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       Inter Challenge Race '99 in Boss Speed, 
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Nov 26-28, 1999  |  
  
  
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Weather condition: Clear 14C°  |  
  
  
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        |     Kenji Osaka     Adrien Bertin   Keisuke 
          Fukuda | 
           
         
        
       
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        | Inter Challenge Race '99 was held in  
        BOSS SPEED, Japan on November 26-28.  |   
           
          
        | World Champion Adrien Bertin and other
        foreign drivers join this event. Japanese  | 
           
          
        | drivers are very close and sometimes
        also better to the world Champion. | 
           
          
        | Hirofumi Takahashi (MRX-2/NR-bEAT21SP)
        was TQ in front of Kenji Osaka and  | 
           
          
        | young driver, Keisuke Fukuda all with
        Mugen MRX-2. World champion Adrien Bertin | 
           
          
        | was 7th. position at qualification.
        The final was very close battle between Bertin | 
           
          
        | and Osaka. for the leadership. The
        position was changed every after pit stop for refuel. | 
           
          
        | However, Adrien Bertin won the race by
        a narrow margin of just 2.81sec. | 
           
         
        
       
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       Final Result  | 
  
  
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        | Pos. | 
        No. | 
        Name | 
        Laps | 
        Time | 
        Best
        Lap | 
        Car | 
        Engine | 
           
          
        | Grand 
          Final (45 min.) | 
           
          
        | 1. | 
        <7> | 
        Adrien Bertin | 
        172 | 
        45'03.20 | 
        14.96 | 
        MRX-2 | 
        NR-JP | 
           
          
        | 2.  | 
        <2> | 
        Kenji Osaka | 
        172 | 
        45'06.01 | 
        15.10 | 
        MRX-2 | 
        NR-JP | 
           
          
        | 3. | 
        <3> | 
        Keisuke Fukuda | 
        172 | 
        45'11.73 | 
        14.94 | 
        MRX-2 | 
        NR-Beat | 
           
          
        | 4. | 
        <5> | 
        Yuichi Hamaguchi | 
        170 | 
        45'15.19 | 
        14.91 | 
        Vector | 
        ------- | 
           
          
        | 5. | 
        <1> | 
        Hirofumi Takahashi | 
        168 | 
        45'01.47 | 
        15.27 | 
        MRX-2 | 
        NR-JP | 
           
          
        | 6. | 
        <8> | 
        Masaki Yokoyama | 
        167 | 
        45'11.10 | 
        15.27 | 
        Vector | 
        Mega | 
           
          
        | 7. | 
        <6> | 
        Takashi Miyashita | 
        159 | 
        45'02.30 | 
        15.39 | 
        Fantom | 
        REX | 
           
          
        | 8. | 
        <4> | 
        Tsuguo Kitade | 
        145 | 
        45'00.29 | 
        15.00 | 
        Proceed | 
        NR-NS21 | 
           
          
        | 9. | 
        <10> | 
        Akihisa Hashimoto | 
        104 | 
        37'01.52 | 
        15.30 | 
        Proceed | 
        NR-NS21 | 
           
          
        | 10. | 
        <9> | 
        Tomohito Ogata | 
        46 | 
        12'38.46 | 
        15.55 | 
        MRX-2 | 
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       TQ :  Hirofumi Takahashi 
(MRX-2/NR-BEAT21SP)  | 
  
  
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       Setting 
Sheet (Adrien Bertin)  | 
  
  
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       Comments from 
Adrien Bertin  |  
  
  
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       Inter Challenge Race 
'99 Picture Gallery  |  
  
  
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