This is awesome! I didn't know Scotty Ernst has been announcing big races for over 20 years! I just watched the first "psuedo" 1998 ISTC Worlds where they combined it with Pro 10 and 12th scale and David Spashett won all 3! Then I watched Haras win for Yokomo at Yatabe in 2000. Then South Africa in 2002 for Tamiyas first. Now I'm looking for Andy Moores win for HPI in 2006. I've seen Marc/Haras 2008 battle MANY times as it really is one of the best TC races ever! It was also the first Worlds for brushless and last for the explosive (literally) IB4200 and IB4600 ni-mh cells. Thank goodness Lipo took over around 08/09.

And in A1, it looks more like Masami left the door open on PURPOSE to let Rheinhard pass as Masami was a veteran by this point and knew that Rheinhard was following SO closely and was driving so aggressively that he would have made both of them crash! Looks like he figured he had a better chance by attacking from behind. The other interesting thing is that 2004 was around the time of GP3300 and GP3700 and they were probably running 7 and 8 turn singles and doubles. It HONESTLY is about the same speed and acceleration of a 13.5 blinky class today! The 13.5 blinky might even be quicker! 17.5 blinky touring car today was equal to full on 7-8 turn mod and 2400 ni-cads of the late 90s!