Tebo wins Toys for Tots truggy class

Jared Tebo, in his first race since returning to Kyosho, TQ’ed and captured top honors in the truck class with his Team Orion-powered ST-RR. The Toys for Tots benefit race at Thunder Alley RC Raceway is a one-day event intended to raise funds and collect toys to benefit less fortunate children. Tebo got off to a rough start, catching a rut and flipping over in the first turn, moving him back to last place on the first lap but he quickly worked his way back through traffic and was able to regain the lead within just a few minutes. Although there were a couple close challenges for the lead during the crossover of pit stops, Tebo cruised to a comfortable win nearly half a lap ahead of 2nd place. In the buggy class, Tebo, who started from third, made his way to the lead and was able to hold it for most of the shortened 15 minute main. A slight mistake at the end of the run allowed Truhe to pass with little time to regain the lead. Tebo held on to second place over the hard charging Cody King, who finished 3rd.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

Darren Bloomfield wins EMMA Indoor

The 1st annual CML sponsored EMMA indoor meeting was held last weekend at the Newark Showground, where the organising club had built a challenging and exciting track that ensured a lot of action and close racing. The qualifying sessions saw some incredibly close times and some awesome driving by some of the best drivers in Europe and it was Associated driver Lee Martin that took the TQ, being the only driver to secure his place in the A-main. Following the semi finals, the 45 minute race got underway with Lee taking the lead followed by Losi man Darren Bloomfield and another Associated racer Neil Cragg in 3rd. After 10 minutes, Darren took over at the front and steadily pulled away, eventually taking the win by over a lap from Lee in 2nd, with a clean drive from Craig Drescher giving the RC8 driver the final step on the podium.

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

Drake & Nevin take Buggy wins at KFC

We have already heard about the truggy class at last weekends Kyosho Fall Classic, held at Revelation Raceway, but Adam Drake got in touch to fill us in about the buggy classes. The expert buggy class saw the TQ spot go to Associated driver Ryan Cavalieri but a dropped plug in the race allowed The Drake to take a clear lead and the win, by 1 lap from O’Donnell driver Steven Hartson, while Jim Pierce placed his Losi 8ight on the final podium step, taking 3rd. In the amateur buggy class it was Losi racer Chad Nevin that took the TQ spot, which he converted into the win, beating out his team mate Robert Wickham by 8 seconds, who took the runner up spot.

Ryan Cavalieri Leads RC8T sweep

Team Associated have sent us a report on last weekend’s Kyosho Fall Classic, hosted by Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA, which brought out a good mix of entrants and a fully stacked 14 heats of competition. Ryan Cavalieri took the TQ spot in both 1/8th truggy and 1/8th buggy with his RC8T and RC8 while also taking the TQ of their respective divisions were Scott Wagner in intermediate truggy and Chester Hoover in beginner truggy. Having already taken the TQ and victory for the RC8T in the beginner and intermediate Truggy classes with Hoover and Wagner, Cavalieri was primed to take the sweep for Team Associated. A rough start gave Levi Jackson the lead, however a few hero laps from Cavalieri brought him up to Jackson’s rear bumper and right by as Jackson bobbled on the triple. Never backing down his pace, Cavalieri went on to secure the sweep for the Team Associated RC8T.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]