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Here are the complete results from ROUND FIVE of the INVITE class:

Heat 1:

1. Marc Rheinard
2. Andrew Cartwright
3. Surikarn
4. Hongil Hubert
5. Ralph Burch, Jr.
6. Barry Baker
7. Todd Hodge
8. Marc Fischer
9. Andy Moore

Heat 2:

1. Greg Hodapp
2. Jimmy Jacobson
3. Josh Cyrul
4. David Spashett
5. Brian Kinwald
6. Jean-Marc Betticher
7. Chris Tosolini
8. Rick Hohwart

Heat 3:

1. Matt Francis
2. Craig Drescher
3. Satoshi Maesumi
4. Neils Koenekoop
5. Paul Lemieux
6. Juho Levanen
7. Thomas Pumpler
8. Jukka Steenari

Heat 4:

1. Mike Dumas
2. Atsushi Hara
3. Masami Hirosaka
4. Mark Pavidis
5. Mike Blackstock
6. Masayuki Miura
7. Paul Wynn
8. Josh Numan

Here, for reference, are the TOP TEN TIMES from ROUND FIVE of the INVITE class:

1. Mike Dumas 22/5:01.23
2. Atsushi Hara 22/5:03.99
3. Masami Hirosaka 22/5:06.44
4. Matt Francis 22/5:08.03
5. Mark Pavidis 22/5:09.35
6. Greg Hodapp 22/5:10.34
7. Craig Drescher 22/5:10.40
8. Satoshi Maesumi 22/5:10.57
9. Mike Blackstock 22/5:11.61
10. Jimmy Jacobson 22/5:12.97

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And, here are the COMPLETE OVERALL STANDINGS for the INVITE class after five rounds:

Position Driver Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Total

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

Right now, Hodapp, Rheinard and Surikarn look to be the three contenders. Each one has three wins. Once the throwouts happen, the rest of the field should sort itself out.

futureal

My bad, Matt Francis also has three wins, and should be right up there.

True R/C Racing

Baker is barely In the A-main, Good luck Alex L and Rangulo

Sow&Steady

Wooo ... what happened? Maybe Tamiya cars does not suit him?

Korey Harbke

iTrader: (13)

Go Cartwright!!!!!! Hang in there dude!

-Sushi Boy

SERPENTFREAK69

BURCH,JOSH C.!

StephenSobottka

iTrader: (8)

Go Skidmore!!!!!!!! Cmon you can lay the spank down. I have seen it done a couple fo times over the Oklahoma weekend. i know you can do it dude!

micmc

Go Marc Go and win for Germany

Have everybody a new car at the reedy race? A Prototyp??

kumpol

iTrader: (1)

no new Tamiya car!!!!!!! just 415

Doug Gaut

Shane, is there any way you could talk to Atsushi Hara and Thad Garner to see what they are running for setups on the Pro4? Since the car is so new setups are hard to come by and we would love to see what they are running! PLEEEEEZE!!

micmc

Hmm....no new Associated

futureal

Apparently I need to reiterate that that are no mains in the invite class. It is an 8-round round robin with 2 throwouts.

micmc: I talked to a couple of their engineers who confirmed they were working on it and said some vague stuff about the car, but Associated's top 3 (Baker, Pavidis, Blackstock) are all running regular old TC3s. So is Drescher. I haven't seen anyone running a prototype here. Most cars are production, with the occasional new part or design.

Many drivers' cars are shutting down to the heat (or something); in the last round, Cyrul and Tosolini both lost first place runs in the last couple of laps because their cars died. Lots of cars breaking as well, most recently Surikarn and a few others.

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Here are the TRIPLE A-MAIN GRIDS for the open classes.

The 19 TURN A MAIN:

1. EJ Evans
2. Charlie Suangka
3. Corey Lewis
4. Alex Lopez
5. Dave Bowser
6. Charlie Albrecht
7. Josh Anderson
8. Neil Rabara
9. Arthur Tsui
10. Michael Rydwell

The OPEN MOD A MAIN:

1. Ryan Cavaleri
2. Mike Truhe
3. Brent Thielke
4. Kyle Skidmore
5. Kurt Wenger
6. Fernando Gordinho
7. Rod Canare
8. Walter Henderson
9. Lex Tyler
10. Andrew Swanson

The Triple-As will begin after a lunch break.

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

Heat 1:

1. Atsushi Hara
2. Jukka Steenari
3. Mike Dumas
4. Satoshi Maesumi
5. Honigl Hubert
6. Brian Kinwald
7. Marc Rheinard
8. Thomas Pumpler
9. Andy Moore

Heat 2:

1. Mike Blackstock
2. Paul Lemieux
3. Josh Cyrul
4. Rick Hohwart
5. Mark Pavidis
6. Masayuki Miura
7. Surikarn
8. Andrew Cartwright

Heat 3:

1. Craig Drescher
2. Barry Baker
3. Masami Hirosaka
4. Paul Wynn
5. Neils Koenekoop
6. Jean-Marc Betticher
7. Ralph Burch, Jr.
8. Todd Hodge

Heat 4:

1. Juho Levanen
2. Greg Hodapp
3. Jimmy Jacobson
4. Josh Numan
5. Marc Fischer
6. Matt Francis
7. Chris Tosolini
8. David Spashett

And here are the top times, for reference:

1. Craig Drescher 22/5:06.89
2. Barry Baker 22/5:07.45
3. Atsushi Hara 22/5:09.15
4. Masami Hirosaka 22/5:09.50
5. Mike Blackstock 22/5:10.37
6. Paul Lemieux 22/5:12.03
7. Jukka Steenari 22/5:12.42
8. Josh Cyrul 22/5:12.78
9. Mike Dumas 22/5:13.49
10. Paul Wynn 22/5:13.54