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  • NBRA NATIONALS DAY ONE AT CLAREMORE, OK

    A very hot day of racing coincided with the weather today as 3 Champions were crowned here in Oklahoma today as the NBRA kicked off day one of three days of competition. For the first time, the NBRA used the 3 heat format for everything except the Novice Class today. It worked well and the heats went off without a hitch.



    ​The first class of the 2016 Championships was the BH class with Doctor Rick Miller finding time with all the responsibilities he and his Dad Dr. Leonard Miller have been taking on putting this race together, went out and won the first two heats by good margins over John Matthews and Tara Cook. As the third and final heat began to unfold, Rick knew he could not jump the gun or it would end his chances at the title. Rick started in about the 4th position well back of the line at the start. He moved quickly to the second spot behind Matthews who was trying to put his stamp on the last heat and so he did, as John finished ahead of Rick and Tara once again. Rick with 1100 points took the title over Matthews by 100 points with Rick's two heat wins and a second, compared to John's two seconds and a first.


    ​Rick Miller

    John Matthews

    Tara Cook



    In the Novice Class Mckenzie Baze took both heats of this race with the proverbial blanket over the three of them in both heats with Mckenzie taking the wins by less than a boat length in each heat. We thank Courtney Sanders and Bailey Owen for driving beautiful races to tie for second overall.



    McKenzie Baze

    Courtney Sanders and Bailey Owen

    In the ER class, the wily veteran, Kevin McAfee showed his rooster tail to the good field of ER's and took all three heats for a perfect 1200 points over the field with Mike Kirkendahl running in the 2nd spot in the first two heats and trading Keith Kampen paint with Keith Kampen for a 2nd over all with Keith finishing on the podium as well in the 3rd spot.

    We crank up the action tomorrow with 6 classes to run and the heat supposed to be coming down a bit as we move through the weekend. Our thanks to Jack Stotts and Patsy Ruth for their help as referee and chief scorer as well. Our thanks go to the park board and the Claremore fire and police depts. for their support as well.

    ray




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    Thanks Ray, great report and great job today!!!
    Keith Kampen

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      Well it's 5:10am up ready to head to the lake for a 7am start of the NBRA Nationals as Saturday nary a heat was run due to the slight breeze giving us white caps all day yesterday. We had a great crowd with the folks here in Claremore really pulling out the promotional stops to bring them in and did they. Thanks to them, and sorry we were not able to provide the show we know could have happen.

      Not all was lost as the largest order for pizza was placed and 40 some pizzas were delivered and a nice party was had around the Doc Miller Trailers as. Our thanks to Rick and Leonard for all the work with the city and the park folks to make this race happen, hopefully we will finish it today..

      ​Today we are down to one heat for the championships as the wind is scheduled to be back at around 10-11am so we are trying to fool Mother Nature into allowing the finish.

      Will report on Monday sometime as to the Champs.

      Ray



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