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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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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MIP introduce the Super Diff Kit for the TLR 22 platform. The set is designed for the use with all 22 based buggies and trucks and includes hardened alloy steel outdrives for greater durability, hardened and polished thrust washers, as well as high-quality diff rings for long lasting and super smooth differential action. Not included in the kit are the diff gear and the outer bearings.
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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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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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Defending truck champions Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Lutz got their Proline Cactus Classic campaigns off to the perfect start as they TQ’d the opening round of qualifying in Mod Truck and 2WD Short Course respectively this morning at SRS Raceway in Scottsdale, Arizona. For 4WD Short Course Champion Joern Neumann and Team Durango there was some controversy in the opening qualifier as the entire team with the exception of Ryan Lutz were disqualified from the top heat for running rear spoilers on their trucks but ultimately it was Team Losi Racing’s Billy Fischer who set the pace.
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Team Associated introduce the SC10.2 Factory Team short course truck kit. Based on the 3-time ROAR national championship winning truck the kit comes with many of the latest option parts such as Factory Team 12mm big bore shocks, VTS slipper clutch and ‘Gull Wing’ front suspension arms. Also included are 12mm aluminium hex adapters, blue aluminium zero degree rear hubs, a ball differential with lightweight outdrives and a clear body shell. The truck will become available in April.
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Greece’s capitol Athens will see the annual ElectroChamps electric off-road meeting. For the third year in a row the FRT Off Road track will hold the country’s biggest electric off-road event, this time on the weekend of the 9th of June. The race will see modified 2WD and short course racing on Saturday and modified 4WD on Sunday. More details can be found on the dedicated event page by clicking here.
