User:Donnie Park/IFMAR 1:10 IC Track World Championship

IFMAR 1:10 235mm IC Touring Car World Championship
First race1998
Last race2002
Duration1 hour
Most wins (driver)Michael Salven (2)
Most wins (manufacturer)Serpent (4)
Circuit information
SurfaceAsphalt

IFMAR 1:10 Scale 235mm On-Road World Championship for the short lived 1:10 Scale 235mm track cars, it was introduced in 1998 as a support class to its faster but demanding and expensive 1:8 counterpart.

Originally conceived by Michael Salven, a German engineer for Serpent in 1993 as a stepping stone alternative to the fast but highly demanding and expensive 1:8 Scale counterpart, widely regarded as a Formula One equivalent in R/C racing circles.[1]

The World championship was inaugurated in 1998 for two classes; Class I for sportcar racing bodies and Class II for touring car bodies.

Following that, Class I was discontinued in favor of the touring car category.[N 1]

The class began to reveal its flaws as manufacturers unsuccessfully attempted to adapt its designs to 4WD, making it a smaller but no less expensive alternative to 1:8 scale cars. Also it faced competition with the highly successful but far less expensive ISTC class that dominated the racing scene. Serpent was forced to respond with the Impulse, the first 200mm nitro touring car specialized for professional racetrack driving, leading to other manufacturers to integrate into the new category, including Kyosho, who had introduced a gas powered road car based counterpart back in 1989.[N 2]

Following the 2002 Worlds, the blocs voted to discontinue the 2WD race for the 4WD equivalent to run alongside the newly introduced 200mm nitro touring car equivalent, introduced in 2002 as a World Cup round[3] but due to its poor showing of the 2004 pre-Worlds event as popularity for the class had terminally declined, the class was eventually discontinued following an unanimous votes by the four blocs[4] and NTC (by now an official World Championship event) became a single class event like all other gas powered events and took over the role of being a support class to its 1:8 sport bodied counterpart.

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The 235mm class is the only championship to have never been hosted by either FEMCA and FAMAR blocs, let alone its drivers winning it as by the time the championship rotated to the FAMAR bloc, per IFMAR rulebook, it was discontinued.

Schedule

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IFMAR World Championship Winners

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Class 2 Touring

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Year Bloc Name Car Motor Transmitter Venue Location
1998 EFRA   Timmo Rinne Serpent Impact Mega Auto Modelbouw Club Apeldoorn Apeldoorn  
2000 ROAR   Michael Salven Serpent Impact M2 Mega Sanwa Stöhr-Ring Kirchberg an der Raab  
2002 ROAR   Brian Berry Serpent Impact M2 RB X12 Tri-State Racers Hamilton Ohio Scale Auto Raceway Hamilton, Ohio  


Class 1 Sport

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Year Bloc Name Car Motor Transmitter Venue Location
1998 EFRA   Michael Salven Serpent Impact Mega Sanwa Auto Modelbouw Club Apeldoorn Apeldoorn  

Statistics

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Most Wins

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Drivers

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Rank Driver Wins
1   Guillaume Vray 1
  Keisuke Fukuda
  Daniele Ielasi
  Ralph Burch
  Meen Vejrak

Car manufacturers

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Rank Manufacturer Wins
1   Serpent 4

Motors

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Rank Manufacturer Wins
1   Sirio 1
  Ninja
  Picco
  Max Power
  Novarossi

Transmitters

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Rank Manufacturer Wins
1   Sanwa 4
2   KO Propo 1
  Futaba

By Member Blocs (Drivers)

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Rank Bloc Wins
1 EFRA 3
2 ROAR 1
3 FAMAR 0
FEMCA

Notes

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  1. ^ LiveRC incorrectly stated that Class II was discontinued when photo evidence of the given source reveal that it ran until its end.[2]
  2. ^ Kyosho introduced a hobby GP-10 based Peugeot 405 T16 and Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 kit back then.

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