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ORGANISER:
Centre Modelisme Les Franqueses for MOCPA, with support of the
local municipality. Organisation committee: Francesc Reyes,
Luis Capsi,
DATE: Sprint
Races on Friday July 27 & Sunday-Monday July 29-30, 2012.
Main sponsor of the sprint races is Red Bull.
Endurance
Race on Saturday July 28, 2012. Main sponsor of the
endurance races is V8 Supercars.
RACE LOCATION:
Centre Modelisme
Les Franqueses, Carrer
Sant Isidre sin numero (S/N means without
number) (near to the train station), 08520,
Les Franqueses del Valles.
TRACK: 48m Steve Ogilvie MTT 8-laner
used since 2007 for all world championship races organised by the former
IMCA and the actual MOCPA.
HOSTING OF RACERS - All foreign racers, wanting to do so, will receive the
possibility to sleep without costs in a school close to the track
(they have to mention by mail to
jppro@pandora.be if they wish to accept that
proposal).
Don't forget to visit Barcelona, it's such a wonderful city. Consult our special "WONDERFUL BARCELONA" web page that we made for the 2011 Barcelona Worlds. Life is so much more than just racing!
SURVEY OF THE 2 SPRINT RACES WITH MODEL CARS
1. THE 16th PRODUCTION
WORLDS (Friday) -
contested with 32 handout identical
1/32nd scale NSR
Mosler as
already raced
since 2008.
Qualifications
1' on lane
purple. Straight
heats of 8 x 5'. The Production Worlds is exclusively open for 32 racers.
2.
THE 124 F1 SPRINT WORLDS (Friday)
are contested exclusively by pros with 1/24th copies of the
24 actual F1 cars, using
at the racers discretion (1) or a F1
chassis of Niemas Racecars, (2) or a F1 Metris chassis, (3) or WWS F1
chassis as released by Jens Scaleracing, and further a recent hard plastic Revell
body and an SR-49 Hi-Speed handout motor. The rules can be found
under
art. 6.B
of the MOCPA
Rulebook.
Before the start
each entrant
receives 2 pairs
of rear wheels,
one with black
sponge tyres and
one with brown
rubber tyres.
They decide
themselves which
of the two pairs
they'll mount
for the
qualifications,
going over 3
rounds. Tyre
change is
obliged between
the start of run
#3 until the end
of run #6. There
are 3
qualification
rounds, where
the 8 last after
session #1 are
out after the
first session,
where the 6 last
of session #2
are out for the
last session,
and where the
last session
with 10 cars
decides upon the
final
composition of
the heats.
Race goes over 3
heats of 8 x
7'30. More details can be found at MOCPA's Special F1 Worlds page.
Using actual 1/24th scale F1 cars
for the 24th Model Car Sprint Worlds offered the best conditions to get
the necessary sponsoring money for the 2012 MOCPA Barcelona Worlds.
[Eventually we
got $ 50,000
US as
sponsoring
money, not
enough to pay
the plane
tickets of Paul
& Frank
Gawronski, Jeff
Lauterbach,
Herman James,
Tracy Chin, Al &
Kieron Paterson,
Mauro Carreira,
Carel van
Heerden jr,
Colin Lotz. With
pain in my heart
I had to drop
those racers
from the entry
list - JPVR.]
SURVEY OF THE 3
RETRO SPRINT RACES WITH CANAM CARS
1. THE 24th
BENELUX CUP (Sunday)
will be contested for the first time in a quarter
century with D3 Canam cars and this following the technical
prescriptions sub
art 6.C
of the MOCPA Rule Book. That article copies, except for part C ("The
Motor") the existing D3 rules. As motor retro cars will use in 2012
the ProSlot Euro Mk1 with US
Puppy Dog armature and can with ball bearing. The
Benelux Cup is the warm-up race for the 3rd Retro Worlds on Sunday.
2. THE 21st RETRO EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP (EURONATS) (Sunday) will be contested no longer with 1/24th model cars but for the first
time with D3 retro Canam cars. The race will be reserved for 64
racers. Technical rules are D3's (except for the handout motor a
broken-in ProSlot Euro Mk1 Puppy Dog with bearing at the can).
3. THE 3rd
CocaCola RETRO RACING
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (Monday) will be the
highlight of the Barcelona Worlds. That race too will be contested with
1/24th D3 Canam cars with a format of 8 Consis (8 x 3'), 4 Quarters (8 x
3'), 2 Semis (8 x 4') and 1 Main Final (8 x 5'). There will be room for
64 entrant. The D3 Retro Racing Worlds will be TV covered. No less than
34
racers coming from overseas will be at the start, representing the five
world continents. Not earlier in the history of slot-racing such
happened, even not in the golden sixties! Something that will be stocked
in your memory for the rest of your life. More
details can be found at MOCPA's Special Retro Worlds page
THE ENDURANCE RACE WITH
2011 BATHURST V8 SUPERCARS
THE 11TH ENDURANCE
WORLDS (Saturday) over
3 heats of 8 x
22'30" as the big event on Saturday: the 11th Endurance World
Championship. Enough from the too slow motors, a majority
of racers insisted to work with the ProSlot Euro Mk 1 Puppy Dog
motor as used for the retro races. Such faster motors are incompatible
with GFK or hard plastic motors. So, waiting copies of actual race GT3 cars,
only expected by 2015, we opted for indestructible 0.030"
PETG bodies of ... 2011 V8 Supercars as released by good old Victor
Ferguson (USA) [he has golden hands] before March 31, 2012.
There will be a separate world championship for pros (12 cars for 24
entrants) and for semi-pros (14 cars for 29 entrants). Rules can be found sub
art
7 of the MOCPA Rule Book. |
