The Worlds are done! However our journey in Japan didn´t stared there, before there were many hours in the Hudy Arena working on new car to prepare and optimize everything. It was incredibly hard.
We tried many different parts to make our cars fast and easy to drive and after this world's, I can tell...we finally did it!
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In 2WD I was not able to go to the A main, in my qualifications I did so many mistakes in one section of the track and that cost me many precious seconds. My car was awesome, my pace was there but when I got to that part of the track I crashed. It was so frustrating for me. Fortunately we have Martin Bayer in the team, an experienced and fast guy whom none of the obstacles make to slow down and he was able to put one of our prototypes cars in the A main.
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The 4WD was the most surprising ever, we never worked much on it during the race. In the first day of practice we did our first round and immediately our car was on Top, we also realized our car was too soft for that track and we changed for harder springs, one dot in front and one dot in rear. It was the only thing I did on my car during the entire weekend, the rest was basic setup from Hudy Arena/EOS-Nurburgring and in the end World´s Japan.
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My car was always amazing, I did all qualifiers with two sets of tires and my two finals with only one set. In the finals it was not so difficult to get some space to breath, some touches and mistakes between the guys behind me allowed me to pull away and finish both finals in first position.
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We finished four qualifies in the first position and we won two finals. This is really good because this car this car has been just recently released and it is already World Champion.
In the end I have to say many thanks to my Team XRAY, Martin Bayer and Juraj Hudy for all the help and willingness to teach me during my "Pre-Wolds", it would not be possible to achieve this result without this two amazing guys.
Thank you also to all people who supported and helped me in my journey during this years. It is really impressive."
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Final results:
1. Bruno Coelho - XRAY XB4
2. Naoto Matsukura
3. David Ronnefalk
4. Michal Orlowski
5. Ryan Maifield
6. Tom Cockerill 7. Martin Bayer - XRAY XB4
8. Yusuke Sugiura
9. Hayato Matsuzaki
10. Jared Tebo
