February 11, 2014

Shortcourse Showdown Nationwide Tour Rd1 – Report

Shortcourse Showdown Nationwide Tour Rd1 – Report

The 2014 Shortcourse Showdown Nationwide Tour kicked off in Tacoma, Washington last weekend, hosted by Tacoma RC Raceway, owned by long time racer Scott Brown. Saturday started early with open practice at 7am. After a quick drivers meeting, Scotty Ernst got things going with the first qualifier on the track at 10am. The 2014 season has a few added classes including 2WD and 4WDBuggy, along with Stadium Truck. After 3 rounds of qualifying Micheal Schoetler TQ’ed in Mod 2WD and 4WD Buggy, Chris Gould lead in 4WD SCT and Dave Duncan was on top in stock 2WD Buggy and Short Course Buggy.


Sunday started with a final round of qualifying, Michael, Chris and Dave were still on top in the same classes after Round 4. Mains went very well for Michael, taking the TQ in both 2WD and 4WD Mod Buggy classes, he cruised to victory in both. Dave didn’t have any luck with his classes and finished 2nd in SCB and 3rd in both Stock Buggy and Stock Short Course. Chris had a hard battle in 4WD Short Course, after a few minutes in, he lost the lead but never gave up. He was able to catch back up to the leader and led the last few laps to take the win. In Mod 2WD Short Course, John Walentia started 2nd and was close to taking the lead at about the 2 minute mark but had some bad luck and broke. Chris Gould was able to take over 2nd place and would finish there.

Shortcourse Showdown Nationwide Tour Rd1 – Report

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]



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