Tosolini & Lemieux take ROAR Fuel Titles

The ROAR fuel on road Nationals took place last week in Lincoln, Nebraska and the race was open to 1/8th scale and 1/10th scale sedan. In the 1/8th class it was Worlds runner up Mike Swauger that took the pole position for Mugen, ahead of Serpent racer Chris Tosolini in 2nd, Ralph Burch 3rd and Scott Kimbrow in 4th. In the race it was Tosolini that emerged on top, winning the 45 minute race by 2 laps from Serpent team mate Scott Kimbrow in 2nd and Mike Swauger in 3rd. In the sedan class it was Xray racer Ralph Burch who sat on pole, with Serpent racer Paolo Morganti in 2nd, Paul Lemiuex in 3rd and Mike Swauger completing the top 4. In the race both Morganti and Burch hit trouble leaving Lemieux to take the National title for Xray, a lap clear of Mike Swauger for Mugen in 2nd and Chris Tosolini for Serpent taking 3rd only 3 seconds back. The 1/8th Masters class saw the win for Rick Davis, running the Serpent 966 in front of Larry Barnett in 2nd and Harry Hananouchi in 3rd.

1/8 Open results
1. Tosolini, Chris – 189 Laps in 45:14.298
2. Kimbrow, Scott – 187 Laps in 45:11.782
3. Swauger, Mike – 183 Laps in 45:32.349
4. Burch, Ralph – 182 Laps in 45:05.789
5. Pulfer, Mike – 180 Laps in 44:13.252
6. Taskila, Jari – 174 Laps in 45:12.811
7. Adkins, Jim – 172 Laps in 44:32.689
8. Jones, Eric – 142 Laps in 36:37.568
9. Rister, Scott – 103 Laps in 25:41.615
10.Hammer, Ted – 28 Laps in 7:00.874

1/10 Scale Open results
1. Lemiuex, Paul – 174 Laps in 45:04.468
2. Swauger, Mike – 173 Laps in 45:02.336
3. Tosolini, Chris – 173 Laps in 45:05.463
4. Kimbrow, Scott – 167 Laps in 45:08.441
5. Cyrul, Josh – 166 Laps in 45:07.922
6. Collymore, Diatta – 166 Laps in 45:11.382
7. Doseck, Chris – 164 Laps in 45:03.539
8. Fisher, Scott – 157 Laps in 45:08.851
9. Burch, Ralph – 156 Laps in 45:01.490
10.Morganti, Paolo – 59 Laps in 20:13.817

1/8 Masters results
1. Davis, Rick – 117 Laps in 30:00.028
2. Barnett, Larry – 114 Laps in 30:08.443
3. Hananouchi, Harry – 113 Laps in 30:02.410
4. Block, Bob – 111 Laps in 29:39.822
5. Opheim, O.V. – 101 Laps in 30:03.315
6. Bourland, Roger – 80 Laps in 22:58.690
7. Junkins, Charles – 68 Laps in 18:56.284
8. Sweeney, Mark – 65 Laps in 30:07.718
9. Louis, Dan – 58 Laps in 18:02.399
10.Rice, Jim – 55 Laps in 14:44.538

Thanks to Joaquin de Soto for the images.