The 2015 ROAR Nitro On road Nationals was held at Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee Florida on April 30th til May 3rd. The ROAR classes were 1/10 touring car and 1/8 open. With two exhibition classes, 1/8 Masters and 1/8 GT.
The XRAY/ RCAmerica team at the race was Ralph Burch, Mike Swauger, Paul Lemieux, Scotty Grey, Craig Xavier, Billy Bowerman, Mike Strack, Toni Rice and many support drivers. Drew Ellis was there for team support.
Ralph, Paul, Mike and Craig all built their new NT1’15 for the race. With only receiving the car a week prior to the event, and with the car’s great showing at the first ENS of the year, the drivers were excited to hit the track.
First day of practice all drivers were on pace with Mike showing his setup was suiting him best. Paul was knocking the dust off of his nitro mind and getting used to running it again, but was quickly on pace. Scotty Grey was also right there.
The team worked on setups and was quickly learning things about the new car.
First day of qualifying. Mike Swauger, Scotty Grey and Paul Lemieux would show pace in TC. Ralph was fast but having some issues. All new NT1’15’s were working well.
At the end of qualifying the top four would be:
1/8 open:
Paolo Morganti
DJ Apolaro
Mike Swauger - XRAY RX8
Vincent Jackson
1/10 touring car:
DJ Apolaro
Mike Swauger - XRAY NT1’15
Paolo Morganti
Paul Lemieux - XRAY NT1’15
Everyone else would have to run a tree like finals. After the Semi’s this is how it would line up for the one hour event.
1/8 Open:
Paolo Morganti
DJ Apolaro
Mike Swauger - XRAY RX8
Vincent Jackson
Chris Tosolini
Paul Lemieux - XRAY RX8
Felix Law
Timothy Harrington
Michael Palazzola
Brian Thomas
Tony Rice - XRAY RX8
1/10 Touring Car:
DJ Apolaro
Mike Swauger - XRAY NT1’15
Paolo Morganti
Paul Lemieux - XRAY NT1’15
Scotty Grey - XRAY NT1
Chris Tosolini
Eduardo Cabal
Walter Diaz
KJ Jones
Uriah Murnan
Craig Xavier - XRAY NT1’15
Joseph Wright
The 1/10 TC main was up first. From tone to tone the race was exciting. Lead change’s happened often. With some racers having problems and all racers doing tire changes. In the end it was Paul Lemieux with his Max Powered NT1’15 to take the ROAR National championship. Scotty Grey would take second and Paolo Morganti taking third.
Paul Lemieux - XRAY NT1’15
Scotty Grey - XRAY NT1
Paolo Morganti
Mike Swauger - XRAY NT1’15
Chris Tosolini
Walter Diaz
Eduardo Cabal
Craig Xavier - XRAY NT1’15
KJ Jones
Joseph Wright
Uriah Murnan
DJ Apolaro
1/8 open A main would close the day and the event. This one also was some great racing from tone too tone. Leaders were Paolo, DJ, Mike, Paul, and Vincent. With a hard charge at the end Mike Swauger with his Picco Powered RX8 was able to secure his ROAR National Championship.
Mike Swauger - XRAY RX8
Vincent Jackson
Felix Law
Brain Thomas
Paul Lemiuex - XRAY RX8
Tony Roce - XRAY RX8
Timothy Harrington
DJ Apolaro
Michael Palazzola
Chris Tosolini
Paolo Mornganti
1/8 Master Final finish order:
Don Jones
Matt Reddick
Greg Esser
Jim Rice - XRAY RX8
Ashton Brinson
Robbie Collins
Peter Breton
Dan Louis - XRAY RX8
Joaquin Desoto
Reynold Kam - XRAY RX8
Dana Smeltzer
Thanks to the ROAR RMT crew and the Full Throttle race crew for running and hosting the event. Thanks to all the sponsors that made the event possible.
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