Cavalieri sweeps the Dirt Nitro Challenge

Team Orion racer Ryan Cavalieri has dominated the 9th running of the Dirt Nitro Challenge in Arizona winning both the buggy and truggy classes, but in qualifying it was Team Losi racer Adam Drake, using the new GRP motor that TQ’d in both classes. In the truggy final it was Ryan Lutz that took the early lead and looked like he would take the win, but a rear differential problem saw him drop out and this leaving James on his roof which meant he had to settle for 3rd. The buggy class final saw and early lead for the Drake who was followed by O’Donnell racer Jared Tebo, with Mike Truhe and Ryan Cavalieri catching. Two thirds of the way into the race Truhe had managed to gain a lead of 6 seconds from Cavalieri who was closing and with 1 minute to go he made the pass and was able take the win, by just over 1 tenth of a second in front of Truhe with Adam Drake taking 3rd.

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Buggy Final Results:
1. Ryan Cavalieri – AE/Orion – 74/45:29.517
2. Mike Truhe – Losi/GRP – 74/45:29.681
3. Adam Drake – Losi/GRP – 73/45:00.404
4. Jared Tebo – O’Donnell/OS – 73/45:02.065
5. Ryan Lutz – Kyosho/Sirio – 72/45:24.941
6. Chad Bradley – Jammin/OS – 72/45:38.523
7. Taylor Peterson – Kyosho/Werks – 70/45:13.508
8. Richard Saxton – AE/OS – 67/44:39.550
9 Gary Guest – Jammin/Jammin – 67/45:19.694
10 Taylor James – Jammin/OS – 66/45:39.055
11 Phillip Atondo – Losi/Novarossi – 65/42:15.845
12 Travis Amezcua – Hot Bodies/GRP – 55/43:21.815
13 Billy Fischer – Losi/Novarossi – 52/33:35.911
14 Ryan Maifield – AE/GRP – 29/18:50.350
15 Jeremy Kortz – HoBao/Werks – 11/6:29.444

Truggy Final Results:
1. Ryan Cavalieri – Kyosho/Orion – 75/45:14.9
2. Adam Drake – Losi/GRP – 75/45:27.1
3. Taylor James – Jammin/OS – 75/45:31.1
4. Mike Truhe – Losi/GRP – 75/45:33.7
5. Mark Pavidis – Kyosho/OS – 74/45:04.1
6. Chad Bradley – Jammin/OS – 74/45:04.6
7. Cody King – Kyosho/Sirio – 74/45:29.3
8. Josh Wheeler – XRAY/OS – 72/45:20.5
9. Gary Guest – Jammin/Jammin – 72/45:21.3
10. Ryan Lutz – Kyosho/Sirio – 63/44:54.2
11. Jermey Kortz – HoBao/Werks – 54/33:10.1
12. Ryan Maifield – Mugen/OS – 39/24:48.0
13. Travis Amezcua – Hot Bodies/GRP – 23/13:56.5
14. Jared Tebo – O’Donnell/OS – 17/10:17.8
15. Richard Saxton – Mugen/OS – 14/8:44.7

Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net] / RCCA [radiocontrolzone.com]