Elliott Boots TQs worlds 1/8th

[Neil Skull]

I Wanted to congratulate Elliott on being first Brit to TQ a 1/8th offroad worlds.
I Wish him luck for the finals, if anyone else wants to wish him luck please do so here

Looking at weather today i am not sure the finals will even be run! thats a huge dissapointment to everyone, I am sure Elliott wants to race the finals even though he could win by default if they they cancel them!!

[James]

Well a shame if the final doesn't run but regardless incredible result and good luck to Elliot! And awesome result for Lee too!! Also best of luck Butch, Darren and Neil

[mikeyscott]

That would be a great shame, but congrats on the TQ thus far.

[MHeadling]

Amazing result for Kyosho, Elliot, Mike and Chris!

Well done lads

Let's hope he can bring it home!

[RogerM]

Top job, from the footage I've seen Elliot was totally on-it from the first turn of a wheel.

Good luck with the finals fella.

[hotrodchris]

Good luck to all the Brits and hopefully it will be brought back to the UK.

[Welshy40]

Nice that no one posted any results here. I am guessing by the search on Google that Elliot wasnt in the Workds A final so If he TQ'd how come he wasnt in the A?

[arvi]

TQ only gives you pole position in Semi A. You dont automatically go into the final by TQ ing.

Bad luck but I wonder what happened as he didnt have a good start in the semi and made mistakes which is unlike him and then suddenly his steering went. I wonder if someone crashed into him or what.

If not for the issues he was the fastest man there for the majority of the worlds.

[RogerM]

From what I was told he suffered a servo failure but I've not had that confirmed.

[Darren Boyle]

Originally Posted by Welshy40

Nice that no one posted any results here. I am guessing by the search on Google that Elliot wasnt in the Workds A final so If he TQ'd how come he wasnt in the A?

They did post the results on here last week in the "Argentina Worlds" thread....

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthre...=116118&page=5

In particular James Helliwells post with the full A final grid, and tech chart etc...

[Andyp]

Have a look at this vid, it pretty much covers it all...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plpp&v=LHQnVI0tRuY

[Chris-S]

Originally Posted by Welshy40

Nice that no one posted any results here. I am guessing by the search on Google that Elliot wasnt in the Workds A final so If he TQ'd how come he wasnt in the A?

IMO, if you TQ you should be straight in, that should be the reward for being top qualifier, rather than a trophy for TQ (which there wasnt either )

[Welshy40]

Originally Posted by Chris-S

IMO, if you TQ you should be straight in, that should be the reward for being top qualifier, rather than a trophy for TQ (which there wasnt either )

I agree, its very unfair and someone should push to make it the same as the electric worlds. Top spot in the A is TQ.

[Darren Boyle]

The reason I understand why it is like that is since (in this case) when they finished qualifying on the thursday, the track still had a lot of running to be done on it with all the lower finals on the friday and then the continuation on the saturday with quarters, semis and then of course the main. In that time, with differing conditions and the ever changing weather the track can (and did) change massively and any driver who goes straight into the A main is actually seen to be at a "dis-advantage" by not running on it and getting used to those "new" conditions, where as a driver who has bumped up from the semi's will have run for the first time in a longer race and on the newer conditions and will be more fine tuned to them.....

However, I am sure if anyone offered to Elliott right now that would he have preffered to have gone straight in he would snap their hand off!!

It does not seem right that the "fastest" guy all week, was not in there, but that is the nature of beast so to speak and the unfortunate pot luck in this type of racing sometimes.....

[Briangb]

It was indeed a sad way for Elliott to end his domination of the Worlds most prestigious 1/8 event.
However, he did the U.K proud. He must be, I am sure, a very proud young man at the moment.
I take my hat off too him. He will no doubt be a feared man at next years major events.
Well done Elliott.

[Chris-S]

Originally Posted by Darren Boyle

The reason I understand why it is like that is since (in this case) when they finished qualifying on the thursday, the track still had a lot of running to be done on it with all the lower finals on the friday and then the continuation on the saturday with quarters, semis and then of course the main. In that time, with differing conditions and the ever changing weather the track can (and did) change massively and any driver who goes straight into the A is actually seen to be at a "dis-advantage" by not running on it and getting used to those "new" conditions, where as a driver who has bumped up from the B will have run for the first time in a longer race and on the newer conditions and will be more fine tuned to them.....

However, I am sure if anyone offered to Elliott right now that would he have preffered to have gone straight in he would snap their hand off!!

It does not seem right that the "fastest" guy all week, was not in there, but that is the nature of beast so to speak and the unfortunate pot luck in this type of racing sometimes.....

If track time is seen to be the biggest factor, then let TQ man run in both semi's practices