User:Donnie Park/IFMAR 1:12 Electric Track World Championship

IFMAR World Championship in 1:12 scale Electric Track
First race1982
Duration3 rounds of 8 minute heats (A-main)
2 rounds of 5 minute heats (others)
Most wins (driver)Masami Hirosaka (5)
Most wins (manufacturer)Associated Electrics (10)
Circuit information
SurfaceAsphalt or carpet

The IFMAR World Championship for 1:12 Electric Track cars, is a world championship radio controlled car race hosted by IFMAR. It takes place biennially on even years since 1982 and since 2000, as a double bill preceding the ISTC Worlds. Prior to that, it took place alongside its PRO 10 counterpart between 1996 to 2000 and as standalone races up to 1994. A category for stock motors took place alongside its modified motors counterpart in 1982 and 1984.

The event is open exclusively to 1:12 scale electric powered track cars, also known as pan cars, characterized by its close resemblance to sports prototype racers like its 1:8 counterpart.

The races takes place either on asphalt or carpet circuits but since 2010, the event took place on a temporary venue separate to its larger touring car counterpart, on indoor venues using felt carpet as surface.

Until 1985 with the introduction of world championship 1:10 off-road racing, it was the only electric racing class in existence. Until 1992, was the only electric on-road class available.[1]

Schedule

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A maximum of 100 drivers take part, each continental blocs allocated 20 entries each, the host bloc an extra 10 and the final 10 allocated by IFMAR themselves, usually through a pre-Worlds event.

The event take place over three days starting Monday with timed practice on day one, four qualifying heats on day two and for day three; two final qualifying sessions and race day over two heats.[N 1] After each qualifying session, the best qualifier of the round is awarded zero points, 2 and 3 points for the 2nd and 3rd fastest qualifier and so on with the most points given to the slowest qualifier, driver who do not score a time or is disqualified is thus awarded 500 points. Of six rounds or five in some circumstances that force a round be cancelled, the best three performances counts toward the driver's overall performance, two best rounds counts toward three or four rounds completed and one round count toward two or one rounds. After all the points is totalled up, the driver with the least points is the best qualifier, thus is awarded a TQ (Top Qualifier) award[4], enabling them to start in front of the first round.

The groups are then split into ten groups of ten drivers in alphabets, pending on their performance in qualifying with A being the fastest of the groups[4]

Race day starts with the slowest groups first, working its way to the next faster groups up to the fastest, the A-main, then progresses to the 2nd heat.[2]Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).. Each race run for a total of eight minutes with an extra 30 seconds to allow the driver to round their laps up[4].

Only the A-main, the group that carries the only hope of taking the world championship title, have three heats[5] with only two best performances that counts and a final practice in the afternoon during race day[4].

IFMAR World Championship Winners

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Year Bloc Name Car Motor ESP Transmitter Host Club Venue Location Nation Surface Source Report
1982 ROAR   Arturo Carbonell Delta Super Phaser Yokomo Turbo Novak Bantam Midget Futaba Grand Hotel, Anaheim Anaheim, California   United States Asphalt [6][7] Report
1984 EFRA   Tony Neisinger Associated RC12i Reedy Novak Bantam Midget Futaba Midtjysk RC Herning Kongrescenter Herning   Denmark Carpet [8] Report
1986 ROAR   Tony Neisinger Associated RC12L Reedy Green Label Novak T1 Futaba Tropicana Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada   United States Carpet [9][10][11][12] Report
1988 EFRA   Masami Hirosaka Associated RC12L Reedy Novak T1 KO Propo Micro Baarn Baarn   Netherlands Carpet [9][13] Report
1990 FEMCA   Chris Doseck Associated RC12L CAM Ace Pilot Novak 410-M1c KO Propo EX-1 Kebun Baru Radio Controlled Auto Club, Singapore Ngee Ann Polytechnic Clementi   Singapore Carpet [14][15][16] Report
1992 ROAR   Tony Neisinger Associated RC12LW Reedy Novak 410-M1c Airtronics Rivertown Racers Grand Center Welsh Arena Grand Rapids, Michigan   United States Carpet [17][18][19] Report
1994 EFRA   David Spashett Corally SP12G2 Corally Helbing 3000 Futaba MRC Creteli/Mini CAF Laigneville   France Carpet [20][21] Report
1996 ROAR   Masami Hirosaka Associated RC12LC Reedy Tri-Sonic Tekin KO Propo Esprit II Revelation Raceway Ontario, California   United States Asphalt [22][23] Report
1998 EFRA   David Spashett Trinity Switch Blade 12SJ Trinity LRP Quantum KO Propo Temple Park Leisure Centre South Shields, Newcastle upon Tyne   United Kingdom Carpet [24][25] Report
2000 FEMCA   Masami Hirosaka Associated RC12L3 Reedy Fury GM V-12W KO Propo Yatabe Arena Tsukuba, Ibaraki   Japan Asphalt [26][27][28][29] Report
2002 FAMAR   Masami Hirosaka Yokomo 12LY Reedy GM Purple SX9 KO Propo Esprit II Vantage Keywest Model Racers Key West Shopping Centre Krugersdorp, Gauteng   South Africa Asphalt [30][31][32] Report
2004 ROAR   Masami Hirosaka Associated RC12L4 Reedy GM Purple SX12W KO Propo Esprit II Full Throttle Speedway Kissimmee, Florida   United States Asphalt [33][34][35] Report
2006 EFRA   David Spashett Corally SP12X "US Spec" Peak Vantage 07 LRP KO Propo Esprit III Universe AS Pole Position PalaCollegno Collegno   Italy Carpet [36][37] Report
2008 FEMCA   Naoto Matsukura Associated RC12R5 NOSRAM Pure Evolution NOSRAM Pearl Evolution KO Propo EX-1 UR Radio Control Speedway Radio Control Speedway Bangkok   Thailand Asphalt [38][39] Report
2010 EFRA[40]   Naoto Matsukura Yokomo R12 NOSRAM Pure Evolution NOSRAM Pearl Evolution 2 Sanwa M11X MAC Burgdorf Gymnasium Burgdorf Burgdorf, Hanover   Germany Carpet [41][42][43] Report
2012 EFRA   Naoto Matsukura Yokomo R12C Yokomo ZERO R Yokomo Pro2 Sanwa M12 Model Auto Club Heemstede Kennemer Sportcenter Haarlem   Netherlands Carpet [44][45] Report
2014 ROAR   Marc Rheinard CRC Xti-WC Muchmore Fleta ZX Muchmore Fleta 1S Sanwa M12 Minnreg Hall Largo, Florida   United States Carpet [46] Report
2016 FEMCA   Naoto Matsukura Roche Rapide P12 2017 Muchmore Fleta ZX 1:12 WC Spec. Muchmore Fleta Pro V2 1S Black Sanwa M12S 2016 IFMAR World Championships Organizing Committee Beijing Science and Technology Gymnasium [zh] Fengtai, Beijing   China Carpet [47] Report

Stock

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For cars with identical stock motors

Year Bloc Name Car Motor ESP Transmitter Venue Location Nation Surface Source Report
1982 ROAR   Kent Clausen Associated RC12i Yokomo 05S Novak NES-1A Futaba FP-T2F Grand Hotel Anaheim, California   United States Asphalt Report
1984 EFRA   Bud Bartos Parma Euro Panther Igarashi 05 Novak NES-1A Kraft Herning   Denmark Carpet Report

Statistics

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Most Wins

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Drivers

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Rank Driver Wins
1   Masami Hirosaka 5
2   Naoto Matsukura 4
3   Tony Neisinger 3
  David Spashett
4   Arturo Carbonell 1
  Chris Doseck
  Marc Rheinard

Car manufacturers

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Rank Manufacturer Wins
1   Associated Electrics 9
2   Yokomo 3
3   Corally 2
4   Delta Systems 1
  Team Trinity
  Calandra Racing Concepts
  Roche

Motors

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Rank Manufacturer Wins
1   Reedy 10
2   Yokomo 2
  Nosram
  Muchmore Racing
4   CAM Pro-Motor 1
  Corally
  Team Trinity
  Peak Racing

Transmitters

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Rank Manufacturer Wins
1   KO Propo 9
2   Futaba 5
  Sanwa

By Member Blocs (Drivers)

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Rank Bloc Wins
1 FEMCA 9
2 ROAR 5
3 EFRA 4
4 FAMAR 0

Win(s) by Nations (Drivers)

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Rank Nation Wins
1   Japan 9
2   United States 5
3   United Kingdom 3
4   Germany 1

Most represented in final

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Note: Entries expanded to accommodate 12 drivers (from 10 in previous years) as of 2008, those with more than 50% represented are listed. Italics on year represents in which a driver of the country or car manufacturer who failed to score a championship title, italics on nationalities indicate host nation.

Nations (drivers)

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Rank Total Nation Year
1 9   United States 1982
2 7   United States 1996
  United States 1992
4 6   United States 1986
  United States 1998
  United States 2006
  Japan 2016
8 5   United States 1984
  United States 1988
  United States 1998
  Japan 2000
  Japan 2004

Car manufacturers

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Rank Total Nation Year
1 8   Associated Electrics 1992
2 7   Associated Electrics 1982
  Associated Electrics 1996
3 6   Associated Electrics 1988
  Associated Electrics 1990
  Associated Electrics 1998
8 5   Associated Electrics 1984
  Corally 1994

Notes

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  1. ^ In the 2014 Worlds, as there was 44 entrants, this was five qualifying heats on day two and for day three; the sixth and final qualifying session and race day for six groups[2][3].

References

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Works cited

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  • Provetti, Ernie (January 1995). "IFMAR 1/12 Scale Worlds". Radio Control Car Action. Air Age Media.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
  • Thawley, John (December 1992). "IFMAR 1/12 Scale World Championships". Radio Control Car Action. Air Age Media.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
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