Rob Gillespie is crowned the 2013 VRC Pro Short Course World Champion (with video)

 

The VRC Pro 1:10 Short Course World Championships were hosted recently at the virtual Silver Dollar Raceway in Chico, California. Racers from all over the world participated, but it would be the American, Rob Gillespie who would come out on top!

 

  

Team Associated works driver Rob Gillespie came out on top after 6 minutes of hard racing in the Pro A-Main final at Silver Dollar in California. This was one of the closest contested Finals of the year with 5 racers in contention until the very last lap. In the beginning young French racer Nicolas Loriot managed to create some air between him and the hard pressing David Joor (US), Barnebas Toth (Hun) and Martin Wollanka (A). Wollanka dropped back with a few early mistakes and was able to connect with the 3 front runners again 1 minute and a half to go. All 3 front runners lead one or more laps, Loriot seemed to be the fastest but also made the most mistakes dropping him back in the leading pack over and over again. With 15 seconds to go Wollanka blew his chances rolling his car in the infield. With 8 seconds to go Gillespie, Loriot and Toth turned onto the the back straight to make the finish line before the 6 minutes were over and to go into the final, all deciding last lap. Loriot made an all-out attempt to get there first but hit the inside pipe which blew all his chances. By the time he recovered from that crash Wollanka had passed him to grab 3rd podium place just 0.06 seconds in front of the disappointed French talent. Gillespie and Toth where then the only 2 racers to go into the extra lap, but Toth blew his chances to be crowned VRC World Champion when he tumbled his car on the triples, taking all the heat off Gillespie who could then cruise to victory at easy.
 
A exciting final to an exciting 10 days of short course truck racing, presented by TEKIN. The newly released IFMAR Worlds version of the Silver Dollar track was an interesting choice for this Worlds and presented quite a challenge to 610 racers to master the track, to find the right setup and a good rhythm. Especially the end of the straight table top and triples turned out to be the decisive section of this track, ask Nicolas Loriot…

Watch the full-HD replay of the VRC Worlds A-Main Pro final, with commentary by Mike Garrison of LiveRC!


SPORT class: 
The Sport A-Main final was another nail biter with young Sebastian Winterstein from Germany just edging out Kevin Hart from the US and Kjetil Garpestad from Norway at 6 seconds from the winner.
 
 

CLUB class:
The Club class A-Main turned out to be the closest race with less than 0.4 seconds between number 1 Chris Schellen from Germany and Fabrizio Teghesi from Italy. Teghesi lead most of the race but one bad 36 second lap cost him victory. Taruma Tribudman finished 3rd 8 seconds behind the 2 front runners. Interesting to see that the top-3 in Club were actually faster than the fastest in Sport. We will see those racers move up to higher racer classes starting the new season in 2014.
 

A very successful SC Truck worlds, at an interesting track, spectacular racing, some controversies (some racers short cut the track using the pitlane but after this was detected this ‘cheat’ was no longer used). Thanks to Team TEKIN for sponsoring this event and LiveRC for doing an excellent job on the commentary.  

 

  

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