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The ‘Bathurst Flyer’ Fly’s the OMEN flag again
Ray Day finds himself in Victory lane again, this time at the NSW Country Championships. Unlike the Battle of the Borders, Ray showed a clean pair of heals to take a comfortable win in his Omen powered Taipan rigger. After speaking with the ‘Bathurst Flyer’ he was ecstatic with another victory and said the boat never missed a beat all weekend.
Also Frank Jones the ever consistent Hunter Valley racer also won 23 petrol mono in his newly built OMEN Powered Insane Mono, Frank has only had the boat together a short time and this is a great win.
OMEN RACE ENGINES WIN AT 2008 NATIONALS
OMEN RACE ENGINES headed to victory lane after 4 days of great racing at the 2008 Australian Championships. It was the biggest entry list at a Nationals so far and after the trophies were handed out, OMEN Race Engines took an outstanding 4 wins from the possible 7 petrol classes and also took out another 3 placings.
| Results | ||
| 1st – Open Petrol Hydro | Mark Jordan | |
| 1st – Open Petrol Tunnel | Daniel Schaffer | |
| 1st – 23 Petrol Mono | Simon Petrony | |
| 1st – 23 Sports Hydro | Daniel Schaffer | |
| 2nd – Open Petrol Hydro | Daniel Schaffer | |
| 3rd – Open Petrol Tunnel | Mike Nowland | |
| 3rd – Open Petrol Mono | Ray Day | |
Fastest Heat Race Times
# 23 Sports Hydro
# Open Petrol Tunnel
# 23 Petrol Mono
After only 3 years modifying engines for model boats, Omen Race Engines is ecstatic with these results. The 2008 nationals have been a great success.
OMEN Racing’s Nationals Campaign a Success
After heading south to Yarrawonga for the 2008 nationals, The Omen Race Team had only one thing on their mind - ‘Victory’. In the months leading up to the nationals, Omen Racing was in great form at club level and knew they had to carry that form onto the titles.
Competing in 4 classes, Open petrol tunnel, 23 petrol tunnel, Open petrol hydro and 23 sport hydro, they knew they’d be kept busy.
With 4 days of racing done and dusted the results stood as follows:
Heat 1 |
Heat 2 |
Heat 3 |
Heat 4 |
Overall |
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| Open Pertol Tunnel | 1st |
1st |
1st |
1st |
1st |
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| Open Petrol Hydro | 2nd |
1st |
1st |
1st |
2nd |
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| 23 Pertol Tunnel | 1st |
2nd |
1st |
DNF |
5th |
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| 23 Sports Hydro | DNF |
1st |
1st |
1st |
1st |
“We are stoked with the results we have achieved at our first nationals and look forward to the rest of the year’s racing” Daniel said, who was also awarded with the Murray Hunter Award for ‘best competitor at first nationals’.
Ray Day takes the win at ‘Battle of the Borders’
The ‘Bathurst flyer’ Raymond Day takes his maiden victory in Open Petrol Hydro at this years ‘Battle of the Borders’ held at Mulwala Ski Gardens on the 15th & 16th of February. A quality field emerged for the event and the Bathurst Flyer left his run until the last corner of the last heat to seal the win. After dropping a heat in an earlier round, Ray had to put it all on the line as he headed into the last round. A shaky start saw Ray in 2nd place after the first lap, but with plenty of boat speed he tried his best to pass the ever consistent Greg Masterton and on the last corner pulled off a miracle (some would say) move to take the heat win and this year’s Battle of the Borders Open Petrol Hydro Championship. Congratulations!
Motor : OMEN Modded 260 Zenoah
Hull : Taipan Rigger