Radio Control Model Cars - 2006 iFMAR Buggy World Championship

Held in end August 2006 at Ancol, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

30th August: Day 3

Now this is serious business today. the official heats starts on the dot. From the Official Conrol Practice runs, the best run was ranked by points. I checked with Mr Sander on how the re-seed was done and this is what he said; The top 50 were placed into Heats 1 to 5 with swapping of drivers from the 2nd 50 drivers only if there were any frequency crashes. Then the 2nd 50 drivers were seeded into Heats 6 to 10 in the same manner and the rest is history.

So, we have one Heat with 3 Singapore drivers, can't remember their names, getting old liao and I forgot to bring down my list to the press room. At the end of the 2 Heat runs, Glenn Phuah did the best, in terms of results, but we still have 2 more days of Heats of 4 runs to go, so anything can happen.

Old man Sam didn't wake up on the right side of his bed, or was it someone else bed, Hmmm.... In run 1 the RB chief engineer was tuning up his engine and gave him a direct order to take the triple jump in one go. he figetted but nonetheless tried it and it would not be an overstatement to say that he clumsyly cleared it as demanded. In run 2, not too sure what he did, but he confirmed that his engine wasn't running at peak performance. But not to despair, our Old man Sam is still full of fighting spirit, we shall watch for tomorrow.

Today, if I remember right, the fastest lap time I saw was a 50.x, no 49s today. No one clear the super woops in 3 by 2, most were doing a 2 by 2 by 1. All the 10 minute 12 lapper drivers were clearing the tripple in 1 jump, the quad woops corner were cleared in a 1 by 1 by 2 fashion.

Oh, almost forgot, Chris Sze's leg operation scar opened up last night. Danny Teh's version of Eddie's discovery was so hilarious. Danny says the scar was near Chris grion area and Eddie came into the room while he was squatting down to help Chris put a plaster over the scar... well I'll let you guess what Eddie think he saw.

Eddie got hold of Andri, who help ferried Chris off to the nearest hospital, but there is no surgeon on duty and he had to go back this morning at 9am for help. Chris got back in time for his Heat and when I check with him, he says he is okay.

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