Day 1 of qualifying is over and it is American ace Chris Tosolini who holds the current TQ honours for the 2008 IFMAR 200mm World Championships here is Lisbon. The Sirio team driver was one of only three drivers to record 32 laps today with a run of 10:18.325 which was half a second clear of the ever impressive Peter Jovanovic with former World Champion Adrien Bertin third a further 7/10th behind.
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Tosolini ends Day in TQ position
Following the success of their Alfa and Mohawk bodies, Parma have released this new design 190mm body shell, which is ROAR approved and meets the new GBS (Global Body Spec) standards. The modified design is claimed to equal or exceed the performance of their earlier 190mm wide lightweight versions. Available in only one standard thickness .030″ clear and includes body, wing, vinyl window masks and decals.
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Parma 1/10 Mohawk 2 GBS body
Speed Passion have announced the release of this new LCD Professional Program unit with built in USB / PC Interface tools. Allowing you to have more adjustable features, such as drag brake power by percentage (0 to 100%), it will support the company’s Silver Arrow 1/8 Esc DRRS power adjust, also by percentage. The LCD unit also pre-stores 3 different type of ESC setting, so you can easily load your favourite setting to suit different track condition. Available to purchase at the end of August.
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Speed Passion LCD Pro Programmer
Jilles Groskamp is the pace setter after the first round of qualifying here in Portugal but the Dutch driver was not the fastest in the run, that honour going to Daniele Ielasi but in post race scrutiny the Italian’s fuel tank was deemed to be to big. It was very close at the top with Ielasi posting a run of 31 laps in 10:02.628 with Groskamp just 8/100th behind.
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Groskamp tops first qualifier in Lisbon