Wednesday, August 13, 2008
IFMAR extend warm-up for final rounds Categories - Events, Gas, International, On Road, Racing , trackback
Following requests from engine manufacturers, the organisers of the 2008 World Championship are to extend the warm-up time each driver will get ahead of the final two rounds of qualifying. To-date drivers have had 3 minutes to warm-up for their 10-minute qualifying runs but with many of the top drivers struggling to make five minutes from a tank of fuel the warm-up time will be increased to 5 minutes. The increase will give drivers the opportunity to fine tune their engines to the relevant temperature/conditions at the time of their qualifying heat.
Heats 5 & 6 tomorrow are the last two opportunities drivers have to determine which final they will start in with the big battle being that for the TQ, currently held by Shimo, and one of the four direct qualifying positions for the Main Final of the 2008 IFMAR 1:10 200mm World Championships which is scheduled to run on Saturday. Round 5 gets underway at 09:30 tomorrow morning and our coverage, which is sponsored by Kyosho, Xceed and Serpent, will continue througout the day.
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Great coverage as always by Red R/C,
I would like to se more Pictures of the Racer’s Paint Jobs, especially Fukudas Car.
Vai Francesco!!!
It would be great to have pictures of all action off-track so we can have a feeling of how it goes, like pit-stops, technical inspections, fuel handover, tyre truing, engine’s running-in, local shops, restaurant, timing system. Everything! So we can feel like we’ve been there :-)
I would like to know why everyone is using front diff instead of one-way or spool?