World Final

Concours

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After qualifying and a brief practice period halfway through the day, the announcement was made for everyone to bring their car to the main straightaway for pictures and the Concours Challenge! 

We'll have a lot more pictures later in the week, for right now we have some pretty good ones to share with you!

Roughly 100 cars were brought out for our "Parade of Cars" - all HPI cars, all HPI bodies, and a LOT of them with great-looking paint jobs.
	Unfortunately, it was up to Kent Clausen, David Kouche and Frank McKinney, all from HPI, to narrow down the field to ten or so "finalists".
It was a hard job, with racers standing near their creations and hinting (some hints weren't so subtle) that their car should be picked.
	Representatives from more than 5 R/C magazines around the world snapped pictures of many of the cars.
What a long line! Everyone stuck around to see who would be picked for the top ten.
	Lots of really good paint jobs were scattered along the line of cars, so it was hard to choose just ten out of the 100 cars that were present.
You could tell that some racers really put a lot of thought and time into their paint jobs...
	...but only a few of the finest were able to make it to the finalists' line-up!

And our winner!
(for the second year in a row):

Ian Aquino from Rowland Heights, California!

	For the Best Honda or Acura car, Ian won with his RS4 Mini with the Honda Civic Hatchback. It featured (among many other things): matching fingerbikes on a roof rack, driver figure, disk brakes, radar detector, roll cage, chrome wheels, and a lot more! Ian won a cool watch from Honda Optional Equipment that was designed to look like a tachometer (complete with redline) that has a leather band and its own metal case. A great prize for a wonderful job on the Civic!
	For the Best Overall car, Ian also won with this superbly detailed Ford Focus drag car. Handmade tubing in the rear holds up the bi-level wing and wheelie bar. Up front, the detail starts with silver mesh in all the right spots, super-detailed headlight enclosures, disk brakes, chrome wheels, windshield wiper, driver figure, car alarm with sound effects, interior roll bar, roof vent and much more.
	For his efforts, Ian won himself another HPI kit and a huge Concours Challenge trophy! Here he is with his 'babies'...luckily, because of the schedule, we didn't make him run the bodies during a race, but it would have been interesting to see the Focus try to pop a wheelie! We'll see what happens next year, but let's hope Ian has a little extra competition in HPI Concours Challenge!

With the Concours Challenge winner decided, it was time to start the

Main Events!