2011 Ifmar Off Road Worlds on now!

[Lonestar]

LOL @ Jay Dub All right let me order one too... gotta try it, so no excuse now there's a trick no to see how ugly it is. Just don't run it with black wheels otherwise it's impossible to see the car on the track

Paul

[slow_jun]

Remind me of Masami(Naoto Matsakura), the kid got some talent,out of the box he raced his B4 and manage to came up with the fastest lap @23 sec plus...

Hope Master Masami comes back and race...surely will make yokomo that big smile again.

[Lonestar]

Tebo takes first round
from 1 to 10

Jared Tebo
Ryan Cavalieri
Neil Cragg
Dustin Evans
Ryan Maifield
Joern Neumann
Lee Martin
Dakotah Phend
Naoto Matsukura
Peter Pinisch

[Ruffy]

I have to agree with you all about the very ugly cab fwd bodies, and the fact that they have more than likely NOT been aero tested in any way. I'm glad to see many at the Worlds are not using them.
It just gives mfr's a way to sell anything "different and new" to anyone looking to buy anything "different and new". People have this need to "accessorize".
Notice that nobody is running spoked wheels at the worlds either, worst idea ever for wheels!
LOL!

I see from the list Cedric is racing there this year. Maybe he will chime in on the racing environment:
http://46.4.111.245/results/merged/2_Q.pdf

[Lonestar]

Cedric is posting (great) daily reports here: pull babelfish and check his stuff out

http://www.rc4ever.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=3306

Paul

[GreenHell]

Round 2 Results!

1 Cavalieri, Ryan 2 13 5:13.965 24.393 0
2 Maifield, Ryan 3 13 5:14.811 24.165 0.846 0
3 Neumann, Joern 9 13 5:21.204 24.505 6.393 0
4 Evans, Dustin 5 13 5:21.718 24.388 0.514 0
5 Tebo, Jared 4 13 5:22.695 20.291 0.977 0
6 Cragg, Neil 1 13 5:23.541 24.461 0.846 0
7 Matsukura, Naoto 7 13 5:25.453 20.951 1.912 0
8 Martin, Lee 6 12 5:04.789 20.609 0
9 Phend, Dakotah 8 12 5:06.462 24.478 1.673 0
10 Pinisch, Peter 10 12 5:11.701 20.190 5.239 0

[fredswain]

With 1 round to go it looks like the most likely winner (manufacturer) is going to be Team Associated. The next likely company would be Kyosho. I don't see a way for Losi to win this. It's not quite over yet but unless something drastic changes in round 3 Associated is going to do it yet again. AE is running the same car they've had for years while Losi is running a brand new car and Kyosho have apparently made some changes to the RB5. When you've got a good design, it's damn near timeless. AE is really good at that.

[fredswain]

It's official. Another victory for Team Associated with Ryan Cavalieri winning it.

[Lonestar]

With 1 round to go it looks like the most likely winner (manufacturer) is going to be Team Associated. The next likely company would be Kyosho. I don't see a way for Losi to win this. It's not quite over yet but unless something drastic changes in round 3 Associated is going to do it yet again. AE is running the same car they've had for years while Losi is running a brand new car and Kyosho have apparently made some changes to the RB5. When you've got a good design, it's damn near timeless. AE is really good at that.

Keep in mind AE is using a non-standard chassis on that track.

but good job AE!!! Proud to be running a B4.1 after a B4 - and my whole set of RC10's too

Paul

[kaiser]

the ryans' battled! good for cav! and ae!

[fredswain]

I'm not surprised they were running a different chassis setup. There are usually different things tried at world's. I'm sad that you don't see the drastic changes that you saw to cars at world's 20+ years ago like the specially built cars such as the world finals cars from Associated in 89 and 91. The cars have gotten so refined now that any of the platforms out there are more than capable. The playing field is basically even today. As proof, out of the 10 drivers in the A main, there were 5 different cars represented by Team Associated, Kyosho, Losi, Durango, and Tamiya. All 10 places qualified within .7 seconds of each other.

[MOmo]

so Neil Craig runs AE, but what configuration is this? Almost looks like an Xfactory. AE working on a mid engine?
http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75073


vs his Worlds car:



Anyone have opinions on tarmac/carpet tracks vs blue groove clay?




MOmo

[Lonestar]

In the UK (crazy-grip astroturf/grass tracks) all the factory AE boys are running a custom-made mid-motor conversion done by CML, the local AE importer (run by C. Drescher iirc), called C4.1. Plenty more pics on oOple. This is not available for purchase (yet). Seems to work wonders over there obviously

I think this worlds signed the death of the mid-motor market

Paul

[adam lancia]

I think this worlds signed the death of the mid-motor market

Paul

As long as the next Worlds isn't run on Astroturf...

[Jirka]

I think this worlds signed the death of the mid-motor market

Paul

As long as the next Worlds isn't run on Astroturf...

There is a rule that worlds must be run on sand or clay track, astroturf and grass tracks are not allowed. So, there seems to be never on mid motor worlds winning car.

Jirka