Final preperations underway in Pattaya

Red RC have arrived in Pattaya, Thailand ahead of the 2010 IFMAR 1/8th scale World Championships. With registration only beginning on Sunday, the Pattaya RC Power boat track is pretty empty with staff putting the final touches to the track surface as well as painting and hanging banners. First impressions of the track are amazing, the photos simply don’t do it justice, it is like something from a computer game with its off camber corners, huge banked ‘straight’, doubles and triples. It will be a true test of man and machine, with a lot of drivers who have been here for testing needing hundreds of laps to get a clean run and we can now see why.

We have noticed that the organisers have chosen to spray the track with a mixture of oil and diesel to protect the surface, if not the local environment, and it has given the track a hard packed feel. This is a different surface to that run by the big US test some weeks ago, so we wonder if this will have a big impact on the set-up and tire choices by those drivers. Stay tuned for more pre event updates.

View the event photo gallery here.