EJ Evans wins at 4th Annual TOP Gun Challenge

The 4th annual TOP Gun Challenge at Norcal Hobbies was run last weekend.  The race is put on by TOP Racing and Norcal Hobbies that follows a Top Gun movie theme. Past winner have included Hayato Matsuzaki and Rick Hohwart and this year’s race saw over 120 entries and is unique as first place trophies are fighter pilot helmets. The Open Modified class is ran Reedy style with 8 rounds of heads up racing. The winner gets an automatic invite to the 2014 Reedy Race of Champions Invitational Class. This year it was TOP Racing’s EJ Evans who took home the victory. Evans won in dominating fashion winning all of his 8 rounds. Second place went to 2013 Reedy Open Mod champion Ethan Erchinger (Xray) and third place to 2013 Reedy Open Mod finalist Lex Tyler (Yokomo). Beside the Open Modified class several other classes were run Sportsman Modified, 17.5T Expert and Sportsman, VTA, Mini and Expert Nitro.

Sportsman Modified:
1. Hugo Colmenenero
2. Eric Santos
3. Timmy Linayao

Mini:
1. Hugo Colmenenero
2. Willie Fok
3. Daniel Ho

Vintage Trans-Am:
1. Aaron Young
2. Eric Vasutin
3. Steve Tsuruda

Rookie:
1. Mariana Riggio
2. Clay Keates
3. Jackson Umlor

F-1:
1. Fernando Jose
2. Chris Dodson
3. Timmy Linayao

TC 17.5 Expert:
1. Austin Brumblay
2. Juan Avaytia
3. Romel Tuason

TC 17.5 Sportsman:
1. Lass Lundberg
2. Jason Ross
3. Jon Johnson

Expert Nitro:
1. KJ Jones
2. Steve Perez
3. Simon Kau

Thanks to EJ Evans for sending the report.