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XB8 on podium at FEMCA 2018, Indonesia |
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| Race report by Jason Nugroho |
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2018 FEMCA just held from 18- 22 April at Banana RC Track in Batam Island, Indonesia .
A total of 96 drivers attended this event from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, Mongolia, Taiwan, Kuwait and Indonesia
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| At the first day , thereâ™s 2 times of free practice and 2 times of control practice. During control practice day, my car got good grip and I can get 1st position for reseeding group. |
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| At the 2nd day, thereâ™s 3 times of qualifying, I got overall position no. 9 , 6 and 5 , my car couldnâ™t get good grip during 3 times qualifying. I tried some tires to get better position. |
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At the 3rd day, thereâ™s 2 times of qualifying, I got overall position no. 12 and 6, my car still couldnâ™t get good grip during 2 times qualifying.
At the 4th day, the last round of qualifying, I got overall position no. 3, after 6 rounds of qualifying and took 4 of best, my overall position at 8th .
So, I went to semi final B and started at position no. 4
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At the 5th day or final day, I still tried some tires to get better grip and cornering . At semi final B, I didnâ™t get good start. A car hit my car at the first jump after my car start from the starting grid. I need to take better position since my position dropped to 14. But luckily the car got good grip and better perform too, I finished at 1st position.
After sorting semi final A and B, I got 2nd position and I went to main final with start position no. 2.
During main final, the first 10 min, my car couldnâ™t get good grip since I used medium compound tires. But after 10 min of race, I felt my car has good grip.
I pushed my car and maintain position on 3 and 4 compete with Wataru Takashiro until his car got problem, also Kyle got problem on battery connector around 30 min of race. It made me to get better position to 2nd position but about 3 min before the race end, Kyle already took my 2nd position . But he got traffic and I took back my 2nd position with only 2 sec in front of Kyle.
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| Podium results: |
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1. Atsushi Hara
2. Jason Nugroho - XRAY XB8
3. Kyle Mcbride
4. Witsarut R
5. Shin Adachi
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