MBlackketter

His real job got in the way!

sohlman

iTrader: (92)

Isn't r/c his "real job?" I guess 1/8th onroad world championships don't help the bottom line here in the U.S. Sure wish things could be different.

MBlackketter

Kyosho is his job.

Racing isn't!!!!!!!!

Isn't he to old to be racing anyway????????

sohlman

iTrader: (92)

Aren't we all. But, his old feet moved fast enough to avoid the "Gatorade ice pour" at the Nats.

Bart_Banaan

Roelof has arrived at the Track today and his first report is online, you can find asof today his daily reports and pictures on our website:
http://www.rc-junkies.net

Enjoy!

MERCCER4LIFE

iTrader: (-1)

thanks bunch!

M7H

Now I understand why Josh went to Novarossi.....

Pooh2

Yep, and Shimo is now running OS from what I hear.

Jspeed

Very nice & professional looking promotional billboard for the “Worlds” event.



Best of luck to all!

M7H

That Bertin prefers to run Picco instead of JP, I can imagine, because last time JP didn't give him the performance he was looking for....
But what happend to the Orion .21 engine?....
End of Orion project?....

stefan

At the Euros in Lostallo it was clear that only the Picco based engines were able to make 5 minutes without sacrifycing power.

Collari was only able to win by the slightest margin because he didn't change tires.

Neither Nova nor Sirio engines made time and had less power. I guess that's why he's running Picco.
Cordoba seems to be a power track as well, where fuel consumption will be a big, deciding factor.

Paul D.

I heard that this is JP's last year and he's retiring next year

M7H

And the Lostallo track is not far away from Picco, which gave them a lot of tracktime there to test.... (so I've heard.....)

Roelof

It is difficult to depend on another factory. JP knows that and Orion/Kyosho now knows that to. The difference between the 2 is that JP is no designer only a tuner and it will be difficult to stay ahead of (in this case) Novarossi.

Fuel consumption is the main issue, with a 10 minutes final you can not have a 2nd fuelstop to reach a direct final place but otherwise the pole on the WC back in 1989 in Holland was a Paris modified (3-port) engine with 2 fuelstops !

BTX4R

to all participant.............GOOD lucks and GAMBATE.........

from ' lapana'
Indonesia / Jakarta