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IFMAR Large Scale World Championship
First race2000
First 1:5 Worlds
Large Scale Worlds race
2001
Duration1 hour
Most wins (driver)Shared between 7 drivers (1)
Most wins (manufacturer)FG Modellsport (3)
Circuit information
SurfaceAsphalt

IFMAR Large Scale World Championship, also known as IFMAR 1:5 Touring Car World Championship, otherwise Large Scale Worlds or 1:5 Scale Worlds, is an IFMAR World Championship event for large scale radio-controlled cars with saloon car bodies found in touring car racing sanctioned by International Federation of Model Auto Racing (IFMAR).

Introduced as a demonstration World Cup round late in 2000, it became a full World Championship event a year later.

Initially, it was to take place every four years but following a proposal by EFRA, it was to take place every two years, like all IFMAR Worlds.[1]

With the exception of the heavily boycotted 2009 event, when the race itself consisted of just seven South African drivers[2], the class is dominated by European drivers despite being a world championship event although only one Japanese and three American drivers have reached the A-main in its history but none of those have won the championship in contrast to its smaller counterpart.

Of the eight editions, only half of those have taken place outside Europe with each of those in the United States (2003), Australia (2007), South Africa (2009) and Malaysia (2015) per IFMAR's bloc rotation order.

Throughout its history, no drivers have managed more than a single win, though only German drivers have taken two victories. FG Modellsport of Germany hold the record for the most wins for manufacturers with three and Zenoah of Japan hold the most wins for an engine manufacturer with three in total.


In 2012, as the Worlds was due to be held in a ROAR bloc the following year, with no Nationals taking place in the United States since 2008[3] it was decided to reclassify it from an EFRA Euros.[4]

In 2015, because of low entry numbers as a majority of European manufacturers were unwilling to send their factory drivers to compete in Malaysia citing the high cost of transportation despite, during the previous championship, helping to vote in favor of the championship taking place in Southeast Asia when the bloc hosting rotation swung toward FEMCA.[5] In order to make up for this, IFMAR took the decision to introduce GT 8 (1:8 buggy based GT bodied cars) as a demonstration World Cup event to support the 1:5 race, putting the class in jeopardy for the future.[6]

History

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As a result of its increasing popularity, the three voting blocs (EFRA, ROAR and FEMCA) unanimously voted to introduce the class as a non-championship World Cup race for 1999[7][8] but it wasn't until a year later it took place.[9]

IFMAR World Championship Winners

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Year Bloc Name Car Engine Transmitter Host club Venue Location Country Report Source
2000 EFRA Germany Markus Feldmann Lauterbacher Stuttgart Trade Fair Stuttgart  Germany [10]
2001 EFRA Germany Marcel Strauch FG Competition Zenoah G230RC Minidrom Ettlingen Ettlingen  Germany Report [11]
2003 ROAR Netherlands Hessel Roskam FG Competition Evo 2003 Zenoah KO Propo Komatsu Zenoah Speedway Sun Valley, Los Angeles, California  United States Report
2005 EFRA United Kingdom Ian Oddie H.A.R.M. SX-3 PMT Mini Racing Ticino e Moesa Lostallo  Switzerland Report [12]
2007 FEMCA Denmark Martin Lissau FG Competition EVO 04 GRP Sanwa England Park Raceway Brisbane  Australia Report
2009 FAMAR South Africa Barend Myburgh H.A.R.M. SX-3 Zenoah TRAP Circuit Tshwane Raceway And Promotions Pretoria  South Africa Report
2011 EFRA France Guillaume Solon Contrast Neox GS Abbate Futaba Complexe d'Hanvec Brest  France Report
2013 EFRA Germany Markus Feldmann Mecatech FW 01 ModellSport Futaba Mini Racing Ticino e Moesa Miniautodromo Chicco d'Oro Lostallo  Switzerland Report
2015 FEMCA Australia Russell Grenenger H.A.R.M. SX-4 Abbate Futaba 4PK KLIRCC Kepong Kuala Lumpur International Remote Control Circuit Kepong, Kuala Lumpur  Malaysia Report

Statistics

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Most Wins

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Drivers

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Rank Driver Wins
1 Germany Marcel Strauch 1
Netherlands Hessel Roskam
United Kingdom Ian Oddie
Denmark Martin Lissau
South Africa Barend Myburgh
France Guillaume Solon
Germany Markus Feldmann
Australia Russell Grenenger

Car manufacturers

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Rank Manufacturer Wins
1 Germany FG Modellsport 3
Germany H.A.R.M. Racing
3 Spain Contrast Racing 1
Italy Mecatech Racing Components

Engines

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Rank Manufacturer Wins
1 Japan Zenoah 3
1 Italy Abbate Racing 2
2 Italy ModellSport 1
Italy PMT
Italy GRP

By Member Blocs (Drivers)

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Rank Bloc Wins
1 EFRA 6
2 FAMAR 1
FEMCA
4 ROAR 0

Win(s) by Nations (Drivers)

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Rank Nation Wins
1  Germany 2
2  Netherlands 1
 United Kingdom
 Denmark
 South Africa
 France
 Australia

Most represented in final

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Note: Italics on year represents in which a driver of the country or car manufacturer who failed to score a championship title, italics on nationalities indicate host nation.

Nations (drivers)

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Rank Total Nation Year
1 7  South Africa 2009
2 6  Germany 2001
3 5  Australia 2015

Car manufacturers

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Rank Total Nation Year
1 7 Germany FG Modellsport 2001
2 5 Germany FG Modellsport 2005
Germany FG Modellsport 2007

Finals Appearances

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Driver App. 2015 2013 2011 2009 2007 2005 2003 2001 Avg.
Germany Marcus Feldmann 6 1 10 10 8 2 2
France Bernard-Alain Arnaldi 5 4 2 2 3 7
United Kingdom Ian Oddie 3 3 1 5
France Cédric Prevot 3 5 4 2
Netherlands Hessel Roskam 3 8 5 1
France Mathieu Briere 3 6 6 5
Denmark Martin Lissau 2 3 1
Netherlands Jeffrey van Wijk 2 2 5
Italy Lamberto Collari 2 6 3
Czech Republic Martin Bayer 2 9 4
France Olivier Sampietro 2 7 7
Germany Michael Mielke 2 7 8
United Kingdom David Bowen 2 7 10
Germany Marcel Strauch 1 1
South Africa Barend Myburgh 1 1
France Guillaume Solon 1 1
Australia Russell Grenenger 1 1
South Africa Rodney Michael 1 2
Australia Mathew Kellett 1 2
Germany Holger Reinert 1 3
South Africa Simon Bradley 1 3
Italy Andrea Catalani 1 3
Taiwan Chiu Chieh 1 3
Germany Flavio Budulig 1 4
United States Frank Killam 1 4
United States Austin Sarnelle 1 4
South Africa Andries Oosthuizen 1 4
Japan Satoshi Takesako 1 4
Germany Rudolf Mock 1 5
South Africa Wimpie Barnard 1 5
Australia Paul Leaf Milham 1 5
France Sebastien Vauclin 1 6
Sweden Lars Hansson 1 6
South Africa Willem Vorster 1 6
Italy Gianmarco Martelli 1 6
Australia David Murdoch 1 6
South Africa Jean-Pierre Oosthuizen 1 7
Germany Michael Donovan 1 7
China Michael Knemeyer 1 7
Germany Jörg Schummer 1 8
Germany Clark Wohlert 1 8
Croatia Marko Grigic 1 8
Australia Trent Aquilina 1 8
Italy Michele Baruzzi 1 9
United States Eric Poholsky 1 9
United Kingdom Geoff Symonds 1 9
Germany Christoph Flakowski 1 9
Switzerland Renato Isler 1 9
Japan Kuniharu Ujima 1 9
Japan Toshiyuki Iwamoto 1 10
Netherlands Harrie Schiks 1 10
Belgium Eric Degueldre 1 10
Singapore Michael Seow 1 10
Singapore Yeo Seong Leng 1 11
Japan Tomoaki Okuda 1 12

Notes

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References

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  2. ^ "Red RC – RC Car News » Barend Myburgh is 1/5th scale World Champion". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Detail News". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  4. ^ http://news.efra.ws/fileadmin/news/2012/05/2013%20Lostallo%20Worlds.pdf
  5. ^ http://www.ifmar.org/pdf/rules/ifmar_wc_general_2011.pdf
  6. ^ http://www.dasu.dk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=1f9e076c-1515-41c3-b9c9-c0b24e31c484&groupId=11716
  7. ^ "ifmar". Archived from the original on 15 November 1999. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  8. ^ "ifmar". Archived from the original on 15 November 1999. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  9. ^ "ifmar". Archived from the original on 26 October 2000. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  10. ^ "one5scale rc-car-racing". Archived from the original on 29 December 2001. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  11. ^ "T2M Hobby Modellbau : Distributeur von RC Modeller". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  12. ^ http://news.efra.ws/fileadmin/oldnews/news/report/2005_Report_WM%20Lostallo_large-scale.pdf
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