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Tochigi Hot Air Balloon International Championship 2012

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2012 Tochigi Hot Air Balloon International Championship and Hot Air Balloon Honda Grand Prix 2012

Yudai Fujita wins again!

Congratulations from the Worldwide Ultramagic Team!

Congratulations from the worldwide Ultramagic team to Yudai Fujita from Japan on coming first and winning the 2012 Tochigi International Championship held between the 20th and 25th November. Yudai also won the final round of the 2012 Honda Japan Grand Prix resulting in him becoming the overall champion of this annual competition. These wins follow closely behind him recently winning Saga 2012.


2012 Tochigi International Championship

Yudai convincingly won the Tochigi Championship beating stiff competition from the USA. Yudai was, of course, flying his Ultramagic Racer.

Final Tochigi 2012 Competition Standings For Task 1 to 27
RANK # COMPETITOR COUNTRY/TEAM TOTAL SCORE
1 1    FUJITA, Yudai   JPN 24.474
2 10    PETREHN, Jhonny  USA 23.111
3 11    DONNER, Nick  USA 21.964
4 12    HEARTSILL, Rhett  USA 19.422
5 20    MIYATA, Hiroki  JPN 18.812
6 17    SUE, Tetsuhiro  JPN 18.411

Special mention also to Hiroki Miyata and Tetsuhiro Sue on coming 5th and 6th also flying Ultramagic Racers


2012 Honda Japan Grand Prix

Yudai convincingly won the 2012 Honda Grand Prix over 5 rounds consisting of 27 tasks with total his total round points being over 100 clear of the second position. This has never been achieved before in the life of the competition.
 
 
2012 HAB Honda Grand Prix-Resultats Finals
RANK TEAM # COMPETITOR Rd1
Total
Rd2
Total
Rd3
Total
Rd4
Total
Rd5
Total
TOTAL
POINTS
1    B.U.M. Balloon team  1  FUJITA, Yudai 22 31 13 68 227 361
2    Team Kailas  8  MIYATA, Hiroki 17 19 69  143  254 
3    Team LAPUTA  5  SUE, Tetsuhiro 19 19  56  130  232 
4    TOTO Balloon Racing Team  2  MIZUKAMI, Takao 34 14  11  55  102  216 
5  Hustle Balloon Team  3  KODAMA, Takao 19 14  21  60  95  209 

Special mention also to Hiroki Miyata, Tetsuhiro Sue and Yoshimi Kodama for coming 2nd, 3rd and 5th in the Honda Grand Prix 2012 who were also flying Ultramagic Racers.

 

Congratulations to Yudai Fujita!

lWell done to all competitors from the Worldwide Ultramagic Team


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