2008 Top Dog Dash for Cash Series

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The Top Dog has been decided!!!!!

Xray takes 7 of 9 Podiums!!!!!!!!!!

Round 4 Finals - 5th December

The Finals of the Top Dog Dash for Cash Series not only decide who is this seasons Top Dog but also brings to a close another fantastic season of RC Motorsport from OCR Raceway. The finals were always going to be a tough race on a circuit thats has seen thousands and thousands of laps laid down since it's rebuild after the DAE Speedway Championships In August and of course the expected Darwin rains at this time of year, which had caused havoc on the already rough circuit earlier in the morning making for a huge job to get the circuit in form for the nights racing. The hour plus of open practice saw the circuit start to give up a reasonable but very rough race line. The TQ and 2008 Upgrade Points Series Champion Gavin Newman - Xray 808 - Axe, 2008 NT Champ Tony Knauth - Xray 808 - RB and 2008 NT # 2 Phillip Ciccone - MBX6 - RB, all going into the 60 minute A Final as favourites, but nobody was prepared to discount any of the 10 drivers that had all battled hard during the 9, 15 minute qualifying rounds over the past month and a half just to gain a position in the final, with former NT and Class Champions such as Gary and Tam Bui, Kyle Hodges and the llke all very capable of taking a win, but after an hour of hard racing, numerous and often lead changes, breakdowns, lapped traffic, fuel stops and all the excitement and spectacle of Nitro Buggy Action, it was Gavin Newman - Xray 808 - Axe Rossi - Werks taking a very hard earned win with 99 laps in 1 hour 26.388 seconds and a big gap of 7 laps on second placed Gary Bui - Xray 808 - RB - Proline on 92 laps ahead of Tam Bui - Xray 808 - RB - Proline taking a well deserved third on 89 laps. Race favourites like Phillip Ciccone coming to grief on lap 85 after battling with Newman for a good portion of the hour with battery problems, # 2 qualifier Knauth after leading numerous times pulling out on lap 67 with clutch problems, unusual from Knauth's normally bullet proof Xray 808 - RB package, Hodges out early on lap 59 with electrical problems, even the winner Newman had his fair share of problems, losing a wheel on lap 1 and flaming out mid race.

Check out another fantastic Pic gallery here

A Final

Position	Car #	Name	Laps	Time	Fastest Lap	Average Lap
1	1	Gavin Newman	99	1h00m26.388	32.085	36.630
2	4	Gary Bui	92	1h00m17.270	32.270	39.318
3	6	Tam Bui	89	1h00m21.104	34.355	40.687
4	10	John Chau	88	1h00m23.889	33.812	41.181
5	3	Phillip Ciccone	85	56m34.979	32.777	39.941
6	9	Tom Jones	84	1h00m04.570	34.376	42.912
7	8	Jesse Newman	80	59m16.179	34.113	44.452
8	7	Anthony Jackson	73	48m05.879	33.972	39.533
9	2	Tony Knauth	67	43m58.781	32.742	39.385
10	5	Kyle Hodges	59	44m59.998	33.598	45.763

The 30 minute B Final saw another great battle, with Junior driver Henry Bui - Xray 808 leading from the start, with Shaun Rawlings - Xray, Nigel Ellis - HN X1CR and Henri Raafs - Hyper 8.5 all swapping places throughout, Bui's Xray running faultlessly for 32 laps to be 3 laps in front only to have flameout after flameout losing the number 1 spot to Shaun Rawlings, Bui never able to make back the lost time, having to settle for third just 15 seconds behind Nigel Ellis in second, but it was all Shaun Rawlings - Xray XB8 EC - Force - Venom 45's taking a fantastic B Final win.

B Final

Position	Car #	Name	Laps	Time	Fastest Lap	Average Lap
1	1	Shaun Rawlings	45	30m29.319	35.108	40.652
2	3	Nigel Ellis	42	30m08.370	36.362	43.056
3	2	Henry Bui	42	30m23.995	34.455	43.428
4	4	Henri Raafs	38	29m57.269	36.753	47.297
5	8	Samantha Coffee	31	27m59.152	39.027	54.166
6	7	Peter Hutton	30	29m57.564	40.592	59.919
7	5	Mark Sinclair	23	26m13.309	37.184	68.405
8	6	Andrew Hutton	14	14m20.523	41.825	61.466
9	9	Luke D'Arnay	0	NO TIME	0.000

Class Positions:

Sport Buggy:

1st: Nigel Ellis - HN X1CR - RB - Proline

2nd: Henri Raafs - Hyper 8.5 - OS Speed - Proline

3rd: Peter Hutton - Xray 808 - Werks - Proline

Junior Buggy:

1st: Tom Jones - Xray 808 - RB - VP Pro

2nd: Jesse Newman - Xray XB8 EC - OS V Spec - Proline

3rd: Henry Bui - Xray 808 - OS - Proline

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And finally we here at OCR would like to say a big thank you to everyone that has been involved in any way with this great motorsport season, everyone from our fantastic sponsors, competitors, volunteers, news partners around the world, our local media, our vocal spectators, and of course anyone that makes it possible to put on quality events like we are used to, so from all of us here, THANK YOU and have a very happy, safe festive season and see you all in 2009 for what is looking to be an even bigger and better year of RC Motorsport at

OCR RACEWAY

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Who will be the TOP DOG!!!!!

Round 3 - 21st November

With most of the top qualifying positions fairly secure going into the final 3 rounds, it was the last chance for the drivers hovering around the number 10 position to attain a berth in the 1 hour A Main Final to decide who will be the 2008 Top Dog, with 6 of the 9 qualifying rounds counting, it was going to be close at both the front and back of the field, with Newman and Knauth battling for the TQ and Rawlings, Chau, Puttock and Jones all fighting for the last position to get into the A Main.

Round 7 saw the number 1 and 3 qualifiers going into this round Tony Knauth - Xray 808 and Gary Bui - Xray 808 get a big holeshot off the start to run away with it, with Bui taking the win 11.52 secs ahead of Knauth with Ciccone - MBX6 - RB a very close third, Bui putting down a couple of blistering laps being the only driver on the circuit in its rough condition to put down 31 second laps. Newman - Xray came home in 4th with Chau - Xray 5th.

Round 8 had Ciccone and Knauth get away with the holeshot, with Ciccone getting away holding a good margin on Knauth with Newman closing in until lap 13 with mistake at the end of the back straight from Ciccone to let Knauth and Newman through, the 3 drivers battled it out until lap 19 when Knauth lost a glow plug, putting paid to his race, with Newman getting a good clean run through traffic and Ciccone making a another small mistake late in the race, this let Tam Bui - Xray get up into the number 2 spot behind Newman, with Ciccone coming home in third, Skip Jackson - X1CR, Hodges - X1CR, Jesse Newman - Xray, Chau - Xray, Puttock - RC8, Knauth - Xray and Ellis - X1CR rounding out the Top Ten.

Round 9 the final round of qualifying, again had the usual suspects at the front of the field with Knauth and Newman going in on equal points and Ciccone in third overall, the always aggressive start saw Ciccone get one of the quickest holeshots yet with a 47.74 sec but with the whole field getting a fantastic start also there was absolutely no time to hang about. With Ciccone and Knauth making mistakes under pressure on the rough circuit and Newman flaming out and Hodges pushing hard in fourth the front of the pack closed up tight, with the four battling it out, Knauth getting into the lead in the closing stages only to put it on its roof at the end of the very fast back straight to let Newman through into the lead, with just over a lap to go and the TQ still up for grabs, the 2 pushed hard but it was Newman coming out with the win to finish just 3 secs ahead of Knauth with Ciccone 26.78 secs down in third with Hodges a close fourth and Gary Bui fifth.

With that win it was Gavin Newman with the outright Pro Buggy TQ on 7 points, Tony Knauth in second with 10 points and Phillip Ciccone in third with 18 points. Now it all comes down to the finals to see who will be the

TOP DOG!!!!!

Top Dog Dash For Cash Finals - 5th December

Another fantastic gallery of ACTION pics

Top Qualifiers all receive free entry to the final round!!!

Pro Buggy: Gavin Newman - Xray

Junior Buggy: Jesse Newman - Xray

Sport Buggy: Nigel Ellis - X1CR

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Full Qualifying Race Results

TDDFC - Round #1 - 24th October

Round 1 - Heat 1 - Heat 2

Round 2 - Heat 1 - Heat 2

Round 3 - Heat 1 - Heat 2

TDDFC - Round #2 - 7th November

Round 4 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3

Round 5 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3

Round 6 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3

TDDFC - Round #3 - 21st November

Round 7 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3

Round 8 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3

Round 9 - Heat 1 - Heat 2 - Heat 3

FTD

TDDFC Overall Qualifying Points Table

Pos

Name

Points

FTD Laps & Time

Round Points

1	Gavin Newman - Xray 808	7	26	930.226	1	1	1	5	17	2	4	1	1
2	Tony Knauth - Xray 808	10	25	903.739	3	2	14	2	1	1	2	9	2
3	Phillip Ciccone - MBX6	18	24	908.158	13	17	3	4	3	3	3	3	3
4	Gary Bui - Xray 808	20	25	925.427	2	7	8	3	4	5	1	21	5
5	Kyle Hodges - HN X1CR	21	24	903.071	4	14	2	10	2	4	7	5	4
6	Tam Bui - Xray 808	33	24	913.659	7	6	4	7	7	8	8	2	9
7	Anthony Jackson - HN X1CR	41	24	929.937	8	15	19	9	5	7	13	4	8
8	Jesse Newman - Xray EC	41	24	933.669	6	12	15	6	8	9	17	6	6
9	Tom Jones - Xray 808	45	23	915.938	9	5	6	8	11	6	12	11	17
10	Gary Puttock - RC8	48	23	904.505	5	9	9	22	23	21	6	8	11
11	John Chau - Xray 808	50	23	885.043	21	21	19	12	6	10	5	7	10
12	Shaun Rawlings - Xray EC	50	23	912.448	12	3	7	11	16	13	10	16	7
13	Henry Bui - Xray 808	59	23	907.261	11	10	5	13	9	11	14	13	14
14	Nigel Ellis - HN X1CR	64	21	897.539	20	8	13	15	10	12	11	10	15
15	Rory O,Connor - TTR S3	77	21	912.365	16	11	11	16	12	16	15	17	12
16	Henri Raafs - Hyper 8.5	81	23	933.746	21	21	19	14	14	14	9	14	16
17	Tim Nicol - MBX5R	89	22	901.211	10	4	10	22	23	21	22	22	22
18	Nathan Tampe - Hyper 8.5	94	25	901.855	21	21	19	1	13	19	22	22	22
19	Andrew Hutton - Xray 808	94	18	909.829	14	13	17	17	18	21	20	15	19
20	Mark Sinclair - Xray 808	97	20	903.152	20	19	16	22	21	18	19	12	13
21	Peter Hutton - Xray 808	101	15	890.224	17	16	12	21	22	20	21	18	18
22	Leigh Jefferies - Xray 808	106	16	902.997	15	20	19	18	20	17	18	19	20
23	Samantha Coffee - MBX5	110	17	904.055	21	21	19	19	15	15	22	22	22
24	Ryan Tranthem - Caster ZX1	115	19	912.517	21	21	19	20	19	21	16	20	21
25	Ben Hoare - Sacker Pro	120	7	818.654	19	18	18	22	23	21	22	22	22
26	Bradley Jackson - HN X1CR	122	8	480.062	18	20	19	22	23	21	22	22	22
27	Luke D'Arnay - Virus	123	0	0.000	20	20	18	22	23	21	22	22	22
28	Matthew D'Arnay - HN X1CR	126	0	0.000	21	21	19	22	23	21	22	22	22
29	Matthew Vella - XTM XT2	126	0	0.000	21	21	19	22	23	21	22	22	22

Round 2 - 7th November

As expected Round 2 of qualifying for the 2008 Top Dog Dash for Cash Series, was always going to be hotly contested, with Gavin Newman - Xray 808 - Axe Rossi coming into the round as Top Qualifier closely followed by Gary and Tam Bui both racing Xray 808 also.

Round 4 the first of the 15 minute heats got underway at aprox 7.30pm, with Nathan Tampe Hyper 8.5 - OS setting the pace taking the round win ahead of Tony Knauth - Xray 808 - RB in second and Gary Bui - Xray 808 - RB third, both Bui and Knauth getting into the 32 second bracket with 32.792 and 32.990, on the rough but grippy circuit, Phil Ciccone - MBX6 - RB fourth, Gav Newman fifth, closely followed by son Jesse Newman sixth, Tam Bui, Tom Jones, Skip Jackson and Kyle Hodges rounding out the Top Ten.

Round 5 saw a great battle between Knauth, Hodges - X1CR - RB and Ciccone, with Knauth taking the round win after a hard fought 15 minutes to finish 18.67 secs ahead of second place Hodges, with Ciccone hanging onto third place just 10 seconds ahead of fourth placed Gary Bui with Skip Jackson X1CR - OS in fifth, John Chau, Tam Bui, Jesse Newman, Henry Bui and Nigel Ellis X1CR - RB filling out the Top Ten.

Round 6 the final qualifying session of the night, was a fantastic race with some very close wheel to wheel action with Knauth getting out to an early lead being chased hard by Tam Bui and Ciccone, with Newman getting caught up on the first lap had a big job to catch the front runners, but pushing hard was able to get up and through to get onto Knauth's tail, the two battled hard for the remainder rubbing wheels and swapping the lead lap after lap, putting on an awesome show, but with a mistake on the final lap from Newman it was Knauth taking the win 36.92 secs ahead of Newman with Ciccone taking a very well deserved third ahead of Hodges and Gary Bui.

Round #1 - 24th October

Firstly a quick welcome back to Gavin Newman, back from the other side of our big brown land, Gav travelled the 3000km plus trip to Sydney to compete in the 2008 FEMCA event, although not one of Gav's best events, but the wealth of knowledge and experience that comes from racing on the same playing field as rc legends such as Osaka and the likes can only be of benefit and is priceless, welcome back Gav and congratulations on your 2008 Points Series win. And now on to the racing in the first round of the 2008 Top Dog Dash for Cash.

Again with the OCR circuit being ravaged by monsoonal rains over the past 2 weeks, not uncommon at this time of year, the track surface had taken a real beating, with all the rubber washed off and a layer of sand and gravel on the top again, the practice session and first heats were very challenging to say the least.

Round 1 saw Newman take the win ahead of hard charging Gary Bui and Tony Knauth, with Kyle Hodges and Gary Puttock battling hard for fourth and fifth, with Newmans young son Jesse taking a well deserved sixth ahead of Tam Bui, Skip Jackson, Tom Jones and Tim Nicol rounding out the Top Ten.

Round 2 again had Newman taking the win in the end, but it was Knauth that had the lead for most of the race only to lose a front wheel in the closing stages, but still coming back after a super quick fix job to hold Shaun Rawlings out for the number 2 spot, with Tim Nicol and Tom Jones 4th and 5th.

Round 3, with a clean sweep of the heats Newman runs away with it to take out the FTD for the night with 26 laps 15m 30.226 secs, with Kyle Hodges, second Phil Ciccone in his firsting outing with the new MBX6 finishing third Tam Bui 4th and Henry Bui fifth.

Someone is breeding Xray's here at OCR with more than half the field Xray!!!, soon we will have to bring in pest control to stem the plague!!!! .

Top Qualifiers for the 3 classes all receive free entry to the next round

Pro Buggy: Gavin Newman - Xray

Junior Buggy: Tom Jones - Xray

Sport Buggy : Shaun Rawlings - Xray

Nominate Here

for Round 2 of the Series - 7th November

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Series Information

The 2008 Top Dog Dash for Cash Series running over 4 rounds, with a Cash and Prize purse at the end of it, the Series runs from 24th Oct to 5th Dec 2008.

A big thank you goes out to the Series sponsors, and to the Coffee family for their work doing the sausage sizzle at the Shannons event earlier this year, as all profits from that effort have also gone towards this series, making up a total of $1000.00 in cash and prizes up for grabs!!!!!

The Series should be considered as one complete event run over 4 different nights, with the first 3 rounds acting as Qualifying for the last round which will consist of a 1 hour A Main Final, 30 minute B and C Finals. Qualifying consists of a minimum of 9 x 15 minute heats run over 3 different nights, with the 6 best heats counting towards qualifying for the A Main. Points system to be used for qualifying is the same as used for the 2008 Points Series, 1 point for first, 2 points for second etc etc. The Top Qualifier in each class (Pro Buggy, RTR/Pullstart Buggy, Junior Buggy) after each round will receive free entry to the next round. The outright Series win will be determined by finals positions. RTR/Pullstart and Junior class wins are awarded regardless of outright finals positions. Direction of racing to be determined at each round prior to practice and will remain in that direction for the duration of that round.

Fuel capacities may be checked at random at any time during the Series. Maximum allowed fuel capacity 125ml including tank, all hoses and filters up to the carburettor connection. Non compliance will result in disqualification from that round. If capacity is found to be outside of regulations, 3 concurrent tests are allowed using the standard measuring equipment held at OCR. All decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.

If you wish to have your fuel capacity measured prior to the event email me to organise a suitable time.

Standard Entry Fees apply for each round.

These supplementary regs should be used in conjunction with the general rules available here

Note: In the event of the Series being cancelled due to weather results will be determined by the last completed qualifying round. If 2 or more rounds are cancelled prize payments will be halved.

Prize Payments

Pro Buggy

1st: $100.00 cash + $100.00 OCR Shop Voucher

2nd: $50.00 cash + $50.00 OCR Shop Voucher

3rd: $25.00 cash + $25.00 OCR Shop Voucher

Top Qualifier: $25.00 Cash + $25.00 OCR Shop Voucher

Sport Buggy

1st: $75.00 Cash + $75.00 OCR Shop Voucher

2nd: $50.00 Cash + $50.00 OCR Shop Voucher

3rd: $25.00 Cash + $25.00 OCR Shop Voucher

Junior Buggy

1st: $75.00 Cash + $75.00 OCR Shop Voucher