Tebo opens Day 2 with TQ run

Jared Tebo has opened the second day of qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships with a TQ run, the Kyosho driver maintaining the Japanese manufacturer’s reign at the RC Tracks of Las Vegas. Opening qualifying with a P2 behind team-mate Elliott Boots in Q1 and then a P7 in the second round, the former Worlds Top Qualifier would top the times in Q3 by 3.5-seconds from reigning World Champion Ty Tessmann.  Posting his first Top 3 run, Dakotah Phend, who runs in the same heat as Tessmann, would complete the Top 3 ahead of relative unknown Tomi Salonen, the Finnish driver having set his impressive time in the second heat of the reshuffled running order. Having dominated yesterday’s action TQ’ing both rounds, Boots’ third run would contain a number of mistake that would leave the European Champion with a P7.

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