OCR Homewrap Series round 6 report

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Mike Garrison

0 May 31, 2011, 3:23 a.m.

Nathan Tampe driving an Alpha powered Hyper 9 takes the Round 6 win ahead of some very stiff competition, from Tim Nicols RB powered Serpent, and with a number of records being reset again on an ever changing rough circuit, the Nitro-X Championships to held in just under 4 weeks time, look to be an event not to miss!!

Round 1 - Pro Buggy - Sees Tampe take a 1.75 sec win over Knauth, with Ciccone just over 4 secs back in third, Knauth resetting the lap record taking 0.2 out of Manalvo's time set last event, Tampes and Knauth's fastest laps just 0.08 secs apart. Short Course Truck - Newhouse taking a 1 lap win over the field, Wolfe coming through for second, Mansell third, White and Knauth fourth and fifth.

Round 2 - Pro Buggy - Knauth getting through to put a lap on the field with Skip Jackson making good to take second 1.1 secs ahead of Nicol, Ciccone and Baker fourth and fifth. Short Course Truck - Knauth getting back into the swing of the electric trucks putting a lap on Danny White in second Newhouse pushing hard for third.

Round 3 - Pro Buggy - An awesome race with 5 drivers pushing the limits Tampe coming out on top by 10.01 secs over Nicol, 2.0 back to Knauth, 0.6 to Jackson and 1.5 secs back to Ciccone in fifth. Short Course Truck - Knauth again taking a win putting a lap on White, Newhouse under a second behind, Mansell fourth, Ussher fifth.

Round 4 - Pro Buggy - Nicol takes the win putting a lap on everyone and resetting the FTD record taking over 2 secs off. Ciccone second, Tampe third moving him into the lead outright by 1 point over Knauth for the night. Short Course Truck -Newhouse gets another win on the board over Knauth by 3.38 secs, Logan wolfe just behind in third 1.12 secs back, Mansell and Weiss filling the Top five.

Round 5 - Pro Buggy - With the temperature dropping and the dew settling in, tuning and traction was being chased by everyone, Tampe getting the best of it to take the win over Ciccone by 10.78 secs Nicol and Knauth battling it out for third, Nicol taking it on the line. Short Course Truck - Newhouse taking the final race of the night comfortably over Knauth and White, the win giving Newhouse the outright lead over Knauth the pair finishing on equal points, the win being decided by the FTD with Newhouse winning by 0.009 secs over the whole event, close racing???

The Pro Buggy series scoreboard still very close at the top with Knauth retaining the lead by 1 point over Nicol and 1 point back to Ciccone in third outright, the final round on the 10th June will be awesome, a 7 Round series coming down to 2 points between the Top 3 and Ussher moving into the top spot on the Short Course Truck leaderboard, with Raafs and Mansell on equal points in second!!!