Pupillo Inviato: 24 Luglio 2017 Segnala Share Inviato: 24 Luglio 2017 Race report by Drew Ellis The Sven Boehringer Family Reunion race was held at The Backyard in Battle ground Washington. The race ran from July 13th-16th. Format was 4 qualifiers and single mains for nitro and triple mains for electric. The race was held in memory for Sven, a great racer and friend to the RC community. The track is like no other in the states. Full ribbon and banked with camber turns. It has a superfast line that demands maximum focus. Team XRAY was well represented at the event with drivers from all over the US and Canada. The team worked hard to find pace and setups. In Stock TC Dan Hammon was showing pace and would end of putting it 2nd on the grid for the start of the triple mains. Andrew Doherty was right there also qualifying 3rd. Tim Copp would put his XRAY 4th for the start. Devin Patterson put his XRAY 5th. 4 out of the top 5 cars were XRAY. In Mod TC, JJ Wang was showing the pace early on, but had some tire issues but will still mange a 4th qualifier to start the triple A mains. Dave Ehlich making his comeback tour would put his XRAY 5th on the grid. In Spec GT, Andrew Doherty put it 2nd on the grid to start the main. Dick Reece would start 4th. John Gonzales put it 5th. 3 out of the top 5 were XRAY’s. In Nitro TC, Richard St Cyr would be starting the 30 minute main 4th on the grid. Paul Lemieux was lined up 5th. In 1/8, Blake Bell put it 7th top start the 30m min main. Paul Lemieux and Dana Mckee taking the bump spots to start 10th and 11th. In GT8, Ryan Newbury put his GTX8 4TH. Scotty Ernst with his rent a GTX8 would start 6th for the main. After some exciting mains this is how it ended up. 17.5 Sedan: 1st Felix Law 2nd Dan Hamann – XRAY T4 3RD Andrew Doherty – XRAY T4 4TH Devin Patterson – XRAY T4 5TH Bryce Butterfield – XRAY T4 6TH Chris Kemper 7th Luke Pittman – XRAY T4 8TH Tim Copp – XRAY T4 9TH Donny Banks 10th Dick Reese – XRAY T4 11TH Scott Barnes Mod Sedan: 1st JJ Wang – XRAY T4 2ND Gonzalo Cortes 3rd Randy Castor 4th Felix Law 5th Luke Pittman – XRAY T4 6TH Dan Hamann – XRAY T4 7TH Julian Wong – XRAY T4 8TH Dave Ehrlich – XRAY T4 9TH Korey Harbke 10th Eric Epp 11th Ethan Erchinger Scale Spec: 1st Chris Kemper 2nd Andrew Doherty – XRAY X10 3RD Mike Rydwell 4th Hector Garcia 5th John Gonzales – XRAY X10 6TH Otto Rosa 7th Nate Lyday 8th Dick Reece – XRAY X10 9TH Stuart Mason 10th Trevor Geter 11th Michael Boyle 1/8 Open: 1st JJ Wang 2nd Joaquin Desoto Jr 3rd Paul Lemieux – XRAY RX8 4TH Richard St Cyr – XRAY RX8 5TH Tom Camou 6th Brandon Cho 7th Tony Clark 8th Scott Kimbrow 9th Blake Bell – XRAY RX8 10TH Dana Mckee – XRAY RX8 11TH Ralph Burch Jr 1/10 Sedan Nitro: 1st Ralph Burch Jr 2nd Richard St Cyr – XRAY NT1 3RD Paul Lemieux – XRAY NT1 4TH Blake Bell – XRAY NT1 5TH Robbie Cerrato 6th Brain Thomas 7th Luke Pittman – XRAY NT1 8TH Scott Kimbrow 9th Loran Whiting 10th Bryce Butterfield – XRAY NT1 11TH Alex Plate – XRAY NT1 GT8: 1ST Joaquin Desoto Jr 2nd Scott Barnes 3rd Mike Lyday 4th Rick Wang 5th Scotty Ernst – XRAY GTX8 6TH Ryan Newbury – XRAY GTX8 7TH Trevor Geter 8th Kevin Rogers – XRAY GTX8 9TH Jeff Whiting 10th Mike Biscieglia 11th Troy Mckune Thanks to the whole St Cyr family for making this event happen. Thanks to Ryan and Melissa Newbury for getting things going. Thanks to all the Hooligans that put in the work to make this a great event. Thanks to Scotty for handling things on the mic and keeping things moving. Thanks to all the XRAY guys for putting in the hard work and coming out with some good results. Sven sister was able to make the event and race Sven’s car, we are very thankful for her to be able to make the trip over. Thank you, Anja Krystina Bohringer. RIP to our friend Sven Boehringer. View full article Link al commento Condividi su altri siti More sharing options...
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