Israeli Hot Wheels Endurance
The first Israeli 1/8 buggy endurance race took place at Hot Wheels Racing club on May 19, 2006. The race was designated for teams of three drivers, who took turns in driving the team’s cars to the best total score. This type of race required extensive team work, apart from driving skills.
9 teams participated in the race, including official teams of major brands. After 2 qualifying heats, the race itself started, with all teams pressing for the lead. The TQ in the qualifying was Yosi Stern, of team YS Bodies. Team 777, lead by Golan Levy took the lead, followed by team YS Bodies, with Yosi Stern, and Team GS, with Avi Yadgar.
Half an hour later, Yaniv Levy, of team GS took the lead, with a gap of three laps from the second place. The gap between the second, third and forth places was only a few seconds.
During the Seconds hour, Team Mugen managed to get to second place, but team YS Bodies kept pressing from behind. Team 777 was also fighting fiercely from behind. The fifth place was held by Hot Wheels Group, with Liran Strugano, Amit Gravier and Yoram Alkobi who pressed hard toward the forth place.
During the next hour Hot Wheels Group lost its position for Team Nitro, which held the fifth place till the end of the race.
Towards the end of the race, Team GS held a gap of about three laps from the others, which put the focus on the fight for second and third place. Oren Levy, who managed to hold the second place for Team Mugen has lost a wheel, which had cost him in valuable seconds. Team 777, at the lead, was held back because of an engine cut, which cleared the way for Team YS Bodies. Unfortunately, an engine cut at the very last lap had cost YS Bodies in the second place, which was eventually conquered by Team 777. Team YS Bodies reached third. Team Dura had the quit the race almost 20 minutes before its end, due to mehanical problems. Team D.J.I. was disqualified from the race becuse one of the drivers has quit.
The finishing order:
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Team |
Drivers |
Car |
Engine |
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Avi Yadgar |
GS Storm CL-1 |
OS VZ-B V-Spec |
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1 |
Team GS |
Yaniv Levy |
GS Storm CL-1 |
OS VZ-B V-Spec |
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Alex Parpinial |
GS Storm CL-1 |
OS VZ-B V-Spec |
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Golan Levy |
Inferno MP777 sp2 |
R.S-7 |
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2 |
TEAM 777 |
Meir Azulai |
Inferno MP777 sp2 |
OS VZ-B V-Spec |
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Lidov Pines |
Inferno MP777 sp2 |
R.S-7 |
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Yosi Stern |
X-RAY XB8 |
OS VZ-B V-Spec |
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3 |
YSbodies |
Yaron Sasson |
Mugen mbx5 |
NovaRossi-421B |
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Itzik Avidor |
Mugen mbx5 |
RB-WS7II |
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Team |
Oren Levy |
Mugen mbx5 |
RB WS7II |
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4 |
MUGEN |
Gil Werthimer |
Mugen mbx5 |
RB C5BB |
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Asi Biton |
Mugen mbx5 |
RB WS7 |
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Paul Price |
Inferno MP777 |
OS |
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5 |
Nitro |
Dan Price |
Inferno MP777 |
OS |
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Ronen Alkalai |
Inferno MP777 |
RB |
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Hot Wheels |
Liran Strugano |
Inferno MP777 |
OS VZ-B V-Spec |
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6 |
Group |
Amit Graiver |
Inferno MP777 |
OS VZ-B V-Spec |
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Yoram Alkobi |
Mugen mbx5 |
OS VZ-B V-Spec |
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Sagi Yosef |
GS Strom Pro |
OS-VZb |
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7 |
rocks |
Roman Zinger |
Inferno MP777 sp2 |
RB WS7II |
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Lior Dadon |
Mugen mbx5 |
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Yoav Shapira |
Inferno MP777 sp2 |
RB WS7II X3 |
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8 |
DURA TEAM |
Dotan Halevi |
Inferno MP777 sp2 |
Novarossi P5 |
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Kobi Ohayon |
Mugen mbx5 |
Novarossi P5 |
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Idan Kizel |
GS Storm sport |
OS VZ-B V-Spec |
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9 |
Team D.J.I |
Dotan Reuven |
Hyper 7 PCR |
NovaRossi-421B |
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John Dorington |
GS Strom Pro |
GS BO 3 |
(Laps up to 200 only are presented, due to software limitations)
In the third place: Yosi Stern, Yaron Sasson and Itzik Avidor of Team YS Bodies
Second place: Golan LEvy, Meir Azulai and Lidov Pines of Team 777
First Place: Avi Yagdar, Yaniv Levy and Alex Parpinial of Team GS.
Hot Wheels club would like to thank all the participants in the event, and congratulate the winners. Special thanks are to Yohay Mor, clubs president, and Alex Mark (V.P). We would also like to thank Dor Levy for refereeing the race.
We would also like to thank Mr. Carl Arrowsmith from
for writing a special software for this race.
