Nothing in it as Tebo tops 2WD seeding from Rivkin
Having topped 4WD seeding at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals, Jared Tebo went on to complete the double when he topped the 2WD times but only just from Spencer Rivkin. Tebo set the fastest three consecutive laps in a time of 50.804 while Rivkin posted a time of 50.809. The only other driver to manage a 16-second lap around the Speed RC track, Brent Thielke would complete the Top 3 with the Team Associated Team Manager outpacing his team driver Alex Kosciuszek and Serpent driver Will McIver.
Pleased to end his day by topping the 2WD Buggy time having also gone quickest also in 2WD Mod Truck, Tebo said, ‘I had a little more rear traction than I expected but overall my car was awesome’ adding the ‘the balance was perfect’. Feeling the high rear traction could be wing related, for tomorrow the Kyosho driver ‘will mount the rear wing a little different’ while also considering adding a brass front suspension mount for extra weight, repeating ‘I had a lot of rear grip’. Like in 4WD, he ran his Orion powered new RB6.6 on a Pro-Line Electron front and Positron rear tyre combination and he plans to stick with that for qualifying.
Running a brand new set of JConcepts new slick called the Octacon, Rivkin said while the seeding run went well, with his tyres being new he didn’t get the maximum potential from them adding they should be better as they get more sauce. Feeling the track conditions of the night time run wasn’t as advantageous as they would have been earlier in the day and with Tebo running a pin tyre, which better suited the condition, ‘it was a good thing’ to have been able to match his rival’s pace. Set to leave his Reedy powered B6 unchanged for the start of qualifying the World Champion will just sauce up his tyres, adding ‘the more they are sauced the better they get’.
‘My car was dialled’, was the reaction of Thielke after seeding his B6 in the Top 3. Having ‘been tweaking the car all day’ making a ‘couple of spring and piston changes’ he said the switch to JConcept’s Octagon tyre produced the lap times. With a lap time fractionally faster than that of his star team driver Rivkin he would be 6/10th off Rivkin & Tebo’s 3-lap pace and while he wouldn’t be able to get any closer to their time he was ‘looking forward to tomorrow’.
Kosciuszek said his B6 was good but running on a brand new set of Octagon tyres left him struggling a little as the fresh tyre lacked side bite. Prepping his tyres different to his team-mate Rivkin, for qualifying the 17-year-old will adapt the same tyre prep while also changing to a set of the tyres with more running on them adding, with these changes he ‘hope(s) to be right there tomorrow’.
Behind McIver, Damion Borkowicz said his P6 time ‘wasn’t too bad’ but the car felt loose because he ‘sauced too late’. Like his team-mates, the 16-year-old also opted to run JConcepts’ Octagon tyre but he felt it was a little too dusty as the the day came to an end. Expecting the track to be more moist for the first qualifier due to the overnight watering of the track he said the slick Octagon should be then be better than a threaded tyre like that which Tebo ran.
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