RC-Area – Daily RC Car News

“Coming back from a second place in Round 8 Gavin Newman – Xray 808 extends his overall lead in the Series ahead of Gary Bui – Xray and Tony Knauth – Xray. With the 2008 DAE Nitro Buggy Speedway Championships as the next event, a new oval track is to be laid down over the coming weeks meaning no work had been done to the circuit since the Nitro Challenge, which is to say it was “rough”, very rough and very challenging, still the racing was as usual very hard and fast, the lap times not as fast as what Ash Frensham set at the Challenge but certainly within a couple of seconds with Newman pulling off a quick one getting into the 34 second bracket. Round 1 saw Knauth – Xray take the holeshot with Newman – Xray, Tim Nicol – MBX5R and Ingram – MBX5R within striking distance, but with a good clean run Knauth got away to hold the lead until the last lap, running out of fuel within metres of the finish line, letting Newman through for the win with Ingram second and Knauth holding on for third, Gary Bui – Xray and John Chau – Kyosho rounding out the top five.” Read More… [Source - Tony Knauth @ocrraceway.com]