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Race report by Paul Ciccarello<\/strong><\/p>\n This weekend was the LCRC season opener at LCRC in Oakland Mills, PA.<\/p>\n I came to the race prepared to run, Nitro truggy, Nitro buggy and Ebuggy. When I got to the race I actually didn’t run my ebuggy at all and switched the plan to concentrate on the nitro classes since the nats will be there in June. I was able to help Gaven more with his ebuggy and he had a great result and really good speed!<\/p>\n After running the truggy a bunch I was really happy with the handling but decided after last weekend and just running around like a mad man for the last few races I was just going to run my Nitro buggy and take it easy for once. This gave me to opportunity to help a lot of the team with their new cars since they just got their new kits last week.<\/p>\n The nitro buggy was dialed right from the start only needing to change the shock oil for the colder temps. This worked out really good as I was able to TQ plus 40 and qualify 3rd in a stacked field of nitro buggies!<\/p>\n In the plus 40 main I lead wire to wire with some good challenges from Paul Dalton in the beginning. In the pro main I didn’t get off to a great start and a few laps in found myself back in 10th place. I ran really good after that getting back up to 6th but some rookie pit strategy by myself led me to running out of fuel 2 turns before my pit time and I would wind up 12th. I’m not bummed at all though because my car, tires and engine were performing awesome!! I was the most competitive I’ve been against the good guys so improvement is the thing I look mostly at.<\/p>\n 40 + nitro buggy results:<\/u><\/p>\n