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BURCH?JOSH C.?

futureal

Here are the COMPLETE RESULTS from ROUND SEVEN of the INVITE class:

Heat 1:

1. Surikarn
2. Satoshi Maesumi
3. Craig Drescher
4. Jimmy Jacobson
5. Paul Wynn
6. Todd Hodge
7. Neils Koenekoop
8. Masami Hirosaka
9. Honigl Hubert

Heat 2:

1. Mark Pavidis
2. Thomas Pumpler
3. David Spashett
4. Ralph Burch, Jr.
5. Chris Tosolini
6. Rick Hohwart
7. Masayuki Miura
8. Andy Moore

Heat 3:

1. Atsushi Hara
2. Matt Francis
3. Marc Rheinard
4. Mike Dumas
5. Andrew Cartwright
6. Barry Baker
7. Josh Numan
8. Mark Fischer

Heat 4:

1. Juho Levanen
2. Paul Lemieux
3. Brian Kinwald
4. Josh Cyrul
5. Greg Hodapp
6. Jean-Marc Betticher
7. Mike Blackstock
8. Jukka Steenari

And here are the top ten from the round, for reference:

1. Atsushi Hara 22/5:08.11
2. Mark Pavidis 22/5:11.43
3. Surikarn 22/5:11.81
4. Matt Francis 22/5:12.80
5. Thomas Pumpler 22/5:13.29
6. David Spashett 22/5:13.45
7. Marc Rheinard 21/5:00.54
8. Satoshi Maesumi 21/5:01.25
9. Craig Drescher 21/5:01.84
10. Ralph Burch, Jr. 21/5:02.26

Blackstock was leading his race -- by about 1/4 a lap -- when his car inexplicably jumped an island into oncoming traffic and got absolutely obliterated by someone, I think maybe Jukka. They needed multiple marshals to pick up all the pieces...

futureal

And finally, here are the CURRENT OVERALL RESULTS from the INVITE class; the final column reflects the lowest round dropped for each driver.

Position Driver Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Total Drop 1

1. Greg Hodapp 2 1 2 1 1 2 5 14 9
2. Atsushi Hara 3 2 2 1 2 1 1 12 9
3. Surikarn 1 1 1 4 3 7 1 18 11
4. Marc Rheinard 1 4 1 2 1 7 3 19 12
5. Craig Drescher 1 6 3 5 2 1 3 21 15
6. Mike Blackstock 3 5 2 1 5 1 7 24 17
7. Mark Pavidis 6 4 1 3 4 5 1 24 18
8. Matt Francis 7 1 8 1 1 6 2 26 18
9. Masami Hirosaka 1 2 9 3 3 3 8 29 20
10. Barry Baker 2 7 1 3 6 2 6 27 20
11. Satoshi Maresumi 7 8 2 2 3 4 2 28 20
12. Paul Lemieux 3 6 8 3 5 2 2 29 21
13. Jimmy Jacobson 4 6 3 6 2 3 4 28 22
14. Mike Dumas 6 3 5 8 1 3 4 30 22
15. Josh Cyrul 8 3 3 8 3 3 4 32 24
16. David Spashett 4 2 7 4 4 8 3 32 24
17. Chris Tosolini 3 4 3 4 7 7 5 33 26
18. Andrew Cartwright 5 4 8 2 2 8 5 34 26
19. Honigl Hubert 6 3 4 5 4 5 9 36 27
20. Rick Hohwart 2 1 6 8 8 4 6 35 27
21. Juho Levanen 5 9 7 7 6 1 1 36 27
22. Ralph Burch, Jr. 4 5 6 5 5 7 4 36 29
23. Brian Kinwald 9 3 6 6 5 6 3 38 29
24. Josh Numan 5 5 4 6 8 4 7 39 31
25. Masayuki Miura 5 6 5 4 6 6 7 39 32
26. Thomas Pumpler 8 7 6 2 7 8 2 40 32
27. Neils Koenekoop 7 7 5 6 4 5 7 41 34
28. Jean-Marc Betticher 4 5 7 8 6 6 6 42 34
29. Andy Moore 7 2 4 5 9 9 8 44 35
30. Paul Wynn 8 8 4 7 7 4 5 43 35
31. Mark Fischer 2 8 7 7 8 5 8 45 37
32. Jukka Steenari 8 7 5 7 8 2 8 45 37
33. Todd Hodge 6 8 8 9 7 8 6 52 43

One round to go!

craziracer

GO MATT FRANCIS!

futureal

Regarding some people not being where you'd think they'd be, e.g. Kinwald, you'd have to be here and watch the races to understand. Take Ralph Burch for example, who has gotten wasted in just about every start of every heat that he's been in. With the quality of the drivers, it's incredibly difficult for anybody, even the best drivers out there, to work their way back through the field.

Consistent finishes in this race are really an accomplishment!

Hirosaka has broken a few times, Barry has had a few odd runs. They are both right on pace but just haven't had luck in their favor. That is such a big factor here...

aviaar

Wish we could see some video though.....all this would make a lot more sense, because it looks so spread out from 1st to last on paper

Jeff Brown

It is pretty much between the Top 4. Best Marc can do is 9 points at this point i think with a win. The other 3 can get 8 point totals with a win in the last round. Just depends how the heats are stacked.

Jeff

MattW

Shane is so right about luck and the start playing a massive part in this format of racing (great coverage - cheers). At last years Euro Race, Craig D was so hooked up off the line is was un-true, and that made him real hard to beat. Others could lap just as quick, but weren't getting the starts.

Start format is usually 2 lines (1 or 2 m apart) and then going with a final's style tone. So you get 8 cars all trying to get to the first corner right on each other. There is usually at least 1 or 2 cars that clash and don't get there!

A-Ko

iTrader: (2)

You would think with such a big important race that Tamiya would acually invest in the use of a webmaster, with the live results. Not that I have an axe to grind but, usually other bigtime tracks and races do it.

Oh well, futureal you probably are doing much better job than Tamiya ever would!

Keep up the great work!

A-ko

kufman

iTrader: (6)

Any pics of Blackstock's "obliterated" car? What a bummer for him.

JRRobiso

Probably due to the fact that they are currently using every bit of the personnel they have to run the event. Or they have other reasons why they don't do it. Reasons that you, me and everybody else don't know. Besides the Team Orion website does have updates on the race. One thing for sure though, is that they will have full listing and pictures of what happened during the race on Tamiya, Inc. & Tamiya America website.

Besides, Futureal is doing an awesome job with the updates.

Jun R.

stefan

It's not a Tamiya race, they just let Reedy use their track.

If anybody, then Reedy /AE should have coverage on their website.

FW-05RR

I just came from the Reedy Race in Aliso Viejo and o man was that new Tamiya car TRF 415 fast and solid I also met Atsushi hara hes a great down to earth guy really rnjoyes it very stiff competition was alot of fun

HEWITT

iTrader: (14)

will anyone have a video of mike blackstocks crash

Racer_Chick

Sounds brutal.