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| Driver Ashleigh Frensham continued his domination of the Nitro Challenge 08 last night, taking all that came before him, although not easily. Frensham put on an awesome display of talent in front of a very vocal crowd of spectators, for the big money prize. After half an hour of open practice Round 6 of ten got underway at 7.00pm, Marc Christianson got out in front with the holeshot followed closely by Ian Haley - XRAY, Gavin Newman - XRAY, Ash Frensham and Tony Knauth - XRAY, a hard fought battle ensued between the 5 drivers, but after 13 laps it was Frensham taking another win ahead of the 2 Xray's of Newman and Haley, with Christianson and Knauth fourth and fifth, the top five seperated by just over 5 seconds. |
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| Round 7 saw Tony Knauth get a big holeshot off the line with Frensham right on his tail, Knauth held a good consistent margin over the Hobao driver until making a small mistake under pressure in the final couple of corners, Frensham being close enough to take advantage took the win just 2.61 secs ahead of Knauth with Haley in third, Nathan Tampe and Gary Bui - XRAY rounding out the top five. Round 8 Saw Neil Ingram get the lead off the start followed by Ian Haley and Duy Bui - XRAY with Ash Frensham and Knauth battling for fourth and fifth, but again the overall points leader Frensham showing his talent got through the field and into the lead ahead of Gary Bui - XRAY, Gavin Newman, Tony Knauth and Duy Bui finishing off the Top 5, with Kyle Hodges, Neil Ingram, Shaun Rawlings - XRAY, Ian Haley and Nathan Tampe battling for the lower placings. |
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| Round 9 had Frensham, Ingram and Knauth, making a break for it off the start, with Hodges, Tampe and Haley, right on the lead group, a very tight race followed with Haley breaking through to take the number 3 spot behind Gary Bui with Ash Frensham taking another win, making that 9 out of 9 with only one to go. Round 10 was all Haley off the start closely followed by Frensham and Shaun Rawlings - XRAY, Rawlings running a Force pullstart engine had been doing a brilliant job running in the Top Ten all event up against the big horsepower engines. |
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| But it was Frensham winning again making it a clean sweep of all the heats, with XRAY Factory racer Ian Haley pushing hard to finish second ahead of Gary Bui. With all the heats completed now and the scores compiled, there was really no doubt who came out on top, with a win in every heat over the 2 nights it was Ashleigh Frensham taking a well deserved win in the Aussiemove International Nitro Challenge'08, with local racer Gavin Newman - XRAY having a brilliant event to take the number 2 spot, with Ian Haley - XRAY coming back after struggling early to take a hard fought third place. |
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| The Ausfuel Junior Rising Stars class, saw young Jesse Newman - XRAY, a star in the making take a big win over Tom Jones, and Henry Bui - XRAY. The OCM Racing Australia RTR/Pullstart Challenge Cup had Shaun Rawlings - XRAY, pull off a brilliant hard fought win over Brad Knauth in second and Rory O'Connor with a well deserved third. |
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