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SLOT-RACING'S WALL OF FAME (SEPT 1, 2007) |
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September 7, 2007
- 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 totally ridiculous. Recently somebody proposed on the OWH that
'Erkle' Tylinski (USA), Reggie Coram (NL),
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. |
In fourth position we find Paul Ciccarello (USA) with 14 wins, followed
as fifth by Mario Schöne (D) with 11 wins. The same amount of won
IOC-races is found also for Jan Limpach (USA) and Brian Saunders (GB).
Paul Gawronski (USA) collected 10 victories and is eighth. Italy's
Paolo Trigilio and Salvatore Noviello, res. with 9 and Below one
finds the pictures of the 54 winningest international racers.
Of them no less than 20 stopped their racing career (in the below
pic-table their names are in italics. We note per
country the following racers on IMCA's wall of fame (beginning the
2006 season). |
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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In the here presented wall of fame older racers - most of them no longer active as racers - are certainly discriminated.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 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 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), for THE coming man: Petr Krcil (CZ), etc. |
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WALL OF FAME BASED ON NUMBER OF WON IOC-RACES SINCE 1970 |
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Vladimir Horky (CZ) |
Jozef Korec (CZ) |
"Piki" van Rossem (B) |
Brian Saunders (GB) |
Paul Ciccarello (USA) |
Paul Gawronski (USA) |
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25 victories - 5 Worlds |
20 victories - 4 Worlds |
20 victories - 5 Worlds |
16 victories |
14 victories - 2 Worlds |
13 victories - 2 Worlds |
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Jan Limpach (USA) |
Mario Schöne (D) |
'Beuf' Pedersen (USA) |
Paolo Trigilio (I) |
Salvatore Noviello (I) |
Sergio Maresca (I) |
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12 victories - 4 Worlds |
11 victories - 2 Worlds |
10 victories - 3 Worlds* |
10 victories - 1 Worlds |
8 victories - 3 Worlds |
8 victories - 2 Worlds |
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'Gugu' Bernardino(BR) |
Nick de Wachter (NL) |
Paul Pfeiffer (USA) |
P-A Watson (USA) |
Martin Gramann (A) |
Christoph Kremer (D) |
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8 victories - 1 Worlds |
7 victories - 5 Worlds |
7 victories - 3 Worlds |
7 victories - 3 Worlds |
7 victories - 1 Worlds |
7 victories - NEW |
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Lasse Åberg (S) |
Vlado Okali (SVK) |
Juha Yli-Sipola (SF) |
Matti Fyhr (SF) |
Dennis Traeger (AU) |
Leo Hongisto (SF) |
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6 victories - 2 Worlds |
6 victories - 1 Worlds |
6 victories - 1 Worlds |
6 victories |
6 victories |
6 victories |
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Mike Swiss (USA) |
Jon Laster (USA) |
Jaroslav Recek (CZ) |
Geert Mertens (B) |
Einari Fyhr (SF) |
Charlie Gooding (GB) |
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5 victories - 2 Worlds |
5 victories - 1 Worlds |
5 victories - 1 Worlds |
5 victories - 1 Worlds |
5 victories |
5 victories |
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Thomas Spicker (D) |
Michael Niemas (D) |
Philip Kremer (D) |
Dave Gick |
Jean P van Rossem (B) |
Giovanni Montiglio(I) |
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5 victories |
5 victories - NEW |
5 victories - NEW |
4 victories - 2 Worlds |
4 victories - 2 Worlds |
4 victories - 1 Worlds |
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Szaba Szekelyhidi(USA) |
Mikail Radkovic CZ) |
Alberto Capra (I) |
Dieter Jens (D) |
Achim Burgmann (D) |
Janis Rage-Ragis (LV) |
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4 victories - 1 Worlds |
4 victories - 1 Worlds |
4 victories - 1 Worlds |
4 victories |
4 victories |
4 victories |
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James Cleave (GB) |
Ralf Seif (D) |
Joel Montague (USA) |
Michael Landrud (S) |
Frantisek Poledna (CZ) |
Mikael Silén (S) |
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4 victories |
4 victories - NEW |
3 victories - 1 Worlds |
3 victories - 1 Worlds |
3 victories |
3 victories |
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Bernd Möbus (D) |
Wayne Bramble (AU) |
Peter Dight (AU) |
Paul Harwood (GB) |
Jiri Micek jr (CZ) |
John v Hoornaar (NL) |
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3 victories |
3 victories |
3 victories |
3 victories |
3 victories |
3 victories |
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Tebu Satoh (J) |
J 'Chubbie' Salzman(US) |
Christian Schnitzler (D) |
Dani Gonzalez (E) |
Franco Gianotti (I)V |
Leo Vogelr(NL) |
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3 victories |
3 victories - NEW |
3 victories - NEW |
2 wins - 2 Worlds- NEW |
2 victories - 1 Worlds |
2 victories- 1 Worlds |
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Joao Carlos Geraldo(BR) |
Hans-Peter Sutter(CH)V |
Anders Gustafson (S) |
Willy Heerwegh (B) |
Youri van Rossem (B) |
Jan Gürtzgen (D) |
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2 wins - 1 Worlds- NEW |
2 victories |
2 victories |
2 victories |
2 victories - NEW |
2 victories - NEW |
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Tim Tyler (AU) |
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2 victories - NEW |
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