Ryan Maifield is the 2011 ROAR Truggy Champion after taking his Associated RC8T to a convincing victory over outgoing champion & Top Qualifier Jared Tebo with Hot Bodies’ Jesse Robbers completing the podium at Thunder Alley in Southern California.
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What can best be described as an uneventful evening at the final day of qualifying for the ROAR Offroad Nationals, defending champion Jared Tebo continued his domination to add Truggy to the Buggy TQ honour that he wrapped earlier in the day. With Hot Bodies Ty Tessmann having taken the opening round of Truggy qualifying yesterday, the Canadian went into Q4 with a chance of denying Tebo a repeat of his 2008 performance, when the classes ran as seperate events. The 18-year-old could only manage third as Tebo topped the time sheets for a third time followed by Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri.
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Defending double champion Jared Tebo looks to be on target to TQ both classes here at the US Off Road Nationals as he opened Day 4 at the top of the times sheets for the third round of Truggy Qualifying. The Kyosho ace, who has topped every qualifier bar the opening Truggy round, which went to Ty Tessmann, took Q3 ahead of the Canadian Hot Bodies driver and Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri.
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Defending ROAR Champion Jared Tebo backed up his opening qualifying run with a second TQ run in Buggy to leave him top of the qualification standings at the end of Day 3 of the US Offroad Nationals. Tebo’s Kyosho topped the time sheets for the final run of the day from the Associated of Ryan Maifield and World Champion Cody King.
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Defending champion Jared Tebo has got his 2011 campaign off to the best start possible by TQ’ing the first Buggy qualifier here at Thunder Alley. The Kyosho star set the fastest time from Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz and Round 1 Truggy Top Qualifier Ty Tessmann. Tebo said he just went after a clean first run and this approach worked out well for him.
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Over the past weekend Indy RC Raceway and Hobbies hosted the second annual “Memorial Day Shootout” and Ben Ellis made this report. The one day event brought over 120 entries from around the tri-state area to compete at the premier Midwest facility located on the south side of Indianapolis, IN. The race format was two rounds of rocket round qualification, with single 7 minute A-mains. Qualifying was as close as one could hope for with myself and Team Associated driver Adam Rayls and Jacob Robins trading the TQ back and fourth in 2wd Mod Buggy, Mod Truck, and 2WD Pro SC.
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The Hungarian Shepherd Team topped 2 classes at the 2nd round of the Hungarian Championship, which was held on the newly rebuilt track at Hungaroring. In the 1/10th 200mm stock class Krisztián Gulyás TQ’d by winning all qualification heats. In the final he only lost the lead for 2-3 laps when pitting for fuel, but after 30 minutes he crossed the finish line with decent gap ahead of the of the Kyosho pairing of Tamás Kovács and Dávid Szabó. In the 1/8th class it was again Gábor Körmendi who took the first position in the starting grid for the 30 min final. He crossed the finishing line in first position without any big issues setting a new lap record of 15,975 sec. The fight for the second place was very close with Tibor Bognár (Serpent) finishing second in front of Shepherd driver Kelbert Péter.
Last weekend saw the Portuguese Nationals head to the Torres Novas track for round 3 of the series. In the Modified Class the outcome stayed the same as in the last 2 rounds, with Hugo Miguel taking the win and Helder Silva as the runner up. The pair were followed closely by João Miguel Martinho. In the Stock Class Bernardo Cosme, running at his home track, didn’t give anyone a chance, taking TQ and the overall win, beating almost every track record on the way. Fernando Cardoso got second and Mário Coelho was third. Championship leader Jorge Simões couldn’t do any better than 4th.
