June 6, 2011

Maifield wins ROAR Truggy Nationals

Maifield wins ROAR Truggy Nationals

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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June 5, 2011

Defending Champion claims TQ double at ROAR Nats

Defending Champion claims TQ double at ROAR Nats

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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June 4, 2011

Tebo on target for TQ double at Thunder Alley

Tebo on target for TQ double at Thunder Alley

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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June 4, 2011

Tebo again in Buggy Q2

Tebo again in Buggy Q2

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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June 4, 2011

Tebo TQs first ROAR Buggy qualifier

Tebo TQs first ROAR Buggy qualifier

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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June 3, 2011

Gulyás & Körmendi take victory at Rd2 in Hungary

Gulyás & Körmendi take victory at Rd2 in Hungary

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.

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June 3, 2011

Ryans rule ROAR buggy practice

Ryan Maifield

At the end of practice for the ROAR Nationals in Southern California it is Team Associated who controlled today’s pace as their drivers where the only ones to record 15 lap runs with Ryan Maifield topping the time sheets from Ryan Cavalieri. Winner of the Warm-up event at Thunder Alley back in April, Maifield ran a stiffer set-up on his LRP powered RC8B in the final controlled practice changing to harder springs and swaybars.

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June 2, 2011

Drake fastest in second ROAR Truggy practice

Drake fastest in second ROAR Truggy practice

Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake has set the pace in the second round of controlled Truggy practice for the 2011 US Nationals this morning, topping the 7-minute run from former champion Ryan Maifield and A-Main Hobbies team driver Chad Bradley. Despite running on a freshly watered track which caused a little understeer on his AKA Gridiron shod 8ight-T, Drake said his truck was really good to drive and should get better as the track gets more packed.

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