July 21, 2014

17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout – Report

17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout – Report

The 17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout was held this past weekend in Saugus, California. The race always attracts some of the country’s fastest off-road drivers and the 2014 edition was no exception and so 2WD class qualifying had Hot Bodies’ Ty Tessmann taking the TQ in round 1 in front of Jared Tebo (Kyosho) while the two swapped positions in round 2. Tebo then also TQ’d round 3 in front of Ty to take the overall TQ position for the finals. 4WD Buggy qualifying saw TLR’s Dustin Evans TQ-ing round 1 in front of Ty Tessmann who in return grabbed TQ honours in the second qualifier from Team Associated driver Ryan Cavalieri. Round 3 then went to Ty Tessmann who left Carson Wernimont behind. The round win then handed Ty the overall TQ for the finals.


In 2WD Modified Truck Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) came out fastest from the first round of qualifiers with his Centro converted T4.2 truck. A flawless second and third round left Ryan on top of the timing sheets so he grabbed the overall TQ for the A-mains. 2WD Short Course had Kyosho’s Jared Tebo TQ-ing in round 1 and 2 of the qualifiers and a late charge of Ryan Cavalieri handed the Team Associated driver the runner-up spot as the time was not fast enough to dethrone fast Jared.

In 2WD Modified Buggy Jared Tebo converted his pole position into a win in the opening A-main. The Kyosho driver lead wire to wire and cruised home for the victory in front of Ty Tessman in 2nd and Team Associated team manager Brent Thielke in 3rd. A-main 2 saw again Tebo taking the win which in turn also handed him the championship. A hard charging Ty Tessmann finished some 1.2 seconds down while Drew Moller completed the top 3 in this round. With Jared Tebo already sitting in overall 1st place and Ty Tessmann locking the runner-up spot the race in A-main 3 was on for the last remaining podium spot and that ultimately went to Ryan Cavaleri and his mid-motor B5M buggy.

17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout – Report

In 4WD Modified Buggy the opening A-main went to pole-sitter Ty Tessmann who left Dustin Evans and Drew Moller in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Come A2 and Ty was again on top of his game, taking the win 3.5 seconds from Ryan Cavalieri to wrap up the overall 4WD Buggy championship. Dustin Evans completed the top 3 in the 2nd A-main. Sitting out A3 Ty made way for Ryan who wrapped up the runner-up spot with a win while a 2nd place in the leg secured Dustin Evans the 3rd place overall.

17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout – Report

2WD Modified Truck had again the TQ holder taking the win in the opening A-main. Ryan Cavaleri was able to cruise to the win some 8.5 seconds in front of Billy Fischer who moved his way up to 2nd coming from 5th on the grid. Runner-up Jared Tebo secured a 3rd place ultimately. A2 and it was again Ryan who secured an early overall title win by coming in a lap in front of Jared Tebo. Billy Fischer again gained several spots by coming in 3rd. In the overall result Billy finished 3rd behind runner-up Jared Tebo and overall title winner Ryan Cavalieri.

17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout – Report

The opening 2WD Short Course A-main had Jared Tebo holding on to the win. A hard charging Dustin Evans took 2nd and Ryan Cavalieri came in 3rd. Ryan then won A2 as Jared Tebo finished 2nd and Cody Turner came in 3rd in the leg meaning the final A-main would be the decider for the title. In A3 Jared ultimately got everything together to take the win some 3.6s in front of Ryan to take the championship. Ryan Cavalieri finished 2nd while Dustin Evans (TLR) completed the top 3 in the leg. This ranking would also mark the top 3 of the podium with Jared Tebo (Kyosho) taking the overall win from Ryan Cavaleri (Team Associated) and Dustin Evans (TLR).

17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout – Report

Elsewhere in the 4WD Short Course class TQ David Jenson (TLR) came out successful in front of Rudy Rico (Tekno) and Ryan Dunford (TLR). In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Barry Baker grabbed TQ but David Jenson took the overall win from Barry with Ryan Dunford completing the top 3 result.

17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout – Report

Thanks for Joe Pillars for sending the report.



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