The Worlds in Pattaya - Qualification and Finals

It was no blogging yesterday as i was so tired after a long hard day on the track that ended with the open cermony before we left to the hotel.

To Summerize the practice, it was really bad as David broke both practice round after krasching the car.

The mission at the first qualification was to make a good drive with few mistakes and don't break the car At the warmup his looked really god and he drive two laps and then we refueled so he could drive some more laps before the start as he didn't want to pit just before the start when the pitline is full of cars.
After that he made a really good driving with only a few mistakes that depended on wrong timing on the jumps.
He finished with 13 laps 10:29 and ended on 27 place in the first round wich we was very pleased with.

In the second round we had made some changes to the car to make it better to drive and the warmup was really good.
The jump was really god now, and the reason was that he moved a few meters on the driver stand to get another angel to se the track.
The clock started and he drove some good laps without any truble, but then he went to close in the turn after the straigth and broke the front lower arm of the car.

One good round, one bad ... 4 more to go and the most important is to get more tracktime to get some good driving for the finals.

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Qualifying round 3

The 3rd round was on Thursday and this round was his best so far (and for the all week) with a 18th place after a really good driving. It was still some mistakes too much, but he learning the track really good now.


Qualifying round 4

In the 4th round it seemes good also, but suddenly the engine started to go rich and stopped. We tuned it but it didn't help so something was wrong. We checked It after the race and it was dirt in the carburator so that was the problem.

After two days he now had 2 good and 2 bad round, so the friday must be a good day.



Qualifying round 5

Qualifying day two was very importen as David now was forced to have two god rounds to get his top-48 goal and get the free day for resting at saturday.

The day started god again and he made a good driving and he was 24 in the round, one more to go.

Qualifying round 6

In the last qualification round David chased the spot 32 or better to qualify directly to 1/4 final, But even with really good driving he didn't manage to get it all way as he after the last qualified 33 after team mate Tylor Vik who got the last 1/4 spot.

But after all, the top 48 place was fullfilled, and with his counted heats i think he was 18, 24, 26, 26.


1/8 Final

Sunday morning was a really hot tempature already 9 am.

David was driving his 1/8 as the second final of the day. With start number 1 he got a good start and maintained the lead for a couple of laps before Martin Bayer passed him.

A few laps after David lost his second position when his engine stopped. After we started the engine again he started to drive really fast and secure and started to pass the cars again.

Then the engine stopped for the second time and as it was on a very slow part of the track and the engine stopped because of too low ideling.

After that he pusched really hard and played around on the jumps until he made a mistake and broke the steering and the race was over.


The last happening on the race was the main final and that was a really good race. At the begining everything was about Tebo, Hara, Cody and Maifield, but Maifield broke the car after about 20-30 minutes.

Cody King was driving really good with Hara pusching behind. Tebo was battling with Maifield alot which was eating Tebos soft tires.

Tebo flamed one time when he landed after the 3 jump ... i saw it and i guess he landed on a something. This incident didn't change any position at Tebo was third before and after.

With a few minutes left Hara pressed Cody alot but he had a incredible driving and Hara was the guy doing mistakes.

After 60 minutes of thrilling final drivings Cody King passed the finish line first and become 2010 World Champion with his Kyosho / Orion / AKA package...

This was also Kyosho:s 8th WC title in 1/8 OffRoad.



To summarize the race it was a great event really well done by the organizer, and even if the track was difficult David liked it alot.

We should been at the track earlier for practice to be better prepered.. but after all i think the whole thing about practice before the event is wrong.


We thank Phil@Neobuggy to let us borrow some of his nice pictures from the race.

The Worlds in Pattaya - Practice Day 1

Then we are on a new race, and it's of couse the Worlds in 1/8 OffRoad in Pattaya, Thailand.
After some days resting and preperation for the race, it's time to see what David can do at his first IFMAR Worlds. Because of the school we have not been here for practice and that makes it a bit difficult as alot of drivers will be fast from day 1

Today it was time for two rounds of organized practice on 15 minutes and David got into heat one with fast drivers as Savoya, Hara, Thrue, Yannick Aigion and more.

He started his practice in the first heat of the day and went out on a little bit wet and slippery track.
The most important thing was NOT to break the car on the hard track and just be smooth and finding the lines around. Lap time was not important at all.
The setup of teh car was identical to Tebos, just to have something to start with.
It was no big changed exept for the battery that we moved from the battery tray to the front beside the steering servo.
In the kit Kyosho gave all drivers, it was a really nice battery holder with it.

The first practice was okay as we saw it, and after the practice Adrien came with som tip about some smal modifications (as ususal) to get the setup more to fits Davids driving style.

With the new changes we drove a second round that was much better than the first one and we checked som mileage but he went out of fuel in the fueling lap and the car after hit him in the rear shock and the shaft was bent, but as it was only a few minutes left of the practice it was okay.

After the second practice we made some small changings at the kar to make it ready for tomorrow when the time practice/reeseding starts.

So to summrize the first day, the car looks good, important with smooth driving, the track is really hard to the cars, the track migth be much bumpier.

On this video i found one lap of his driving in the 2nd practice round ... 3:30 in to the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ag4xbG6fs


Welcome to Pattaya Raceway


Some resting on the track


Swedish pit area


Our food partner@the track :-)