1987 IFMAR Off Road World Championship Romsey Part 1 2WD

We are at the 110th Electric Off-Road Vehicle World Championship held here in Romsey, England, the title sponsor for this event has been Palmer and I have with me right now the President of Pharma USA, Ken McDowell Ken. I hope you are very happy to be. sponsoring this prestigious event, yes we use our agent here in England. He's done a wonderful job promoting it. We are from the United States and we have had a great time here. Well I think it's fantastic, it's nice to see a company giving something back to racing and it's nice to see the pharmaceutical industry supporting the hobby.

All the guys have been wonderful and it's really a pleasure to work with all of them here. The club has been simply fantastic. That's great and I think in name. of all the 110th races around the

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, who I'm sure know the logo of the pharmaceutical company and the name of the farmer. We would like to thank you Ken, thanks Joe. The counting in the laboratory is done by an automatic source system that involves a small transponder is placed on the car and eleutherium is buried fractionally under the track surface, just in front of the lap count in the caravan, when the car goes through the first section of the circuit, turns on the transponder and then records the madness of the car and also the number of seconds and time it takes for that car to go around the track in that specific plan when the car goes through the second

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, the transponder turns on, this of course, everything is done in a fraction of a second and is very very precise just to be sure, they are also operating a second automatic counting system as a backup and also a manual system.

We have Bob Novak here, of Bob's mantle of Novac fame, the speed controller polls who have been consistently in the winning cars for many years. Now, in all types of electric racing, how do you enjoy racing at the World Championships here in England? Here with Bob Novak maybe we can take a look at their new Peak Plus charger. This is really his latest development in electronics which is why he is probably, as I said before, best known. Tell us about this new super team of yours. Okay, this is it. Basically a peak detector charger that we just developed and launched about a month ago.

This version of the cha. The charger is what we call pico and it also has the basic charger with the addition of a voltmeter. The voltmeter is used. during charging to measure the voltage of the pack and you can change it and also measure the current it is running on. It is a constant current charger. We have two settings here, one at four and a half amps or another at three amps. -start switch the meter can be turned on or off if you want to use it it has its own 9 volt battery so you can unplug everything and use the meter as a basic voltmeter the battery will last about 8,000 hours so we only have to replace it about once Once a year.

We made and designed the case specifically. The design was done by Kent Clausen. It's made of nylon, so it's impervious to any of the chemicals we use. All letters are made with epoxy ink. It also doesn't come off the heat sink is mounted on the back and completely insulated so you can't short it with anything it has rubber feet on the bottom so it stays flat and is very comfortable to use I would like to present to you now the list of products of PB and the sessile Schumacher, both subject to scrutiny in these World Championships.

Could you tell us exactly what you are doing here? Please check all cars before they go out on the track and check them each and every time. You will arrive at the technical verifications. I will have to go to the box to verify all the dimensions. Go from there to the scale. Now we check the minimum weight. They must exceed a

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icular weight specified in the rules. Then, they will go on to verify. For the engine, that's all there is to check, but we have to check every car on every run so we can cover everything, we have a few other things, if we can see something else that's not right, we can check it, but visibly we can check the most. things as we go keep you pretty busy so oh yeah it's full time what happens if someone objects to a car what's the procedure pretty simple stuff the rules are here we have the equipment to check if it passes or not There's no doubt that the practice is only limited to one day, so they don't have much time to check out what that car needs to run on this particular truck.

Plus, it's a good time to test how your motors and cells work. are operating and how the transmission ratios are lasting. This is Burn Mobis, who was from the model imports of Hamburg and Kyoto, Germany, who has been working a lot here with Kyosho and was an important part of the information team held yesterday by the The Kyosho team tells us a little about Kyosho Germany . Yes, we have taken over Chios Germany for about a year now and we are doing very well with the Kyosho line so far because they are introducing three new and interesting products and above all, they are doing a lot for the racing scene for the pilots.

They are really into the techniques, so I think we can expect very good cars and teams from them in the future. They are also very involved in the motor business and are constantly developing. new motors and right now they are working on new magnets that are said to have about 30% more magnetic power, so you are helping to develop the cars for Kyosho. Also in Germany we try to do a little, we are helping them a lot. So regarding motors, we give a lot of advice on motors and we think we can improve a lot on motors, what speed controller and batteries you are using in your car.

Regarding batteries, we only use pushed mih batteries, which is a special technology that provides higher capacity and especially. final voltage increase, I mean more power for the motor and speed controllers, sometimes we use some futaba, we are using some scratch, but we haven't found the final solution, we are also using some CS once, so this It's just a mix of the show. For this event it would consist of first time practice in Keats format and then six qualifying rounds in which your best time after six rounds would count with the spine doctors, then we would have a round of finer practice before moving on to the main Primus, this would be the same.

Also for the four year drama, in the center of this image you now see Lucy Jr. killed. The four-wheel drive water defender here we have some of the most well-known faces, without a doubt, in the United States. Jean Hustons here from associate mr. the modern Mike Reedy, who I'm sure most people will have heard of and tried Tony, a good singer who is the 112th

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champion at the moment. Mike tell us how the engines are going at this event. In reality, it's very easy. The track is very easy. As for motors, it is not a demanding track in terms of horsepower and batteries, it is a very good package, you can tune the motor for your riding, you don't have to worry about running distance or duration, these new companions of cell from a company called love Co, which is Michael Abaco, who is well known in racing circles number 12 and came to Close, these are the latest developments in herd balance.

Ken Ken Claussen, who is part of the lab coat, tell us about this new development of yours. Basically, it's designed so you can test. Yourselves before putting them in a pack or you can also test the cells after each run and use a steady state constant current circuit. 10 amp constant current and basically discharges the batteries in about 8 minutes from fully charged. Measure the batteries. until they reach a preset voltage point and then automatically shuts off, so not only is this great for checking the balance of your battery packs, it's a good way to keep them in top shape and performing at peak performance.

The basic unit we saw in the cellmate. It is designed for single cells, we also have information with our instructions that tells you how you can discharge entire packs at once and that is what the box is under our four, it adjusts the voltage cutoff point from one volt for a single cell up to six volts for a six L pack or seven volts for a seven pack depending on what you are running simply connect the red to the positive and the blacks to the negative in the cell turn on the power switch press start and it will run . start the discharge rate when the cell finishes its cycle this number will automatically keep on the screen and the discharge will turn off fine and then just move on to the next cell press the reset button and move on to the next cell so very easy to use, two-wheel drive point lists looking from right to left ah Mike Christensen Jake Halsey Kevin Moore Jaime stand Chris Moore Rory Cole Joel Johnson used to go to school the condominium Kazunori and Masami Osaka while drivers get ten seconds late O'Neil, tension is high here at 1/10 of the Road World Championships with just under a minute to go, now we're seeing the top 10 fighting for that pick here.

I'm Michael Cassio in Japan and Kevin Noah in the US okay, what is this? takes the main drivers of his prosthetics of the difficulty of him, he makes it better, yes, Joe Johnson leaves Christmas. Emily Jamie Bearden climbed to third place in the small country of Iran, swerves, hits the side of the track, done smoothly, fast, the record as many as possible for this now plus these two inseparable and still hitting and crashing each other microphone system with 15 seconds left 15 seconds left my question still comes from the smell it seems to come out unfortunately what is this?

Jamie unfortunately discovered something that could be very unfortunate for them not to maintain the lead after their good starts. Now Marshalls is quick off the brand, as usual. Johnson loses first place to him. A little overconfidence. They probably won't be very fast around that line, catching this very lucky spill there from time to time. Person, I lost my ground, I just hope it doesn't continue. Leverage issues from getting stuck around the wheel and riding in good wind potential today. Now I will continue to apologize. Hey, the cars are checked. I'm looking for the last match. night trap in third place in the US Me, Chris Moore, world number two: we will drive the Palmer if my world

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is from Japan, captain or a condo, the

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farmer if Mark: Oh, we will drive to the United States world champion, Joe Johnson, congratulations.

Joe, you got your license, how did it feel so good? I never thought it was my world

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, it became intense you know, so I'm on a good scale, driver, that's right, how long have you been preparing for the tense car wheel champion? two months, a little less than two months, that's all the experience I've had with these cars, it's great, so what car did you use to win the final editor like me, Ultima? Can you tell us a little more about him? Is it Ultima? that I would put a Trinity graphite plate and a base apart from the fact that it had a gear differential and another or a ball defender apart from that it was super-super original thank you very much