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SLOT-RACING'S WALL OF FAME (JUNE 8, 2010) |
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March 1, 2010
- Several
racers - especially new ones attracted by the hobby sport of
slot-racing - are curious who are the racers having their place at
the slot-racing wall of fame. Endless discussions were made on
several forums to detect slot-racing's wall of fame. Those
discussions are highly emotional, far from objective, and in some
cases rather ridiculous. Mid-2007 somebody proposed on the OWH that
'Erkle' Tylinski (USA) and Greg Mills (CDN) should be considered as belonging to slot-racing's
wall of fame. None of those racers won in their career important
races, so they certainly don't belong to the wall of fame. |
Those are, ranked by nation, the racers on the Wall of
Fame on April 20, 2010: |
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NOTE ON INTERTEMPORAL COMPARISON |
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In the here presented wall of fame older racers - most of them no longer active as racers - are certainly discriminated. For that there are two concrete reasons. Primo should one consider that in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s most racers had not the financial resources of the younger racers now. That implies that they could only go to a limited number of races. For racers as Jon Laster, Joel Montague, Bernd Möbus, Achim Burgmann, etc. that means that their number of IOC-wins should have been much higher if they were racing with appropriated financial means. Secundo one has to keep in mind that the number of international races was much more restricted during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s than now. That means that the generation of Ernie Provetti, Jan Limpach, Jon Laster, Csaba Szekelyhidi, Joel Montague, Bernd Möbus, Steve Walker, etc. had only a few opportunities per year to win IOC-Races - certainly as long that the G7 Worlds were only organised once every two years. |
Some
great racers of an older time era are not found on the wall of fame.
That's the case for Ian Jensen (GB), Dave Harvey (GB) and Steve
Walker (GB) as excellent British scale racers. It's the case for
François Callat (F) and the late Philippe Thibault (F). It's also
the case for Bert van der Heijden (NL), Theo Wegman (NL) and Peter
Plug (NL); for Dan Debella (USA) and John Strachan (USA) as
excellent all-rounders; for Vladimir Barros (PT), etc. |
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WALL OF FAME BASED ON NUMBER OF WON IOC-RACES SINCE 1964 |
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Vladimir Horky (CZ) |
'Piki' van Rossem (B) |
Jozef Korec (CZ) |
Brian Saunders (GB) |
Paul Gawronski (USA) |
Vlado Okali (SVK) |
Nick de Wachter (NL) |
Paul Ciccarello (USA) |
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46 victories -30 Worlds |
29 victories - 10 Worlds |
24 victories - 13 Worlds |
24 victories -3 worlds |
18 victories - 4 Worlds |
17 victories - 5 Worlds |
17 victories - 5 Worlds |
17 victories - 3 Worlds |
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Mario 'MSP' Schöne (D) |
Ralph Seif (D) |
Beuf Pedersen (USA) |
Michael Niemas (D) |
Matti Fyhr (SF) |
Jan Limpach (USA) |
Palo Trigilio (I) |
Philipp Kremer (D) |
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17 victories - 2 Worlds |
17 victories - 1 Worlds |
16 victories - 5 Worlds |
15 victories - 4 Worlds |
12 victories - 7 Worlds |
12 victories - 6 Worlds |
12 victories - 5 Worlds |
12 victories - 3 worlds |
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James Cleave (GB) |
Sergio Maresca (I) |
Gugu Bernardino (BR) |
Lasse Åberg (S) |
Charlie Gooding (GB) |
Martin Gramann (A) |
Christ Schnitzler (D) |
Mikail Silén (S) |
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12 victories - 3 worlds |
11 victories - 7 Worlds |
11 victories - 3 Worlds |
11 victories - 2 Worlds |
11 victories |
10 victories - 2 Worlds |
9 victories - 2 Worlds |
9 victories - 2 worlds |
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J-Tore Anderson (S) |
Salvatore Noviello (I) |
P-A Watson (USA) |
Michael Landrud (S) |
Juha Yli-Sipola (SF) |
Jaroslav Recek (CZ) |
Leo Hongisto (SF) |
Paul Pfeiffer (USA) |
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9 victories |
8 victories - 3 worlds |
8 victories - 3 worlds |
8 victories - 3 Worlds |
8 victories - 1 Worlds |
8 victories - 1 Worlds |
8 victories |
7 victories - 3 Worlds |
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Jon Laster (USA) |
Csaba Szekelyhidi |
Howie Ursaner(USA) |
Mike Steube (USA) |
Dave Fiedler (USA) |
Steve Walker (GB) |
Seb Nockemann(D) |
Giovani Montiglio (I) |
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7 victories - 2 Worlds |
7 victories - 1 Worlds |
7 victories |
7 victories |
7 victories |
7 victories |
7 victories |
6 victories - 6 Worlds |
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Petr Krcil (CZ) |
Anders Gustafson(S) |
Alex Ortmann (D) |
Dieter Jens (D) |
Chrisof Kremer (D) |
Ron Hershman(USA) |
Ian Jensen (GB) |
Dennis Traeger (AU) |
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6 victories - 4 Worlds |
6 victories - 1 Worlds |
6 victories - 1 worlds |
6 victories |
6 victories |
6 victories |
6 victories |
6 victories |
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Einari Fyhr (SF) |
Dave Gick (NZ) |
J-P van Rossem (B) |
Mike Swiss (USA) |
Geert Mertens (B) |
Alberto Capra (I) |
Wayne Bramble (AU) |
Gabe Inäbnit (CH) |
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5 victories - 5 worlds |
5 victories - 5 worlds |
5 victories - 3 worlds |
5 victories - 2 worlds |
5 victories - 2 worlds |
5 victories - 1 worlds |
5 victories - 1 worlds |
5 victories |
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Matthias Parke (D) |
Greg Gilbert (USA) |
Jose-Mario Serra(BR) |
Thomas Spicker (D) |
Achim Burgmann (D) |
Jay Kisling (USA) |
Nikolaj Dolzhanskij (RU) |
Frank Hermes (D) |
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5 victories |
5 victories |
5 victories |
5 victories |
5 victories |
5 victories |
5 victories |
5 victories |
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Antónin Vojtik (CZ) |
Frantisek Poledna (CZ) |
Mikail Radkovic (CZ) |
J-Carlos Geraldo(BR) |
Björn vCampenhout (B) |
Chris Radisich (NZ) |
Kai Kivekäs (SF) |
Tamar Nelwan (NL) |
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4 victories - 2 worlds |
4 victories - 1 worlds |
4 victories - 1 worlds |
4 victories - 1 worlds |
4 victories - 1 worlds |
4 victories |
4 victories |
4 victories |
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Terry Schmid (USA) |
Sandy Gross (USA) |
Tim Tyler (AU) |
Dave Harvey (GB) |
Pete Hore (GB) |
Mark Harrison (GB) |
Janis Rage-Ragis(LV) |
Jiri Micek jr (CZ) |
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4 victories |
4 victories |
4 victories |
4 victories |
4 victories |
4 victories |
4 victories |
4 victories |
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'Chubbie' Salzman |
Peter Oberbillig (D) |
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4 victories |
4 victories |
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John Cukras (USA) |
Jerry Brady (USA) |
Joel Montague(USA) |
Bernd Möbus (D) |
Philippe de Lespinay (F) |
H-P Sutter (CH) |
Pete von Ahrens (USA) |
Bob Emott (USA) |
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1960s Legend, 3 wins |
1960s Legend, 3 wins |
1st world champi, 3 wins |
triple European champion |
1970s Legend, 2 wins |
Swiss Legend, 2 wins |
1960s Legend, 1 win |
1960s Legend |
| ALL RACERS HAVING WON AT LEAST ONE IOC-RACE (1964-2010) |
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