1/8 IFMAR OFF ROAD GAS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2002 - PUNTA DEL ESTE - URUGUAY
Complete report by Sarkis Kaloustian Green Mountain Raceway
São Paulo- Brazil December 2002
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1/8 IFMAR OFF ROAD GAS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2002 - PUNTA DEL ESTE - URUGUAY |
Complete report by Sarkis Kaloustian Green Mountain Raceway São Paulo- Brazil December 2002 |
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The track |
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| Bienvenidos = Wellcome. The Uruguaian organizers did their best to make an excellent job. | The pit area was just enough to 131 drivers. Some had to improvise side tables to be more confortable | The drivers stand. High enough and a lot of space to everybody | The triple jump. In the finals it broke a lot of suspensions! | General stands. At the opposite side of the track gave good vision to all the action. | Time keeping booth with a good work by Pedro Tamón |
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The cars |
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| Kyosho:(46 cars) A lot of KanaiI and some KanaiII with new parts. Yuichi Kanai's car entirely stock as ever. | Every car was completely different, and Jeremys Kortz buggy was maybe the most "personal"off all, with a beautiful black color and some writen words on the chassis. | Mark Pavidis'7.5 full of after market parts, with the O'donell prepared RBWs7. Look the beauty of this engine head. They said it lowers the temperature about 20 degrees |
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| Mugen: (31 cars) Two strong teams,one from Japan with Kenji Osaka, Takashi Kato and Daisuke Endo | Takashi Kato -Mugen /OS | Henrique Winik - Mugen/JP |
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| Crono: (14 cars) A very good suport from the manufacturer. Jerome Sartel was the best Crono driver | GS: (12 cars) A car that is developing very fast, with good factory support. Tommy Chung was impressive during qualifyings. | Thunder Tiger: (11 cars). The only not Mugen or kyosho car inside the top 14. Yannick Aygoin made a very good final race. |
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| Bergonzoni: (7 cars) The spanish team came with a lot of drivers to develop the new model. All parts now have aluminium color parts, and new front hubs. | Hobao: (8 cars) The new Hyper 7 is now called Hyper PBS, and made good impression in the hands of American driver Paul Coleman | This is my car, and "old and good" Mugen MBX4, with OS engine.It was my sixth race in 3 years, and I was not the last one classified in the worlds!!! |
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The engines |
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| RB:(39) The reliable WS7 was in almost every car. A good engine that will stay for a long time. | Novarossi:(26) A lot of models, mainly the new P5, and BX21 1BK | OS:(19) The new model, that OS engineer said is completely different from previous design was tested all the week by American and Japanese drivers. | But in the final the old and reliable RZV 01B was the world champion! This is the O'donnel prepared OS RZV 01B, soon after his victory! | Picco:(10) Paul Coleman and Steve Dunn made good qualifyings with this engine. | Omega:(6) The magic engine that has some secret in the carburetor and does not need tank pressure line! This is Jerome Ezazian's engine from France. |
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| Sirio:(3) Adrien Bertin was the best driver with Sirio engine with a good suport from factory owner besides him. | JP:(5) Jerome Sartel was the best JP engine driver. | Bergonzoni:(4) Another Novarossi based engine, in the Spanish factory cars. | Rossi:(3) The most beautiful design in the worlds. A good run with Andrea Monaci italian factory driver. | Medial:(3) marty Korn from USA was the best driver with medial engine. | Hyper:(3) An engine in development in the hands of Taiwanese drivers. |
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The tyres |
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| Pro Line | Medial Pro | Treadz | Ellegi | Kyosho |
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The radios |
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The drivers |
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Drivers sorted by country - Name / Country / Chassis / Engine |
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Body beauty contest at night! Six finalists and the winner is... |
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Daisuke Endo from Mugen Japan |
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THE RACE |
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Day 1 Monday, November, 25 2002 - Inscriptions and first round of practice |
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Final inscriptions, everybody ready to start, but at 11:00 in the morning a light shower that soon became heavy rain put all the cars in the boxes and back to the hotels. No practice today and maybe delay in yesterday schedule. |  |
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Day 2 Tuesday, November, 26 2002 - Controlled practice |
| The track was full of water splashes in the morning. Hard work for the organizers to put it in shape ( well almost!) at 14:00h in the evening. From now only one free practice to test the cars. After that one timed practice with 10 minutos. 10 heats with 14 drivers in each heat, to define the reseeding for the next three days and 6 qualify heats. It was an American domination with 5 drivers winning their heats. |
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Hard
packed sand. Average lap time around 44 seconds
