Tamiya North American Finals

[Jason Sams]

Our West Coast contributing author, Joel Navarro, will be posting photos and and info from the race.

[Hobson]

My sources tell me Tamiya have a new truck on display, the 3 Speed Tamiya 58415 1/10 R/C Toyota Tundra Highlift.

Any images? :)

[Joel Novarro]

Im finishing up the photos and will post them in a couple of hours along with all the results and video to follow...stay tuned! :D

[Joel Novarro]

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Japan or BUST! That is the attitude of every racer that participates in the Tamiya North American finals held at Tamiya America's first class facility in Aliso Viejo, CA. Now in its 14th year, to participate in the North American Finals, you first have to qualify in the top 10 of any of the regional races held across the U.S.. There could have been a regional race next door to where you live and you didn't even know it! Positions fill up fast at this race, but Tamiya still accepts sign ups days before the race at a first come, first serve basis until race capacity is reached. Its a free race to enter and what are the rewards you ask? Well, if you're the winner in the GT1 (10.5 turn), GT2 (13.5 turn), or the Mini Class (Mabuchi Silver Can), you win yourself a trip to Japan Mid-November to compete in the Tamiya Worlds. To go along with the Japan trip, every racer in the top 3 of every class get car kits, plus a National Champion title. Spectators got into the action as well with the spectator raffle making it a fun atmosphere for all. With so much on the line for the racers, the racing action was intense! Lets see how it all went down!

[Joel Novarro]

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Every year the Tamiya North American Finals are held at Tamiya USA's track. As many of you know, the Tamiya property was up for sale and we all thought we saw the last of this awesome track. The property the warehouse is on was sold, but the property the track is on is still Tamiya's and I was told they are going to try to keep the track for as long as they can! :D

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On Saturday morning qualifying, the first order of business was a drivers meeting where every racer brought their car for a group picture.

[Joel Novarro]

When it was time for the Best of Show portion of the event, it was time for racers pull out all the stops with their best paint jobs and attention to detail to take top honors. Here are some of the Best of Show finalists.

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Tamiya's Fred Medel narrowed down the finalist to ultimately pick the Best of Show from each class.

Here are some of my favorites.

This rig belongs to Brandon Koslosky.
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If it wasnt for the R/C wheel nuts and body post, you would do a double take believing this Alfa was real!
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[Joel Novarro]

Chris Lim spent countless hours to every little detail of his Lancer, and it paid off with a Best of Show win.
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These were the top winners of each class for the Best of Show! Nice! :cool:
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[Joel Novarro]

Saturday qualifying was under way after racers had thursday and friday to practice. As the three round of qualifying started, the field was sorted out early as racers figured out the dialed set up to click off some fast laps.

Here are some of the fast guys in GT1.
Oliver Clipper
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Orlando Sherman
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Steven Bortolotti
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One of the tough classes of the weekend was the Mini class because everyone was so equally matched in speed, your only weapons were a good set up and driving a tight line to fend off any pass attempts.
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The F103 pan cars had cool GTP bodies and scooted around the track at a blistering pace!
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There wasn't a TamTech class this year, but the 1/10th scale buggies did cause havoc on the dirt track!
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[Joel Novarro]

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Here are some results from Saturday's qualifying. There was a re-sort right before the beginning of the 3rd round of qualifying so that everyone was running with racers that had qualified with similar race times.
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Sunday Mains coming up next...stay tuned!!

[cheerwhiner]

I love scale realism. I wish there was TCS in my area or guys interested in the F103 class at least. Mini Cooper lasted a little while now we run Vintage Trans Am

anyway back on subject- there appears to be no F1 cars? Even TCS isn't running them :(

[suckfish]

awesome pics

[Joel Novarro]

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This was the first Tamiya Nationals where brushless motors and LiPo batteries were used. Orion was the official battery sponsor and provided great deals on their new 2400 and 3400 LiPo battery packs.

Going through Tech
Like all the Tamiya Nationals before, you have to put through the Tech area, to make sure its legal, before you put it on the track. New for this year, racers that used the silver can Mabuchi had to leave their motors in tech and weren't allowed to use their own bushing oil or motor spray. Tech officials supplied everything you needed to install your motor in tech while officials watched.
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Tamiya's Dave Jun was helping Tech out making sure there was no "funny business" going on.
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After you had run your heat or main, your car was immediately put into post-tech where the top three finisher's cars were checked again.
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So what were Tech officials looking for? There are many things that could be done to extract the most speed out of your Mabuchi motor. The legal ones that I know of are, breaking a motor in for a long time, water dipping the motor during break in, using Brasso on the bushings, comm drops, set your ESC to max punch, and Super capacitors. Illegal ways that I know of, and racers have been caught for, are advancing the timing by using an old pinion gear then sticking a thin screw driver between poles on the armature and advance the timing by turning the pinion gear with vice grips. Another way is by burning out the built in capacitors to cut out resistance they cause. One new way I learned of this weekend was using rare earth magnets to strengthen the magnetic field of the Silver can Mabuchi motors. Its was sort of equivalent to "zapping" the magnets in the motor. Tech checked with body clips to see if there were any rare earth magnets inside the transmission case; the body clip would stick to the tranny case if there was a magnet in there. What was also looked for is if racers had a rare earth magnet in their pocket, where they could simply hold the car's motor against their pocket after Tech, and before the car was put on the track. Trust me when I say that nothing got past Tech this year! Tamiya was so serious about the motor rules that the completely replaced Mabuchi motors for an entire A-main.

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In addition to motor and minimum weight rules, racers were also checked to make sure their LiPo batteries werent over 8.44 volts. If they were, the batteries were put on light bulbs to bring down the voltage before the car was put on the track. A lot of LiPo chargers play it safe when charging and charge LiPo's to 8.35 volts or so. The secret to putting your battery to maximum voltage or over was to use a charger where you can adjust the peak thresh hold in the LiPo mode. Another secret that racers learned was knowing a LiPo battery runs better when hot; in turn racers used heat guns or some kind of home made battery warmer before they brought their car to Tech.

[Joel Novarro]

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Tamiya's Marketing Director and TCS Race Director, Fred Midel, is the one responsible for putting on these great race series across the U.S., as well as the North American Finals.

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This is the view that many World, European, and National Champions have seen during the Reedy Race of Champions. This is definitely one of my favorite onroad tracks and I've raced on it many times in Reedy Races, Tamiya regional and Nationals, and 4-hour enduro races. It helps that it is 45 minutes from my house! :D

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On the flip side of the drivers stand there's a dirt track where TamTech and 1/10th scale off-road cars are ran.

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Tamiya's Dave Jun was earning his money today as he watered down the off-road track to improve traction.

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Newly transplanted Californian, Lee Passehl, checks his times to see where he sits in the GT2 A-main. Passehl hails from Milwaukee where his home track was Scotty Ernst Trackside Hobbies.

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Gyro Hobbies was on hand to provide racers with any parts they might need.

[Joel Novarro]

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Racers in the 4wd A-main were all business when it came down to the final race.

Tamiya's Dave Jun ran an old school Hot Shot buggy with a 10.5-turn brushless motor.
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There were a lot of past Tamiya National Champions trying their hand in off-road.
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2005's F1 Champion, Edgar Fiallos.

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Ling-Kang Tong

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2007's GT1 Champion, Juan Aveytia and his son Michael.

Here are the final A-main standings in the 4wd class.
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[rescue119]

Congratualtions Steve!

For those who haven't heard yet, Steve Bortolotti won the GT1 class at the TCS North American Finals representing Canada. He will be going to Japan for the World Championship.


ya boyz represent

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[Joel Novarro]

The Mini Triple-A-Mains got off to a start with new Mabuchi motors were issued to all the racers when Tech suspected someone wasn't playing by the rules.

The White brothers, Deven and Dylan were the dominant team this weekend in Mini. You may remember Deven won the Mini class in 2007 and that November did very well at the Worlds in Japan.
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For 2008, he played the mechanic role for younger brother Dylan. It paid off with Dylan taking top honors and the trip to Japan. Here you see Dylan showing the intimidating stare he gave his competitors. :cool:
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Dylan White sits on the Pole waiting for the start of the first of the three A-mains.

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Dylan was fast all weekend setting the TQ and winning the first two A-mains, opting to sit out for the last main letting the others fight for 2nd and 3rd.

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One of the ways Dylan made passes was by taking the extreme inside line!

Here are the final A-main standings in the Mini class.
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[Joel Novarro]

Early in qualifying, Tony "Nemo" Tam, showed he was one to contend with. In the mains, Tam jumped off to a huge lead in the first two A-mains clinching the over all win and trip to Japan!
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Tony Tam fell for the "pose next to the driver stand" trick that has been pulled on many others over the years. Little did he know that a couple of his buddies were above ready to dump ice cold water out of a cooler on him! :D
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Here are the final A-main standings in the GT2 class.
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[Joel Novarro]

It was complete domination from Canadian Native Steven Bortolotti in the GT1 class. No other racer in GT1 could touch him as he consistantly ran 21-lap runs to take the TQ spot; as well as the ONLY racer to run 21 laps in the mains. In the mains, Bortolotti had super clean starts which allowed him to take the win in the A1 and A2 mains.
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Here are the final A-main standings in the GT1 class.
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[Joel Novarro]

Congratualtions Steve!

For those who haven't heard yet, Steve Bortolotti won the GT1 class at the TCS North American Finals representing Canada. He will be going to Japan for the World Championship.


ya boyz represent

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Yup, I was getting to that, thanks.

[Joel Novarro]

Immediately after racing concluded, all racers and spectators gathered on the track for the awards ceremony and raffle.
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Tamiya USA was more than generous when it comes to giving away prizes the winners of the A-mains and raffle. KO Propo, Orion, and Muchmore also donated prizes for the raffle.
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Winners received these good looking trophies that you would want to proudly display on your mantel, or in your buddy's face for bragging rights! :D
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[Joel Novarro]

All winners are from Left to Right, 3rd on the left, 1st in the middle, and 2nd on the right.

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Spec Novice winners - Alex Tomasoff, Taide Garcia, Royce Mohler.

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4WD Buggy Winners - Juan Aveytia(Not shown), Ling-Kang Tong, Daisuke Hashimoto.

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F103 Winners - Marty Hageman, Anthony Fung, Kevin Cole.

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GT2 Winners - Anthony Fung, Tony Tam, Lee Passehl.

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GT1 Winners - Timmy Valles, Steven Bortolotti, James Arluck.

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Mini Class Winners - Kody Knudtson, Dylan White, Brandon Koslosky.

[Joel Novarro]

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Best of Show Winners.

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Top Qualifiers of each class.

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GT2 Best of Show winner, Chris Lim, shows off his new Enzo Ferrari.


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Going to Japan! Tony Tam, Steven Bortolotti, Dylan White.

Congrats to all the Tamiya Champions, and especially the ones on their way to Japan! Best of luck to them! All racers and myself, are happy that the Tamiya track will be sticking around for a while. The Tamiya staff did a great job of making a great race happen and making it run smoothly. Kudos to Tamiya for supplying all the great prizes for the raffle, as well for all the Japan trips. A big thank you to all the sponsors for supplying LiPo batteries and donating extra swag for the raffle. Make sure to check the Tamiya USA site to see if there is a TCS race near you. Maybe you could be the next Tamiya Champion to go to Japan to race in the Tamiya Worlds! Thanks for tuning in to the race coverage! We'll see you all next year! - Joel Navarro