March 18, 2013

Kenji Tsuruta doubles at Tresrey Off-Road Race

Kenji Tsuruta doubles at Tresrey Off-Road Race Rd11

Round 11 of the Tresrey Off-Raod Race was held  at the RC Maniax Arena in Izumi-city, Osaka, Japan. A total of 90 entries made it to the event with 49 drivers attending in the 2WD class and 41 in 4WD. Tresrey driver Kenji Tsuruta (TLR) won the 2WD class with Osamu Kamo (Tamiya) in second and Toshihiro Ueno(TLR) in third place. In 4WD class it was again Kenji Tsuruta (Team Durango) who won the race with 15 year old Syun Mukaiyama (Tamiya) in second place and Osamu Kamo (Tamiya) coming in third. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big lucky draw prize which included a TLR22 kit, Team Durango items, Speed Passion controller and motors, Viper RC controllers and motors as well as Highest servos.

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March 18, 2013

Maifield & Tebo take buggy titles at Cactus Classic

Maifield & Tebo take buggy titles at Cactus Classic

For the first time in a number of years the blue ribbon buggy titles at the Proline Cactus Classic have gone to two different drivers with defending champion Ryan Maifield successfully retaining his 4WD title while Jared Tebo took the 2WD win, a crown he last held in 2008. In the truck classes, 4WD Short Course was also decided with Dakotah Phend wrapping up the title in the second leg of finals.

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March 17, 2013

A1 wins for Maifield & Tebo at Cactus

A1 wins for Maifield & Tebo at Cactus

Ryan Maifield and Jared Tebo claimed the wins in the opening A-Main of the Proline Cactus Classic’s blue ribbon classes with defending Champion Maifield taking a close win over Joern Neumann in 4WD Buggy while Tebo took a more convincing win ahead of Dustin Evans in 2WD Buggy.

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March 17, 2013

Matsukura Top Qualifier, Maifield TQs Q4

Matsukura Top Qualifier, Maifield TQs Q4

Naoto Matsukura is the Top Qualifier in 2WD Buggy at the 27th Proline Cactus Classic, the Japanese driver securing the honour thanks to his TQ runs in Q2 & 3 at SRS Raceway. Going into the fourth and final qualifier only Q1 pace setter Jared Tebo could deny the young Japanese star pole for tomorrow’s final but the Kyosho driver could only manage 5th as defending Champion Ryan Maifield posted his first TQ run finishing 2.7 seconds up on Matsukura.

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March 17, 2013

Another TQ run for Matsukura

Another TQ run for Matsukura

The star of last night’s second round of buggy qualifying at the Proline Cactus Classic, Team Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura backed up that performance with another TQ run in 2WD Buggy today topping the penultimate round of heats by 3-seconds from Q1 pace setter Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri. In 4WD Buggy Cavalieri headed an Associated 1-2 ahead of defending champion Ryan Maifield with TLR’s Dakotah Phend completing the Top 3.

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March 16, 2013

Ryans top 3rd 2WD Truck Qualifiers

Ryans top 3rd 2WD Truck Qualifiers

Team Associated’s Ryans, Maifield and Cavalieri, topped the third round of qualifying in the 2WD Truck classes at the 27th Proline Cactus Classic with Maifield posting his first TQ run in Mod Truck while Cavalieri, who took both Mod Truck qualifiers yesterday, went fastest in Short Course for the first time. In 4WD Short Course, Team Losi Racing’s Dakotah Phend claimed his first TQ run of the event ahead of Q2 Top Qualifier Ryan Lutz.

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March 16, 2013

Matsukura TQs second 2WD Buggy Qualifier

Matsukura rules Q2 at Cactus

Having notched up his first TQ run at the Proline Cactus Classic in 2WD Buggy, Naoto Matsukura appears to relish the night time conditions at SRS Raceway in Scottsdale, Arizona, with the factory Yokomo driver completing a buggy double by taking his B-Max 4 to the fastest time in 4WD ahead of Kyosho’s Jared Tebo and Q1 Top Qualifier Ryan Cavalieri. A much closer affair than 2WD, the Top 3 were separated by just 1.2 seconds with the 19-year-old Japanese ace running a time for the 5-minute qualifier that was just 3/10ths slower than Cavalieri’s Q1 time.

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March 16, 2013

Tebo & Cavalieri TQ opening Buggy Qualifiers

Tebo & Cavalieri TQ opening Buggy Qualifiers

Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri have TQ’d the first round of qualifying for the blue ribbon buggy classes at the 27th Proline Cactus Classic. In 2WD Tebo took his Kyosho around the super high traction SRS Raceway in the fastest time ahead of Team Durango’s Joern Neumann and practice pace setter Naoto Matsukura while in 4WD Cavalieri put his Associated on top also ahead of Neumann with TLR’s Dakotah Phend third. For defending double champion Ryan Maifield the first of the four scheduled qualifiers saw the Arizona ace take both his Associated buggies to the fourth fastest time.

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