are now over and we have a very surprising leader, America's Mike
Stahl. No one had expected to see them that good at his first
Worlds outside the States. He realised a total of 256.39
laps, five more than Atte Lyyski (SF). It's thus not
impossible that Mike will realise the move to the Semis. Two Czech
top racers - Jiri Karlik and Miroslav Vadlejch - seem
on their way to miss the Semis as, with still 16 racers to go they
are res. ranked as 6th and 8th on 77. Janis Rage-Ragis (LV)
went out after only 20 laps. Several racers are definitively out for
the move as they lower than 20th. |
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Among them we find Ian Baker (GB) as
23rd, Paul Shepherd (GB) as 25th, George Kimber (GB)
as 27th, Steen Michaelsen (DK) as 30th, Nikolay Dolzanskiy
(RU) as 31st, Christer Helgesson (S) as 32nd, Arunas
Leonavicius (EE) as 36th, Graeme Stephenson (GB) as 43rd,
Janne Ekman (S) as 47th, Kaiar Tammeleht (LIT) as
49th, Harri Nykanen (SF) as 51st, Ben Woodward!!! (GB)
as 63rd, Theo Vanginderhuysen (B) as 64th and Ian Fisher
(GB) as one but last after he had to retire after 54 laps.
Only a theoretical chance to make still the move have Lars
Harrysson (S), Ross Grogan (GB), Greg Harwood (GB), Steve Sargent
(GB), Alan Lucas (GB), Mark Harwood (GB), Charlie Gooding (GB), Dave
Harvey (GB) and Jiri Micek sr (CZ). Consis
B has been won by James Cleave (GB) with 255.04
laps, what means that with one Consi to go Mike Stahl (USA)
is still leader and will make the move to the Semis. Mikael
Landrud (S) and Roger Schmitt (USA) finished as last of
their Consi and are both out. Consis A
went to Josef Korec (CZ) with 261.71 laps. Of this
Consi all others make the move to the Main, thus Petr Krcil (CZ),
Brian Saunders (GB), Andris Podosinoviks (LV), Paul Gawronski (USA),
Justus Pohjasniemi (SF), Piero Castricone (I) and Graham
Woodward (GB). We thus know the composition of the
Semis: Semi A: Matti Fyhr (SF), Rainis Jansons (LV),
Vladimr Horky (CZ), Antónin Vojtik (CZ), Josef Korec (CZ), Petr
Krcil (CZ), Brian Saunders (GB), and Andris Podosinoviks (LV);
Semi B: Mike Stahl (USA, but what a surprise!), Paul
Gawronski (USA), Justus Pohjasniemi (SF), James Cleave (GB), Piero
Castricone (I), Martin Hojer (CZ), Atte Lyyski (SF) and 'Gugu'
Bernardino (BR); Semi C: Paolo Trigilio (I, under his
standard!), Richard Mack (GB), Anders Gustafson (S), Graham Woodward
(GB), Paul Harwood (GB), Sandis Spricis (LV), Jiri Karlik (CZ, but
in extremis!), and Janis Sneiders (LV). That means that we
have six racers of Czechia in the Semis, only five on forty from the
UK (Saunders, Cleave, Mack, Paul Harwood and Graham Woodward), Four
from Latvia (having started with six times less racers than the
Britons), three from Finland, two from the States (after the
brilliant performance by Mike Stahl), two Italians, only one
from Sweden (what goes wrong, guys???), and one from Brazil. Semi
C has been won by Jiri Karlik (CZ) who, having
rather miraculously survived the Consis, gave Paolo Trigilio (I)
a clear beat by four laps. Karlik realised 334.96 laps
against 330.93 for the Italian. I thus believe that we
go to a Main Final without one of the top guns: Trigilio. As
Anders Gustafson (S) came no further than 325 laps, the total
debacle of the Swedes is now complete. Janis Sneiders (LV)
could not confirm his fine third place of last year as he finished
only as sixth of the Semi C, even preceded by the two Britons
Richard Mack and Graham Woodward. For Paul
Harwood and Sandis Spricis the Semi was already over
after res. 175 and 100 laps. Curious to see what the great
revelation of this race, America's Mike Stahl will realise in
Semi B. In Semi B
the best lap totals of the previous Semi were just blown away. No
less than five racers did better than Karlik. Winner was Atte
Lyyski (SF) with 342.35 laps, followed by Paul
Gawronski (USA) with 340.54 laps, Justus Pohjasniemi
(SF) with 338.40 laps, James Cleave (GB) with
338.19 laps and ... Mike Stahl (USA) with 355.22 laps.
Definitively out are Piero Castricone (I), "Gugu" Bernardino (BR)
and Martin Hojer (CZ). Without a miracle James Cleave
(GB) will not reach the main, and thus be unable to realise the
hat trick. The Britons have now only Brian Saunders left to
save their national pride. And to think that they came with 40
racers at the start. They thus could not repeat their excellent
performances in 132 F1. Semi A with
no less than four terrible Czechs in now underway. What can Saunders
and Matti Fyhr do against the traditional force of the Czechs,
masters in ES32? After two hours of waiting it appears that Petr
Krcil (CZ) won ahead over Matti Fyhr, Rainis Jansons, Andris
Podosinoviks, and Antónin Vojtik. Those six move up to
the Main. Lyyski and Gawronski are the only ones making the move
from a lower Semi. Josef Korec and Brian Saunders are
out. Korec missed the move for a quarter of a lap, Saunders was
eliminated with tech problems after 175 laps. What a shame: not one
single Briton in the Main! |
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ISRA WORLDS
- 16TH 132 F1 WORLD CUP - MILTON KEYNES (GB), OCT 14-5, 2008
(IOC-RACE
LEVEL 1) |
|
JAMES CLEAVE WINS
1/32ND FORMULA ONE |
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SENSATIONAL SEMIS: ALL
CZECHS & SAUNDERS OUT! |
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October 14, 2008 - Today is the
most boring day of this year's ISRA Worlds. The entire day is
reserved for the qualifications and the Consis of the 132 F1 Race.
With more than 60 field fillers on an entry of 92 a lot of time is
wasted. Only late this night we'll know who are the 24 Semi
finalists. Actually the qualifications should be over, but there is
not the smallest info to grasp on the ISRA web site. That too is
boring! We just received the results of the Qualifications.
Fastest qualifier in 6"188 was Latvia's Andris
Podosinoviks, closely followed by Petr Krcil (CZ) in
6"189, by James Cleave (GB) in 6"190 - what means
that the top-3 were split by only 2/1000nds of a second - and
Piero 'Il Bandito' Castricone (I) in 6"215. Those four
racers are free of the consis with 88 racers fighting for the
remaining 20 free places at the Semis. Interesting is to see who
qualified for the Consi A and for the Consi B, as most of the racers
who'll make the move to the Semis are to find there. In Consi A
we'll find three Czechs (Korec, Horky, Vojtik), one Briton (Saunders),
one Brazilian (Bernardino), one Italian (Trigilio),
one Finnish (Nykanen) and one Swede (Gustafson). In
Consi B we'll find three Britons - F1 is their very speciality - nl.
Gooding, Stephenson, Gibson, Chris Tomas, next to two Finnish
(Matti Fyhr, Pohjasniemi), one Swedes (Landrud), one
American (Gawronski) and one Czech (Vadlejch).
Surprisingly Graeme Stephenson (21st), Jiri Karlik
(22nd) and Christer Helgesson (24th) could only reach Consi
C. Unexpectedly good performances came from Antonio Merlini
(23rd) and Roger Schmitt (26th). After the Qualifications
the boring procession of no less than eleven Consis could start. In
Consi K to Consi D - 64 racers - we found the majority of back
benchers and field fillers. Best of them, with three Consis to go -
is Paul Shepherd (GB) with 212.03 laps, followed by
Ross Grogan (GB) in 210.82, Reinis Jansons (LV) in
209.92 and Mark Harwood (GB) in 209.04. There is a
very small chance that one of them can finish among the top-20 of
the Consis. Surprisingly already eliminated seem Nikolay
Dolzhanskyi (RU) as provisional 5th on 64, Janis Rage-Ragis
(LV) as provisional 6th, Heikki sinisaari (SF) as
provisional 11th, Paul Harwood (GB) as provisional 16th, etc. |
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Of course there was the traditional lot of deceptions among the back
benchers. What to think about Dave Harvey (GB), once the best
of all British racers, and now eliminated after only 66 laps. Or
about such other Britons as Greg Harwood (15th on 64), Ben
Woodward (23rd), Ian Baker (30th), Graham Woodward
(31st), poor George Kimber (51st), Ian Fisher (52nd).
Belgium's lonely hope in scale racing, Theo Vanginderhuysen
qualified as one but last and is now provisionally 57th on 64 field
fillers. Janis Sneiders completely missed his race and is
18th on 64. The Swedes Daniel Ax and Janne Ekman came
no further than 25th and 27th with three Consis to go. And Jiri
Micek sr (CZ)? He's a poor 19th on 64. What a deception. There
was also a hopeful performance by America's newcomer Mike Stahl:
he is actually 22nd, far beyond his own expectations. Up from
Consi C things become more
interesting. Indeed the four first at the provisional ranking are,
with still 16 racers to go - sure about a place in the Semis. Among
those four we find now three Britons: Paul Sheperd who
surprisingly holds the lead of the provisional standings, Graeme
Stephenson who won the C Consi, and Mark Harwood.
However
Consi B blows all things up.
That race has been superbly won by Charlie Gooding, taking
the lead of the provisional ranking with only one last Consi to go.
That means that the top-12 are now mathematically sure to make the
move. In that top-12 we find no less than six Britons: Gooding
(1), Shepherd (2), Stephenson (4), Ross Grogan
(5), Mark Harwood (9), and Keith Gibson (12). O
yes, 132F1 will be their race, of those Britons. They were the
founders of that class. Others being sure about their place in the
Semis are: Paul Gawronski (USA, 3), Miroslav
Vadlejch (CZ, 6), Raivis Jansons (LV, 7),
Michael Landrud (S, 8), Nikolay
Dolzhanskyi (RU, 10) and Janis Rage-Ragis
(LV, 12). Those two last certainly no longer hoped to
make the move after their race, but they made it. Lars Harryson
(S), Jiri Karlik (CZ)!!! and Justus Pohjasniemi (SF) seem
to be the first three to be eliminated after the last Consi. Biggest
surprise of the day was the elimination of Matti Fyhr (SF) in
the B Consi after technical woes. Roger Schmitt (USA) failed
to confirm his good performance at the qualifications and finished
as one but last in his Consi. He's now provisionally 55th on 84.
Mike Stahl is provisionally 35th. As could be expected the
eight entrants of
Consi A all qualified for the
Semis. No less than six among them did even better than Charlie
Gooding, our provisional leader with one last Consi to go.
Vladimir Horky (CZ) was an authoritarian winner with 224.18
laps, followed by his country mate Josef Korec (CZ) with
220.76 laps. Then followed Brian Saunders (GB) with
218.77 laps, Paolo Trigilio (I) with 216.79 laps, Antónin
Vojtik (CZ) with 215.69 laps and "Gugu" Bernardino
(BR) with 214.76. Anders Gustafson (S) realised a
couple of segments less than Charlie Goofing on the seventh place.
Harry Nykanen (SF) finished as last of the A Consi, but with
209.16 laps, he finished as 16 on 88 starters in the Consis.
Composition of the Semis for tomorrow is as follows:
SEMI A: from Czechia Petr
Krcil, Vladimir Horky and Josef Korec; from the UK
James Cleave and Brian Saunders; from Italy Piero
Castricone and Paolo Trigilio; and from Latvia Andris
Podosinoviks. SEMI B:
from the UK Charlie Gooding, Paul Shepherd, Graeme Stephenson
and Ross Grogan; from Brazil "Gugu" Bernardino, from
Czechia Antónin Vojtik, from the USA Paul Gawronski
and from Sweden Anders Gustafson.
SEMI C: from the UK Mark
Harwood and Keith Gibson, from Latvia Raivis Jansons
and Janis Rage-Ragis, from Czechia Miroslav
Vadlejch, from Russia Nikolay Dolzanskiy, from Finland
Harri Nykanen, and from Sweden Mikail Landrud.
That gives no less than 8 Britons (on 35), 5 Czechs (on 12), 3
Latvians (on 6), 2 Swedes (on 9), 2 Italians (on 12), 1 Russian (1
on 1), 1 Brazilian (1 on 1), 1 American (on 5), and 1 Finnish (on
8). Of the Semi finalists some were not expected to make it. I
name Paul Shepherd, Ross Grogan, Keith Gibson, and Raivis Jansons.
Seven other racers expected to move up, but failing to do so, were
Jiri Karlik (CZ)!, Matti Fyhr (SF), Paul Harwood (GB),
Greg Harwood (GB), Ben Woodward (GB), Ian Fisher (GB)and Christer
Helgesson (S). Tomorrow we may expect a serious combat among
Cleave and Saunders for the OA win, but I still believe that Horky
will be the fastest. Wait and see. [JPVR] |
|
 October 15, 2008 - Today we may
expect a fantastic race in 132 F1. The Semis start already at 7.50am
GMT. Unfortunately I am out for the Moneytron II business,
and I expect to be only back in the late afternoon. As soon as I am
back I'll update this page. Of the 92 entrants already 68 are out,
among them 27 Britons (of them 19 could even not finish among the
first half), 10 Italians, 7 Swedes, 6 from Finland (what a
surprise!), 5 Czechs (the two Hojers, Karlik, Polic and Micek sr),
4 Americans, 3 Latvians, 2 from Denmark, 1 Lithuanian (Nemira didn't
start), 1 German, 1 Belgian, and 1 from Malta. There are too
many Britons, Italians and Swedes among the back benchers, making
all Consis (later also in ES32 and in ES24) terribly boring: a pure
waste of time on racers having absolutely not their place in a
representative world championship. Please let them out, next time.
They give absolutely no surplus value to this Worlds. In
Semi C Mikael Landrud had a race
full of problems, finishing last with 266.94 laps. Victory
went to Rainis Jansons (LV) with 283.95 laps, a half
lap over Mark Harwood (GB) and more than three laps over Nikolay Dolzanskiy
(RU). Keith Gibson (GB) was fourth. Disappointing race by
Janis Rage-Ragis (LV). I discovered only today - 20 years
later - that he entered the 1989 Chicago Nats. Jaroslav Vadlejch
(CZ) and Harri Nykanen (SF) will have problems to finish
among the top-20. Waiting on the B Final.
Semi B was won by iCharlie Gooding, but he was
penalised by two laps for an illegal track call. That made him
dropping in third position. Victory thus went to Paul Shepherd
(GB) with 286.44 laps, ahead over Paul Gawronski (USA)
in 285.59 and Gooding in 285.03. It may be feared
that Charlie's two lap sanction will cost him a place in the Main.
Graeme Stephenson was fourth, heading a disappointing
Antónin Vojtik (CZ). The four first of the B Semi are also the
four first with still 8 racers to go. Anders Gustafson (S)
did hardly better than Landrud, and is definitively out. Gugu
Bernardino is out too. Ross Grogan had to retire after
226 laps. Semi A is underway.
What a strange final! Only three make the move: Vladimir Horky (Cz),
Josef Korec (CZ), Andris Podosinoviks (LV), Brian Saunders (GB)
and Petr Krcil seem all out. Only James Cleave (GB -
294.76 laps), Paolo Trigilio (I) and Piero Castricone (I)
seem to make the move. If that is true we'll have a final without
any Czech!!! It's too abnormal to believe. And it is true!!!
What happened? I try to find it out. The finalists are Cleave,
Shepherd, Gooding & Stephenson for the Britons, Trigilio &
Castricone for Italy, Gawronski for the USA and
Jansons for Latvia. The most abnormal final in the ISRA
history. Something must have gone wrong. I wait on info. At
once nothing on the MK web. Only the result without any comment.
What now, Andy Wasserman? Horky, e.g. lost 7 laps from Cleave on
lane 2 and again 7 on lane 4. That cannot be normal. Korec lost 7
laps from Cleave on lane 2. And they have the best cars. Can they,
at once no longer drive??? Things are what they are and the result
has been confirmed. The main final is underway now. It's noon. It
seems that nobody will be able to stop Cleave. He's by way the best
British racer on the track. I don't see how Castricone, Gawronski or
Trigilio can stop him. He'll win with a street length advance. I put
his victory already at the front page.
Main Final is halfway when James Cleave leads
Piero Castricone by one lap and the fantastic Charlie Gooding by
three laps. That are the three contenders for victory lane, as
the fourth, Paul Gawronski, follows already at eleven laps.
Paul Shepherd and Jainis Jansons are only competing for
the one but last place after a series of technical bothers.
Paolo Trigilio is no longer in the running for a podium place.
With two segments to go Cleave has already three laps over
Castricone, but the unbelievable Charlie Gooding - a born winner -
could keep up with Cleave during the two last segments. He too hangs
on three laps. Gawronski is already 13 laps back. Trigilio has
passed England's best youngster, Graeme Stephenson, for the
fifth place. Gooding must be God if he could win that all-British
race. With one segment to go Cleave increased his advance from three
to six laps. Gooding and Castricone are battling nose to tail for
the second place. Trigilio, on rank 5, has already five laps over
Stephenson. During the last segment nothing chances any more.
Castricone can hold off Gooding from the second place. He and
Charlie finish res. five and eight laps down to James Cleave.
Of course he's in the winning mood, and chance is great that for the
first time in history he'll win an official world championship.
I mean the ES24 Worlds. But let him prior to that win also ES32,
making a pure hattrick! [JPVR] |
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1 |
James Cleave |
- |
294.76 |
374 |
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2 |
Piero Castricone |
- |
285.64 |
369 |
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3 |
Charlie Gooding |
214.67 |
285.03 |
366 |
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4 |
Paul Gawronski |
211.25 |
285.59 |
357 |
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5 |
Paolo Trigilio |
216.79 |
287.80 |
350 |
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6 |
Gr Stephenson |
211.04 |
284.88 |
345 |
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7 |
Raivis Jansons |
209.62 |
283.95 |
311 |
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8 |
Paul Shepherd |
212.03 |
286.44 |
282 |
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9 |
Mark Harwood |
209.04 |
283.51 |
- |
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10 |
Nik Dolzanskiy |
208.88 |
280.41 |
- |
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11 |
Antónin Vojtik |
215.69 |
278.23 |
- |
|
12 |
Keith Gibson |
208.22 |
277.41 |
- |
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13 |
"Gugu" Bernardino |
214.76 |
277.37 |
- |
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14 |
Janis Rage-Ragis |
208.40 |
276.75 |
- |
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15 |
Miroslav Vadlejch |
210.42 |
276.57 |
- |
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16 |
Josef Korec |
220.76 |
276.54 |
- |
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17 |
Vladimir Horky |
224.18 |
276.46 |
- |
|
18 |
Anders Gustafson |
212.35 |
269.95 |
- |
|
19 |
Andris Podosinoviks |
- |
269.47 |
- |
|
20 |
Harri Nykanen |
209.16 |
269.41 |
- |
|
21 |
Brian Saunders |
218.77 |
269.39 |
- |
|
22 |
Petr Krcil |
- |
269.21 |
- |
|
23 |
Mikael Landrud |
209.50 |
266.94 |
- |
|
24 |
Ross Grogan |
210.82 |
266.00 |
- |
|
25 |
Lars Harrysson |
207.09 |
- |
- |
|
26 |
Jirka Karlik |
206.45 |
- |
- |
|
27 |
J
Pohjasniemi |
206.32 |
- |
- |
|
28 |
Chris Thomas |
205.24 |
- |
- |
|
29 |
Richard Mack |
205.16 |
- |
- |
|
30 |
Sandis Spricis |
204.17 |
- |
- |
|
31 |
Alan Lucas |
201.47 |
- |
- |
|
32 |
Heikki
Sinisaari |
200.76 |
- |
- |
|
33 |
Paul Harwood |
199.96 |
- |
- |
|
34 |
Sergio
Bertocchi |
199.96 |
- |
- |
|
35 |
Torgny Nordgren |
197.70 |
- |
- |
|
36 |
Chr Helgesson |
197.69 |
- |
- |
|
37 |
Antonio Merlini |
197.63 |
- |
- |
|
38 |
Greg Harwood |
197.20 |
- |
- |
|
39 |
Pat Skene |
197.19 |
- |
- |
|
40 |
Paul Austin |
196.68 |
- |
- |
|
41 |
Janis Sneiders |
196.56 |
- |
- |
|
42 |
Jiri Micek Sr |
196.15 |
- |
- |
|
43 |
Martin Ellis |
195.93 |
- |
- |
|
44 |
Zaks Edijs |
194.76 |
- |
- |
|
45 |
Benedetto
Cardillo |
194.68 |
- |
- |
|
46 |
Kari Sinisaari |
194.57 |
- |
- |
|
|
47 |
Mike Stahl |
193.20 |
|
48 |
Ben Woodward |
192.91 |
|
49 |
Steen
Michaelsen |
192.68 |
|
50 |
Daniel Ax |
192.57 |
|
51 |
Steve Sargent |
191.91 |
|
52 |
Jan Ekman |
190.89 |
|
53 |
Martin Hojer |
190.76 |
|
54 |
Salvatore
DeRosa |
190.63 |
|
55 |
Ian Barker |
189.58 |
|
56 |
Graham Woodward |
189.18 |
|
57 |
David Austin |
188.90 |
|
58 |
Milos Hojer |
186.80 |
|
59 |
David Sargent |
186.58 |
|
60 |
Michael Ovens |
186.49 |
|
61 |
Matti Fyhr |
186.24 |
|
62 |
Stephen Siddall |
185.69 |
|
63 |
Michel Lorin |
185.18 |
|
64 |
Arunas
Leonavicius |
184.43 |
|
65 |
Peter Verdo |
181.15 |
|
66 |
Erik
Noltensmejer |
179.52 |
|
67 |
Roger Schmitt |
179.16 |
|
68 |
Andy Brown-Searle |
177.23 |
|
69 |
Sandy Parker |
177.00 |
|
70 |
Wink Hackman |
175.69 |
|
71 |
Chris Frost |
174.77 |
|
72 |
Stanislav Polic |
174.18 |
|
73 |
Viktor Bergman |
173.04 |
|
74 |
Casimir
Iwaszkiewicz |
172.48 |
|
75 |
John Ovens |
170.69 |
|
76 |
Marcello Costa |
168.72 |
|
77 |
Mike Gibbon |
167.49 |
|
78 |
George Kimber |
165.07 |
|
79 |
Ian Fisher |
165.00 |
|
80 |
Leonida Monti |
163.75 |
|
81 |
Marco Viola |
163.00 |
|
82 |
William Bugenis |
162.90 |
|
83 |
Francesco
Barillaro |
161.25 |
|
84 |
Theo
Vanginderhuysen |
160.42 |
|
85 |
Rino Frisoli |
157.91 |
|
86 |
Neil Grogan |
152.25 |
|
87 |
Mario Azzopardi |
145.68 |
|
88 |
Gunther Zenker |
140.40 |
|
89 |
Harri
Kangasmaki |
128.00 |
|
90 |
Atte Lyyski |
96.00 |
|
91 |
Dave Harvey |
66.00 |
|
92 |
Giancarlo
Baldaccini |
10.00 |
|
|
|
ISRA WORLDS
- 18TH PRODUCTION 124 WORLD CUP - MILTON KEYNES (GB), OCT 13, 2008
(IOC-RACE) |
|
CLEAVE/VOJTIK: OVERALL VICTORY AT THE TEAM RACE |
|
Saunders/Vojtik 2nd, Landrud/Hegelsson 3rd, only 1 all-British team
in top-10 |
|
October 13, 2008 - The ISRA Worlds
at Milton Keynes started with the qualifications for the team race.
Qualification goes not upon the fastest lap; but upon the number of
laps achieved during one minute of racing. Of that one minute 30
seconds are done by the first team mate. Then power goes off during
15 seconds and the second team mate does his 30 seconds. The British
way to do, let's say. At those typical British qualifications racers from Finland showed once more that they are among the
best of the world. Indeed Matti Fyhr teamed with organiser
Brian Saunders took the pole iwith 9.58 laps ahead over Justus
Pohjasniemi/Atte Lyyiski, two Finnish youngsters with 9.47
laps. Main
favourites (the IOC #1 and IOC #2) Vladimir Horky/Josef Korec
from Czechia scored the third place with 9.43 laps. In total 57 teams (114 racers)
took the start. Despite their massive show the Britons were not
massively in the top-8 going later today to the Final A. James
Cleave (GB)/Antónin Vojtik (CZ) finished fifth at the
qualifications, what implies that we find only two of the 40 Britons
having started in Final A. Raivis Jansons/Ejdijs Zaks from
Latvia caused a stir by realising the fourth best time, ahead over
Paolo Trigilio (I) and Paul Gawronski (USA) who
realised the sixth place at the qualifications. The two last places
in the A Final go to Petr Krcil/Jiri Karlik from Czechia and
Anders Gustafson/Lars Harryson from Sweden. The
Czech team of Miroslav Vadlejch/Jiri Micek sr disappointed at
the qualifications, being only qualified for
Final G, the lowest.
There, however, they realised 513.55 laps, being the fastest.
Here Roger Schmitt/Peter Kerr could realise only 437 laps.
The Zenkers, not directly the best representatives for
Germany finished as last of the Final G with 300 laps. All finals go
over one hour (8 x 7'30"). Good old Antonio Merlini, already
present at the real first IMCA Pinky Point races of 1985 at Uden
(NL) qualified only for the Final G where he finished among the back
benchers. Final F went
to Arunas Leonavicius/Simas Nemira with 494 laps.
After two heats they are second to Vadlejch/ Micek. Belgium's
Theo Vanginderhuysen failed to convince since he achieved
only 401 laps - 37 less than Andy Brown-Searle. No great
performance by Mia Ekman and Berra Ljungdahl,
realising only 445 laps. No more info since more than two
hours. Final
E has been won by Kari
Sinisaari/Heiki Sinisaari from Finland with 494 laps,
provisionally good for a third place on 25 teams. I believed that the Sinisaaris
were not on the entry list, but they were. My excuses for that
mistake. Their show is a plus point for the
event. Dave Harvey finished second in the E Final and is
provisionally fourth.
|
 |
 |
The Final D
is an important one, as we find such top racers as Charlie
Gooding, Gugu Bernardino, Andris Podosinoviks, Janis Rage-Ragis,
etc. at the start. As could be expected the provisional first place
of Vadlejch/Micek has been overruled at the D Final. Winners
were Podosinoviks/Rage-Ragis with 526.06 laps,
provisionally the highest lap total of the day. But also Gooding
(what a racer!!!)/Martin Ellis did with their 517.09
laps better than the previous leaders. Gugu Bernardino/Piero
Castricone totalised 509 laps and are now provisionally
fourth with still 24 teams to go. Initially Castricone/Bernardino
were leading, but halfway they were passed by Gooding/Ellis. They
seemed to go after a win, when, with one minute to go they were
victim of gear problems, letting Podosinoviks/ Rage-Ragis take
victory. Two seconds before the end Gooding's car had no more
traction and stopped underway. Another British team of Pat Skene/Neil
Grogan terribly disappointed with only 449 laps. Kaiar
Tammeleht/Margus Jogilaine and David Austin/Paul Austin
did much better and are now res. fifth and sixth in the provisional
ranking. Harri Nykanen/Atte Hietalahti from Finland could not
confirm. Last year Nyka-nen won still the ISRA warm-up race, but
since he realised no other top performances. In
Final C we find my good old friend
George Kimber. Last year he decided to stop active racing, but
that was a drunk man's oak. In the team race he starts with
Graeme Stephenson, at my opinion by far the best British
youngster. But ... they failed. Birger Elfstrřm
(S)/Steen Michaelsen (DK) won the C-final with 522.36 laps,
closely followed by Paul Shepherd/Paul Harwood with
522.10 laps, enough for a provisional second and third place
with 16 other teams to go. At least a first fine British performance
in the finals. Third place went to Milos Hojer (CZ)/Martin Hojer
(CZ), now provisionally fourth. And Kimber, you ask me?
Georgie and Graeme came no further than 495.84 laps and are
provisionally twelfth. In Final B
much is expected from Mikael Landrud (S), who missed the A
Final from a hair. Greg Harwood/Mark Harwood seem here to be
Landrud's most feared opponents. Can they make it? You ask me what
happened with the ten Americans on the entry list. Well, five of
them didn't show, among them - but that's a tradition - Herman
James, once more absent after his umpteenth subscription. Herman
always subscribes, but never shows. Ray Bishop and Lou
Pirro are not found among the starters of the team race. Mike
Stahl/Peter Verdo are here. They broke their car and are one but
last in the provisional ranking. William Bugenis was team
mate of Andy Brown-Searle. He is provisionally 28th on 41. Roger
Schmitt raced with Peter Kerr but failed to make it. He finished
one place lower than William Bugenis. Only Paul Gawronski is
OK. He qualified for the A-Final. But that is what we could expect
from a double ISRA world champion, no? |
|

Another thing that seems very British in my eyes - but perhaps is an
ISRA custom - is that the laps achieved at the qualifications are
added to the laps achieved at the heats. So with 16 racers to go
Podosinoviks/Rage-Ragis lead with 534.54 laps, i.e. the
526.08 of Final D plus the 8.46 of the qualifications. I am still
waiting the results of the B Final. It's now midnight and we
receive the results of the B-Final. As was expected Mikail
Landrud/Christer Helgesson dominated. They achieved 545.48
laps, blowing away Podosinoviks/Rage-Ragis from their first
place in the provisional ranking. It's the first fine result for the
Swedish racers (massively present) in the finals. Although Greg
Harwood/Mark Harwood achieved 15 laps less than the flying
Swedes, they too pass the Latvians in the provisional standings.
That also implies that we'll have at least one all British team in
the top-10, as only 8 teams have to go. Another British team,
Alan Lucas/Ross Grogan performed beneath its capacities. They
finished third but 40 laps down to the Swedes. Two other British
teams did even worse: Graham Woodward/Chris Tomas, finishing
at 60 laps, and Ben Woodward/Richard Mack finishing at ... 80
laps. Only the Italians Sergio Bertocchi/Giancarlo
Baldaccini did worse in the B-final, but due to a broken car
after 298 laps. The great revelation of last year's ISRA Worlds was
Janis Sneiders, now teamed with Sandis Spricis. They
too disappointed by finishing at 44 laps from the Swedes. So, no
Latvians in the top-10 this year. Final
A is underway. After 3 runs Horky/Korec were leading
Saunders/Fyhr by 11 laps and Vojtik/Cleave by 16 laps. At mid-race
the Czech IOC1 & IOC2 have achieved already 280 laps, good for a
total of 560, 15 laps more than Landrud/Helgesson. Saunders/Fyhr are
second at ... two laps, Voktik/Cleave third at six laps. After six
segments, with only two to go, Vojtik-Cleave are the new leaders,
followed at one single lap by Saunders/Fyhr and at nine laps by the
former leaders Horky/Korec. With one segment to go Vojtik/Cleave
have two laps over Saunders/Fyhr. As Horky/Korec follow already at
18 laps at least one British racer will be a winner: Saunders or
Cleave. I bet on Cleave since he has the best team mate. Although
there is still one segment to go I put Vojtik/Cleave already as
winners at the IMCA home page. And now I go to sleep, having not the
smallest doubt that my prediction was correct. Results & Comments
tomorrow. [JPVR] |
|
Pos |
Team |
Qual |
Heat |
Total |
|
1 |
Antónin Vojtik (CZ)/James Cleave (GB) |
9.16 |
563.42 |
572.58 |
|
2 |
Brian Saunders
(GB)/Matti Fyhr (SF) |
9.58 |
561.63 |
571.21 |
|
3 |
Michael Landrud (S)/Christer Helgesson (S) |
9.02 |
545.58 |
554.60 |
|
4 |
Paolo Trigilio
(I)/Paul Gawronski (USA) |
9.07 |
545.37 |
554.44 |
|
5 |
Petr Krcil
(CZ)/Jiri
Karlik (CZ) |
9.06 |
539.19 |
548.25 |
|
6 |
Justus Pohjasniemi
(SF)/Atte Lyyski (SF) |
9.47 |
536.39 |
545.86 |
|
7 |
Vladimir Horky (CZ)/Josef
Korec (CZ) |
9.43 |
535.92 |
545.35 |
|
8 |
Greg Harwood
(GB)/Mark Harwood (GB) |
8.90 |
531.52 |
540.42 |
|
9 |
Andris Podosinoviks
(LV)/Janis Rage-Ragis (LV) |
8.46 |
526.08 |
534.54 |
|
10 |
Birger Elfstrom
(S)/Steen Michaelsen (DK) |
8.73 |
522.36 |
531.09 |
|
11 |
Paul Shepherd
(GB)/Paul Harwood (GB) |
8.80 |
522.10 |
530.90 |
|
12 |
Milos Hojer
(CZ)/Martin
Hojer (CZ) |
8.89 |
519.75 |
528.64 |
|
13 |
Anders Gustafson
(S)/Lars Harrysson (S) |
9.05 |
517.77 |
526.82 |
|
14 |
Charlie Gooding (GB)/Martin Ellis (GB) |
8.42 |
517.09 |
525.51 |
|
15 |
Ian Fisher
(GB)/Bob Hallums (GB) |
8.77 |
514.46 |
523.23 |
|
16 |
Reinis
Jansons (LV)/Zaks Edijs (LV) |
9.25 |
513.21 |
522.46 |
|
17 |
Miroslav Vadlejch (CZ)/Jiri Micek sr (CZ) |
7.75 |
513.55 |
521.30 |
|
18 |
Piero
Castricone (I)/"Gugu" Bernadino (BR) |
8.60 |
509.23 |
517.83 |
|
19 |
Margus Jogilaine
(EE)/Kaiar Tammeleht
(EE) |
8.46 |
508.58 |
517.04 |
|
20 |
David Austin
(GB)/Paul Austin (GB) |
8.46 |
507.75 |
516.21 |
|
21 |
Alan
Lucas (GB)/Ross Grogan (GB) |
9.04 |
505.17 |
514.21 |
|
22 |
Sandis Spricis
(LV)/Janis Sneiders (LV) |
9.03 |
501.59 |
510.62 |
|
23 |
Harri Nykanen
(SF)/Atte Hietalahti (SF) |
8.58 |
499.01 |
507.59 |
|
24 |
George Kimber
(GB)/Graeme Stephenson (GB) |
8.76 |
495.84 |
504.60 |
|
25 |
Kari Sinisaari
(SF)/Heiki Sinisaari (SF) |
8.41 |
494.37 |
502.78 |
|
26 |
Arunas Leonavicius
(LT)/Simas Nemira (LT) |
7.81 |
494.91 |
502.72 |
|
27 |
Nick Ovens
(GB)/David
Harvey (GB) |
8.12 |
492.76 |
500.88 |
|
28 |
Nikolay Dolzhanskiy (RU)/Mario Azzopardi (MT) |
9.02 |
488.27 |
497.29 |
|
29 |
Janne
Ekman (S)/Torgny Nordgren (S) |
8.38 |
488.03 |
496.41 |
|
30 |
Steve Sargent
(GB)/David Sargent (GB) |
8.42 |
487.18 |
495.60 |
|
31 |
Graham Woodward
(GB)/Chris Thomas
(GB) |
8.92 |
485.76 |
494.68 |
|
32 |
Vince
Lee (GB)/Ian Barker (GB) |
8.19 |
483.63 |
491.82 |
|
33 |
Michel Lorin
(S)/Harri Kangasmaki
(SF) |
8.46 |
477.80 |
486.26 |
|
34 |
Richard Mack (GB)/Ben
Woodward (GB) |
8.92 |
465.92 |
474.84 |
|
35 |
Keith Gibson
(GB)/Dave Mayo (GB) |
8.69 |
461.91 |
470.60 |
|
36 |
Casimir Iwaszkiewicz (GB)/Charles Hunt (GB) |
8.40 |
459.56 |
467.96 |
|
37 |
Valentin Iskandarov (UKR)/Ihor Kuropiy (UKR) |
7.38 |
457.90 |
465.28 |
|
38 |
Pat Skene
(GB)/Neil Grogan (GB) |
8.51 |
449.18 |
457.69 |
|
39 |
Berra Ljungdahl
(S)/Mia Ekman (S) |
7.90 |
444.56 |
452.46 |
|
40 |
Chris Frost
(GB)/Mike
Gibbon (GB) |
7.46 |
441.17 |
448.63 |
|
41 |
Francesco Barillaro (I)/Marcello Costa (I) |
7.89 |
439.28 |
447.17 |
|
42 |
Viktor Bergman
(S)/Helane Bergman (S) |
7.74 |
438.61 |
446.35 |
|
43 |
Andy Brown-Searle
(GB)/William Bugenis (USA) |
7.79 |
438.02 |
445.81 |
|
44 |
Roger
Schmitt (USA)/Peter Kerr (USA) |
7.59 |
437.04 |
444.63 |
|
45 |
Benedetto Cardillo (I)/Salvatore DeRosa
(I) |
8.77 |
434.67 |
443.44 |
|
46 |
Franciskus Dobrovolskis(LT)/Mindagaus Razauskas(LT) |
7.92 |
432.72 |
440.64 |
|
47 |
Kennet Signal
(S)/Erik Noltensmejer (DK) |
7.89 |
431.22 |
439.11 |
|
48 |
Valery Pluta
(UKR)/Aidas Zagaras (LT) |
7.83 |
429.89 |
437.72 |
|
49 |
Sandy
Parker (GB)/Stephen Siddall (GB) |
8.03 |
414.92 |
422.95 |
|
50 |
Rino Frisoli
(I) Antonio Merlini (I) |
7.67 |
413.31 |
420.98 |
|
51 |
Theo Vanginderhuysen
(B)/Wink Hackman
(GB) |
8.02 |
401.02 |
409.04 |
|
52 |
Carlos Segura
(E)/Jaume Ortis (E) |
6.77 |
396.61 |
403.38 |
|
53 |
Daniel
Ax (S)/Erik Signal (S) |
8.73 |
392.90 |
401.63 |
|
54 |
Stanislav Polic (CZ)/Petr Filinger (CZ) |
7.46 |
380.74 |
388.20 |
|
55 |
Peter Verdo
(USA)/Mike
Stahl (USA) |
8.42 |
315.00 |
323.42 |
|
56 |
Günther Zenker (D)/Marion Zenker (D) |
6.77 |
300.48 |
307.25 |
|
57 |
Sergio Bertocchi
(I)/Giancarlo Baldaccini (I) |
8.91 |
298.00 |
306.91 |
|
|

James Cleave (GB) won his second
124 Production Race, Antónin Vojtik his first. |
October 14, 2008 - Vladimir Horky
(CZ)/Josef Korec (CZ) were dominating the first half of the
race, dropped in third position OA with two segments to go, and in
seventh position at the end of the race. Once they lost the lead it
was a struggle among the two best Britons - Brian Saunders &
James Cleave - having both chosen an excellent team mate:
Antónin Vojtik (CZ) for Cleave, Matti Fyhr (SF) for
Saunders. Saunders seemed to have made the best choice as Matti Fyhr won
earlier already four times the ISRA team race: in 1998, 2000 and
2004 with his brother Einari, in 2005 with ... Brian Saunders (GB).
Cleave (in 1997) and Saunders (in 2005) won each once. It's funny to
read on the MK web site that the Britons have a new world champion.
Up to now the Britons NEVER won an official world championship. The terms
"world championship" and "worlds", as used in slot-racing, have been
patented in December 1985 before notary Ernst van Tricht and have
never been protected for production races with lexan bodies
(contested since 1986!), only for production races with hard plastic
bodies. At ISRA however, they are above the law, above all patents,
certainly if they can claim that a Briton is world champion. If
the Britons wish to celebrate an official champion Cleave or
Saunders will have to beat Horky, Gawronski, Korec or Trigilio at
the ES24 race, being an official world championship since 1986
(thus six years before the foundation of ISRA). How did
Paolo Trigilio (I) and Paul Gawronski (USA) - team mates!
- yesterday? They reached the A Final and finished fourth overall,
preceded by Landrud/Helgesson. Petr Krcil/Jiri Karlik Petr Krcil/Jiri Karlik
from Czechia, seventh at the qualifications, did better at the race,
finishing fifth. Three teams having reached that A Final could not
confirm their qualification result: Justus
Pohjasniemi(SF)/Atte Lyyiski (SF), runner-up at the
qualifications, finished sixth OA;
Anders Gustafson/Lars Harryson from Sweden, still eighth at
the qualifications, finished as 13th; and Reinis Jansons/Zaks
Edijs from Latvia, fourth qualifiers, came no further than the
fifteenth place. Of the 39 Britons at the start, 21 -
racing on the own holy home ground with similar cars as all others -
failed to reach the first half of the ranking. Even worse did the
Swedes: of their 15 entrants only five finished in the first half of
the ranking. The Italians did hardly better as only 4 of the 10
entrants reached the first half of the ranking. That proves that
there are much too much field fillers at the ISRA Nats. Among the
absentees we note Glyn Tyler (AU), Alex Leite (BR), Pavel Flaisig
(CZ), Karl Keldrima (EE), Ralph Parker (GB), Leonida Monti (I),
Marco Viola (I), Ray Bishop (USA), Lou Pirro (USA) and the
inevitable Herman James (USA).
Click here
for all former Production 124 Scale Races. The
IOC-list
has been updated.
[JPVR] |
|
|
5th
EUROCUP 2008- GOTHA, DECIN, BRÜHL, PARDUBICE MARCH 28-NOV 23, 2008
(LEVEL 2
IOC-RACE) |
|
JIRI
MICEK SR BEST OVERALL, M. KRAUSE BEST G12 |
|
December 14, 2008 - The 2008 Eurocup went
again over four rounds with at each round a ES24 and a G12
race for Experts and a Production 124 and G12 race for
Amateurs & Kids. As the organising club of Zlin (CZ) had to
sell its Blue King track to Vienna once there was not enough
income to pay the rent of the building, the Zlin race was
replaced by a round at Decin. They gave however a splendid
example of dynamism: even without having any longer an own
track, they were the best of all involved clubs. This
year entrants were restricted to racers of Czechia and
Germany with occasional entries of two expert racers from
Holland, one expert from Austria and America's Jeff Mack
(serving in Germany). The four G12 races for experts were
won by Ronny Scheer (D) in Gotha, Jiri Micek sr
(CZ) in Decin, Kamil Klapka (CZ) at Brühl and
Milos Hojer (CZ) at Pardubice. The four ES24 races for
experts went to Ronny Scheer (D) at Gotha, Jiri
Micek sr (CZ) at both Decin and Brühl and by Ivo
Tirol (CZ) at Pardubice. With two second places and one
third place Michael Krause (D) was the best expert in
G12. With two victories and one third place Jiri Micek sr
(CZ) was the best expert in ES24. Ivo Tirol (CZ)
totalled the same number of points as Micek, but was ranked
as second as he won only one whilst Micek won twice. In
the combined standings - going for IOC points - Jiri
Micek sr is the winner, ahead over Ivo Tirol and
Ulf Edgar Pietsch (D). Best club is the SRC Zlin,
beating the SRC Gotha, DDM SRC Decin, AMT Praha, SRC
Chemnitz, Austria and SRC Pforzheim. Among the amateurs
young Lukás Micek was the winner. The winner of the
previous edition, Jiri Micek jr (CZ), entered
only two rounds, the first and the last, scoring no top
places. The 2006 winner, Jirka Karlik, entered only the last
round. Although the Eurocup, organised for the fifth
consecutive time, is an interesting series number of
entrants is going down. It has nothing of a European
Championship as it is rather an interclub competition. For
that reason the Eurocup cannot maintain its IOC status next
year. 2008 was probably the last time that the Eurocup was
contested with IOC-status. [JPVR] |
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15th
BSCRA 124 NATS - AUG 23-24, 2008
(ES24
LEVEL 2
IOC-RACE,
OG12 &
SALOON
LEVEL 3
IOC-RACE) |
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HORKY, KOREC, KRCIL DOMINATE BSCRA 124 NATS |
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LANDRUD WINS G12, CLEAVE WINS SALOON AND IS BEST BRITON |
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September 9, 2008 - Before the mid
1980s there was no scale racing at 1/24th in the UK. Except for
wing cars there was exclusively 1/32nd racing where such chassis as
the OPP (Ian Jensen) and the 1-0-1 (Dave
Harvey) were the most popular. The Britons discovered 1/24th scale
racing at the famous Pinky Point Series in 1986 when Dan
Debella (Proslot) and Jon Laster (Camen) made the first
tripod chassis for 124 cars and used in it open can motors, derived
from wing car motors. At the IMCA Worlds in Chicago in 1988 and 1989
such racers as Paul Lyon, George Kimber, Mark Harrison, Steve
Walker, Tim Ryan, Chris James and others discovered
international scale racing. Up from 1993 the first world
championship for ES24 cars are organised by the newly created ISRA
In 1994 the BSCRA organises the first 124 Nats for three classes:
ES24, 124 G12 and 124 Production/Saloon. Initially there is some
interest from other than national racers, but after a couple of
years the BSCRA 124 Nats become a typical national event, where
nearly exclusively British racers show. This year things
radically changed at the 15th edition of the BSCRA 124 Nats: they
are at the same time a warm-up race for the 2008 ISRA Worlds,
contested later this year at Milton Keynes. As the races are
contested on the same brand new wooden 8-laner which will be used at
the 2008 ISRA Worlds, several top-racers of foreign countries wished
to test their cars on the new track. The two best ranked racers on
the IOC list (IOC = International Overall Classification),
Vladimir Horky (CZ) and Josef Korec (CZ) decided to show.
Horky won already six times the ISRA Worlds (in ES24), is the
defending world champion, won this year also the Wing Car Worlds and
wishes to win in October an eighth world champion title. Korec won
the ISRA Worlds in 2000 and finished four times on the ES24 Worlds
podium. Horky and Korec came together with the 2004 ISRA World
Champion Petr Krcil (CZ), with Antónin Vojtik (CZ), Martin
Hojer (CZ) and Milos Hojer (CZ). Other Czech top racers
as Jiri Karlik (last years vice world champion), Tomas
Rosenberg (the 2005 vice world champion), Mikail Radkovic
(the 1995 world champion), Jaroslav Recek (the 1996 vice
world champion) didn't show. Italy came with Paolo Trigilio,
the IOC #7 and twice vice world champion, and best Italian scale
racer after the withdrawal of Salvatore Noviello (triple
world champion) and Sergio Maresca (multiple world champion,
but four times disqualified after a win). Sergio Bertocchi, Marco
Viola, Franz Barrillaro and Marcelo Costa were the
Italians showing together with Trigilio. Their second best scale
racer, Pietro Castricone didn't show. |
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Vladimir Horky (left) and Josef Korec
- res. the IOC #1 and IOC #2 - dominated the BSCRA 124 Nats. By
finishing three times second Korec was the victor ludorum with 6
points. Horky, having realised the ES24 win, a second and a fourth
place scored 1 + 2+ 4 = 7 points. Best Briton was James Cleave [5 +
4 + 1 = 10 points] was best British racer. Fourth place went to
Trigilio [4 + 4 + 3 = 11 points]. Brian Saunders [7 + 8 + 5 = 20
points] failed to confirm his excellent 2007 results where, of all
scale racers, he collected the most points over all 2007 IOC scale
races. PICTURE courtesy to BSCRA. |
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Apart from the 6 Czechs and the 5 Italians there were two Americans
(Roger Schmitt and Mike Stahl), two Swedes (Mikael
Landrud - the 2003 world champion) and Christer Helgesson),
two Germans (Günther and Marion Zenker), and Pedro
Mizerela (at least back in international racing!) from Portugal.
That makes 18 foreign racers in total, a record in BSCRA 124 Nats
racing. If I counted correctly there were 65 different starters,
thus 47 Britons. Among them the nearly complete older generation
with Dave Harvey, Charlie Gooding, George Kimber, Bob Hallums,
Keith Gibson, Ian Fisher, Ian Barker, Alan Lucas, Andy Brown-Searle,
Steve Sargent, etc. Among the younger generation we found the
classical values: Brian Saunders, James Cleave, Graham Woodward
and the three Harwoods, but no Paul Shepherd (last
year good for two podiums at the BSCRA 124 Nats). The youngest generation was
present with Ben Woodward, Graeme Stephenson (in the official
results they spell it as "Stevenson") and Sandy Parker. Only
Will Stemman - last year's revelation - was not there.
Everybody was curious to see what the 2008 BSCRA 132 champions -
James Cleave, Ben Woodward and Greg Harwood - are worth
in actual 1/24th racing.
JAMES CLEAVE WINS PRODUCTION/SALOON At the BSCRA 124 Nats
the qualifications decide who has to start in which heat, with the
slowest qualifiers in the first heat and the fastest qualifiers in
the last heat. In production one has to race stamped chassis with
handout motors. Fastest qualifier was James Cleave (GB) in
5"952, ahead over Josef Korec (CZ), Paolo Trigilio (I), Brian
Saunders (GB) and ... Dave Harvey (GB). We have to go
back to the late 1980s to find Dave so well placed in an
international contest. With his fifth place he gave full evidence
that he remains one of the best British racers. Harvey even
preceded Vladimir Horky (CZ) having clocked the sixth best
time. Mikael Landrud (S) failed to qualify
for the A heat. By winning the B heat he realised the sixth best
total of laps. The four fastest qualifiers plus Horky realised the
highest number of laps. That implied that top qualifier James
Cleave (GB) achieved most laps and won the race, with Josef
Korec (CZ) as runner-up, Paolo Trigilio (I) as third,
Vladimir Horky (CZ) as fourth and Brian Saunders (GB) as
fifth. By finishing seventh overall Dave Harvey (GB)
confirmed his fine performance of the qualifications. None of the
BSCRA 132 champions other than Cleave performed well: Greg
Harwood came no further than 14th, Ben Woodward no
further than 39th. |
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The car of Vladimir Horky having
won the ES24 race. The Horky chassis is one of the best in scale
racing. Michael Landrud used in 124 OG12 a similar chassis to win
that race (cf. picture right under).
PICTURES courtesy to BSCRA. |
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MIKAEL LANDRUD WINS 124 OG12 RACE For all other "oldies" than
Dave Harvey the Saloon race was unsuccessful. Charlie Gooding
was only 33rd, George Kimber only 35th, Bob Hallums
only 36th and Ian Barker only 40th: performances far
under their racing capacities. So they all hoped to do better at the
124 OG12 Race. However none of them reached after the Qualifications
the A or B Heat. Best of the oldies was again Dave Harvey,
but only as first of the C heat (17th time). Only Steve Sargent
(11th time) and Keith Gibson (15th time) reached the B
Heat, but not of great avail since they finished as low as res. 24th
and 33rd. For Charlie Gooding (20th time) the race was a
nightmare: after lots of tech woes he finished 55th. The other good
old values of British racing all failed to convince with Kimber as
19th, Lucas as 21st, Harvey as 23rd, and Barker as 35th.
Everybody expected that the winner was to be sought among the
finalists of the A heat. Here top qualifier Vladimir Horky (CZ)
was beaten by ... only one segment by Josef Korec (CZ),
with James Cleave (GB) and Paolo Trigilio (I) tied on
the third place of the A Final. Howebver, then it appeared at once
that Sweden's Mikail Landrud, who won the B Final, had
achieved one lap more than Korec, so that he and not Korec was the
winner. For Landrud it was his second victory in an important
international race for he won already the 124 OG12 at this year's
Swedish Masters. Young Martin Hojer (CZ) and Antónin
Vojtik (CZ) realised the sixth and seventh place, letting
Brian Saunders (GB) behind on place 8. Nice performance by
Christer Helgesson (S), already eleventh in the saloon race and
now ninth. Sergio Bertocchi (I) and Petr Krcil (CZ),
who both started in the A Final, failed to confirm and finished res.
as 17th and 12th. Seen the quality and quantity of the entries
the two first races of the 2008 BSCRA 124 Nats were graded up as
IOC-events of level 3, i.e. good for res. 10, 7˝, 6, 4˝, 3,
1˝, 1 and ˝ IOC points. That's half of the IOC points for a level
2 race such as the ES24 Race at the BSCRA 124 Nats. If, in the
future, organisers can maintain a good international entry the
Saloon/Production and the OG12 Race at the BSCRA 124 Nats will
maintain that level 3 status in the years to come. The IOC list is a
PERMANENT ranking of all slot-racers since 1970. Actually more than
1000 different racers are ranked as can be seen
here. |
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ES24 TO VLADIMIR HORKY At the qualifications of the ES24
Race Vladimir Horky (CZ) was 16/100 of a second faster than
James Cleave (GB). Although Charlie Gooding (GB) could
only qualify for Final he proved to be still competitive as he
finished eighth overall, only preceded by James Cleave (GB - 5th),
Alan Lucas (GB - 6th) and Brian Saunders (GB - 7th) of
his country mates. Of the 'oldies' Graham Woodward (GB -10th),
George Kimber (GB -12th), Dave Harvey (GB - 13th), Bob Hallums (GB -
14th) and Ian Barker (GB - 15th) all performed well this
time, showing the youngsters that they are still there. Of those
youngsters Ben Woodward (GB) was eleventh, but Graeme
Stephenson (GB) had once more back luck - just as last year at
the ES24 Worlds in Slovakia - as he had already to retire after only
17 laps. Bad luck too for Mikail Landrud (S), retiring after
76 laps. The race was completely dominated by the Czechs
realising the three first places with Vladimir Horky (1st), Josef
Korec (2nd) and Petr Krcil (3rd). They even could have
made it a top-4 if Antónin Vojtik (CZ) had not to retire
after 237 laps. Among the non-Czechs Paolo Trigilio (I) was
four segments faster than James Cleave (GB). We noted a
couple of fine results of foreign racers at the ES24 with Roger
Schmitt (USA) finishing as 18th and Portugal's Pedro Mizerela
as 25th. Up to now the Britons won NEVER an official world
championship [In scale racing only ISRA's ES24 is an official world
championship conform with the stipulations in the patent on that
word in 1985.] After the BSCRA 124 Nats we see only one Briton able
to fight for victory at the 2008 ISRA Words, contested on the same
track: that is James Cleave. Of all others Brian Saunders
could have been a second candidate if he was not at the same
time organiser of the 2008 ISRA Worlds. We all know that organising
AND racing at the same time is a nearly impossible combination. So
we don't believe in Saunders's chances. Compared to the terrible
Czechs Cleave stands where Trigilio always stood: just one step
lower and probably not high enough to beat them. The problem with
Cleave is that he has no great international experience and that his
cars are not so perfectly tuned as the cars of the Czechs. So I am
afraid that despite of contesting the worlds at the holy home
ground, the Britons will fail once more to win the ISRA World
Champion-ship. It should be a great surprise if someone could hold
off Horky to win at Milton Keynes his seventh Scare Racing World
Championship [JPVR] |
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BSCRA ES24
(IOC LEVEL 2) |
BSCRA 124
OG12 (IOC LEVEL 3) |
BSCRA 124
SALOON (IOC LEVEL 3) |
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1. Vladimir HORKY (CZ) |
4"441
(A1) |
280.67 |
1. Mikael LANDRUD (S) |
5"321 (B1) |
253.22 |
1. James
CLEAVE (GB) |
5"952 (A1) |
222.69 |
| 2. Josef Korec
(CZ) |
4"617 (A3) |
270.12 |
2. Josef Korec
(CZ) |
5"046 (A2) |
253.23 |
2. Josef Korec (CZ) |
6"136 (A2) |
219.69 |
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3. Petr Krcil (CZ) |
4"691 (A5) |
267.86 |
3. Vladimir Horky (CZ) |
5"025
(A1) |
252.22 |
3. Paolo
Trigilio (I) |
6"159 (A3) |
219.02 |
| 4. Paolo
Trigilio (I) |
4"824 (A8) |
264.56 |
4. James
Cleave (GB) |
5"103 (A3) |
251.79 |
4. Vladimir Horky (CZ) |
6"323 (A6) |
216.95 |
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5. James Cleave (GB) |
4"604 (A2) |
264.52 |
5. Paolo Trigilio (I) |
5"283 (A7) |
251.79 |
5. Brian
Saunders (GB) |
6"225 (A4) |
216.76 |
| 6. Alan Lucas
(GB) |
5"091 (C3) |
261.01 |
6. Martin
Hojer (CZ) |
5"235 (A4) |
244.46 |
6. Mikael Landrud (S) |
6"425 (B4) |
214.18 |
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7. Brian Saunders (GB) |
4"966 (B7) |
260.87 |
7. Antónin Vojtik (CZ) |
5"281 (A6) |
240.20 |
7. Dave Harvey
(GB) |
6"294 (A5) |
213.90 |
| 8. Charlie
Gooding (GB) |
5"119 (C4) |
259.02 |
8. Brian
Saunders (GB) |
5"450 (B6) |
238.21 |
8. Chris Thomas (GB) |
6"414 (B3) |
210.71 |
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9. Milos Hojer (CZ) |
4"967 (B7) |
256.21 |
9. Christer Helgesson (S) |
5"406 (B4) |
236.87 |
9. Martin
Jackson (GB) |
6"384 (B2) |
207.92 |
| 10. Graham
Woodward (GB) |
4"692 (A6) |
254.72 |
10. Mark
Harwood (GB) |
5"539 (C3) |
235.61 |
10. Richard Mack (GB) |
6"491 (B7) |
206.39 |
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11. Ben Woodward (GB) |
5"349 (E2) |
251.44 |
11. Greg Harwood (GB) |
5"770 (D2) |
235.56 |
11. Christer
Helgesson (S) |
6"437 (B5) |
205.92 |
| 12. George
Kimber (GB) |
5"339 (D8) |
248.24 |
12. Petr Krcil
(CZ) |
5"270 (A5) |
234.29 |
12. Graeme Stevenson (GB) |
6"356 (B1) |
205.49 |
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13. Dave Harvey (GB) |
5"203 (D3) |
246.76 |
13. Paul Harwood (GB) |
5"390 (B2) |
233.74 |
13. Petr Krcil
(CZ) |
6"513 (C3) |
205.05 |
| 14. Bob
Hallums (GB) |
5"072 (B8) |
244.29 |
14. Ross
Grogan (GB) |
5"486 (B8) |
230.98 |
14. Greg Harwood (GB) |
6"346 (A7) |
204.78 |
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15. Ian Barker (GB) |
5"085 (C2) |
242.84 |
15. Graham Woodward (GB) |
5"437 (B5) |
230.78 |
15. Alan Lucas
(GB) |
6"591 (C5) |
203.67 |
| 16. Dave
Coward (GB) |
5"395 (E4) |
242.41 |
16. Paul
Austin (GB) |
5"865 (D7) |
229.04 |
16. Antónin Vojtik (CZ) |
6"471 (N8) |
202.57 |
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17. Mark Harwood (GB) |
5"306 (D5) |
240.77 |
17. Sergio Bertocchi (I) |
5"320 (A8) |
228.00 |
17. Graham
Woodward (GB) |
6"347 (A8) |
201.35 |
| 18. Roger
Schmitt (USA) |
5"124 (C6) |
239.93 |
18. Richard
Mack (GB) |
7"098 (G9) |
226.30 |
18. Charles Hunt (GB) |
6"465 (B7) |
201.24 |
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19. Dave Austin (GB) |
5"337 (D7) |
238.84 |
19. George Kimber (GB) |
5"963 (E3) |
226.17 |
19. Sergio
Bertocchi (I) |
6"460 (B6) |
200.70 |
| 20. Pat Skene
(GB) |
5"190 (D2) |
238.79 |
20. Martin
Ellis (GB) |
5"642 (C5) |
225.22 |
20. Martin Ellis (GB) |
6"676 (D4) |
200.57 |
|
21. Antónin Vojtik (CZ) |
5"150 (C8) |
237.00 |
21. Alan Lucas (GB) |
5"631 (C4) |
224.22 |
21. Paul
Harwood (GB) |
6"597 (C6) |
197.80 |
| 24. Martin
Hojer (CZ) |
4"875 (B3) |
236.19 |
23. Dave
Harvey (GB) |
5"520 (C1) |
223.70 |
22. Steve Sargent (GB) |
6"638 (D1) |
196.46 |
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25. Christer Helgesson (S) |
4"842 (B1) |
235.00 |
24. Steve Sergeant (GB) |
5"379 (B3) |
220.92 |
23. Mark
Harwood (GB) |
6"871 (E7) |
194.61 |
| 26. Pedro
Mizerela (PT) |
5"078 (C1) |
234.56 |
32. Graeme
Stevenson (GB) |
5"691 (C6) |
215.45 |
26. Ian Fisher (GB) |
6"767 (E2) |
193.59 |
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31. Keith Gibson (GB)
|
4"866 (B2) |
224.00 |
33. Keith Gibson (GB) |
5"470 (B7) |
214.67 |
27. Ross
Grogan (GB) |
6"537 (C4) |
193.23 |
| 32. Paul
Harwood (GB) |
5"123 (C5) |
222.01 |
35. Ian Barker
(GB) |
5"780 (D4) |
212.58 |
28. Mike Stahl (USA) |
6"621 (C8) |
192.91 |
|
34. David Sargent (GB) |
5"243 (D4) |
217.61 |
40. Marco Viola (I) |
6"348 (F9) |
206.17 |
32. Keith
Gibson (GB) |
6"725 (D5) |
192.61 |
| 35. Ross
Grogan (GB) |
4"789 (A7) |
216.62 |
41. Franz
Barrillaro (I/GB?) |
6"388 (G2) |
206.05 |
33. Charlie Gooding (GB) |
6"492 (C2) |
192.29 |
|
36. Mike Stahl (USA) |
5"143 (C7) |
213.18 |
42. Roger Schmitt (USA) |
5"984 (E5) |
205.00 |
35. George
Kimber (GB) |
7"156 (F7) |
191.04 |
| 37. Marco
Viola (I) |
5"536 (F2) |
212.90 |
43. Sandy
Parker (GB) |
6"396 (G4) |
204.17 |
36. Bob Hallums (GB) |
6"731 (D6) |
190.76 |
|
38. Andy Brown-Searle (GB) |
6"139 (F8) |
211.25 |
45. Pedro Mizerela (PT) |
6"074 (F2) |
203.42 |
38. Pat Skene
(GB) |
6"746 (D7) |
186.88 |
| 40. Steve
Sargent (GB) |
5"53 (E7) |
208.66 |
48. Marcello
Costa (I) |
5"980 (E5) |
197.72 |
39. Ben Woodward (GB) |
6"860 (E4) |
186.49 |
|
41. Sandy Parker (GB) |
5"728 (F4) |
207.22 |
55. Charlie Gooding (GB) |
5"608 (C4) |
182.34 |
40. Ian Barker
(GB) |
6"750 (D8) |
183.77 |
| 43. Franz
Barrillaro (I/GB?) |
5"440 (E5) |
201.00 |
56. Günther
Zenker (D) |
6"943 (G8) |
176.05 |
43. Martin Hojer (CZ) |
6"912 (E8) |
183.22 |
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48. Mikael Landrud (S) |
4"665 (A4) |
76.00 |
58. Ben Woodward (GB) |
5"858 (D6) |
169.00 |
51. Pedro
Mizerela (PT) |
6"654 (D2) |
167.00 |
| 49. Graeme
Stevenson (GB) |
4"966 (B5) |
17.00 |
59. Marion
Zenker (D) |
6"585 (G5) |
151.00 |
56. Roger Schmitt (USA) |
7"751 (G8) |
157.42 |
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There were 49 entries |
There
were 59 entries |
There
were 59 entries |
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3RD NORTHERN EUROPE ISRA NATS AT ATVIDABERG (S) - JUNE 13-14, 2008
(ES24
IS AN
IOC-RACE) |
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ANDERS GUSTAFSON WINS ES24 RACE |
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Gustafson wins also 132F1 - ES32 to Janis Rage-Ragis |
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August 13, 2008 (two months late!) -
The Northern European ISRA Championship - third edition
- is the one but last race before the ISRA Scale Racing Worlds from
October 11 to 19 at Middleton Hall of Milton Keynes in England.
Indeed, this year there will be no specific ISRA Warm-Up race, as
organised the last years: that warm-up race will now be the BSCRA
124 Nats at Cranfield near Milton Keynes. It was always said that
this race should be contested on the new Worlds track (with no less
than three bridges - en avant les track calls!) but it is not
sure if the new track will be painted and braided in time. Let's
hope it will be so. Contrarily to other years it's difficult to say
if the tandem Vladimir Horky and Jozef Korec can be
beaten at the Milton Keynes Worlds as, up to now, they were not seen
in international competition for scale cars (only in wing car
racing, where Horky won his seventh world championship, an absolute
record in the history of slot-racing). The good news is that both
will enter this year's BSCRA Nats within a week. Unfortunately that
race, as well as the USRA Div 1 Wing Car Nats the ... same week, are
organised when I am on holidays in the Southern of France. Having
done this web site completely alone during more than eight years, I
wish to respire after I withdrew from international slot-racing as
organiser. So one'll have to wait mid-September before I can make a
report on those two very important meetings. At the Atvidaberg
NEC we found racers from Latvia (6, among them Janis Sneiders,
the revelation of the 2007 Revuca ISRA Worlds), from Estland (1),
from Finland (7, among them Matti Fyhr, making his come-back
after his victory at the Swedish Masters, and Harri Nykänen,
last year's NEC winner), from England (only 2, but with the new
BSCRA champion, young Ben Woodward), and of course a majority
of racers from Sweden. There were no racers from Denmark (after
Lars Norkjaer retired from active racing), from Norway (being
more and more oriented to model cars) and of Lithuania.
Anders Gustafson, the former wing car racer, and ex-ESROC Nats
winner, proved at the 3rd NEC that he's ready for the upcoming
worlds: he won both the ES24 and the ES32 race. In ES24 Lasse
Ĺberg (S) and Matti Fyhr (SF) had both technical
problems, finishing among the back benchers. Daniel Ax (S)
and Kaiar Tammeleht (EE) caused a rtir by finishing as second
and third. Last year's winner Harri Nykänen (SF) - last year
very disappointing at the Revuca ISRA Worlds - seems having
recovered since he finished among the top-8. Not fully convincing -
and this already the whole season - is ex-world champion Michael
Landrud, finishing only 13th. After his 124 G12 victory at the
Swedish Masters, early this year, he failed to convince. At the NEC
he was fastest qualifier in 4"373 but had to retire after 318
laps (again with technical problems). Not convincing too was
Janis Sneiders, last year still a surprising third at the ES24
Worlds in Slovakia, but now only 17th. Another youngster having been
brilliant at the 2007 ISRA Worlds, Mikael Pamqvist (S)
realised the fourth best time at the qualifications, but was
eliminated by technical problems after 263 laps. At the ES32 race
Anders Gustafson, having as lonely one TQ-ed under the 6
seconds, was involved in a close combat with ex-double world
champion wing car racing Lasse
Ĺberg (S), finishing two laps ahead over him. Here the third
podium place went to Andris Podosinoviks (LV). Landrud,
Sneiders, Ben Woodward, Nykänen and Kari Sinisaari (SF) all
performed far beneath their own racing capacities. The 132 F1
race was a typical Latvian affair. Good old Janis Rage-Ragis (LV)
won, more than a full lap over his country mate Andris
Podosinoviks. By realising the third place Ben Woodward (GB)
gave full evidence that his win at the BSCRA Nats was not a
lucky shot. He can be one of the best British racers at the upcoming
ISRA Worlds at Milton Keynes. Janis Sneiders (LV) at least
showed a glimpse of his racing talents by finishing fifth. More
convincing to me was Mikael Pamqvist (S), who after a fourth
place in ES32 was now sixth. At any rate he was the best youngster
of the meeting. Fine perfo |