Early birthday present for Kanai as he's crowned national champion in Vietnam

0 Jan. 19, 2015, 11:44 a.m.

1/19/2015
By Aaron Waldron

LiveRC.com

From Yuichi Kanai (via Facebook):

To celebrate his 50th birthday, Yuichi Kanai visited Vietnam and won the country's 1:8 Off Road National Championship. The race attracted a significant turnout from drivers traveling in from nearby Singapore, making the race a truly international challenge!

Yuichi Kanai - Kyosho
Phan Quang Vinh - Xray
Thinh Phan - Mugen
Nam Nguyen - Xray
Zi Duong - Mugen

Kanai, the designer behind every World Championship-winning iteration of the venerable Inferno platform, won the 60-minute race from TQ in what proved to be his first major race since returning to Pro-Line tires.