Jeff Guest takes Mod Buggy at Mid Summer Shootout

The 4th annual Mid Summer Shootout was run at Coyote Hobbies in Victorville CA with about 180 entries. During qualifying in Mod Buggy, it was a battle between Jake Mayo, Rudy Rico, and Jeff Guest for the TQ. Jeff grabbed the TQ in round one and Jake went on to TQ the final two rounds of qualifying. So starting off the triple A-Mains it was Jake taking the TQ, while Jeff Guest was second and Rudy Rico was sitting in third.

Starting the first A Main, Jake made a mistake on lap one and Jeff took the lead but then crashed on the third lap in a bad place to where the turn marshall was not able to get to him in time. Rudy then went on to finish first in the opening A-main. The second main started the same way with Jake making a mistake on lap one, but this time Jeff cruised away with no mistakes to take A2 while Jake finished second. Going into A3, the top 3 were tied with 6 points. The start of the decisive final went the same as the first two mains: Jake made a mistake on lap one and Jeff went mistake-free for the entire race to bring home the win in A3 and the overall. Jake and Rudy battled for second, which helped Jeff to be able to back off and not have to push. At the end of A3 Rudy Rico was able to edge out Jake for second, which gave him second overall while Jake Mayo took third.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]