2009 OCR Nitro Champs Series Rnd #7 Final

2009 OCR Nitro Champs Series Rnd # 7 Final

Knauth, Hobao, RB takes the Outright Series Win!!!!

Knauth driving an RB powered Hyper 9 takes out the 2009 OCR Nitro Champs Series, ahead of Shaun Rawlings running a Force powered XB8 EC, narrowly holding out Sergio Manalvo - MBX6 - OS, second and third outright seperated by only 1 point after close to 600 laps of hard racing. The Junior and Sport Buggy drivers battled all the way to the final race of the series to determine who would be on the podium, in the end though it was Henry Bui - 808 - RB with a very close win over Tom Jones - 808 - RB, with Luke D'Arnay taking the final series podium position. Dean Baker - Caster Fusion came from behind to snatch the number 1 spot from Henri Raafs - Hyper 8.5 - RB with Rory O'Connor taking third with his OS powered Thunder Tiger.

On to the Final round of racing!!!

Round 1 saw a great start from the 11 car field, with Knauth and Ciccone - MBX6 getting the better of them, the two pushed hard ahead of pack until lapped traffic on lap 8 caused some grief for Knauth giving Ciccone some breathing room to finish 4.02 seconds in front with Gavin Newman another 2.02 secs behind in third, Manalvo home in fourth 10 seconds back with Tam Bui filling the Top 5.

Round 2 saw Skip Jackson make amends to take the number 1 spot and the FTD for the event after not even making it onto the circuit in round 1, Newman pulled off second ahead of Manalvo with Knauth and Tim Nicol fourth and fifth.

Round 3 had Gavin Newman in the lead at the end a lap ahead of the field, with Jackson and Manalvo under 4 seconds apart crossing the line, Junior driver Henry Bui fourth, Rawlings fifth, Marc Christianson, Knauth, Tom Jones, Nicol and Henri Raafs, filling the final Top Ten places.

Round 4 saw some tense moments leading up the the start for a number of drivers sitting just inside and out of the overall series podium positions, this and the next round were going to make or break thier chances at a podium spot!!! Jackson took another round win ahead of Manalvo and Newman, with Jesse Newman fourth and Rawlings fifth.

Round 5 the final round of racing for the series was going to see a tense battle between Manalvo and Rawlings for second and third outright, with the positions still up for grabs the racing was intense, with father and son Gavin and Jesse Newman battling with Jackson out in front the excitment was really back in fourth and fifth with Manalvo and Rawlings, the two pushing each other hard, lap after lap until Manalvo made a costly mistake across the woops causing him to flame out handing the outright number 2 spot to Shaun Rawlings. The two Newmans took the race win 10 seconds apart Jackson a close third. Young Jesse the quickest driver on the circuit pulling off a blistering 32.255 second lap.

Congratulations to all the drivers in what was an epic battle from start to finish, and Im sure we all look forward to the 2010 OCR Nitro Champs Series.

Final Placings:

Pro Buggy:

1. Gavin Newman - 808 - Nova Rossi

2. Sergio Manalvo - MBX6 - OS

3. Anthony Jackson - MBX6 - Nova Rossi

Sport Buggy:

1. Daniel White - 808 - Caster Grenade

2. Dean Baker - 1/8 EP

3. Henri Raafs - Hyper 8.5 - RB

Junior Buggy:

1. Henry Bui - 808 - RB

2. Jesse Newman - 808 - Nova Rossi

3. Tom Jones - 808 - RB

Race Results:

Round 1 - Heat 1 - Heat 2

Round 2 - Heat 1 - Heat 2

Round 3 - Heat 1 - Heat 2

Round 4 - Heat 1 - Heat 2

Round 5 - Heat 1 - Heat 2

FTD

Race results directory

POS -Name		-Points	-Laps	-Time	-Round Points .....
1	Gavin Newman	10	14	510.634	3	2	1	3	1
2	Sergio Manalvo	22	13	484.992	4	3	3	2	10
3	Anthony Jackson	28	14	509.724	21	1	2	1	3
4	Shaun Rawlings	30	13	506.671	9	6	5	5	5
5	Henry Bui	32	13	506.072	7	8	4	6	7
6	Jesse Newman	41	13	493.885	6	17	12	4	2
7	Tom Jones	44	12	481.302	11	10	8	9	6
8	Tony Knauth	45	13	493.619	2	4	7	16	16
9	Tim Nicol	48	12	462.361	14	5	9	11	9
10	Daniel White	49	13	505.490	13	12	13	7	4
11	Marc Christianson	52	13	515.322	8	9	6	13	16
12	Phillip Ciccone	57	13	489.595	1	11	11	18	16
13	Dean Baker	57	12	494.773	10	13	18	8	8
14	Tam Bui	61	13	512.600	5	7	16	18	15
15	Henri Raafs	61	12	501.186	12	15	10	10	14
16	Paul Snowball	69	11	484.279	17	14	15	12	11
17	Rory O,Connor	71	10	483.189	15	16	14	14	12
18	Samantha Coffee	81	9	484.692	16	20	17	15	13
19	Leigh Jefferies	87	7	419.567	18	18	19	17	15
20	Henri Raafs Snr	92	3	238.696	20	19	20	18	15
21	Steven Peckham	93	3	181.687	19	20	20	18	16

OCR Nitro Champs Series Scoreboard

POS	Name	PS1	PS2	PS3	PS4	PS5	PS6	PS7	TOTAL	BEST 5
1	Tony Knauth	3	3	3	1	2	6	8	26	12
2	Shaun Rawlings	1	2	8	10	6	8	4	39	21
3	Sergio Manalvo	50	50	7	8	1	4	2	122	22
4	Kyle Hodges	8	4	50	4	4	3	50	123	23
5	Anthony Jackson	11	50	2	2	9	10	3	87	26
6	Henry Bui (J)	6	8	9	3	5	50	5	86	27
7	Phillip Ciccone	5	11	10	6	7	5	12	56	33
8	Tom Jones (J)	50	5	5	5	50	11	7	133	33
9	Tam Bui	2	6	11	11	8	7	14	59	34
10	Dean Baker (SE)	50	12	50	7	12	9	13	153	53
11	Henri Raafs (S)	13	9	12	16	13	13	15	91	60
12	Rory O'Connor (S)	19	10	50	14	14	15	17	139	70
13	Marc Christianson	14	50	6	50	3	50	11	184	84
14	Henri Raafs Snr (S)	16	14	50	22	17	50	20	189	89
15	Daniel White (S)	50	50	50	21	11	14	10	206	106
16	Gavin Newman	50	50	4	50	50	1	1	206	106
17	Gary Bui	7	1	1	50	50	50	50	209	109
18	Matthew D'Arnay (S)	15	50	50	17	15	12	50	209	109
19	Leigh Jefferies (S)	50	50	16	19	50	18	19	222	122
20	Mark Sinclair (S)	10	50	13	12	50	50	50	235	135
21	Ken Gilchrist	12	50	17	9	50	50	50	238	138
22	Paul Snowball (S)	50	50	15	50	50	16	16	247	147
23	Luke D'Arnay (J)	17	50	50	50	16	17	50	250	150
24	Steven Peckham (SE)	50	50	50	15	18	50	21	254	154
25	Samantha Coffee (J)	18	50	50	20	50	50	18	256	156
26	Jesse Newman (J)	50	50	50	50	50	2	6	258	158
27	Tim Nicol	4	50	50	50	50	50	9	263	163
28	John Chau (S)	9	7	50	50	50	50	50	266	166
29	Gary Puttock	50	50	50	13	10	50	50	273	173
30	Grant Larven (S)	50	13	14	50	50	50	50	277	177
31	Micheal Pastrikos (S)	50	50	50	18	50	50	50	318	218