Harron wins opening round of Irish Buggy Nats

The opening round of the Irish 1:8 Off Road National championship took place last weekend with a 40 strong entry descending on the all astro turf Navan Nitro Nuts track, which plays host to two of the rounds that make up this year’s expanded six round championship.  In qualifying it was defending Champion Michael Todd who took top honours with his Losi 8ight over 2008 Champion Mark Harron’s Hot Bodies D8 while Xray’s Barkley Abernethy, winner of the championship finale at NNN last year, secured third on the grid.  In the 45-minute final it was a super close racing throughout between Todd and Harron with the latter eventually coming out on top with the pair seperated by just 2.8 seconds at the finish.  After terrible luck in qualifying which saw him qualify for the B final, Hobao driver Andrew White bumped up to the A where he put in a great drive to completed the podium.  In the Truggy class it was an all Losi podium with Top Qualifier Arron Vance taking the win from Rodger Skelly, while Oisin O’Briain took third.

Buggy Result
1.(2) Mark Harron – 58/2732.762
2.(1) Michael Todd – 58/2735.599
3.(9) Andrew White – 55/2705.297
4.(3) Barkley Abernethy – 55/2711.479
5.(4) Christopher Mc Cauley – 54/2702.798
6.(7) Alan Scroggie – 52/2738.158
7.(10)Darren Hill – 50/2716.442
8.(8) Pete Wells – 39/2232.552
9.(6) David Curtis – 38/2053.783
10.(5)Gary Baird – 18/ 921.235

Truggy Result
1.(1) Arron Vance – 36/1836.529
2.(3) Rodger Skelly – 35/1825.277
3.(4) Oisin O’Briain – 34/1833.278
4.(2) Neil Irwin – 34/1841.916
5.(5) Andy Mc Kibbin – 33/1842.978
6.(6) Frank Mc Goey – 32/1805.454
7.(8) Steven Mc Clements – 32/1810.774
8.(9) Neal Calvert – 28/1853.525
9.(11)Martin O’Docherty – 25/1852.895
10.(10)Enda O’Donnell – 7/1334.200
11.(7)Lucian Bencze – 2/148.572

Source: Hobbies Ireland [hobbiesireland.ie] / Photo: Nick Brooker