March 30, 2015

Mike Gee doubles at ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals

Mike Gee doubles at ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals

This past weekend Horsham RC in Horsham, PA hosted the 2015 ROAR On-Road Carpet Nationals. In the Touring Car Stock 13.5T class Awesomatix’ Mike Gee would take the TQ from the Xray duo of Robbie Dodge and Drew Ellis. Larry Fairlace (Awesomatix) and Michael Hanulec (Awesomatix) rounded out the top 5 after the qualifiers.


The opening A-main saw Robbie Dodge applying serious pressure to Michael Gee causing Gee to make a mistake and let Robbie by. Gee would chase Robbie until lap 18 when his radio failed causing the car to go straight off at the end of the straightaway. Behind the Dodge/Gee race, Hanulec and Fairtrace would exchange 3rd and 4th, and then later 2nd and 3rd until the last 30 seconds of the race when Hanulec would roll on a dot allowing Ray Darroch (TOP) to grab the 3rd spot. In A2 Gee would have a better start this time, and cleanly lead lap 1 with the field running mostly in qualifying order. Gee would open up a few second lead within the first few laps and by then the race order started to change. Drew Ellis and Robbie Dodge swapped positions and Michael Hanulec took over 4th. Gee would take the win by 3 seconds over Robbie, and Michael would nearly take over third after a mistake from Drew in the closing laps. After a called false first start, Gee would successfully re-start the race, and take the lead from the tone. In the third and final A-main Drew Ellis would pass Robbie Dodge on the 2nd lap with Michael Hanulec and Eric Anderson in tow. A late race bobble by Gee on lap 34 would almost decide the race, but Gee collected his car and maintained his lead in front of Robbie. Michael Hanulec and Drew Ellis would continue their battle from A2 with Drew holding onto the advantage to take 3rd. The final result would see Mike Gee taking the win from Robbie Dodge and Drew Ellis who rounded out the top 3 result.

Mike Gee doubles at ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals

The 17.5T class again had Mike Gee taking the TQ, this time from Eric Anderson and Robbie Dodge. In A1 Mike Gee would lead from the tone while the rest of the pack would pile up on the first lap. Eric Anderson would hold the 2nd place position until lap 13 when Robbie Dodge would get by after a mistake by Eric. Another mistake on the difficult layout would drop Eric to 4th and promote Craig Xavier to 3rd. Rounding out the top 5 was Bill Sydor working his way up from 9th on the grid. A-main 2 would have an exciting start with 3rd place qualifier Robbie Dodge not starting and collecting a few people on the tone. Gee and Eric would break free from the chaos with Craig, Danny Jenkins and Michael Hanulec in tow. On lap 4, Eric would have a bobble dropping him to 5th place, and promoting Craig, Danny and Michael up a position. This trio would battle for 2nd place until the end of the race allowing Gee to cruise to the win and the title. With Gee sitting out, Robbie Dodge would lead the first lap of A3 followed by Michael Hanulec, Karl Hoffmeister and Danny Jenkins. Bill Sydor would take over the 4th place position from Danny on lap 15, and the 3rd place position from Karl on lap 32. Robbie would continue to hold a 1 to 2 second lead over Hanulec to win A3. Overall Mike Gee (Awesomatix) brought home the title from runner-up Robbie Dodge (Xray) and Craig Xavier (Xray).

Mike Gee doubles at ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatixusa.com]



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