On the weekend of July 31 to August 1, 1999 the ROAR CANADIAN Touring and F1 Nationals were held in Kamloops BC Canada. Located 3.5 hours East of Vancouver in the Southern Interior. Great weather from Thursday to Sunday night made for an exciting and very competitive event. 

Racers from British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Washington State and California State combined for a total entry of 156. Making this one of the largest ROAR Sanctioned events in Canada. Several past Canadian National Champions, sponsored drivers, factory representatives were on hand as well. 

It was pretty close competition between all the different car, motor, battery and, electronics' manufacture's. As the results show, many were visible at the top of all classes. Congratulations to ALL the  Manufactures.

The ROAR sanctioned classes were accompanied by a few demonstration classes (DS, Mini and, Ladies Only), to give many a chance to participate in a major event such as this was. A good time was had by all.

The Kamloops track was re-paved just 2 weeks prior to the event taking away any advantage the local club members may have had. Many of the top drivers in Canada and a few friends from South of the boarder had a challenge with tire choices as, the weather was very nice, but track temperature and traction changed from round to round.  

Thank you to every participant and volunteer that made this event such a success! 

The Weekend began Thursday afternoon with about 6 hours of practice. Friday morning at 10:00am saw the majority of the competitors setting up their pit area and getting some much needed track time. Throughout practice many were experimenting with several tires and watching the thermometer closely as, track temperature change as much as 30* over
the day. Tires were going to play a big factor, for some bigger than others, as not everyone could find the right combination in time for qualifying on Saturday & Sunday.

Saturday morning.... Bright sunshine and happy faces all around. Following the drivers meeting was concourse. A couple dozen cars to choose from and, some awesome paint work. Kevin Maynes was the winner after everything was narrowed down.

Qualifying.
Touring Stock.
41 entries chased  James Choy and his FSR Bullet, 19/5:02.41 after the first round of qualifying.  James' time stood all weekend until the very last round on Sunday morning. It was in the last round when Schumacher SST driver Darren Shank cranked off the only 20 lap run in the 5 minute stock class. 20/5:09.67. Benny Chou (FSR) went 19/5:01.85 to bump
James  to 3rd. 4th Dustin Morse (Losi), 5th Mike Tapp (HPI Pro2), 6th Wayne Mah (Losi), 7th  Rob Daoust (HPI Pro2), 8th Ramil Basco (NEO), 9th Craig Miller (Losi), 10th Leo Lam (Tamiya TRF-414X). All the A main drivers were within 1lap.

Touring Modified
46 entries in this one and, again James Choy set the pace with the FSR Bullet 17/4:13.80. Seemed that history would repeat it self, Darren Shank (Shumacher SST) in the last round would go 3 seconds quicker. His TQ was 17/4:10.86. James Choy would hang on to 2nd with the only other 17 lap run. 3rd Brett Sisley (Kawada), 4th Peter Tozser (Express), 
5th Korgae Scales (Losi), 6th Keith Yu (Yokomo), 7th Benny Chou (FSR Bullet), 8th  Louie Luk (FSR Bullet), 9th Wayne Mah (Losi), 10th Mike Tapp (HPI Pro2). Also, once again the A's were all on the same lap.

FUEL Touring
26 entries of the .12 nitro burners saw Korgae Scales (NEO) pretty much be the man to beat. Setting  TQ in the first round (19/5:12.69) and, followed each round by going a little quicker to stay on top. Korgea set the fast TQ in the last round on Sunday morning, going 20/5:13.29. The chase group for the 30 minute A main would be, 2nd Mike Tapp (HPI), 3rd
James Choy (FSR Nitro Bullet), 4th Louie Luk (FSR Nitro Bullet), 5th Keith Yu (HPI), 6th Roger Brown (NEO), 7th Ken Ho (Z10), 8th Ken Chan (Kyosho), 9th Leo Lam (Tamiya GT10),10th Todd Wandio (HPI).

Formula 1
Although there were only 12 of these foam clad, open wheel screamers the competition was very fast. Norm McEwan (HPI) set the early pace of 20/5:09.83. Norm upped the pace to hold top spot all weekend and, again the Sunday morning's last round saw everyone going quicker, including Norm, he went a blistering 21/5:13.90 to claim not only the Formula One TQ but, also the fastest 5 minute qualifier and the single fastest lap of the event (14.20 seconds). The grid finished as follows, 2nd Doug Martin (HPI), 3rd Martin Vannieuwenhuizen (CRC-F1), 4th Louie Luk (Tamiya), 5th Willie Lemm (CRC-F1), 6th Norm Zittlau (CRC-F1), 7th Roger Brown (HPI), 8th Mike Rommel (Tamiya), 9th Chris Lim, 10th Robert Hall (Tamiya).

Martin Vannieuwenhuizen
ROAR BC Director 15-70133