ROAR Gas Off-Road Nats coverage

[PeterV]

http://209.2.68.15:8011/pics/hughesaction.jpg

Scott Hughes' Mugen MBX5T in action.

http://209.2.68.15:8011/pics/upgrade pits.jpg

The Upgrade pits. Here, Robert Ibon (left), Travis Amezcua (middle) and Adam Drake (right) try to reach an agreement on the whole boxers-vs-briefs issue.

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Boulder City Raceway

RCCA West Coast Editor Jason Sams is at the race and emailed a few notes, look for more soon. Plus pics, if they're not already up as you read this. Here's Jason...

-Scott Hughes sits atop the largest class of racers in 1/8-scale Truck despite having no practice on Thursday. Hughes was busy graduating from college. Congratulations Scott.

- The notorious "Silver State" conditions (pot holes, large ruts, bumps) prevailed despite using 3,500 gallons of calcium chloride to give the track a hard surface.

- The largest class is 1/8-scale truck, but 1/10-scale truck has a strong showing with 61 entries.

- Lap times for the fast guys are 29-31.5 seconds (1/8-scale truck), 30-34 seconds (standard monster truck), and 33-36 seconds.

[PeterV]

Top 10 after first 2 rounds of qualifying:

1/10-scale Truck Chassis Round 1 / Round 2
Mike Truhe Losi AD2-- 0/4
Ryan Cavalieri Associated GT2-- 4/0
Adam Drake Losi AD2-- 2/3
Jared Tebo Associated GT2-- 5/2
Taylor James Associated GT2-- 6/9
Philip Atondo Losi AD2-- 8/7
Jesse Robbers Losi AD2-- 9/8
Richard Saxton Associated GT2-- 10/10
Casey Peck Losi AD2-- 7 /16
Billy Fischer Losi AD2-- 12/11

Standard Monster Truck Chassis Round 1/Round 2
Adam Drake Losi LST2 -- 0/0
Jesse Robbers Losi LST2-- 3/4
Jared Tebo Associated MGT-- 5/3
Philip Atondo Losi LST2 -- 7/2
Andrew Smolnik CEN Nemesis-- 4/6
Jeremy Felles Losi LST2-- 6/5
Josh Alton Losi LST2-- 8/7
Ron Rosetti Losi LST2-- 10/9
Dan Gavere ??-- 9/12
Luke Jonas ??-- 14/10

1/8-scale Truck (truggy) Chassis Round 1/Round 2
Scott Hughes Mugen MBX5-T-- 2/5
Ryan Cavalieri Kyosho 777 ST-R-- 7/3
Taylor James Jammin X-1 CRT-- 5/6
Travis Amezcua Losi 8ight-T-- 0/13
Mark Pavidis Kyosho 777 ST-R-- 13/0
Adam Drake Losi 8ight-T-- 10/4
Cody King Kyosho 777 ST-R-- 4/11
Chad Bradley Jammin X-1 CRT-- 9/9
Kris Moore Mugen MBX5-T-- 3/18
Jeremy Kortz Ho Boa Prototype-- 6/15

[CarbonMadness]

The Upgrade pits. Here, Robert Ibon (left), Travis Amezcua (middle) and Adam Drake (right) try to reach an agreement on the whole boxers-vs-briefs issue.
Hey Peter who voted for which one.? :huh: :driving: :huh:

[Grant Tokumi]

- The notorious "Silver State" conditions (pot holes, large ruts, bumps) prevailed despite using 3,500 gallons of calcium chloride to give the track a hard surface.

I have to disagree with this statement after watching today's mains. It looked like very nice track conditions to me. Congrats to all the winners!

Jared Tebo - 10th Nitro Truck
Bobby Tillman - Monster Truck
Scott Hughes - 8th Nitro Truck

[Lidz]

what MT did Tillman wheel?

[PeterV]

Bobby ran a Traxxas Revo (since his sponsor, Mugen, doesn't make a "Production Monster Truck")

[4DMNYC]

Pete, you have the best job ever. I'm jealous. It must be fun to get to cover all these awesome events.

[Bigedmond]

Here are a few of the pictures i took.

Ryan Cavalieri
http://www.johnedmond.com/rc/cav1.jpg
Sean Aston
http://www.johnedmond.com/rc/aston1.jpg
Your National Champion 1/10th scale truck
http://www.johnedmond.com/rc/tebo1.jpg
1/10th Champion again
http://www.johnedmond.com/rc/tebo2.jpg
Jay Halsey
http://www.johnedmond.com/rc/jay5.jpg
Joe Guerzon
http://www.johnedmond.com/rc/joe1.jpg

http://www.johnedmond.com/rc/mon1.jpg

[Scooby_WRX]

Man its nice to see my work getting around to the races. I love this pic. If you have anymore with that flame paint job in it, please post em. I'd like to add them to my gallery.

http://www.johnedmond.com/rc/aston1.jpg

[slaf]

Nice pics !!!


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[Grant Tokumi]

Yes. Very nice pics.

Here's a link to some video I made of the A-mains:

http://rcarchive.com/rca/raceresults/09-24-06-2006trucknats/videos/

[Grant Tokumi]

Here's a video of the exciting 2006 Truck Nats D-main. I made this
video for Eddy "Mudduck" Fikes. Scuba, thanks for the steady hand on
the camcorder. Good work.

http://rcarchive.com/rca/raceresults/09-24-06-2006trucknats/videos/

Its the one called d-main.wmv. As a preview to the video, I know most
are familiar with the "bump up" in the mains, but if not, the primay
goal in the lower mains were to just to be in the top 3 so that you can
bump up and race again in the upper mains.

This video is 80 megs. Please be kind and right click on the video and
go to "Save Target As" to save it onto your local hard drive, and then
view it from you local hard drive. This will help keep my site from
bogging down. If you just click the link, you will be downloading the
video everytime you view it. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
forget it and just click the link like regular. :)