As year 2011 closing to an end, another big race was held in the South East Asian city of Manila, Philippines. At one of the world class race track in Asia, JP Raceway hosted the annual MTCC (Manila Touring Car Championships) from December 9-11, 2011. Pristine and a well-maintained track saw around 50 drivers competing in Super Stock 13.5T and Novice Class. MTCC is definitely one of the must-go event in the coming years. With the help of ORCA Asia and ORCA Philippines, we are proud that newly-introduced ORCA TQ'ed and finished top 5 in the Super Stock 13.5T, and with 6 ORCA drivers in the A-Main. NASA Mighty Gripper V2 continued to be the top choice for tire addictive. We greatly appreciate the support from the drivers and hope that the product will get them into more A-Mains!
Practise session started on Friday, with many drivers struggled with low traction. The track was washed and cleaned in the early week just before the event. Traction started to come up in the late afternoon and lap times were more decent and NASA Mighty Gripper V2 tire addictive to be the top choice for most drivers. In the Super Stock Touring 13.5T, long-time competitor and friends between JP Reyes and former Tamiya factory driver Yuichiro Takaya led the pace in the qualifying rounds. J.P.Reyes tops the group with the only 22 lapper after round 1. Traction was still building up leading to qualifying round 3, Yuichiro Takaya and P.Y.Tang improved, when they posted top 2 time respectively. The top of group stayed pretty much the same after round 4. With the last qualifying round on Sunday morning, traction stayed high and JP Reyes came back to top the group with an amazing run while Josh Castro propelled to 4th.
Top 10 Qualifying Standings (Super Stock 13.5T)
Driver - Chassis - ESC - Motor - Battery
1. JP Reyes - Tamiya TRF417X - ORCA - ORCA - ORCA - 22 laps - 5:09.017
2. Yuichiro Taka - Hotbodies TCX - ORCA - ORCA - Orion - 22 laps - 5:11.547
3. P.Y.Tang - XRAY T3'12 - ORCA - ORCA - ORCA - 22 laps - 5:12.848
4. Josh Castro - Hotbodies TCX - Tekin - SP - 22 laps - 5:14.169
5. Ralph Lorenzo - Tamiya TRF417 - Hobbywing - ORCA - 21 laps - 5:01.553
6. Joseph Salcedo - Hotbodies TCX - ORCA - ORCA - 21 laps - 5:01.985
7. Gerry Soler - Yokomo BD5WX - Tekin - Reedy - 21 laps - 5:02.3658. Greg Garcia - Yokomo BD5WX - Tekin - SP - 21 laps - 5:05.391
9. Anton Ramos - Tamiya TRF417 - ProSpec - SP - 21 laps - 5:07.144
10. Gerome Ling - Tamiya 416 - ORCA - ORCA - ORCA - 21 laps - 5:09.829
Great scheduling made the event very relaxed and efficient, with race starting at about 2pm everyday. Final A1 started off cleanly for JP Reyes and Yuichiro Takaya, while P.Y.Tang dropped 2 position to Josh Castro and Joseph Salcedo. Yuichiro Takaya caught a berm, dropping him to mid-pack. JP Reyes ran a clean run maintaining his lead and finished 1st, ahead of P.Y.Tang in 2nd and Joseph Salcedo in 3rd. Final A2 was a more exciting race when JP Reyes and Yuichiro Takaya practically glued together from start till the end with JP Reyes winning Final A2 and the championship. Podium was still up for grabs between Yuichiro Takaya, P.Y.Tang and Joseph Salcedo. Yuichiro Takaya took an easy win in Final A3 after a roll by JP Reyes. P.Y.Tang, Josh Castro was battling out for 2nd but a 3-way contact between them and JP Reyes turned the situation around with Joseph Salcedo taking the opportunity to finished in 2nd, while P.Y.Tang unable to catch up to finished in 3rd. JP Reyes took the overall win, followed by Yuichiro Takaya securing 2nd overall in Final A3, while Joseph Salcedo completed the podium with 1 second advantage with tied-points to P.Y.Tang in 4th overall.
Top 10 Final Standings (Super Stock 13.5T)
Driver - Chassis - ESC - Motor - Battery
1. JP Reyes - Tamiya TRF417X - ORCA - ORCA - ORCA - 20 pts
2. Yuichiro Taka - Hotbodies TCX - ORCA - ORCA - Orion - 19 pts
3. Joseph Salcedo - Hotbodies TCX - ORCA - ORCA - 17 pts
4. P.Y.Tang - XRAY T3'12 - ORCA - ORCA - ORCA - 17 pts
5. Ralph Lorenzo - Tamiya TRF417 - Hobbywing - ORCA - 14pts
6. Gerry Soler - Yokomo BD5WX - Tekin - Reedy - 14 pts
7. Josh Castro - Hotbodies TCX - Tekin - SP - 22 laps - 10 pts
8. Greg Garcia - Yokomo BD5WX - Tekin - SP - 10 pts
9. Gerome Ling - Tamiya 416 - ORCA - ORCA - ORCA - 6 pts10. Anton Ramos - Tamiya TRF417 - ProSpec - SP - 21 laps - 4 pts
A word of encouragement to 15-year old Singapore driver Daryl Thong to finish B-Main 4th in Super Stock 13.5T starting from 10th position. This is his first international race also running a XRAY T3'12 and ORCA, Daryl Thong was on pace with the A-Main drivers but small mistakes in the qualifying rounds dropped him to B-Main 10th.
1 comment:
Great report PY:) See you at the next MTCC
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