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IFMAR 1:10 235mm IC Touring Car World Championship
First race	1998
Last race	2002
Duration	1 hour
Most wins (driver)	Michael Salven (2)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Serpent (4)
Circuit information
Surface	Asphalt

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

IFMAR World Championship Winners

Class 2 Touring

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

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

Statistics

Most Wins

Drivers

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

Car manufacturers

Rank	Manufacturer	Wins
1	Serpent	4

Motors

Rank	Manufacturer	Wins
1	Sirio	1
	Ninja
	Picco
	Max Power
	Novarossi

Transmitters

Rank	Manufacturer	Wins
1	Sanwa	4
2	KO Propo	1
	Futaba

By Member Blocs (Drivers)

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

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