Lamberto Collari is World Champion

Just a quick post to say that Lamberto Collari has done it again, winning the race by 4 seconds from Andrea Cristiani in 2nd who was followed 2 seconds behind by Chris Tosolini. This is the 8th World title for the Kyosho driver and the main final was a really exciting race between the top 3 who finished all within the same lap after 1 hour.

Unofficial Final results:
1. Lamberto Collari – 193 Laps in 1:00:06.035
2. Andrea Cristiani – 193 Laps in 1:00:10.657
3. Chris Tosolini – 193 Laps in 1:00:12.287
4. Adrien Bertin – 191 Laps in 1:00:00.086
5. Mark Green – 190 Laps in 1:00:16.087
6. Daniele Ielasi – 189 Laps in 1:00:04.449
7. Massimo Fantini – 188 Laps in 1:00:8.629
8. Yuya Sahashi – 169 Laps in 1:00:17.426
9. Walter Salemi – 143 Laps in 46:52.817
10. Dario Balestri – 121 Laps in 45:26.248

We had the problems with our servers during the final, just too many people connected at one time so we apologise for that but we will have the report online from the event later today.

World Championship final coverage

Follow our live report from the main final of this years World Championship in Cordoba, Argentina. We will be updating regularly so keep refreshing (F5) the page.

> OK guys the driver presentation will begin in 5 minutes and after the photographs are done we will have a 6 minute warm up and then the race begins. The atmosphere here is electric with thousands of public in the stands.

> Driver presentation is now complete and they will now start the warm up
> Engines are started and the warm up has now begun.

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0m – A clean start for most racers
5m – Its a 2 horse race with Fantini and Collari battling it out
10.5m – Collari passes Fantini and checks out, the crowd are going wild
15m – Collari, Fantini Tosolini
19.45m – Fantini rolls and looses lots of time before marshall gets to him. Cristiani got the pace but a lap down
21.3m Fantini long unscheduled pitstop
23m – Collari tosolini bertin cristiani green
24.4m – Cristiani un laps himself from Collari
26m – Cristiani pits and goes a lap down again
28m –  Dario with a long unscheduled pitstop
29m – Collari, Tosolini, Cristiani
32m – Collari tire stop
33m – Mark Green tire stop
34m – Yuya Sahashi tire stop
35m – Mark Green rolls it on to the straight
36.4m – Dario with major handling problems cant get out of pits
39m –  Tosolini leading ahead of Collari and Cristiani 1 lap down
40.5m – Collari is smoking a lot and loosing time of Tosolini
41m – Cristiani all over the back of Tosolini trying to unlap himself
44m –  Tosolini has Collari all over him
45m – Toso is Resisting the pressure but the pass looks inevitable
47m – Collari passes but toso gets back and hit
49.30m – Collari crashes tring to pass Tosolini over the kerbs
50m – There is a bit of breathing room for Toso but not much Collari wants his 8th title
51m – Order is Tosolini, Collari, Cristiani, Bertin
52m – Cristiani pits
53m – Collari is all over Toso again they hit and he passes. Collari gets a stop and go
54m – Its looking good for Tosolini as Collari takes his penalty
54m – Collari is back again, he is so much faster. He passes and they hit then Toso rolls it
55m – Collari leads Toso in 2nd
58m – Cristiani takes Toso
59m – Order is Collari, Cristiani and Toso. Cristiani has pulled away
60m – Collari is World Champion for the 8th time

Semi final odd Results

Now the second semi final is over and it was Serpent 960 racer Yuya Sahashi, who won the 1/4 final, that has taken the semi odd win and will now take his place in the main final. At the very beginning of the race Michael Salven crashed over a kerb damaging his car, he pitted to fix it and continued and managed to drag himself up to 4th after some great driving and helped by a number of retirements. Leader in the first few laps Daniele Ielasi, who was passed by Yuya Sahashi and the Japanese racer then managed to extend his lead.

Mike Swauger and Takaaki Shimo were early retirements, both cars rolling to a stop on track ending their race and also Hideo Kitazawa retired from 5th place at the 16th minute ending all chances of O.S. getting an engine into the final. Michael closed on then 3rd place racer Walter Salemi when he managed to get 2 stop and go penalties for bad refueling but it wasnt enough for Salven to catch him and he finished 4th.

Semi Final Odd results (Official)
1. Yuya Sahashi – 97 Laps in 30:12.741
2. Daniele Ielasi – 97 Laps in 30:18.261
3. Walter Salemi – 96 Laps in 30:04.426
4. Michael Salven – 96 Laps in 30:17.307
5. Francesco Tironi – 91 Laps in 30:00.013

Your OFFICIAL final order:
1. Massimo Fantini – Serpent
2. Lamberto Collari – Kyosho
3. Adrien Bertin – Kyosho
4. Chris Tosolini – Kyosho
5. Yuya Sahashi – Serpent
6. Andrea Cristiani – Serpent
7. Danielle Ielasi – Kyosho
8. Walter Salemi – Mugen
9. Mark Green – Serpent
10. Dario Balestri – Motonica

There is a break now until 4pm local time when the main final will begin so that is in over 1 hour. We will be reporting on the final by the minute (or close to) and will have a report at the end so in about 1 hour come back and keep refreshing the page.

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Semi final even Results

The first semi final is now over and after 30 minutes of hard racing, it’s Serpent 960 driver Andrea Cristiani that has taken the win. At the beginning of the race it was Dario Balestri that could make it to the front after a great start and he was followed to the front by Cristiani who managed to pass the racers ahead of him and make it to 2nd. A long stop by Balestri for an engine adjustment, lost him the lead and this promoted Cristiani to first in front of Mark Green and Robert Pietsch in 3rd.

During the race Bruno Coelho managed to move up the order to 5th using the track experience gained in the 2 previous finals he raced. During his 4th stop pitstop Cristiani crashed coming into the pit lane allowing Mark Green to take the lead but Cristiani was able to work his way back up the order from 3rd to 1st, helped in part by having one of the fastest cars on track. Midway through the race Robert Pietsch had contact with another car and this caused something to go wrong with his car, dropping him down the order. In the end Cristiani won by half a lap from Green in 2nd, with Balestri half a second behind in 3rd, despite getting a stop and go for bad refuelling.

We will now have to wait until the second semi to see who progresses into the main final. The second semi final is now running.

Semi Final Even results (unofficial)
1. Andrea Cristiani – 97 Laps in 30:16.406
2. Mark Green – 96 Laps in 30:06.195
3. Dario Balestri – 96 Laps in 30:06.876
4. Michele Romagnoli – 96 Laps in 30:11.665
5. Bruno Coelho – 96 Laps in 30:16.154

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Top 4 practice

Nothing much to report on this as its the usual trying and testing of some setup tweaks, tires and engine settings. All 4 drivers were out on the track and they all seem to be working on long distance performance settings. Here are a few photos from the session.

The first Semi final will begin at 1pm local time, which at time of writing is in about 30 minutes. Here is the run down of both semi final participants.

Semi Final even Line-up
1. Robert Pietsch – Shepherd
2. Dario Balestri – Motonica
3. Michele Romagnoli – Serpent
4. Mark Green – Serpent
5. Stefano Solaroli – Mugen
6. Tadahiko Sahashi – Serpent
7. Fabio Domanin – Serpent
8. Andrea Cristiani – Serpent
9. Bruno Coelho – Mugen
10.Keisuke Fukuda – Mugen

Semi Final odd Line-up
1. Daniele Ielasi – Kyosho
2. Takaaki Shimo – Kyosho
3. Hideo Kitazawa – Mugen
4. Michael Salven – Serpent
5. Walter Salemi – Mugen
6. Jernej Vuga  – Mugen
7. Andrea Pirani – Mugen
8. Yuya Sahashi – Serpent
9. Mike Swauger – Mugen
10.Francesco Tironi – Kyosho

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1/4th final odd Result

In an exciting quarter final odd, it was Yuya Sahashi that came through from mid pack to take the win. The Serpent driver was in 4th early in the race behind Tironi, Swauger and Tanaka, who was leading, but then the Japanese driver lost pace and was passed by Tironi and then when Yuya passed Swauger in the pits he then managed to get passed Tanaka, bringing Swauger with him. The race was essentially over for Jilles Groskamp at the very start, his car stopping and taking 2 laps to restart and rejoin, he did go on to record the fastest lap of the race at 17.943. The pairing of Sahashi and Swauger went after Tironi and managed to get passed after the Italian was given a stop go for bad refuelling. He rejoined in 3rd and had huge pressure from Morganti, who again started badly but had regained composure and was on it, but couldn’t get passed and came home 4th only 1 second behind.

1/4th Even final Top 3
1. Yuya Sahashi – 64 Laps 20:06.835
2. Mike Swauger – 64 Laps 20:07.706
3. Francesco Tironi – 64 Laps 20:16.401

Practice for top 4 qualifiers is now on.

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