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Team: Yuya Sahahsi Interview on WC Brasil 3rd place podium ! (27/12/2015)

By:: Reporter
Linked to:: Viper 977 EVO 1/8 GP 4wd, Viper 977 EVO-2 1/8 GP 4wd

Yuya Sahashi made the 3rd place at the 2015 World Championship. For 1/18 scale GP onroad in Brasil.

Below interview with Yuya on the Worlds and his plans.

Interview Yuya Sahashi

Hello Yuya,

First of all congratulations again with your fantastic 3rd place, bronze medal , at the recent 2015 1/8 scale World Championships in Brasil.

I have some questions below for you to share with Serpent fans

Q: Was this 3rd place at a WC your best ever result in rc car racing ?
A:For 1/8, yes. It was the best result for me. But I have 2nd at GPT WC last year.
This was the highest result at WC.

Q: Is 1/8 scale GP racing your favourite and best class ?
A: Ye, I love it a lot. I think it is Formula 1 in RC racing.

Q: Where do you keep the huge 3rd place WC trophee ?
A: First, I will keep it at Hokusei Circuit that my futher run. Then I wll display it in Asuka Create.

Q: Which optional parts did you use on the car you raced in the final ?
A: Carbon parts for extesion. Also coated clutch housing.

Q: Was the Viper 977 car very good in the whole final, or was it harder on small tyres ?
A: Yes, it perfromed very well from practice days. Well baranced. However, I felt some difficulity at final bucause set up was not perfect.

Q: Who was your pitscrew and how did that go, as normally your brother Tadahiko pit for you, but he was also in the main final.
A: Edoald from Picco for Tadahiko, my brother. Shimazaki, Japanese guy who atteneded WC with us from Japan, and Merlin Depta worked it for me.

Q: How many pitstops and tyre changes you made ?
A: 11times. I changed tyer twice at 20min and 40min.

Q: Your brother Tadahiko also ran the final and landed on place 5, only 0,1 second behind 4th place driver. At the 1/10 scale WC in Thailand in 2014, you also both made the main final. And Tadahiko won the Wc 1/8 title in 2013.
Are you 2 the most successfull brother team in rc car racing history ?
A: I and my brother continusly stood on podium after 2013. We are so happy to do it on big race such as WC. I think thers is no brother like us.

Q: What do you do for a living and how often can you race rc cars ?
A: I do mechanic for real racing cars. I don’t have time for RC recently but I can study and found idea that can use on RC from the work.

Q: Will we see you at the 2016 Wc with 1/10 scale in Italy again ?
A: Yes of course I want to attend it!

Q: Whom you like to thank for help to reach this fantastic 3rd place at the IMFAR WC in Brasil ?
A: Edoald Picco who did back up my engin always dureing the WC, and Paolo M who helped us a lot of things. And, Asuka Create. Also there were a lot of support and back up. That’s why I could do it.
Thank you all.

Thanks for the above interview

Final result:
1. Simon Kurzbuch (CH) – 202L 60:00:506 (Shepherd/Novarossi)
2. Takaaki Shimo (JP) – 202L 60:00:720 (Mugen/OS Speed)
3. Yuya Sahashi (JP) – 201L 60:11:670 (Serpent/Picco)
4. Flavio Elias (BR] – 200L 60:15:239 (Shepherd/Novarossi)
5. Tadahiko Sahashi (JP) – 200L 60:15:354 (Serpent/Picco)
6. Sebastian Recio (ARG) – 193L 59:51:325 (Capricorn/Novarossi)
7. Shinnosuke Yokoyama (JP) – 167L 59:49:810 (Mugen/OS Speed)
8. Henrique Winik (BR) – 143L 44:50:294 (Mugen/OS Speed)
9. Robin D’Hondt (BE) – 119L 36:48:966 (BMT/Picco)
10.Daniele Ieliasi (IT) – 96L 28:43:838 (WRC/Ielasi Tuned)