Martin Wollanka is crowned the 2013 VRC Pro 1:12 Scale World Champion (with video)

 

Austrian Martin Wollanka has finally won a VRC World Championship. On the testing Orlando Snowbirds track he outclassed a field of 76 Pro racers (total 264 participants) with a stunning 50 laps in 8 minutes flat. In his WC title run he recorded just 2 encounters with the unforgiving boarding which is remarkable given the cornering speed these tiny cars produce. With this victory Wollanka has once more demonstrated his incredible r/c racing talent in all classes of r/c. Hungarian Barnabas Toth had to settle for second after closing the cap to just 1.3 seconds in lap 25 but a hard crash in lap 42 ended his quest for the 2013 title. Dana Bailes from the US who had dominated the 2013 season in 1:12 racing had an early crash in lap 5 and fought an uphill battle all race long. He had to come from far behind, but 3 crashes between lap 23 and 29 finished his title aspirations. Mustafa Alp from Turkey was chasing Bailes down till lap 30 but couldn’t hold on the Bailes pace in the end to finish 1.5 seconds short of the podium.

The big looser of this A-Main Pro final was UK driver Graham Raistrick who was challenging Wollanka up until lap 7 but several crashes later (he was still 3rd with 1 ½ minute to go…) he found himself dropped down the leader board to 7th.

A consolation for Bailes maybe, the US finishing first in the Nations ranking in Pro class, helped by the 5th position of Bill Caley and 10th of Rob Gillespie (DNS). Germany, always strong in Nations ranking took 2nd place and Switzerland 3rd.

Make sure to check out the A-Main Pro final commented by Mike Garrison of LiveRC!

 

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