This past weekend I attended the 2011 Spektrum Off Road Championships at Trackside Hobbies and I had a great time! My cars started off the weekend about where I thought they would, but with the help of TRF teammates Aaron and Brad, I was able to make big strides in how my cars felt (mainly the try 201) all weekend. After 4 rounds of qualifying, here is how the Tamiya guys ended up when the qual points were tallied: 

4wd Buggy

Steve Bortolotti: 14th

Aaron Reichow: 15th

JB Catricala: 23rd

Brad Krans: 32nd

2wd Stock

JB Catricala: 16th

2wd Mod Buggy

Steve Bortolotti: 32nd

JB Catricala: 38th

Aaron Reichow: 48th

Brad Krans: 84th

I had 2 solid runs in both the B-main in 4wd and the D-Main in 2nd modified. In the 4wd race I had a great battle with Dyno from Losi for 2nd place as everyone but the leader ended up crashing on the first lap of the race. Needless to say, the leader checked out and Dyno and I were left to put on a great show to race for 2nd place. I ended up getting by him after the triple in the last minute of the race, and sailed on to a 2nd place finish in the race. In the 2wd D-Main I pretty much led all but the first 2 laps and had a really fast run. Not that it means anything, but my laps/time in the main was one of the fastest runs of all the 2wd mains so at the end of the day, its nice to take that away from the weekend. 

All in all, I had an awesome time at this race and made some really big strides with my TRF201 which I was really happy about. It isn't quite there yet, but I owe Brad Krans and Aaron Reichow an ice-cold Canadian beer for all the help they gave me getting that car dialled in all weekend. Not having a clay track close to home sucks, and in a class that I have found difficult to get comfortable with the couple times I ran it before this race, I honestly owe Brad and Aaron a huge thanks for helping me get the car comfortable to drive! 

Overall, 12th (of 32 entries) in 4wd and 31st (of 94 entries) in 2wd mod isn't anything to be ashamed of with the lack of track time I get on clay. I'm looking forward to building on my findings from this race in preparation for the Reedy Race where I look forward to meeting more of you!

Cheers.

Just thought I'd update what I've been up to over the past few months. This past summer was a miserable summer for 1/8th off road racing for me. Seemed like every time I went to an event at the start of the summer, mother nature decided to ruin the weekend. Towards the end of the summer, work had me all tied up and made it difficult to race. I did more local club racing than anything else, and got my 1/8th buggy working the best its ever been. The highlight of my summer was running in the 1st annual CHEO (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario) Race held in Ottawa, ON at one of the coolest r/c venue's around. The track was clay, covered by a MASSIVE tent, drivers pitted in an airplane hanger, the track backed onto a runway that had old WWII planes flying in and out of it all day, and all this was just steps from the Prime Minister's house (literally) !! I ran 1/8th electric as well as 1/10th 4wd buggy at this race and qualified 2nd in both classes by loosing the tie breaker in qual points both times. I had the fastest cars all weekend but just didn't make it count when it mattered and unfortunately ended up finishing 2nd in both classes. I was pretty pissed after that race as I knew I had thrown away 2 easy victories by letting up in the main when I had huge leads in both classes and made silly mistakes while making my way through traffic. BUT you live and learn and that weekend was definitely a learning experience for me. The lesson? Off road racing is all about being in a rhythm, even if you have a huge lead you can't slow down and be too careful because that just throws your timing off for all the jumps. 

HOWEVER

Winter is now upon us up here in the Great White North and things are beginning to heat up with 1/10th scale off road racing. Those who know me know that I love racing anything 1/10th scale and off road is no different. Unfortunately the Toronto Area doesn't have any dirt off road racing within 4 hours which sucks but we do have a number of carpet off road tracks. A couple weeks ago I headed down to Livonia, MI to run on their awesome clay track to start preparing for the Spektrum Off Road Shootout that I will be attending at Trackside Hobbies. I ran my TRF201 with a custom +8mm water jetted chassis I made up, as well as with the Kyosho big bore shocks and the car was super dialled. This past weekend I attended a King of the Rug carpet off road event in Ottawa which was a pretty neat format. As you probably guessed from the name, its run essentially like a King of the Hill event where your results from 4wd buggy and 2wd buggy are combined to get your overall champion (I believe qualifying counts too?). Anyway, on carpet my TRF502x is incredible, and Joe Glover's 502 was equally as good all weekend. We were the class of the field by far and had another one of our epic battles all weekend. However, I was able to take the win in the A main and start my winter racing season off right! In 2wd, I qualified 4th which wasn't so bad considering I was the only rear-motor car in the A-main (mid motor cars are insanely fast on carpet). I was in great position to win the King of the Rug had I just finished where I started. However, my luck had run out in the 2wd A-main and my car might as well been a ping-pong ball for the first couple corners as I got bounced around a whole lot. I ended up coming home a disappointing 7th and took home 3rd overall in the King of the Rug standings.

Looking forward to seeing some of you at the Spektrum Off Road Shootout, as well as at the Reedy Race!

Hows it goin' guys and gals?

Last blog post of 2010 and I'm looking forward to the CRCRC Indoor Champs race as it will be my first time attending a BIG offroad race! I see a few other Tamiya drivers will be attending so it would be cool if we could all sit together to show that the team has a presence at this race! I will be running my TRF 502 (with Gear Diffs! - check TRF forum) and have been practicing at AMS Raceway in Michigan for the past 3 weeks. I went to a race in Ottawa in November with the TRF 502 and was impressed with the car, and found it to be very easy to drive fast and it jumped really well. However, the track in Ottawa is very loamy and didn't provide much contribution to my CRCRC practice mission. So instead I have travelled 4 hours, every Wednesday for the past 3 weeks to AMS Raceway in Grand Blanc Michigan to practice on a surface that from what I have read, is similar to the track at CRCRC. Practice has gone well, and I've got to expirament with many setup changes as well as different tire insert combinations. I've got the car almost where I want it, but could really use more on power steering as I am loosing a bit of time getting off the corners.

I'm looking forward to CRCRC, and really don't know what to expect. From what I hear, all the fast guys attend this race, so it will be fun to put my skills up against the best and see where I stand at such a race!

Check the TRF Forum to see how I fitted gear diffs in the TRF502!!!

The 2010 Toronto Hobby Show has come and gone, and the r/c race was definately the highlight of the show. Kudos to Tom Wright of Tamiya Canada for taking the initiative to setup a race at the show, and I don't think even in his wildest dreams he would have expected the show to be as successful as it was. With hundreds of spectators watching throughout the weekend, the event provided great exposure for the hobby in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as for the entire hobby itself.

As far as the racing went, it was my first time running the TRF 201 on carpet so my first couple of practice runs involved a lot of setup changes. After settling on a setup that was comfortable to drive, I assisted a friend at the track who had just bought a used 501x and rebuilt the car for him to help make it more driveable. At the end of qualifying, he ended up in the B-main and was really happy about this - feels nice to help someone out!! In qualifying, I had 3 solid, consistant runs and qualified 2nd to Associated's JB Catricala, with my team mate Abiye Birku behind me. The three of us were the class of the field, with all the positions behind us in the A and through the next 2 mains down being very tight! Overall the mains in 2wd went down to F and for not having a permanent track I found this to be very promising! In the main, I got out to an early lead and led for 4 of the 5 minutes. 3 laps from the end, I made a bonehead mistake and flipped my car on one of the corner dots and had to settle for 2nd. Needless to say I was pissed!! I don't mind loosing a race if someone is faster and beats me, but nothing bugs me more than throwing it away off of a mistake, especially one that I very rarely make!!! Oh well, theres always 4wd buggy!

In 4wd buggy I was running my DB01-R and I only did 1 practice lap on it since the car felt really good. I had 3 less than stellar qualifying runs with the car and just couldn't find my groove for whatever reason. Before the mains, I rebuilt the car and it came alive!! After a disappointing qualifying effort that saw me start the main 4th, I knew I had my work cut out. I worked my way up to 2nd after the first lap, and was involved in one of the tightest, most exciting races I have ever been a part of. The crowd was going nuts as Abiye Birku, Leonard Shinzano (Team Durango) and I could have had a blanket thrown over us for the entire race. We traded positions a number of times throughout the race and it came down to a last lap shootout! With a huge tripple right before the transponder loop I was forced to go for the hail mary attempt on the last lap as I was unable to get by Leonard earlier in the lap. I landed VERY hard off the jump and crashed, and Abiye ended up taking 2nd but it really didn't matter. It was a great race that got the entire crowd of spectators going crazy and was a ton of fun to be a part of! If a race that exciting can't get people involved in RC I don't know what will!!

Next up is going to be a race in our Nation's Capital (Ottawa). I will be running the new 502 as well as the 201! I am really looking forward to running on dirt again, and will be posting a pic on the 502 thread in the forum later today of the 502 all complete!

Steve

Back from AMS Raceway after trying out the TRF201 and my signficantly lighter 801X-E, and here is how it went:

The 201 was a lot more difficult to drive than I imagined. I put Randy Caster's setup from OCRC that was posted on Petit R/C on to start with a few of the aluminum parts I was given and the car seemed to be really difficult to drive. I soon learned that you're supposed to add weight to the car!! AHHH I felt like such a noob!! So I added the weight, the car was 10x better and was off to play around with it. I got the hand of driving it on the damp clay track, but I just lacked steering mid-corner, and off. I made some shock position adjustments, as well as some bump steer adjustments and the buggy got a little better. We stayed to race at night with the crowd of very accomplished 2wd racers including Kyosho's Al Horne. I was able to make the main, qualifying 5th about 12sec off TQ. I wasn't doing the large triple infront of the drivers stand as I didn't want to risk breaking the car since so many people had never seen one and were very interested in watching it - I figured breaking it would be the perfect way to turn people off from Tamiya fairly quickly! That jump caused me to lose time every lap but I still had my fast lap within .7 of the fastest. In the main, I was part of the lead pack freight train for the first 4 min of the race, and was running in 2nd for a while, then dropped back to 3rd in our 6 - car freight train. I made a bobble, and the marshal put me back down on the wrong side of the track. I ended up half a lap down and in last at the end of it. I knew I didn't belong there, and felt I had a top 3 buggy. I was very happy with this having never driven 2wd before and against some very accomplished 2wd racers, and just to make you laugh: some have been racing for over 25 years...thats longer than I've been living!!

As for the 801X-E, I added all the lightweight options to the kit which knocked nearly 30g off the weight off the buggy, with the majority of it being rotational mass! I was testing different inserts all day and couldn't seem to get it right. I didn't have the massive amounts of mechanical grip I had been used to, and just couldn't find it. I attribute this to the inserts, as all the ones I tried just seemed to be too hard. There were 18 e-buggies racing, and I finished 2nd. Wasn't overly happy with this but couldn't do much about it: I went to test inserts, and gathered the information I was there to find.
I'm looking forward to going back in December to race. I have some suspension ideas I'd like to try on the 801X-E, and some more ways I feel I can lighten the buggy. Next up is the Toronto Hobby Show next weekend!

Well the day has officially arrived, its winter and there is nowhere to race in the Greater Toronto Area. The outdoor season has come and gone, and with the exception of the Hobby Show, track time is a minimum of 4 hours away! Next week, Tom Wright and I will be heading to AMS Raceway in Michigan to further test the 801X-E, as well as for the first time drive a the TRF 201 2-wd buggy. I'm excited to run both vehicles as indoor clay tracks are BY FAR my favourite to race on. I have some setup ideas I want to try on the 801X-E as well as some different tire inserts to play with which should make the day of racing, followed by their club race at night a lot of fun!

As I mentioned earlier I will also be trying out a 2-wd buggy for the first time! Since my 10th scale offroad experience is limited to say the least, I am excited to try this 201, and from what people tell me they can pull wheelies which just makes it that much cooler!!
For those of you in the North-East region that would like to come to a race that will have a lot of spectators, the Toronto Hobby Show will be happening the weekend of November 5,6, & 7 with offroad racing the first 2 days, and the season opener for the Tamiya Championship Series will be held on the Sunday. This race is guaranteed to feature a ton of spectators as it is the first time the Hobby Show has held a race in 8 years! I'm excited to show off the Tamiya vehicles' potential in both 2wd, and 4wd (DB-01R) infront of such a large crowd. If you're within driving distance, or want to fly up, feel free to message me for more details if you're interested in attending!

Steve

 

This past weekend, racers from all over Canada made their way to Action Hobbies in Kingsville, ON (close to Windsor) for the RC Pro Series Canadian National Championships. The Tamiya Team was out in full force as all 4 of us had a really good shot at winning a National Championship, or at the very least a podium finish. With last years defending champion Ty Tessman not in attendance this year, the race was wide open.

My weekend in buggy started off a nightmare as I did not finish the first 3 of 5 rounds of qualifying, all due to various mishaps which had me dead last after the resort...the complete opposite of my e-buggy weekend. With only 2 rounds left to pull something out of the sky, I managed to pull off a 3rd and 4th in the final 2 rounds of qualifying respectively to put myself 7th in the A main after the qual points were tallied. My plan wasn't to start 7th but after having to qualify out of the bottom main, I knew I had a top 3 pace since both my "good" runs involved a lot of lost time due to traffic. In the 45min A main, I was up and down the whole race. I was fighting a problematic clutch which seemed to hit harder than a Mike Tyson punch everytime I tried to accelerate. I did what I could with it, and finished 5th. Not what I was looking for but after a season of trouble in Nitro buggy, it was a mediocre finish to a not so stellar season.

My weekend in E-Buggy with the prototype 801X-E started as a handful in practice. In my first practice run, I probably could have driven my 416 around the track faster...jumps included - I sucked. After taking a few minutes to mentally reset (everyone who knows me knows that this ALWAYS involves eating) I had the car torn down and was working away at it. I went back out for the next round of practice and I think the body was the only thing left unchanged. The buggy was night & day better and I felt like I had something I could work with. With no practice on Saturday morning, we went straight into a very long day of qualifying bright and early with the hopes of squeezing in 5 rounds. Tamiya's Tom Wright, set TQ in the opening round of qualifying, with Abiye Birku in 2nd, and myself in 3rd. An excellent start to our campaign to finish 1,2,3 with the new car! I took round 2&4 of qualifying, Abiye took round 3, and Jammin's Rob Say took round 5. The starting grid in e-buggy was a 1,2,3 for Tamiya with the order being myself, Abiye, then Tom. Jammin's Rob Say was 4th, and Kyosho's John Summach rounded out the top 5. When the mains started on Sunday, we all knew it was going to be a dogfight, Abiye and I were dead even in all 3 10min A Mains. I took A1 by 4 tenths over Abiye with a last lap pass, Abiye took A2 by 4 seconds after a great race, and I took A3 by just over a second after putting on a great show infront of a huge crowd of spectators to secure the win!

When the overall points were tallied for the National Championship, I took the win in E-Buggy with Abiye Birku finishing 2nd making it a 1,2 for Tamiya's 801x-e buggy!!

This weekend was the final round of the Ontario RC Pro Series held at Hardwood Ski & Bike located about 1.5 hours north of Toronto. The track was very challenging to say the least; with real logs used for the washboard sections, a sand box filled with beach sand, grass, a huge gap jump, a monstrous table-top, and rocks the size of small children just to keep you from getting too cocky! I arrived late to practice on Friday and was only able to get 1 battery pack through my E-Buggy before it got too dark.
Saturday morning I was able to run my E-Buggy which was a complete handfull, and my nitro buggy which wasn't too bad considering my main focus was to wrap-up the E-Buggy championship so nitro was the last thing on my mind. My goal for qualifying on saturday was to just be smart as the track was so blown out that driving at anything more than 6/10th's would mean you're upside down. I did just that in round 1 for E-Buggy, kept the buggy moving and on all 4's until the final lap where I ran into a car that was crashed and awaiting a marshall. I ended up 2nd on the round because of it but I wasn't the least bit worried. My nitro qualifier saw much of the same, just driving around, turning laps, keeping the shinny side up, and I ended up 2nd in round 1 for nitro aswell!

Round 2 I made some changes to my E-buggy to try and make it more driveable at speed over the insanely blown out track but it just ended up making the buggy worse. It was hooking over every rut, rock, hole, anything and would just not settle down. Luckily I had kept a cool head and just drove the car even more conservatively (which kills me by the way!) and ended up taking TQ for the round. In round 2 for Nitro, I ended up qualifying 3rd but again, the main focus was wrapping up E-buggy since races 1-3 in the series were complete disasters for me in Nitro Buggy. By round 3 the track was becoming very undriveable for the buggies. Lap times had dropped off almost 2 seconds and I was starting to become very frustrated. I beat myself in Round 3 as I let my temper get to me by driving a horrible car WAY harder than it should have been driven, so needless to say Round 3 was one of my throw aways in the qual-points format with round 4 to run early sunday morning.

Tom Wright and I decided to stay late on Saturday after qualifying to try and make our E-buggies more complient over the rough track and tried 2 completely opposite setups. I tried a super light shock oil setting with yellow springs, stood as far upright as possible, while Tom tried thicker shock oil settings with red springs, laid down about half way. After some testing, tire swaping, and car trading, Tom and I decided his setup would be the one to go with. It absorbed the ruts/holes/rocks/boulders/grass...EVERYTHING better than my car did so we went that route.

When we arrived Sunday it was absolutely POURING rain, and the weather did not subside. I wanted to race for the mere fact that I didn't get to showcase the prototype 801x-e buggy's full potential at all on the weekend but I knew that if we didn't run the mains I would still win the Ontario Championship in E-Buggy. It ended up raining non-stop all day long on Sunday so the drivers all voted to call the race and base the points off qualifying. Just like that I captured the Ontario RC Pro Series Championship in 1/8th Electric Buggy, ahead of Kyosho driver John Summach in his Mp9E.

This past weekend was the official kickoff to our outdoor season up here in Canada at Niagara Offroad RC located in Welland about 20min from Niagara Falls. It was great to see that all I lost from the end of last year's outdoor season was my tan as all 3 of the cars that I ran were dialed come the end of a rain-shortened friday practice. Maybe its the onroad in me but I love the feel of a damp, high grip track as overcat skies all day Saturday kept the track in perfect condition for me to show what my cars can really do in the qual points format.

In truggy, my weekend started off well, but I just couldn't get my truck to rotate enough on the super tight layout. I qualified 3rd after rounds 1 and 2, 4th after round 3 and a brutal 9th after the final round. Once the points were tallied I had a 4th place starting position in the main and nervous as to what the weather would be like on Sunday. Come Sunday morning it was clear skies and temperatures in the 20's (mid-low 80's) as the track was showing signs of really drying out. Once practice was over, the track was starting to become very blown out, and got worse and worse as the races went on. When the main rolled around, it was over pretty much as quickly as it began. I ran 3 laps and had a bad landing resulting in a broken front knuckle. A disappointing end to the weekend for my truck.

In nitro buggy I qualified well taking 2nd place to Losi driver George Stilliadis in every single round of qualifying. As I went faster, he seemed to pickup the same amount of time I did every round no matter what changes I made. I knew I had a chance to beat him in the main as he was only getting me by about 5 sec in each round, and our fastest laps were very close. When the A main rolled around, I was puzzled as to how I should attack the ever-changing, super blown out track. When the main started, the weather started to become very windy and caused mayhem over one of the big air jump! You lost too much time if you decided to roll it every lap, so I thought I'd be heroic and only jump it when I didn't feel a big gust of wind. My idea was working brilliantly as I was running in 2nd (as George was doing the same thing) until I slowly began loosing rear drive - my rear ring gear was slowly stripping! A few laps later spelled the end of my day as it became impossible to make the jumps with just front wheel drive. Another disappointment for my already not-so-awesome sunday.

I ran the prototype 801x-e at the event as well and was super excited to see what it could do outdoors. Just as I suspected, in qualifying on saturday the car was virtually untouchable. Nobody could get within 1sec of my fastest lap, and I was easily 10sec ahead of the field in each race. When sunday rolled around, the script was much different. The dry, blown out track meant that I had to actively change my setup to keep up with the more experienced offroad drivers who have likely seen these drastic changes before. Kyosho America driver John Summach was the only one who's car looked as dialed as mine going around the track, and on Sunday he had his car dialed! It through me off in the first of the triple A mains as he drove right around me and off into the sunset. I later broke in that race but honestly had no chance in catching him - my work was cut out for me as I was not so invincible anymore! In A2 I got my car working much better and we had a great race the entire 10min and were never separated by more than a few seconds, trading the lead a few times throughout the race. On the last lap, I had to dig deep and find a way to pass him as I was all over him, knowing his years of offroad experience likely wouldn't translate to a bobble. I dove inside him on a tight left turn and completed the pass over a set of doubles and took the win in A2! In A3, the race was tight again, and my buggy worked well. Still not as perfect as on Saturday but it drove off the corners really well and was very predictable. I didn't make a single error the entire race and was able to take the win, the first for the new 801x-e!
My next event will be a club race this weekend, followed by the 2nd round of the RC Pro Series in Kingsville, Ontario...which is about 4hours from Toronto!

Much like NASCAR, we start our season off with the biggest race of the year. The Canadian Indoor Offroad Shootout is held every year in Tillsonburg, Ontario. Where is Tillsonburg? The best answer would have to be just west of no where! (infact it is actually 2.5hrs west of Toronto) This year the race had over 400 entries, and the competition was more fierce than ever.
I ran the prototype 1/8th electric buggy at this event as well as truggy and buggy. At the start of the weekend my electric 1/8th buggy was the center of attention as many people stopped by to talk about it as well as take a few photos of it. I made 4 practice runs with the new E-Buggy and had 3 motors blow up on me. I ended up borrowing a motor from somebody for the first qualifier and with only about 20laps on the car in practice on that layout I was off. I set TQ in the first round over Barry Baker, Dave Henry and Tamiya Canada's Abiye Birku. Round 2 I made the wrong tire choice and ended up not improving my time, but Barry had beat my TQ. In round 3 my car was dialed and set some very fast, impressive laps with the car! Going into the last minute Barry and I were both on new TQ runs, but he ended up going a little faster than me in that run and took TQ - the main was definately going to be exciting!!...or so I thought. When the horn sounded to start the main I got tagged a number of times allowing Barry to sail off to an easy, uncontested victory and I had to settle for a very disappointing 4th! However the car ran great, and I can't say enough about how awesome this new electric buggy is!

In truggy, it just wasn't my weekend. Between lap traffic, bad tire choices, and stupidity on my part I just couldn't qualify for the A main. I ended up in the B main with Frank Calandra and knew we both had the best chance of bumping up if we could run clean races. We both ran clean races and Frank ended up bumping up. On the other hand, I did not have such great luck. With 10 seconds to go in the race I had a drive pin fall out and ended up on 3 wheel drive. I got passed by Hot Bodies driver Rick Endler and ended up 3rd.
In Buggy there was some instense competition all weekend long. Dakotah Phend set TQ with a diverse field of manufactures represented behind him all hungry to take the win! In qualifying, my goal was to put in 3 solid runs which should put me in the A. However after breaking in the first round, I put in a conservative second run to make sure I was in good position for the re-sort. Unfortunately I didn't better my time in round 3 and ended up qualifying in a stacked B main with Frank Calandra, Scott Cramer, and a host of other extremely fast drivers. When the tone sounded I got mixed up a little at the start of the race and ended up in DEAD LAST by about 1/4 lap. Being already upset about the truggy main prior I was out to prove something. I drove like I never drove before picking off each car 1 by 1 in the 20min B main to come back and pass Scott Cramer to take 2nd with just over 5min to go. Praying to the RC Gods for the last 10sec to go smoothly this time, they answered my prayers. I ended up bumping up with Frank Calandra to the A Main. The fun had only just began!

In the A main I drove a smart, clean, hard race out to prove that I belonged in the A main. Another bad start, this time as a result of a personal error left me with a huge deficit to make up again right from the start. I turned some crazy fast laps the entire race trying to catch back up and with some great pit strategy from my Dad and Tamiya's Tom Wright I was able to pass cars both on track and in the pits! The funny thing I have always found about offroad in the short time I have been running it is that with 15 cars in the A-Main...being that 15th car means you have to pass 14 others to end up first ! (I know genious math right?) well I felt like I had passed more cars than I had ever passed before and I was STILL in 5th!! I ended up picking off 1 more car in the final minute to end up 4th, still on the lead lap! The final results in buggy were as follows:

1. Dakotah Phend (Losi)
2. Dave Henry (Losi)
3. Mike Morales (O'Donnell)
4. Steve Bortolotti (Tamiya)
5. Derek Guidery (Associated)
6. Jerome Treignier (Kyosho)
7. Frank Calandra Jr. (Losi/CRC)
8. Chris Rogers (?)
9. Ben Wheeler (Associated)
10. Daniel Yachin (Losi)
11. Jimbo Kuidera (O'Donnell)
12. Mark Calandra (Losi/CRC)
13. Barry Baker (O'Donnell)
14. Abiye Birku (Tamiya)
15. George Stilliadis (Losi)