Tebo & Cavalieri dominate CRCRC Winter Champs

The 25th Annual CRCRC Winter Mid-West Electric Off-Road Championships were held this past weekend in Jeffersonville, OH. This is known as the first big electric off-road race of the new year as well as being one of the longest on-going races to date. This years event reached an outstanding 355 entries. Team Orion would once again have 2 of their aces in attendance this year with Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri. The overall qualifying order in each class was determined by the points system which would take each drivers 2 best qualifying round finishes out of 4. The top 10 drivers from each class would automatically go into the A-Main Events. This would be the first year CRCRC incorporated the bump-up system to their electric race. Lower main events up through the B’s were ran earlier on main day. The top 2 finishers from each main event would bump into the next main. This would make a 12 car field for the triple A-Main Events.

2wd Modified Short Course
Team Orion/AE Factory Driver Ryan Cavalieri would TQ every round of qualifying to take the overall TQ. Cavalieri went onto win A-Main #1 and #2 in convincing fashion to take home the 2wd Modified Short Course Championship with his Team Orion powered Associated SC10.

2wd Modified Short Course Top 12 Overall:
1. Ryan Cavalieri (TQ) – LRP/Team Orion/Team Orion
2. Joe Bornhorst – Tekin/Tekin/Turnigy
3. JP Richards – Speed Passion/Reedy/Team Orion
4. Cody Turner – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
5. Jason Jakubczyk – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
6. Caleb VanDam – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
7. Dustin Richards – Speed Passion/Reedy/Reedy
8. Ralph Krumme – Hobby Wing/Hobby Wing/Pro-Match
9. Joe Pillars – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
10.Mike Sontag – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
11.Scott Heckert – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
12.Paul Sinclair – Viper/Viper/Pro-Tek

2wd Modified Truck
Team Orion/Kyosho Factory Driver Jared Tebo went on to TQ all 4 rounds of qualifying to take the overall TQ. Tebo made quick work of the competition in A-Main #1 and A-Main #2 to take the 2wd Modified Truck Championship with his Team Orion powered Kyosho RT5.

2wd Modified Truck Top 12 Overall:
1. Jared Tebo (TQ) – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
2. Andy DiBrino – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
3. Gunnar Rieck – LRP/LRP/Reedy
4. Brandon Marsh – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
5. Brent Thielke – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
6. Mitchel Gardner – LRP/LRP/Reedy
7. Mike Sontag – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
8. Kai Goff – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
9. Zach Phillips – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
10.Andrew Michael – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
11.Steven Prochko – BL Hobbies/Reedy/Turnigy
12.Kevin Westendorf – Viper/Viper/Mod-X

4wd Modified Buggy
Team Orion/AE Factory Driver Ryan Cavalieri TQ’ed 3 out of 4 rounds of qualifying to take the overall TQ. A-Main #1: Cavalieri went onto take the win with Tebo finishing a close 2nd. A-Main #2: Tebo would take the win and Cavalieri would finish 2nd. A-Main #3: The Championship would come down to this. Tebo would edge out Cavalieri for the win and take the 4wd Modified Buggy Championship with his Team Orion powered Kyosho Lazer SP.

4wd Modified Buggy Top 12 Overall:
1. Jared Tebo – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
2. Ryan Cavalieri (TQ) – LRP/Team Orion/Team Orion
3. Kai Goff – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
4. Brent Thielke – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
5. Mike Gay – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
6. Al Horne – LRP/Reedy/Team Orion
7. Brandon Marsh – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
8. Mitchel Gardner – LRP/LRP/Reedy
9. Gunnar Rieck – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
10.Dustin Richards – Speed Passion/Reedy/Reedy
11.Cody Turner – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
12.JP Richards – Speed Passion/Reedy/Reedy

2wd Modified Buggy
Team Orion/Kyosho Factory Driver Jared Tebo would TQ 3 out of the 4 rounds of qualifying to take the overall TQ. Tebo would put in 2 perfect drives in A-Main #1 and A-Main #2, leading from wire to wire in both, and taking the highly contested 2wd Modified Buggy Championship with his Team Orion powered Kyosho RB6.

2wd Modified Buggy Top 12 Overall:
1. Jared Tebo (TQ) – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
2. JP Richards – Speed Passion/Reedy/Reedy
3. Andy DiBrino – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
4. Ryan Cavalieri – LRP/Team Orion/Team Orion
5. Al Horne – LRP/Reedy/Mod-X
6. Cody Turner – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
7. Mitchel Gardner – LRP/LRP/Reedy
8. Caleb VanDam – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
9. Brandon Marsh – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
10. Mike Gay – LRP/Reedy/Reedy
11. Zach Phillips – Team Orion/Team Orion/Team Orion
12. Brent Thielke – LRP/Reedy/Reedy

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]