Argentina Worlds

[David Church]

I have made it too the track with not too many dramas lol
If you want to watch go to www.liverc.com
I will start posting pics and try and keep you guys updated a bit.
The track looks very good, but a bit wet, lots of mud which has now been covered with wood chips, practice starts here at 2pm local time, we are 3 hours behind UK time.

[David Church]

Here are a few pics. Not sure how good my Internet connection is at the track.

[David Church]

Here is the first pic of Jimmy and Vicky.

[budfish]

Your a funny man dc

[David Church]

Practise for day 1is nearly over, one 15 minute run only today. It's difficult to say who was quickest by just watching, I've not seen any scoring yet. But I will list a few. Tessman was quick, so was Phend, Cragg looked good, so did Lee even though he was out very early.boots was very fast, sowas mayfield and cavalari and Teebo. Ronnefalk was quick, as is Bloomfield. So many of the people you would think would be there, I haven't watched all of practice.
The track is very dusty and a few good bumps are appearing now. Not sure if they are going todo anything to the track tonight. Just watching Hara now he is going well.
Loads more pictures to come, after all I need to keep Buds happy hehe

[David Church]

Ok at the hotel now. Will start loading the photos up:D

[David Church]

Another pic

[David Church]

Here are a few good pics!

[David Church]

Don't know why the pics are going on the wrong way up. Sorry lol

[David Church]

Here's some more, they will probably be the wrong way as well lol

[David Church]

Hupo likes the photo!

[David Church]

A few more.

Ok so this flipped I pad isn't loading the photos correct, I attached 3 pics and 1 comes up, and the wrong one haha
Or maybe it's me!!! It's been a long trip so I will leave it there and try again tomorrow.

[jimmy]

Awesome work dave! gonna check out the liverc coverage tonight once we looked at some koalas

[David Church]

Will try again this morning with more pictures.

[David Church]

Plenty more to come.

[David Church]

Elfin computers! I'm sober and still get it wrong! I've come down for an early coffee and the locals are still partying lol

[David Church]

Try again.

[David Church]

Pictures of a dusty track

[David Church]

More of the track

[Mrs oOple]

Good work dude, thanks for the updates! :)

[David Church]

For some reason I can only load

[David Church]

More and more

[David Church]

Guess who

[David Church]

You know who this is.

[David Church]

Oops. Lol. Try again.

[AndrewCaunt]

Jimmy and Vicky

[David Church]

There is more. This one is special.

[David Church]

And they keep coming.

[David Church]

I have to type something lol

[David Church]

Blah blah blah blah

[David Church]

Continue

[David Church]

Carlos the IFMAR rep

[David Church]

Random official

[David Church]

The main pit area. There are more spread around.

[David Church]

We are 3 hours behind thr UK here. 2 more days of practice. You can watch live action at www.liverc.com the all access pass is well worth the money. But there will also be plenty of free view.

[David Church]

Trackside now. They have done a lot of work to the track. It looks much better. Lee Martin is on the track now, looking very good! Jon Dell is looking after Lee this week.
2 rounds of practice today, the weather is HOT!!! It's gonna be 35c today, but they say the rain is coming!

[David Church]

Mayfield looked very confident on the track, Dakota Phend also was going well.
I've got to say this type of racing seems so chaotic compared to 1/10th. So much noise, dust, people yelling, running around all over the place. I'm still very lucky and happy to be here!!!

[DaSloth]

is there any talk of moving qually forward because of the almost certain thunder storms which are coming Dave? or have they said what will happen if the expected rain does come? looks like it wont be stopping till the end of friday! :(

[David Church]

is there any talk of moving qually forward because of the almost certain thunder storms which are coming Dave? or have they said what will happen if the expected rain does come? looks like it wont be stopping till the end of friday! :(

From what I've heard is its run rain or shine, of course as long as its not an electrical storm. So things are planned to stay as they are. The chat is the weather is supposed to be good at the end of the week.

[DaSloth]

Mmm should be interesting, i saw pics of the track from the rain prior to the event so i guess it will flood again, should be fun to watch :)

[David Church]

An interesting section of the track. It looks like a water pipe is being unearthed, this is happening on more than one part!

[David Church]

They have now stopped practice and are going to try and bury the water pipes lol

[David Church]

Sorted, just chop it out, fill the hole and carry on. Lol

Ronnefalk and Boots on the track now. Tessman put in a very quick lap a short while ago.

[David Church]

Sometimes in life, things work out just right, I'm sat on the middle level of the rostrum, iPad online, in shorts and t shirt, in Argentina, Hohhot yyyyeeeeesssssss

[David Church]

Loading many more pics p on RCTuner on Facebook, google search them or search on FB

[David Church]

Sorry for the lack of updates today, this morning was delayed due to a very wet track, then the Internet stopped working trackside!
We are promised it will be fixed early tomorrow.
But in case you wanted to know, Elliot Boots topped the seeding times today.
Lee Martin also was in the top 10, but I didn't hang round to check it out as it was only seeding for qualifying and I'm sure there are plenty of places you can find the results!

[David Church]

It's another clear morning here today, it's set to be a scorcher I think, but who knows really haha.
Some of my interviews on online at www.liverc.com it's a bit weird watching them for me, I am gonna have to step my game up, and don't worry, as soon as the Internet is sorted, and the cameras are rolling, I will be having a bit of fun somehow haha, come on you guys know me hehe

[racingdwarf]

Any news? read today there was a nasty accident involving a marshal :o

[David Church]

LiveRc are up and running. Some major Internet problems meant we had no coverage. A marshal did get hit right in the face, I believe he was ko for a bit, but did get up and walk away, no doubt he will be hurting for some time.
I'm sure you can find better results than I have time to type, but Lee had a great 2 runs today!!! The rain is holding off for now, I'm cooling off at the hotel, will see if I can get on the old interweb thing trackside.

[DaSloth]

Certainly looks like lee is loving the new car. i don't think hes done as well in nitro up to now with the previous cars. Keep it up lee!

[David Church]

Top 10 after 2 rounds of qualifying.

Battle
Tessman
Martin
Tenor
Martin Bayer
Maifield
Cavalari
Davide tortorichi
Drake
Phend
10 more
Josh wheeler
Miguel matias
Aigon
Jeremy Kortz
Hara
Kyle mcbride
Renato tradardi
Lutz
Teemu
Taylor Peterssen

[mikeyscott]

Top 10 after 2 rounds of qualifying.

Battle
Tessman
Martin
Tenor
Martin Bayer
Maifield
Cavalari
Davide tortorichi
Drake
Phend
10 more
Josh wheeler
Miguel matias
Aigon
Jeremy Kortz
Hara
Kyle mcbride
Renato tradardi
Lutz
Teemu
Taylor Peterssen

What's happened to Boots?

[David Church]

20+
Borja Hernandez
Boots
Jp Mitch
Cody king
Dylan Rodriguez
Atsushi kawamoto
Kenji Osaka
Ronnefalk
Sartel
JQ
Savoya was 38th
And that's all I have.

[ian h]

What's happened to Boots?

TQ round 3
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[racingdwarf]

Elliott boots TQ's the worlds!!!!!!!:thumbsup::thumbsup: If he manages the win we will have a uk euro champ with bloomers and a uk world champ:woot:

[James]

I'm sure loads of you have seen this but yes amazing result for Elliot, best of luck for the final - and Lee Martin an awesome 6th qualifier!

http://www.neobuggy.net/images/News/2012_ifmar_qualifying.jpg

[Chrislong]

Awesome, come on Elliott:woot:

[Rebelrc]

Go go Elliot:thumbsup:
Good luck!

[racingdwarf]

Mind you, looking at the latest photos of the track he may need to swap to some form of kyosho boat next time he hits the track as damn they have had some water, It looks as if they built the track at the lowest point in the field!

[Cosworth]

Nice to see Simon Willetts going well!

[David Church]

The track was built next to a river not far downstream from a dam I've been told. If the water gets too high and they have to open the dam the whole place could flood and it would take days for the water to go down. So it's possible the finals will not take place and Elliot would be the champion! Will know in a few hours when the sun is up and I can go have a look at the track.
I hope it's not flooded! We have come a long way to be here, and there has been a lot of problems. Internet at the track has failed massively so live Rc has not had good coverage of the event, nothing they can do as it's the Internet provider that is failing. They paid a lot of money to have a good connection as well.
Lots of other problems as well, there will be loads of stories coming from this world championships.

[David Church]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/9727638/Buenos-Aires-hit-by-toxic-cloud.html

Now a toxic cloud has been seen not far from here, lol. The local reports say its non toxic. Yeah right lol

[David Church]

I've just been over to look at the track, it's wet but not flooded so we should be good to race today!!!

[David Church]

Here is a picture taken a short while ago.

[David Church]

Here are a few more.

[David Church]

Another.

[DCM]

is that the rain with the Toxic cloud in it?

[goldy]

If it gets rained off, does Elliot come home world champ:)

[David Church]

Elliot would be champion if it gets rained off. It's very windy here today and much cooler than earlier in the week. Hopefully it will have blown that toxic cloud away lol. It's dry at the moment and not many clouds in the sky which is good, you would think they would be at the track now clearing the water, but nope, no one is even at the track now!!! There will be many sore heads today as many were drinking yesterday and many were up very late!!!

[DCM]

It does seem to be very low atmosphere at the Worlds, normally the track is buzzing all the time, but at this one, seems like they are on siesta all the time!!

[David Church]

Yep it's a very poor atmosphere. And as far as I can tell there is still no one working on the track.

[mikeyscott]

Yep it's a very poor atmosphere. And as far as I can tell there is still no one working on the track.

What a shame.

Fingers crossed it warms up you all get racing.

[DCM]

You'd think they would make more of an effort wouldn't you. track looks like a club day, odd banner here and there :(

[hotrodchris]

Or Elliot just comes home with the Title?

[bomber]

The english drivers should feel right at home with the puddles and mud :lol:

[David Church]

I'm going to the track now, some of the UK drivers are going over to work on the track! Probably won't have in Internet there, but will try and update if I get the chance.

[DCM]

I'm going to the track now, some of the UK drivers are going over to work on the track! Probably won't have in Internet there, but will try and update if I get the chance.
Good to see you sneek Jimmy into the Neobuggy RC Racing Thursday roundup!

[racingdwarf]

maybe they are not working on the track untill they know about the dam, they have the advantage of local knowledge. Looking at a few local reports they have had some serious rain around those parts. Even if it's stopped they may well need to open the dam as the land drains to the rivers hours after it's stopped:bored:

Build the track on a flood plain, sweet:lol:

[jo90]

am i doing something wrong as i cant see any pics :cry:

[racingdwarf]

things not looking good for the race meeting, just reading else were the weather today is bad! downtown buenos aires is flooded:woot:

[racingdwarf]

It's all gone very quiet over there,No updates for hours, maybe the whole of buenos aires has washed away!

[James]

Boots out of the semi :( gutting , incident over the quad and he's out, such bad luck :bored:

[racingdwarf]

jeffin hell:mad: when will that boy score some big time luck at a big meeting:(:(Gutted who's still in from uk?

[jamiekerr14]

Lee is in the next semi-Fingers crossed he makes the Main..

:thumbdown: Tough luck for boots though :(

[James]

Lee Martin in the Final !!! :thumbsup: - looks like 6th on the grid, awesome!

[Dudders]

Bloomers?

[Darren Boyle]

Bloomers?

Darren did not make the semis sadly, apparantly his battery fell out of his radio during the race??

[Oxygen]

Gutted for Elliot....:(

All the best to Lee for the Final!!!! :thumbsup:

[PaulUpton]

Battlle is WC

[hotrodchris]

Unlucky Elliot all the best to Lee!:thumbsup::woot:

[The Chef]

What time is the final tomorrow please?

[racingdwarf]

What time is the final tomorrow please?

Errrm, got a tardis?

[James]

What time is the final tomorrow please?

It was yesterday

http://www.neobuggy.net/images/News/ifmar2012ress.jpg

[Jamie B4]

Any news on how the rest of the uk lads got on?

Haven't heard or found anything about Neil ?
Lee made the main
Bloomers finished ?
Was Bradders there
Where did Elliot finish

Sorry for this not very clued up in 1/8th

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