15th annual Hobby Haven Shootout – Report

Hobby Haven in Des Moines, Iowa was the host of the 15th annual Shootout race. Practice was scheduled to be most of the day Friday but with the bad weather the area was having the track was not going to be ready. The track crew worked most of the day putting lime on the track to help dry it out. With almost a full day of track work, mother nature did not let up and the organisers were forced to close it down for the day.

On Saturday morning the track crew started early again putting the track together. The track opened around 10:30am to get a few hours of open practice before the first round of qualifying was to begin. Round 1 started at 1:30pm, with the track having so much lime on it, the team drivers had to scramble to try and decide what tires would work. With the bad weather, the racers ended up running two full rounds of qualifiers on Saturday. Sunday morning started early with the 3rd and final round of qualifying and then into the mains. With the time being so close with the bad weather coming back in Sunday afternoon it was decided to seat the top 10 in each class with no bump ups and to ran all the A mains first.

In the mains, TLR’s Dustin Evans lead tone to tone in all 3 classes he ran, which were 2WD Mod Buggy, 4WD Mod Buggy and 2WD Mod Short Course. In the Stock Buggy A main Corey Liebherr, starting from 2nd on the grid, took the win after a mistake of the leader some laps into the race. He then never looked back to take the win with his Team Associated B5. 2WD Mod Stadium Truck saw Neil Feneis leading the main from tone to tone taking the win with his Team Associated T4.2. In the Stock Stadium Truck class Dave Duncan, coming all the way from Florida, started 2nd in the stock stadium truck main, half way into the race the leader got loose and Dave was able to get by to take the lead and taking the win with his T4.2.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]