TITC 2015 Race report

The 2015 edition of the Thailand International Touring Car Championships was held at RC Addict on the last weekend of February. As always, TITC is one of the most competitive events and most teams arrive a week of two before the event starts for testing. Team Serpent was represented by Viktor Wilck from Sweden and Daryl Thong from Singapore, who were competing in the Modified class and Open Brushless class respectively. After one week of testing, the main challenge was to find a good setup for old tires as it is significantly slower than on new tires, also making tire strategy for the race crucial.

Controlled Practice

Controlled practice began on Thursday where we had one round of free practice in the morning, followed by 2 rounds of controlled practice in the afternoon, where the best overall run will be used for re-seeding for qualifying. Daryl ended the day in 14th and Viktor in 12th.

Qualifying

Qualifying began on Friday, where 5 rounds were to be held for Open Brushless class and 6 rounds for modified, with 3 rounds to count.

Daryl qualified in 6th in Q1, 4th in Q2 and 6th in Q3, ending the day in 7th.

Viktor qualified in 10th in Q1, 4th in Q2 and 6th in Q3, ending the day in 8th.

Saturday saw a re-grouping based on the previous day’s qualifying results, therefore Daryl and Viktor moved up into the fastest group. Daryl had a very strong day of qualifying, taking the TQ in round 4 of qualifying. Q5 saw Daryl battle with Kittipong for the TQ and Second place on the grid, however after making a mistake on the opening lap Daryl finished in 2nd for the round, also clocking the fastest lap of the event of 15.7 in the process.

Viktor who had already secured his place in the final on Friday, qualified 10th in Q4 and 12th in Q5, while on old tires. He would finish the qualifying to grid up in 9th place for the Final.

Qualifying Results

Modified (A Main)

  1. Alexander Hagberg
  2. Bruno Coelho
  3. Meen V
  4. Ronald Volker
  5. Jilles Groskamp
  6. Chavit S
  7. Nicholas Lee
  8. Viktor Wilck – Serpent 411 3.0
  9. Marc Rheinard
  10. Atsushi Hara

Open Brushless (A Main)

  1. PY Tang
  2. Kittipong R
  3. Daryl Thong – Serpent 411 Eryx 3.0
  4. Mongkholphan Lomrose
  5. Felix Law
  6. Stick King
  7. Anusorn
  8. Trin T
  9. Natee T
  10. Derek Yuan

Final

Open Brushless Class

Daryl had a bad start to the finals as he flipped in the opening laps of the first Final, thus deciding to pull over to save tires. In A2, Daryl escaped a multi-car collision on the opening lap to finish 3rd, and taking 2nd place in the last final to finish 3rd overall on the podium.

Modified Class

Viktor also had a bad start in A1 when he had a collision on the first corner, deciding to save tires as well, he pulled over. In A2, Viktor finished in 7th Place. A3 saw Viktor move up the standings to 5th place after some collisions at the front of the field, however bad luck after a marshal flipped a car in the path of Viktor pushed him down to 7th place to finish 10th Overall in the Modified A-Main.

Final Results

Modified Class

  1. Alexander Hagberg
  2. Meen V
  3. Ronald Volker
  4. Chavit S
  5. Bruno Coelho
  6. Jilles Groskamp
  7. Nicholas Lee
  8. Atsushi Hara
  9. Marc Rheinard
  10. Viktor Wilck – Serpent 411 3.0

Open Brushless Class

  1. PY Tang
  2. Kittipong R
  3. Daryl Thong – Serpent 411 3.0
  4. Stick King
  5. Trin T
  6. Mongkholphan Lomrose
  7. Natee T
  8. Anusorn S
  9. Felix Law
  10. Derek Yuan

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