1/8 On-Road Open Singapore Championship
Open Singapore Championship
1/8 On-Road |
| Report by: Sam Cheng |
| Date event : |
02/07/2000 |
| Racers present : |
57 |
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This time
we had some overseas drivers from Malaysia and Japan which made this race even
more exciting and challenging. We had a total of 57 drivers and 3 round of 7
mins heat with 4 Main Finals ie A, B, C and D.
The Sunday weather was kind on us as we had some
showers in the early hours which we were worried that the race won't be able to
carry on.
Just to share some
experience with you; on Thursday at the track before the race day, we received
news that some fast lap were done by Japanese HPI driver who done 18 seconds+.
Then came the race day and we had our
usual race briefing before the race begin. Thereafter, the 1st Heat started, on
Heat No. 3, one of our local top driver, Khamil driving a Mega/Vector Spec 2000
clocked a new heat record of 23 laps at 7:18:62 and then come Mr Hashimoto from
HPI factory came in with another 23 laps at 7:16:01! Just before the end of the
1st Round of Heat, Sam did an even faster lap ie 23laps clocking at 7:12:37.
The commentator was equally excited and when ahead to announce that the lap
time did by Sam is a new heat record but was slower by 1 second which was done
by Mr Micheal Salven during the last Asia Serpent Challenge Race held in
Singapore!
After the total of 3 rounds
of heats the resutls was stay put with Sam holding on his TQ timing. Sam with
his RB/Vector did 23 laps in all the 3 rounds of heats but with a difference of
4 seconds between. At one of the heat, Mr Kitabe came very close to almost
making his TQ possible but was unfortunate that a small mistake was made by him
at the S-bend which allowed Sam to sneak passed him.
In the 45 mins A-Final, after the horn Sam took the
lead from the pack with his RB/Vector and never look back and had continue to
hold his lead to the end of the 45 mins final. Except with Mr Kitade who was on
Sam's tail with 2 second's gap and Hashimoto 3rd with Khamil 4th. However, at
the middle of the race disaster strike Mr kitade on his engine and broke his
con-rod. And that allowed Khamil to finish and came in 2nd place. |
After qualifying:
Pos. Name Car/Engine Laps Time
T.Q Sam Cheng Vector/RB 23. 7:02:12
2 Hashimoto Proceed/HPI 23. 7:16:01
3 Khamil Hyder Vector/Mega 23. 7:18:62
4 Gary Soon Vector/Mega 22. 7:01:14
5 Kitade Tsuguo Proceed/HPI 22. 7:01:34
6 Ben Seet MRX-2/Nova 22. 7:07:40
7 David koh Neo/Picco 22. 7:08:28
8 Kelvin Goh Vector/L.C.XS 22. 7:08:36
9 Steven Goh SMP/Nova 22. 7:13:30
10 Francis Choo Vector/RB 22. 7:16:61
Final results:
1st Sam Cheng Vector/RB Concept 139 45:17:45
2nd Khamil Hyder 138 45:02:79
3rd Ben Seet 137 45.08.92
4th Francis Choo 132 45:19:88
5th Hashimoto 107 45:01:70
6th Steven Goh 90 30.14.02
7th Kitade Tsuguo 71 24.38.02
8th Gary Soon 62 24.14.32
9th Kelvin Goh 54 18.41.76
10th David Koh 54 18.55.21
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