2012 IFMAR World Championships – Qualifying Wrap-Up

With the weather forecast for the week showing imminent disaster, the choice was made to run the fifth round of qualifying on Wednesday after rounds 3 and 4 – which turned out to be the right decision, as the skies opened up on Thursday and prevented any chance of completing the sixth and final round of qualifying. The IFMAR Worlds schedule calls for two days of main events, with lower finals running tomorrow and the world champion being crowned on Saturday.

 

Round Three

Elliot Boots picked up the pace in round three, grabbing the round TQ after scoring a 3 and an 11 in the first two rounds. The young British Champion narrowly edged Batlle, who looks to be Mugen Seiki’s best chance of winning in the new MBX7’s debut, while ROAR National Champ Ty Tessman backed up a strong first day of qualifying with the third spot. Ryan Maifield improved from his two previous rounds, moving up from 10th to 4th and giving himself a great chance to make the semi out of qualifying with three strong top-10 runs.

Pos	Name	Chassis	Engine	Time	Country
1	Elliot Boots	Kyosho	Novarossi	14/10:39.259	Great Britain
2	Robert Batlle	Mugen	Novarossi	14/10:41.101	Spain
3	Ty Tessman	Hot Bodies	O.S.	14/10:43.192	Canada
4	Ryan Maifield	Associated	LRP	13/10:01.809	USA
5	Lee Martin	Mugen	Novarossi	13/10:02.283	Great Britain
6	Atsushi Hara	Hot Bodies	O.S.	13/10:03.450	Japan
7	Kyle McBride	Kyosho	O.S.	13/10:04.028	Australia
8	Martin Bayer	XRAY	LRP	13/10:04.400	Czech Republic
9	Yannick Aigoin	Associated	nVision	13/10:05.874	France
10	Jared Tebo	Kyosho	Orion	13/10:07.983	USA
11	Taylor Petersen	Mugen	Alpha	13/10:08.913	USA
12	Dakotah Phend	TLR	Orion	13/10:10.694	USA

Round Four

American XRAY driver Josh Wheeler had his breakout race at the 2002 IFMAR Worlds in Indonesia, finishing 4th at the age of 17. Ten years later he TQ’d the fourth round, leading a 1-2-3- sweep for USA drivers. The biggest surprise of the fourth round was undoubtedly A Main Hobbies’ team driver Dylan Rodriguez, who finished second for the round in his first Worlds appearance by less than two-tenths of a second over 2010 Top Qualifier Jared Tebo.

Pos	Name	Chassis	Engine	Time	Country
1	Josh Wheeler	XRAY	O.S.	13/10:14.317	USA
2	Dylan Rodriguez	Kyosho	O.S.	13/10:15.599	USA
3	Jared Tebo	Kyosho	Orion	13/10:15.771	USA
4	Yannick Aigoin	Associated	nVision	13/10:16.073	France
5	Ryan Maifield	Associated	LRP	13/10:16.138	USA
6	Jerome Aigoin	Kyosho	Novarossi	13/10:16.906	France
7	Elliot Boots	Kyosho	Novarossi	13/10:18.263	Great Britain
8	David Ronnefalk	Kyosho	Orion	13/10:19.290	Sweden
9	Davide Tortorici	Mugen	Bliss	13/10:19.847	France
10	Renato Tradardi Jr.	Associated	Novarossi	13/10:19.709	Venezuela
11	Taylor Petersen	Mugen	Alpha	13/10:20.139	USA
12	Travis Amezcua	XRAY	Novarossi	13/10:21.794	USA

Round Five

These Boots were made for walkin’ – with the biggest margin of victory of the week, Elliot Boots destroyed the field by nearly 13 seconds in the fifth round. Though the drivers may not have known it at the time, this was the final round of the week.

Pos	Name	Chassis	Engine	Time	Country
1	Elliot Boots	Kyosho	Novarossi	13/10:04.162	Great Britain
2	Ryan Maifield	Associated	LRP	13/10:17.157	USA
3	Davide Tortorici	Mugen	Bliss	13/10:18.875	Italy
4	Robert Batlle	Mugen	Novarossi	13/10:18.903	Spain
5	Jared Tebo	Kyosho	Orion	13/10:20.241	USA
6	Kyle McBride	Kyosho	O.S.	13/10:20.518	Australia
7	Atsushi Hara	Hot Bodies	O.S.	13/10:23.382	Japan
8	Simon Willets	Mugen	Novarossi	13/10:23.486	Great Britain
9	Yannick Aigoin	Associated	nVision	13/10:23.677	France
10	JR Mitch	TLR	Orion	13/10:26.492	USA
11	Taylor Petersen	Mugen	Alpha	13/10:27.219	USA
12	Martin Bayer	XRAY	LRP	13/10:27.555	Finland

FINAL QUALIFYING RESULTS – Top 16 transfer directly to the semifinals

Qualified	Name	Country	Car	Engine	Tires	Points
1	Elliot Boots	Great Britain	Kyosho	Nova Rossi	AKA	452
2	Robert Batlle	Spain	Mugen	Nova Rossi	Pro Circuit	451
3	Ty Tessman	Canada	HB/HPI	O.S.	Pro-Line	448
4	Jared Tebo	USA	Kyosho	Orion	AKA	446
5	Ryan Maifield	USA	Team Associated	LRP	JConcepts	445
6	Lee Martin	Great Britain	Mugen	Nova Rossi	AKA	441
7	Yannick Aigoin	France	Team Associated	Nvision	Pro Circuit	438
8	Kyle McBride	Australia	Kyosho	O.S.	Pro-Line	437
9	Davide Tortorici	Italy	Mugen	Bliss	VP-Pro	434
10	Martin Bayer	Czech Republic	Xray	LRP	AKA	434
11	Jerome Aigoin	France	Kyosho	Nova Rossi	AKA	429
12	Atsushi Hara	Japan	HB/HPI	O.S.	HB/HPI	428
13	David Ronnefalk	Sweden	Kyosho	Orion	AKA	426
14	Josh Wheeler	USA	Xray	O.S.	AKA	424
15	Taylor Petersen	USA	Mugen	Alpha	AKA	423
16	Renato Tradardi jR.	Venezuela	Team Associated	Nova Rossi	JConcepts	418