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Shepherd Ireland unstoppable |
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
It was a beautiful sunny day for third round of the Irish Onroad Nitro National Championships that took place at the country’s only permanent track which is situated on the outskirts of Dublin city. Hot weather and sugar watering of the track on race morning made for perfect race conditions at the St.Annes circuit and in 1:10 200mm it was business as usual for defending champion Chris Steele.
The Shepherd team driver maintained his
domination of the class making it three out of three in qualifying by
claiming his third TQ honours of the season taking his Velox V10 around
the track in the fastest five minute run of the 2010 season. In the
30-minute final Steele led from start to finish to take a convincing
victory.
In 1:8, Austin Elliot became the third different Top Qualifier of the
season after he secured pole over the Shepherd of
championship leader Ian Campbell. In the early part of the half hour
encounter the battle up front was between Campbell and former Champion
Clive Connolly until the Mugen driver retired when his Reds engine
dropped a plug after just four minutes. This left Campbell and Elliot
to battle it out for the win the pair swapping the lead a number of
times as they pitted but in the end it was Campbell who took the race
for his third win of the season. Eoin Doran completed the podium with
to move into equal second with Connolly in the
championship standings behind Campbell.
Source: RedRC.net
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