2007 Winternats, Florida – Wednesday Day 4

The 3rd and 4th rounds of qualifying are now over and with all Wednesdays racing run under dry and improving conditions, the tops of the leaderboards have changed quite a lot. In 1/8th scale, Kyosho racer Josh Cyrul has moved up from 4th position overnight to take provisional pole position after 4 rounds, the US driver followed closely by 1/10th US National champion Chris Tosolini, also driving a Kyosho. In 3rd position was Tuesdays overnight pole man, and reigning Champion Mike Swauger, who despite improving by 2 seconds still only ended up in third ahead of the big mover of the day Vincent Jackson, also running with Mugen. Paolo Morganti, driving a Serpent 960 was the biggest loser on the day in 1/8th scale, dropping from 2nd to 6th having not been able to improve on his Tuesday time.

In 1/10th scale its more of the same with Ralph Burch on the debut race for Xrays new NT1 that retains his first position despite not improving his time today. Paolo Morganti, driving the Serpent 720 improved a lot and jumped from overnight 4th to 2nd, only 1 tenth of a second behind with Chris Tosolini, another driver who didn’t manage to complete the 5 minutes on Tuesday, did so today to improve his time and gain 3rd position albeit 3 seconds back on the leading pair. Barry Baker, also with the Xray NT1, moved up from 6th yesterday to end the day in 4th position heading into the final day of qualifying. The biggest loser on the day in 1/10th scale was Mark Green, driving a Serpent 720, who couldn’t manage to improve his time and thus dropped from his overnight 5th position to end up 13th going into the final 2 rounds of qualifying.

Check out some more pictures and the top 10 standings…

1/8th Qualifying after 4 rounds
1. Josh Cyrul – 24L 5.02 (Kyosho Evolva)
2. Chris Tosolini – 24L 5.03 (Kyosho Evolva)
3. Mike Swauger – 24L 5.06 (Mugen MRX4R)
4. Vincent Jackson – 24L 5.07 (Mugen MRX4R)
5. Michael Salven – 24L 5.09 (Serpent 960)
6. Paolo Morganti – 24L 05.09 (Serpent 960)
7. Marco Vanni – 24L 05.09 (Mugen MRX4-R)
8. Scotty Gray – 24L 5.12 (Serpent 960)
9. Joel Johnson – 23L 5.01 (Kyosho Evolva)
10. Brian Berry – 23L 5.01 (Mugen MRX4R)

1/10th Sedan Qualifying after 4 rounds
1. Ralph Burch – 22L 5.04 (Xray NT1)
2. Paolo Morganti – 22L 5.04 (Serpent 720)
3. Chris Tosolini – 22L 5.06 (Kyosho RRR)
4. Barry Baker – 22L 5.11 (Xray NT1)
5. Martin Christensen – 22L 5.11 (Xray NT1)
6. Danny Horta – 22L 5.13 (Serpent 720)
7. Josh Cyrul – 22L 5.16 (Kyosho RRR)
8. Jared Scott – 21L 5.00 (Mugen MTX4)
9. Paul LeMieux – 21L 5.00 (Xray NT1)
10. Andrew Duperrouzel – 21L 5.01 (Mugen MTX4)

You can check out the full final sorted standings here and here.

Images: The Border [the-border.com]