The 2016 ROAR Carpet Nationals was hosted by ProlevelRC in St. Louis, MO. on March 3rd-6th 2016. The facility was owed and operated by RCAmericaâ™s own Drew Ellis. The facility was top notch, TV monitors to see the track and a projector for viewing lap times. The layout was demanding with high bite and tight racing. Team XRAY in attendance was Ralph Burch, Paul Lemieux, Drew Ellis, Sam Isaacs, Craig Xavier, Chris Adams, Eric Anderson, Dwight Smith, Cody Woods, Matt Lyons and many support drivers.
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Team XRAY got a good start to practice with tuning the cars. The team was working well together with Ralph Burch leading the charge. Sam and EA were looking fast in stock, the rest were getting settled in with the high bite conditions.
Format for the race was 2 seeding round with 4 qualifies. Quals were rocket round. After seeding Ralph was fastest in mod TC, Sam was fastest in stock and 13.5 TC. Eric Anderson was looking good in 13.5 1/12. Team XRAY was looking good going into the qualifiers. After a long two days this is how it ended up after qualifying. Great runs by all the TQâ™s.
The mains show some great racing in all the classes. The format was triple Aâ™s. So it allowed drivers to get into a pace and was some very tight racing. Mains ended up like this.
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TC MOD
1. Chris Adams - XRAY T4 (TQ)
2. Paul Lemieux - XRAY T4
3. Andrew Hardman
4. Donny Lia
5. Keven Hebert 6. Ralph Burch - XRAY T4
7. Matt Lyons - XRAY T4
8. Josh Hohnstein
9. Dave Ehrlich 10. Drew Ellis - XRAY T4
TC STOCK
1. Mike Gee 2. Sam Isaacs - XRAY T4
3. Kyle Klingforth 4. Craig Xavier - XRAY T4
5. Eric Anderson - XRAY T4
6. Jeff Dayger
7. Bill Sydor
8. Brent Klingforth
9. Sal Amato 10. Cory Parsons - XRAY T4
TC 13.5
1. Mike Gee 2. Matt Lyons - XRAY T4
3. Kyle Klingforth 4. Eric Anderson - XRAY T4
5. Sam Isaacs - XRAY T4(TQ)
6. Dave Ehrlich 7. Chris Adams - XRAY T4
8. Bill Sydor
9. Mike Hanulec
10. Josh Hohnstein
USGT
1. Matt Lyons - XRAY T4 (TQ)
2. Bill Sydor 3. Danny Jenkins - XRAY T4
4. Brent Klingforth 5. Cory Parsons - XRAY T4 6. Dwight Smith - XRAY T4
7. Jeremiah Ward 8. Jim Huggett - XRAY T4
9. Rob King - XRAY T4
10. Donny Robb - XRAY T4
13.5 1/12
1. Andrew Knapp 2. Eric Anderson - XRAY X12
3. Ray Darroch
4. Joe Trandell
5. John Wiita
6. Mitchell Witteman
7. Jeff Dayger
8. Dana Bailes
9. Andrew Mowery
10. Mike Pulfer
F1 25.5
1. Larry Stone - XRAY X1
2. Skip Starkey - XRAY X1
3. Jack Kloeber - XRAY X1
4. Mario Ficco 5. Rob King - XRAY X1
6. Chris Lockhart - XRAY X1
7. Jim Mcgee 8. Joey Krysinski - XRAY X1
9. Jim Huggett - XRAY X1
10. John Newlon - XRAY X1
Congrats to the winners. Thanks to all the XRAY drivers for putting in the effort and attending the race. Thanks to ROAR RMT crew for putting on the show. ProlevelRC for having a top facility to have the race.
