UPGRADE / RCiD 2008 Points Series - Round # 1
Firstly we need to welcome back our Series sponsor Upgrade / RCiD, its great to see an overseas company getting behind events in Australia and we are very proud that its here in Darwin at OCR Raceway. On to the racing, again it seems the rain gods are working against us, with a huge storm hitting a couple of hours before race time, which looked very much like we would have to cancel the event, but drivers turning up in droves and the circuit cleaned up Round # 1 of 2008 Points Series got underway. With a number of new drivers, some old faces and the usual bunch of front runners all rearing to go, the very heavy rough surface looked like it was going to give up some good traction and didnt disappoint, with Tony Knauth driving the new RB WS7III L2G, got straight down to business running in the 33 second bracket, holding a good gap on the two Team Holeshot drivers Neil Ingram and Marc Christianson for the whole race with Neil finishing in second 12.44 secs behind Tony and Marc in third 20.13 sec down, Neil running a new Trinity Drake engine his MBX5R. Round 2 again saw Tony step up the ante taking the FTD for the event with 14 laps in 8m37.437 and also setting the fastest lap at 33.382 secs, taking almost 0.2 sec off the fastest lap set by Neil Ingram last event. Tony and Neil the only 2 drivers to put down 14 lap races so far this season, with Neil still holding the fastest FTD at 14 laps in 8m26.083 secs. Round 3 saw the circuit really coming on with a nice race line developing, still very heavy off the line, it made for a freight train race with Tony Knauth out in front , Marc Christianson, Neil Ingram, Gary Bui, and Gavin Newman all right on it to finish in that order with only 14.73 secs seconds seperating them. Round 4 ran in the oposite direction and was an awesome battle between Marc Christianson and Tony Knauth, it seemed like the 2 cars were stuck together with the lead changing nearly every corner, with neither of the drivers able to get away. With under a second seperating them crossing the finish line it the Losi of Marcs taking the win, Tony Knauth second and Tim Nicol MBX5R - OS in third. The final Round of the night was taken out by Xray driver Gary Bui, who after battling with Tony for 10 laps pressured him into a mistake in the difficult tight off camber section, letting Gary take an easy win ahead of Marc Christianson a lap down in second and Tony Knauth in third.
Congratulations to
Tony Knauth - HN X1CR - RB WS7III L2G - Proline - 8 points
Marc Christianson - Losi 8 - OS V Spec - Panther - 10 points
Gary Bui - Xray XB8EC - Maxpower - Proline - 21 points
UPGRADE / RCiD Points Series Scoreboard
1
Tony Knauth
8
14
517.
437
1
1
1
2
3
2
Marc Christianson
10
13
504.
194
3
2
2
1
2
3
Gary Bui
21
13
501.
041
4
6
4
6
1
4
Tim Nicol
32
13
509.
946
6
7
10
3
6
5
Gavin Newman
35
13
510.
862
12
5
5
8
5
6
Tam Bui
36
13
510.
928
19
3
6
4
4
7
Neil Ingram
38
13
501.
928
2
13
3
7
13
8
Anthony Jackson
41
13
516.
573
9
4
11
10
7
9
Trent Johnson
48
11
473.
956
5
10
12
11
10
10
Paul Snowball
49
12
513.
967
7
8
13
12
9
11
Kyle Hodges
55
13
518.
038
16
12
8
5
14
12
Henry Bui
64
12
497.
156
14
16
9
14
11
13
John Chau
64
11
477.
844
22
9
16
9
8
14
Shaun Stewart
65
12
493.
819
10
14
7
17
17
15.
Rory 0,Connor
68
10
472.
164
13
11
15
13
16
16
Phillip Ciccone
76
11
509.
766
8
19
14
18
17
17
Ben Hoare
85
6
376.
962
20
17
20
16
12
18
Daniel White
86
7
307.
707
18
15
17
19
17
19
Brett McNair
87
10
472.
621
11
18
21
19
18
20
Daniel Whitburn
92
8
498.
714
15
22
18
19
18
21
Lance Carew
95
7
343.
474
22
20
21
15
17
22
Samantha Coffee
98
6
440.
522
17
22
21
20
18
23
Bryce Simpson
98
5
412.
070
21
22
21
19
15
24
Henri Raafs
99
3
378.
467
22
21
19
19
18
25
Duane Schelkis
102
0
0.
000
22
22
21
19
18
26
Damon Wagland
104
0
0.
000
22
22
22
20
18
Full Race Results
Round 1 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3
Round 2 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3
Round 3 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3
Round 4 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3
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Next Event 2008 Pointscore Series Round # 2 - 28th March 2008
And the 2008 Northern Territory Nitro Buggy Championships are coming 11th and 12th April
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