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March 16, 2014

Phend first champion of 28th Cactus Classic

In complete contrast to 12-months ago, when he didn’t even make the A-Main line-up, Dakotah Phend has become the first driver to be crowned champion at the 28th running of the Pro-Line Cactus Classic. Having won A1, the Team Losi Racing young star backed it up with another win in A2 over local hero & multiple champion Ryan Maifield to secure the prestigious 2WD Buggy title, his first big win at America’s longest running offroad event.

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March 16, 2014

Marek Cerny wins Open Stock class at LRP TCM

This weekend’s LRP Touring Car Masters saw Xray’s Marek Cerny taking the win in the 10.5T Open Stock class. Marek Cerny found a blistering pace for the very last and deciding qualifier to take overall TQ in front of Oliver Franke (Awesomatix) and fellow Xray driver Jan Ratheisky in 3rd. Marek then went on to take a convincing win in A1 in front of Jan Ratheisky (Xray). In A2 however, Marek was slow off the line due to motor cogging, which handed the win to Franke. Marek made a strong comeback to win A3 and to take the overall win. Marek benefited from a coming together between Franke and Ratheisky. Oliver Franke finished second while Jan Ratheisky completed the podium. Steffen Leinburger (Awesomatix) and Bernhard Bopp (Yokomo) completed the top 5.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 16, 2014

A1 Buggy wins for Maifield & Phend

Ryan Maifield and Dakotah Phend took the opening round of A-Mains at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic this morning in Scottsdale, Arizona. Maifield won the more interesting encounter, 4WD Buggy, which saw drama before the race even started as Jared Tebo broke a front and rear wishbone during his warm-up laps and was forced to miss the start having been set to start second. 2WD Buggy was a rather processionally affair with Phend cruising to an easy victory, the Top 4 finishing in the same order they finished.

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March 16, 2014

Neumann takes overall TQ at Cactus

Joern Neumann is Top Qualifier of 4WD Buggy at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic, the Team Durango driver becoming the first European to secure the honour at America’s longest running international offroad event. The 28th running of the race, Neumann topped the final qualification ranking thanks to his two TQ runs in yesterday’s qualifying. With only Jared Tebo able to deny the German in the final qualifier, Dakotah Phend prevented that from happening as he claimed the final qualifier ahead Tebo and Neumann. Tebo will line up second on tomorrow’s A-Main grid with Phend third and defending Champion Ryan Maifield fourth.

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March 15, 2014

First Buggy TQ for Phend in Q3 of 2WD

Team Losi Racing’s young star Dakotah Phend took his first TQ of buggy at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic, the US National Champion taking Q3 of 2WD to become the third different driver to top a round at the Scottsdale event. The 17-year-old headed the times by almost 1-second benefiting from a coming together between Q1 and Q2 pace setters Jared Tebo and Ryan Maifield. Maifield would recover to take second for the round ahead of team-mate Ryan Cavalieri while defending champion Tebo ended up 9th fastest.

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March 15, 2014

LRP TCM 2014 day 2 – Report

Today the remaining four rounds of qualifying were run at this year’s LRP Touring Car Masters in Rüsselsheim. Yesterday had qualifying victories of Ronald Völker in the Masters Class and Oliver Franke in the 10.5T Open Stock Class. The three LRP-HPI Challenge classes were won by Daniel Anthes (17.5T), Patrick Greinke (Classic) and Nico Müller (Rookie). The Masters class showed real close racing in Q2. Taking a look at the best times there where eight drivers between 19.554s and 19.693s. Ronald Völker started first and took the lead closely followed by a bunch of drivers. Freddy Südhoff and Marc Fischer as the first pursuits had issues during their runs. Also Yannic Prümper, who chased Ronald, crashed mid-race. In the end Ronald Völker drove his LRP powered Yokomo to victory. Second place went to Viljami Kutvonen, third to Alexander Hagberg.

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March 15, 2014

Tebo puts in first 4WD TQ run of 2014 Cactus

It has been a good morning for Jared Tebo at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic with the Kyosho driver taking the overall Mod Truck TQ and then backing it up with his first TQ run of 4WD Buggy. The Kyosho driver would take the first of today’s two qualifiers by .554 of a second over defending Champion Ryan Maifield with Dakotah Phend third. Having stamped his authority on yesterday’s two qualifiers, Joern Neumann would only manage 7th after a bad opening lap.

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March 15, 2014

Maifield takes 2nd 2WD qualifier at Cactus Classic

After a rocky start to his home event, Ryan Maifield topped off Day 1 of qualifying at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic with a TQ run in 2WD Buggy. Having posted the fourth fastest time in Q1, Maifield would lead an Associated 1, 2, 3 in the second round of qualifying ahead of his young protege Spencer Rivkin and team-mate Ryan Cavalieri. For Q1 pace setter Jared Tebo it was a tough round as he posted the 19th fastest time.

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