Asia Offroad Championships – Day 1 update

The Asia Offroad Championships for electric offroad are currently being held in Japan at the Yatabe Arena. The race, that is announced by Novak’s one and only Charlie Suangka, sees the 2WD Modified and 17.5T Stock classes being run on day 1 with the 4WD Modified, 17.5T and Short Course Modified class being run tomorrow. At the end of the 2WD qualifying Kouta Akimoto leads the Modified class quite dominantly as he leads the score board with a 17/5:15.790 run. Masatsugu Ido comes second with a 16/5:00.722 and Shin Adachi completes the top 3 with a 16/5:01.212. In the Stock class Yusuke Kobayashi can be considered the hot favourite of the class with a 15/5:06.164, some 12 seconds faster than the runner-up. He also is the only driver able to pull 19 seconds laps. In second comes Yoshiaki Amasaki with a 15/5:18.291 run. Eiji Chiba is sitting in third with a 14/5:02.280.

2WD Modified class
1. Kouta Akimoto
2. Masatsugu Ido
3. Shin Adachi
4. Daisuke Sakamoto
5. Kai Kikuchi
6. Juliya Kajiwara
7. Satoshi Maezumi
8. Shunsuke Koike
9. Tatsuya Sanpei
10.Yusuke Kobayashi

2WD 17.5T class
1. Yusuke Kobayashi
2. Yoshiaki Amasaki
3. Eiji Chiba
4. Daisuke Katou
5. Masahiro Ootsuka
6. Yousuke Hosaka
7. Takaomi Suzuki
8. Kouichiro Teramoto
9. Tsuyoshi Oomura
10.Kouki Katou

Source: Yatabe Arena [yatabearena.com]