IFMAR Worlds Thread

[Chris Doughty]

Stu - nice find - that is funny

[_sleigh_]

Taken from RC411.com

2007 World Champs - Hayato Matsuzaki and Jared Tebo
Posted on Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:56 AM by DerekB

The wait is over, we now know the new kings of electric off-road and what they drive. Hayato Matsuzaki used his HotBodies 2WD Prototype (more or less a B4) and a Checkpoint brushed motor to win the 2WD leg of the event. 4WD was a B44 domination as Jared Tebo too his Checkpoint powered Associated B44 to the top of the podium ahead of his teammates Ryan Maifield and Cavalieri. Very impressive for the car and also for the USA.

Actual article - http://www.rc411.com/pages/newsarchi...e=092007#42728

[woOdy]

Spoke to Lee Martin today and I asked about Bradders? He got bit off a but and got an infection and he was ill for a few days. He is better and on the way home.

[Stu]

Phil, you are being too subtle,

HotBodies 2WD Prototype?

Good news Stu, at least he has the consolation of being on the telly.

[super__dan]

Dwain Dibley - No Way!!!!!!!!

[jimmy]

Is that a Joke? it's an associated B4 - as 'owned up' on hot bodies own website. Rc411 have it wrong. The prototype is yet to appear - it wasn't ready in time.

[jimmy]

Just working on photos at the moment - sorry for the delay but I'm getting over the jetlag at the moment.

[David Church]

We are all waiting jimmy!!!! You must have taken thousands of photos!!!

[tony6187]

Originally Posted by David Church

We are all waiting jimmy!!!! You must have taken thousands of photos!!!

have patience,jimmy is probably trying to get over his fillet o fish addiction. anyway id just like to say it was great to meet you all it was an experience and hope to see you all again soon, cheers tony (ireland)

[David Church]

More likley getting over the Vodka hangover, haha.
Good to meet you too, and I am hoping to hit the nationals at Ireland next year, all 1 of them!!! lol

[tony6187]

Originally Posted by David Church

More likley getting over the Vodka hangover, haha.
Good to meet you too, and I am hoping to hit the nationals at Ireland next year, all 1 of them!!! lol

oohh mite be hard to fit you in but we will c wat we can do.give us a shout if you plan on hitting dublin at any stage and we will c wat we can arrange

[jimmy]

That last night in Tokyo was the funniest Dave - gotta do that again some time. I wouldn't mind going to the Irish National, give me a shout if you are goin dave. Maybe Vicky could make her first National A final?

[David Church]

In line for the roller coaster talking to the locals was ace!!!! You could say anything, well we did, hahahahah
I do plan on going to the Irish national!!! So we will get it sorted closer to the date, and from the sounds of it we all will make the 'A'

[Welshy40]

Originally Posted by MattW

Based on percentages of number of drivers in attendence vs number in the final, Losi probably had the best results of all the teams there

Yes but most people dont care about the lower finals, the main final that all the teams want to be in is the A and as far as we can see Losi did poorly. Losi lost plain and simple, and doesnt matter that they were out numbering every one else, the A is where they need to be and shows that they still need to do a lot more work.

[tyreman]

Originally Posted by Welshy40

Yes but most people dont care about the lower finals, the main final that all the teams want to be in is the A and as far as we can see Losi did poorly. Losi lost plain and simple, and doesnt matter that they were out numbering every one else, the A is where they need to be and shows that they still need to do a lot more work.

I think Matt's refering to the fact that Losi only sent maybe 2-4 drivers compaired to the large team associated sent.

[jimmy]

Photos are up -

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/worldchampionships-2007/

Go to the relevent days report, and the big photos are at the bottom

[Lee Martin]

ooooooooooooooo

[trekkerkk]

awsome photos jimmy


trekkker

[terry.sc]

Originally Posted by Welshy40

Yes but most people dont care about the lower finals, the main final that all the teams want to be in is the A and as far as we can see Losi did poorly. Losi lost plain and simple, and doesnt matter that they were out numbering every one else, the A is where they need to be and shows that they still need to do a lot more work.

Qualifying second is pretty good when there is only a handful of you compared with the huge factory and local support that the B4 drivers had. Truhe also beat the whole Kyosho factory team as well. The Losi drivers didn't have any of the back up that the others had so I'd call that an impressive result.

[jimmy]

Even Academy had more support!