Day 4 - Saturday, 20th May 2006

10am sharp and we kick off the last run; Run 4 of the Heats got off nicely. We finished off as scheduled and had a nice hour for lunch. We decided that the participants have had enough warnings on Day 3, so no more warnings, especially the pit lane violations. We dished out a couple of simple stop and go peanlties. Trevor had his digital camera as proof of the pudding and a simple area was used for the whole procedure. Nice, everyone was falling into line and we had a great Run 4 to wind up the entire qualification thingy by noon.

C.H.Tay went with CQ tires on Run 4, his fastest lap was a 15.4 and averaged around 15.8. He wasn't too happy and would switch back to Zac tomorrow.

Looks like we are not the only one tightening the noose. The organizers got out their equipment for fuel capacity measurement; very clever, they simply use a fish tank air pump to push the fuel out from the tank to the measuring cylinder. Voila!, cheap, simple, readily available. Now, only if someone can help us get hold of those 125cc and 75cc BioLab flask, that would be fantastic. All semi finalists and all finalsts will have to pass the test.

We had a nice one hour lunch break, which allowed the race director to sort out the results.

There weren't enough 8th scale drivers for the quarter finals, so we only had the 10th scales. We started on schedule and had the quarter finals A & B done by 2:20pm, all wrapped up.

If my memory serves me right Iwamoto TQ the 10th scale and Tanaka TQ the 8th scale. What I just heard is that the HPI/HB Engineer that used to accompany Hara will be here tomorrow to help Team Japan out. So tomorrow is going to be real exciting.

Good Night everyone.