Desert Classic wins for Lemieux & Horne

The annual Desert Classic presented By Stick It One took place at Hobby Action where it was Xray’s Chase Lemieux and Team Associated’s Aydin Horne who took the big wins.  Attracted 320 entries, this was the 9th running of the event at the 2023 World Championship indoor track.  In qualifying it was to be a dominant performance from Horne in 2WD as he topped all four rounds to secure the TQ from Lemieux, Japaneses visitor Kouki Kato and Spencer Rivkin.  In 4WD it was also Horne who claimed the overall TQ after going fastest in 2 rounds. Fastest in Q3, Lemieux was again his nearest rival with Schumacher’s Broc Champlin P3 ahead of Dakotah Phend’s Xray which topped Q2. In the triple finals it was Rivkin who took A1 of 2WD as Horne fell to the back of the pack at the start before recovering to P3.  In A2 Lemieux took a very close win over Horne which set up a three battle for A3.  This time Horne would get the win over Lemieux but on tie-break Lemieux got the overall victory.  In 4WD it was a more straight forward affair as Horne took the opening two encounters to seal the overall.  Winning A3 from Phend, Lemieux got second with his team-mate completing the podium in Arizona.

Image: Mod Live Media [Facebook]