RC-Area – Daily RC Car News

OCR reports – “Tim Nicol driving his new RB powered Mugen MBX6, was in fine form to start the season, putting in a couple of impressive round wins to take the outright Round 1 Series podium. Although not getting it all his own way with Tony Knauth, driving an RB powered Hyper 9 also taking 2 round wins, Nicol and Knauth swapping the outright lead throughout the night. Round 1: Saw a great battle off the start with Sergio Manalvo – MBX6 taking the Holeshot just 0.4 seconds ahead of Knauth – Hyper 9, Manalvo holding the lead for more than half the race only to run out of fuel, leaving the battle to Knauth, Phillip Ciccone – MBX6 and Tim Nicol – MBX6, Knauth taking the win to start the season well, just 5.84 secs ahead of Ciccone and Nicol holding on for third. Round 2: Saw Gary Bui – Xray 808 get a 0.5 second Holeshot over Nicol, only to get caught up in the first few laps, leaving Nicol to run away with it, with Skip Jackson – MBX6 right on his tail finishing just 1.97 secs behind at the end, Ciccone in third another 7 seconds down.” Read More…