ORCA Ireland

200mm A Final:

A perfect Easter Sunday saw the opening round of the 2010 Irish Onroad National Championship take place at the St.Annes track in Dublin where it was to be Shepherd’s day in terms of collecting the main silverware. In the 1:10 200mm Touring class it was reigning champion Chris Steele who narrowly claimed the TQ honours with his Velox V10 over the Serpent 733 of Keith Dempsey. The early part of the race saw the Top 3 pull clear of the field but both Demspey and 3rd place qualifier Chris Lawlor were to hit trouble allowing Steele to cruise to the win. Second spot would go to Robert Boylan who produced a really impressive and solid drive at the controls of his Serpent 733. Recovering from his earlier problems and recording the fastest lap of the race Lawlor managed to get his Kyosho back up to third to claim the final step on the podium.

1:10 ‘A’ Final
1.(1) Chris Steele – Shepherd – 102/ 1806.08
2.(4) Robert Boylan – Serpent – 97/ 1815.16
3.(3) Chris Lawlor – Kyosho – 88/ 1807.23
4.(6) David Mulligan – Serpent – 84/ 1802.18
5.(7) Luke Collins – Xray – 80/ 1818.15
6.(2) Keith Dempsey – Serpent – 73/ 1805.00
7.(8) Colm Gaffney – Serpent – 72/ 1793.42
8.(9) Jonathan Kenny – Serpent – 54/ 1626.66
9.(5) Thomas Ward – Xray – 2/ 47.36

200mm B Final:

The 1/10th B Final saw a solid drive from many drivers who are competeing in their first championship ever. Alot promising future talent was displayed.

1:10 ‘B’ Final
1.(7) Jacek Zadrozny – Serpent – 36/ 902.97
2.(2) Gavin Keane – Serpent – 36/ 930.13
3.(3) Anthony Fitzpatrick – Xray – 27/ 665.49
4.(1) Aaron Lynch – Serpent – 27/ 909.12
5.(6) David Collins – Serpent – 26/ 861.48
6.(5) Robert Kroonsalsbach – Thunder Tiger – 6/ 616.89
7.(4) David Murphy – Serpent – DNS

1/8th A Final:

In the 1:8 former multiple Champion Clive Connolly was the Top Qualifier ahead of defending Champion Ian Campbell for what was to be a thrilling final. In early part of the race Connolly lead the way but over the last five minutes the Mugen driver ran out of tyres allowing the Shepherd Velox 8 of 1:10 Final winner Steele through with two minutes to go but the Northern Ireland driver wasn’t able to hold on for the double. In the dying moments of the race he too started to struggle with his tyres allowing Campbell to slip through and take the win by just 1.7 of a second to get his title defense off to the perfect start.

1:8 ‘A’ Final
1.(2) Ian Campbell – Shepherd – 112/ 1800.88
2.(3) Chris Steele – Shepherd – 112/ 1802.58
3.(1) Clive Connolly – Mugen – 112/ 1821.95
4.(6) Michael Byrne – Serpent – 108/ 1800.50
5.(8) Eoin Doran – Mugen – 105/ 1812.28
6.(7) Dean Lacey – Serpent – 98/ 1828.22
7.(5) John Tracey – Kyosho – 76/ 1500.56
8.(9) John Delaney – Serpent – 37/ 806.66
9.(4) Austin Elliot – Kyosho – DNS

Congratulations to all who attended.

ORCA Committee

Report Source:

Sunday saw the return to St Anne’s park Raheny for the first Club nitro round of the season. The weather for the day was excellent and there was a great turn out with over twenty entrants between the 1/8^th scale & 200mm. Well done to all and especially some of the new club members who turned out for day.

200mm A Final:

L to R: Robert Boylan, Chris Lawlor, Darren Gibb

1/8th A Final:

L to R: Austin Elliot, Chris Steele, John Delaney

Congratulations to all who made the podium.

ORCA Committee

Sunday 21^st March see’s a return to St Anne’s for the 1^st Club round. The committee would like to wish all drivers the best of luck for 2010 season and hope it will be an enjoyable year for all. Hoping to see you all there for Club & National rounds. And a warm welcome to all of the new members.

ORCA Committee.

Online registration will be available for all Club & National rounds. Just a quick reminder that if you are planning to run in the national rounds you must have a 2010 RCCAOI membership.

Also a reminder that the ORCA Winter Series in Summerhill is now finished as we make way for the most exciting nitro season ever.

Haven't got a car for the season don't forget to check out the regurlary updated For Sale section on our forum here.

All Club members,

To reduce administration time this year for the committee the following has been decided by the committee.

Memberships.
Membership forms should be submitted to the clubs secretary by the 5th March accompanied by membership payment. This can be paid by cheque / postal order or bank draft. Failure to have membership paid by 5th March will lead to drivers not been able to race in the first club round and national round.

Online Registration.

Online registration is a must for this year as it allows races in the computer to be set up prior to arriving at the track. The fee for online registration will be €10.00 per race entry and on the day registration will cost €17.00.

Setting up and putting away of equipment is not the function of the committee and therefore there will be a charge of €5.00 per day to all drivers which will be refunded when all clubs equipment have been tidied away at the end of the day.

All forms should be posted to :

David Boylan.
32 St Johnswood park,
Ashbourne,
Co Meath.

Hi all,

To facilitate a smoother running of the 2010 Nitro Season we are starting with a fresh database on the timing laptop. To do this we require the car information for all drivers.

You can do this at the following link:
http://registration.orcaireland.ie/

If you dont know a piece of information then enter "n/a" in the box.

Regards,
Luke

Hi all,

Just to let you know the 2010 Race Calendar has been uploaded to:

http://www.orcaireland.ie/index.php/calendar.html

Also note the ORCA Winter Series Calendar has been slightly revised and is available here:

http://www.orcaireland.ie/index.php/winterseries/99-orca-ireland-winter-racing.html

Regards,
Luke