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2009 OCR Nitro Champs Series Rnd # 5
Manalvo takes his first podium at OCR!!
With only 2 rounds left to run in the series things are really starting to hot up and with the first of the dropped rounds coming in to play next event, things are going to close up even further, its looking very much like it will again come down to the last race of the series to decide the outcome!!
On to the racing!!!!
Round 1 - Jackson - MBX6 - Nova Rossi and Tony Knauth - Hyper 9 - RB picked up the battle where they left off last event, getting straight into the 32 second bracket, with just .009 of a second seperating them on their quickest lap, and both drivers laying down 14 laps, Knauth picking up the win and the FTD, Jackson a very close second just 3.02 seconds behind with Sergio Manalvo - MBX6 - OS coming home in third, Kyle Hodges - X2CR - RB, Marc Christianson - Losi 8 - Nova Rossi filling the Top five.
Round 2 - Saw Jackson take the holeshot ahead of Manalvo and Tam Bui - Xray 808 - RB, Jackson holding the lead from Manalvo until lap 9 when a clutch failure took him out of the race, Phillip Ciccone - MBX6 - OS pushed hard to get to within 0.9 of a second of the leader Manalvo, Christianson pushed his Losi hard to finish third just 5 seconds down at the end, Henry Bui - Xray 808 -RB just 0.32 seconds down in fourth, Hodges another 3.30 seconds in fifth, Knauth home in sixth having tyre issues, Gary Puttock - RC8B - Reedy getting into seventh, Tam Bui, Daniel White - Xray 808 - Caster Grenade and Shaun Rawlings - XB8 - Force rounding out the Top Ten.
Round 3 - had Knauth taking the holeshot ahead of Manalvo and Rawlings, Manalvo held the lead with Knauth right on him until a small mistake coming off the table top let the leader get away, Knauth held on for second from a hard charging Ciccone, Christianson fourth, Rawlings fifth.
Round 4 saw Ciccone, Hodges and Knauth make a break for it off the start, Knauth putting a good gap on the field only to blow it on lap 10, ending up eighth. Hodges ran away with it to put a lap on the field, Jackson coming back for second after having issues again in the previous round, Ciccone again pulling off a well deserved third, Manalvo and Henry Bui rounding out the Top Five.
Round 5 the final round of the night, saw a perfect start from the field, with an aprox 10 second spilt from first to last on the holeshot, Knauth and Manalvo got the better of them though, to get a good gap on the rest of the drivers, Manalvo making a small mistake early on to let Knauth run away with it to put a lap on the field, Christianson running a nice clean race for third rawlings fourth, Henry Bui fifth, Jackson, Tam Bui, Puttock, Hodges and Rory O'Connor filling the Top Ten.
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Final Placings:
Pro Buggy:
1. Sergio Manalvo - MBX6 - OS
2. Tony Knauth - Hyper 9 - RB
3. Marc Christianson - Losi 8 - Nova Rossi
Sport Buggy:
1. Daniel White - Xray 808 - Caster Grenade
2. Dean Baker - HSP 1/8E
3. Henri Raafs - Hyper 8.5 - RB
Junior Buggy:
1. Henry Bui - Xray 808 - RB
2. Luke D'Arnay - X1CR - Werks B3
Race Results:
Pos -Name |
-Points |
-Laps |
-Time |
-Round Points ..... |
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1 Sergio Manalvo |
11 |
14 |
511.002 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
2 Tony Knauth |
18 |
14 |
502.885 |
1 |
6 |
2 |
8 |
1 |
3 Marc Christianson |
22 |
13 |
491.820 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
7 |
3 |
4 Kyle Hodges |
27 |
14 |
515.207 |
4 |
5 |
8 |
1 |
9 |
5 Henry Bui |
28 |
13 |
493.064 |
7 |
4 |
7 |
5 |
5 |
6 Shaun Rawlings |
31 |
13 |
496.515 |
6 |
10 |
5 |
6 |
4 |
7 Phillip Ciccone |
33 |
13 |
485.012 |
12 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
8 Tam Bui |
38 |
13 |
503.773 |
8 |
8 |
6 |
9 |
7 |
9 Anthony Jackson |
40 |
14 |
505.906 |
2 |
15 |
15 |
2 |
6 |
10 Gary Puttock |
44 |
12 |
487.556 |
9 |
7 |
9 |
11 |
8 |
11 Daniel White |
57 |
12 |
501.267 |
15 |
9 |
10 |
12 |
11 |
12 Dean Baker |
59 |
12 |
490.836 |
10 |
12 |
11 |
10 |
16 |
13 Henri Raafs |
61 |
12 |
505.853 |
11 |
11 |
12 |
15 |
12 |
14 Rory O,Connor |
65 |
11 |
499.856 |
13 |
13 |
16 |
13 |
10 |
15 Matthew D'Arnay |
69 |
10 |
491.672 |
14 |
14 |
13 |
14 |
14 |
16 Luke D'Arnay |
80 |
9 |
494.502 |
16 |
16 |
17 |
16 |
15 |
17 Henri Raafs Snr |
82 |
6 |
515.921 |
17 |
17 |
14 |
17 |
17 |
18 Steven Peckham |
90 |
0 |
0.000 |
18 |
18 |
18 |
18 |
18 |
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9th October
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