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Swiss Ace Simon Kurzbuch dominates Qualifying at the 2015 IFMAR 1/8th IC track World Championships in Americana City, Brazil.
The 1/8th scale scene is currently in Brazil for the IFMAR 1/8th IC track World Championships. The event is organized at the Zeca Elias track, approx. 160 km’s of Sao Paulo. About 75 drivers are present, the majority coming from Brazil and Argentina. The Zeca Elias is a good facility, but no errors must be made. It is a high speed track with concrete barriers, so any mistake means a repair.
After 5 days of practice and 2 days of Qualifying the Top Qualifier for the IFMAR 1/8th IC Track Championship is Simon Kurzbuch from Switzerland. Running the point system here in Brazil for the first time in this class, it was Kurzbuch who took all 3 rounds on the Wednesday. With another 3 rounds to go on the Thursday it was still possible for another driver to secure the pole position, but also the 4 round was for the talented Swiss driver. The NovaRossi powered Sheperd seems in the hands of the Swiss driver to be flying.
Temperatures are hot all week, varying from 27 till 32 degrees. Up till now the rain has passed the track daily, with only a small delay in round 5.
In round 1 it was Kurzbuch, Tadehiko Sahashi and Yokoyama.
Round 2 the battle was between Kurzbuch, Balestri and Shimo
Round 3 it was between Kurzbuch, Yuya Sahashi and again Balestri.
Round 4 was very close between Kurzbuch, Balestri and Shimo.
In Round 5 Shimo took the win after Kurzbuch had to retire after 8 minutes and round 6 was again for Shimo with Kurzbuch in second.
This made the following standings after the 6 rounds of Qualifying:
1) Simon Kurzbuch CHE 0 points
2) Takaaki Shimo JAP 3 points
3) Dario Balestri ITA 7 points
4) Tadahiko Sahashi JAP 10 points
5) Yuya Sahashi JAP 11 points
6) Robert Pietsch GER 11 points
7) Robin D’Hondt BEL 13 points
8) Jesse Davis AUS 14 points
9) Flavio Elias BRA 19 points
10) Daniele Ieliasi ITA 22 points
Friday the lower finals are run, with Quarter, semi and main final run on Saturday.
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