2006 World Championship
Jakarta(INDONESIA)
1/8th Off-Road |
| Report by: RB
Products |
| Event date : |
28/08-03/09/2006 |
| Racers present : |
150 |
| Race Conditions : |
A very big track with a
lot of different type of jumps and some weird curves, almost every difficulty
you encounter on this track so you need to be a universal driver to make the
fastest laptimes. |
| Weather : |
Very hot, between 30 -
38°C with 80% humidity. |
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this page we will try to give you some insight on the things we encounter
during our stay at these World Championships race held this time in
Jakarta(INDONESIA). |
A view of this huge World
Championships track. |
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| Monday Practise. |
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| The day
started off with technical inspection. |
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| RB
shows its presence and gives technical assistance to the racers using RB
Concept engines. |
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| Matthias
RECKWARD is very concentrated and serious. |
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| Check out
the way the fueltank is being measured..., Air is being pumped via the pressure
nipple and fuel receptionned in the calibration glass. Simple and
efficient. |
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| We met an
old Friend 'Sam CHENG' our RB Concept engines distributor for Singapore our
choosing a C6-BB and the 2045P pipe combination. |
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| It seems
that Daniel RECKWARD is confident for this race. |
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| Hakan
THERN(left below) proclaimed a new team for this week, he called this "STI",
this means the "Sabotage Team International". This is a joke born during the
pre-worlds race where while helping each other some things went wrong and so
they accused themselves of sabotage, this of course was not the case but still
Hakan wanted to remember these funny incidents by offerning a big key to
Yannick and his mechanic. |
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| Yannick
tries to adjust his car with this new tool. |
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| First
practise round today and Yannick beside this joke is also very
concentrated. |
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| We should
find this tool close to the car of Yannick this week. |
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| While
Cristophe his mechanic tries to find a way to carry it. |
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| A view of the very large and enough spaced drivers area. |
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| Tuesday
Practise & Openings
Ceremony. |
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| Engine
statistics |
| Brand |
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% |
| RB Concept |
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23,3 |
| O.S. Max |
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14,7 |
| Ninja |
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12,9 |
| Novarossi |
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9,5 |
| Sirio |
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8,6 |
| FX |
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7,8 |
| AXE |
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5,2 |
| Others |
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Less then 5% |
As the statistics show, RB Concept engines remains a worldwide
reference in Off-Road racing... The "RB Concept C6-BB/2045P" is the most
popular just after the still very popular"RB Concept WS7III/2045P",the
new 2045P tuned pipe is proven to be very strong and
relaible. |
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| You
have to pass these security guards to be able to go into the pit-area, if you
do not have the right badge then you will not get through. |
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| The
father of Richi Gomez(SP) happy with his "Power of
Champions" |
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| Engine warm-up area. |
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| Some
are just sitting in the pit-area and looking at the laptimes given on the large
TV screens. |
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| Some
drivers are looking at the TV while working on the car... |
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| Just
before the start of the practise session. |
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| Guillaume VRAY(F) defending World Champion chose to use a RB
Concept C6-BB for this event. |
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| A
special smoking area... |
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| Bernard making some adjustments for a driver from South
Africa. |
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| Unfortunately Richi Gomez lost a wheel in his first run. |
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| Hakan
Working while Linus is getting concentrated. |
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| While
Markus FELDMAN(D) and using RB Concept C6-BB/2045P is waiting for his
turn it seems that Matthias Reckward is hearing strange noises... |
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| Taiwaneese drivers using the RB Concept engines! |
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| Hakan
and Christopher getting used to each other for the refueling planned in the
qualifications. |
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| Action.... |
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| The
French team at the openings ceremony |
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| Indonesian team, our host country. |
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| Sander de Graaf the race director has everything under
control. |
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| Balloons... |
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| And
off they go. |
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| An
original model aircraft plane airshow during the ceremony. |
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| Wednesday Qualification 1-2. |
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| Some
of the US drivers have a lamp on their fuelgun, it seems they are running very
often in the evening and so they need to see what they are doing during the
refueling. |
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| Some
are talking and some try to relax in a different way. |
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| Washing and cleaning Area. |
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At
Yannicks first round his fuel-line was cut by the airfilter after a bad landing
in the roof, this has been solved for the next round.
On the 2nd round Yannick broke the
gears of his steering-servo in the last lap while leading his
qualifier. |
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Not a lot of luck for the RB
Team-drivers today, Daniel Reckward had a first round with some big mistakes
while in the 2nd round just after the refueling the brake system got blocked in
his car. Linus Thern had a good first round but in the second round his rear
driveshaft popped out. Guillaume Vray had a good first round but in the second
round his 4! tyres came looose. Richi Gomez was feeling sick today but still
drove but due to this could not concentrate very well.
All in all, a day to
forget... |
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| Thursday
Qualification
3-4. |
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| The
RB Concept Revolution fuel has arrived only yesterday and is now widely used by
most of the competitors. |
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| A
competitor from South Africa with his RB Concept. |
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| The
RB Concept fuel-gun, the only genuine fuelgun which has been followed up by
many copy's used by the real racers. |
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| The
car of Guillaume VRAY juest after the 4th round. |
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| The
AYGOIN brothers dominated the 4th round with only them making 12 laps, Yannick
was the TQ with his RB Concept C6-BB/2045/Revolution
Fuel. |
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| Yannick in ACTION. |
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The days are following but they do
not look alike. After an unfortunate day yesterday, things are looking better
for the team RB. Guillaume Vray and surely Yannick AIGOIN showed what they are
worth of. In the first round Guillaume made some small mistakes while Yannick
was very careful due to a twitchy car, however in the second round Yannick made
an incredible pole where nobody came close except his brother Jerome still 8
seconds behind! Guillaume secured his run and placing himself also in a good
spot for the final rankings
For Richi Gomez, things were still very difficult, even though he has
a fever(39°C), he still wanted to drive and secure his position, while
Daniel Reckward had some small problems getting the right pace and speed, but
we are working on this.
Still unfortunate is Linus Thern who in the first round made too many
mistakes and in the second round his throttle servo failed, further
investigation revealed that the cable of the servo was sectioned by the battery
moving to much in the radio compartment. |
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| Friday
Qualification
5-6. |
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| Action... |
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| After
some minor adjustments to the head of Guillaume VRAY he got things together and
making the TQ of the 6th and last round. |
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| Matthias Reckward has a sceptical look here don't you
think... |
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The final
results after 6 rounds, congratulations to Mark PAVIDIS(USA). |
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 Yannick had a good
start in round 6 but pushed too hard and made 3 mistakes. |
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Well the last to rounds are finished
and we have seen the track getting worse and worse, this is good for some
drivers and bad for others so the performances which needed to be made in the
first round are now not and issue anymore since now no mistakes are better then
being fast.
For
Yannick round 5 was a doubtful one where after the first mistake he changed his
driving style to be more sure and so lost some time but he cannot make anymore
mistakes otherwise he will find himself in the lower finals. In round 6 he
started of very fast but made 3 mistakes which costed a lot of time, he however
made the fastest laptimes overall.
For Guillaume in round 5 there were
too much mistakes and his mind needed to be adjusted(see picture above) and it
has proven to be the right adjustment since has made TQ in round
6...
Daniel Reckward
had a very twitchy car in round 5 and made also some mistakes while in round 6
he was leading his race and in his last lap he made 3 mistakes!, this lap never
seemed to end.
Linus
Thern was too careful in round 5 but when he tried to push his car to the limit
in round 6 it was too difficult with the track very destroyed now.
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| Sunday
Sub-finals &
Final. |
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| Team
RB Malaysia and Singapore. |
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| Daniel Reckward, unlucky because he broke his
transmission. |
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| Anti
mustiqo is what you also need on the track. |
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| Linus
Thern on his way to the final. |
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| Ricardo Gomez, fast but unlucky, he broke a rear suspension
arm. |
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| Positions
before the Final |
| No. |
Driver |
Car/Engine |
| 1 |
VRAY Guillaume(F) |
Mugen/C6-BB/Revolution |
| 2 |
AIGOIN Yannick(F) |
Xray/C6-BB/Revolution |
| 3 |
PAVIDIS Mark(USA |
Kyosho/OS |
| 4 |
BARDLEY Chad(USA) |
Hong Nor/OS |
| 5 |
DEGANI Greg(USA) |
Hobao/Picco |
| 6 |
THERN Linus(S) |
Kyosho/C6-BB/Revolution |
| 7 |
HAZELWOOD John(GB) |
Xray/OS |
| 8 |
HUGES Scott(USA) |
Mugen/OS |
| 9 |
KORTZ Jeremy(USA) |
Hobao/Werks |
| 10 |
TILLMAN Bobby(USA) |
Mugen/Ninja |
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| Decontraction just before the final, Yannick was trying to
concentrate. |
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| Linus
happy to reach the final after 3 bump-ups. |
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| The finalists. |
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| The start of the final. |
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| Final
Positions |
| Pos. |
No. |
Driver |
Car/Engine |
| 1 |
3 |
PAVIDIS Mark(USA |
Kyosho/OS |
| 2 |
8 |
HUGES Scott(USA) |
Mugen/OS |
| 3 |
1 |
VRAY Guillaume(F) |
Mugen/C6-BB/Revolution |
| 4 |
4 |
BARDLEY Chad(USA) |
Hong Nor/OS |
| 5 |
6 |
THERN Linus(S) |
Kyosho/C6-BB/Revolution |
| 6 |
2 |
AIGOIN Yannick(F) |
Xray/C6-BB/Revolution |
| 7 |
9 |
KORTZ Jeremy(USA) |
Hobao/Werks |
| 8 |
10 |
TILLMAN Bobby(USA) |
Mugen/Ninja |
| 9 |
5 |
DEGANI Greg(USA) |
Hobao/Picco |
| 10 |
7 |
HAZELWOOD John(GB) |
Xray/OS |
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Well, what can we say, another World
Championship has passed into the records, 3 RB Concept engines in the
final and after 3/4 of the race comfortable in the lead, disaster struck for
Yannick, he made a small error at the triple and his car landed sideways
blocking the exhaust stinger and the engine stopped. The time the car got back
into the pits, got started and out again he was in 4th position. Yannick
started to try and working his was back up again taking lots of risks and
making big jumps, after some time he was in the wheels of Guillaume but another
flame-out happened on the left side of the circuit probably a stone or
something else..., this made disappear all chances for a good
result.
Guillaume
Vray, made a lot of small mistakes and was not as comfortable as in the semi
final, still he managed to finish on a solid 3rd place. As for Linus Thern, he
was simply too tired to keep the pace on a secure level and made too many small
he still made a deserved 5th place.
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| Scott Huges - Mark Pavidis -
Guillaume Vray |
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| Epilog |
Fantastic organisation, great people,
hospitality and much more to add to this unforgetable event. Even though we
have passed closely to our 4th title we are still very satisfied with the
overall results and relaiability of our RB Concept engines. Probably some will
say it is the fault of the engine Yannick did not win this race and this is of
course true but it is a part of racing and we are not hiding from the truth. We
will try and understand what has gone wrong and so this will not happen
anymore. Still I would like to point to the fact that during the whole day on
sunday, not 1 RB engine has stalled out on us, this is why this incident is
even more hard to overcome.
With this I would like to thank all the participants using our engines
and related products and thank them for their support, we will try again in 2
years with the next World Championships. |
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