Adam Drake triples at Southern Nationals

The 2013 Southern Nationals and R/C Expo took place at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in West Monroe, LA. The event was a huge success with over 300 entries. Three rounds of qualifying were run on Saturday, followed by lower nitro mains and the first round of electric mains. The remaining two rounds of electric mains and upper nitro mains were run on Sunday.  Adam Drake had a mechanical issue in the first round of nitro buggy, but TQ’ed round two and three to take the top qualifying honours in 1/8th nitro buggy. At the start of the 45 minute nitro buggy final, Drake was hit and sent to the rear of the field but he was able to quickly move his way back to the front and had a good battle with Taylor Peterson and Ryan Lutz before taking control of the race and settling into a comfortable lead.  Drake took the victory followed by Lutz and Peterson.

In the 1/8th truck class Drake TQ’ed all three rounds of qualifying with his Novarossi powered 8ight T 2.0 and won the 30 minute final by a large margin over Cody Smith and Cole Ogden.

Drake started second electric buggy for the three finals and finished second to Ryan Lutz in A1, but went on to take the overall victory by winning A2 and A3.0. Jimmy Vanderhaar won the sportsman electric buggy class while Bubba Johnson took the sportsman nitro buggy win.

Thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.