January 26, 2015

Advantage Maifield going into Reedy Race decider

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Just as he did last year, only to lose out on the coveted title to arch rival Ryan Cavalieri, Ryan Maifield heads into the final round of racing at the Reedy Race of Champions holding the advantage, albeit just by a single point.  The penultimate round witnessed the first race where title contenders Maifield and Tebo went up against one another in 4WD with the former coming out on top.  While the win would go to HB’s Drew Moller, Maifield, having started two rows ahead of Tebo, would come out with a second with Tebo third 4.3-seconds back.  With defending Champion Cavalieri finishing his encounter of the round 2nd behind Travis Amezcua, it means the 21st running of the event will crown an all new champion with that to be decided between Maifield and Tebo.

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The race between the potential champions saw Moller, who started on the front row behind pole sitter Atsushi Hara, take an early lead he would finally see through to the finish.  While the D413 headed the field all the attention was on the progress of Maifield’s TLR, which started 4th, and Tebo’s Kyosho which was coming through from 8th on the grid. Chasing David Ronnefalk for 3rd over the opening laps, that battle became 2nd when Hara had a moment and then on lap-5 he found a way passed the Swede.   Such was the gap to, and the pace of, Moller he couldn’t make any further progress and with Tebo having worked his way to third with three laps to go he would turn his attention to maintaining the beneficial position rather than take any unnecessary risks chasing a win.  The result means that for Tebo to have any chance of the title he needs to finish his 12th & final race, in which he will goes up against Cavalieri, in the Top 2 as anything lower irrespective of Maifield’s last race result would not be good enough.

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In the other two races, 10-year-old Daniel Kobbevik came close to pulling off the race of his young promising career. After a mistake from early leader Billy Easton, the Associated driver was leading the race and went into the final lap with World Champion Steven Hartson, 1:8 World Champion Ty Tessmann and former Reedy Open Class Champion Carson Wernimont behind him. The Norwegian who had the full support of an enthusiastic crowd behind him unfortunately caught the piping coming up to the triple scrambling the race order. It was Tessmann who came out best to win from 13-year-old Polish Team Schumacher driver Michal Orlowski and Associated’s Spencer Rivkin with Kobbevik recovering for fifth ahead of Hartson. The final race of Round 11 went to Amezcua after he went to the front on lap 4 with Cavalieri second, ahead of former champions Dustin Evans and Joern Neumann.

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