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PRO class
Reece Hodges from the UK has won his very first World Championship title in Pro class. Qualifying 3rd he had to battle it out with Jhonny Hernandez from Spain and Michitaka Yanagisawa from Japan. The lead tossed several times and despite a few small errors Reece managed to clinch the title with just 0.6 seconds on the hard charging Hernandez and 0.8 on Yanagisawa who set the fastest lap in this A-Main final with 13.744. The big absentee was of course pole-sitter Mathias Nedrebø who couldn't free himself up for the main finals.
1.|Reece Hodges|GB|22|05:11.632|3
2.|Jhonny Hernandez|ES|22|05:12.286|2
3.|Michitaka Yanagisawa|JP|22|05:12.492|4
4.|Xavier Deparde|FR|21|05:04.606|5
5.|Carson Yeung|HK|21|05:07.034|7
6.|Patrick Bader|CH|21|05:07.942|8
7.|Gary Crowell|US|21|05:07.964|9
8.|Nuno Lourenco|PT|21|05:09.098|10
9.|Mathias Nedrebø|NO||DNF
10.|Dana Bailes|US||DNF
SPORT class
Dimitrios Ioannidis from Greece led the A-Main almost from start to finish...
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After 3 titles in 1:12 10.5T Spec, Dana Bailes finally got his 1:12 modified Open title in 2017. The American racer had to shrub off Mathias Nedrebø (Norway) and Dominic Greier (Germany) who were charging hard on Bailes but he didn't blink. Bailes drove a faultless race from start to finish and after Nedrebø double-crashed in lap 19 costing him almost 5 seconds the heat was off. Greier slipped in front of the Norwegian as well to finish 2nd 3.5 seconds down on Dane 'Mr. Consistency' Bailes. A bad opening lap of 13.998, but then 13.167 average and a fastest lap 12.882. A deserved winner. Congrats to the podium finishers!
1.|Dana Bailes|US|37 08:07.992
2.|Dominic Greiner|DE|37|08:11.314
3.|Mathias Nedrebø|NO|36|08:00.626
4.|Allan O'Brien|GB|36|08:04.498
5.|Graham Raistrick|GB|36|08:06.234
6.|Carson Yeung|HK|36|08:11.530
7.|Gary Crowell|US|35|08:01.182
8.|Atsushi Hasegawa|JP|35|08:01.578
9.|Hijrah Saputra|ID|34|08:09.180
10.|Michitaka Yanagisawa|JP||DNF
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VRC PRO WORLDS 2017 1:10 ELECTRIC TC SPEC 13.5 CARPET 7 FB
Fabulous new track, Carpet 7 FB hosted the 1:10 electric tc spec race.
PRO level
QUALIFYING
In the qualifying round, Spanish Jhonny Hernandez was the fastest. Hernandez averaging 14,721, he left the Norwegian Mathias Nedrebo in 0.24 seconds behind. Belgian Daan Haling was also in a hurry, staying 1.1 seconds behind Hernandez. Skilful German Tobias Seidl was fourth and American Dana Bailes fifth fastest, Seidl was 1.7 and Bailes 2.1 seconds behind the top qualifier.
SEMIFINAL
In the semifinal round Norwegian Nedrebo succeeded perfectly. With an average of 14,620, he was 1.7 seconds faster than Haling in second place. Haling also did really well because the qualifying round winner Hernandez stayed behind him with 0.4 seconds margin. Frenchman Alexander D... read more
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Bailes, Saputra and Zimmermann divide the titles in 1:12 105T
CLUB
This time we start with the closest A-Main in 1:12 10.5T Spec, which was Club level (see video). The 8 minute A-Main was between Zimmermann, Condes and Lavrentyev all the way, tossing top positions all the time. In the middle of the race it looked like Condes was running away with it having led most of it. But Lavrentyev was pressing hard with Zimmermann in the waiting seat to grab the cvhance when it would come. Lavrentyev started making small mistakes, in fact 3 times he hit the corner marker at the beginning of the back straight throwing him out of contention. Towards the end, with Condos leading, Zimmermann put more pressure on him and managed to take the lead 4 laps before the end, and didn't give it away.
CLUB class
1.|Henrik Zimmermann|DE|32|08:07.286
2.|Luis Condes|ES|32|08:07.422
3.|Denis Lavrentyev|RU|32|08:10.988
4.|Bryan Thomson|GB|31|08:04.836
5.|Jason Platt|US|31|08:14.374
6.|Fred Bondonn...
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