Cavalieri dominates opening Cactus A-Mains

It was a very successful morning for Ryan Cavalieri at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic as the Team Associated driver notched up victory in three of the four A-Mains he contested, the other winners of the opening action being Ryan Maifield and Joern Neumann.

In the blue ribboned buggy classes the World Champion took victory in both 2WD and 4WD ahead of team-mate & defending Cactus Champion Maifield while in Mod Truck, the class of which he his the 2011 Champion, Cavalieri converted his TQ starting position into a win ahead of TLR’s Dustin Evans. Starting second on the grid in 2WD Buggy Cavalieri took the lead on lap 8 when Top Qualifier Jared Tebo made a mistake leading the Kyosho driver to get caught up in the chasing pack eventually finishing 5th. The 4WD encounter saw Cavalieri find a way passed Top Qualifier Maifield at the start of the second lap. Making a charge in the latter half of the race reduced the almost three second gap to under a second setting a blistering fastest lap of 22.324 but a mistake on lap 11 of 14 gave the No.2 buggy the buffer to cruise to the win.

In 2WD Short Course, the only class being contested by Cavalieri that he didn’t win with him ending the encounter in 3rd, Maifield took his Associated SC10 to a controlled tone to tone win over Tebo’s Kyosho Ultima SCR-SP. One notable retirement from the race was Losi driver Evans whose XXX-SCT came to a stop when the battery lead came undone on lap 4.

In 4WD Short Course, which put on a spectacular airshow as the ten trucks came across the quad for the first time, Top Qualifier Dakotah Phend came up short on the double before the straight, causing second place Lutz to run off the track, allowing defending champion Mike Truhe to take up the lead. Starting from 5th on the grid German ace Neumann made a great mid air pass on the American at the quad as the race reached the mid point and the Durango driver never looked back. Truhe’s race went downhill from there with Lutz recovering to take second followed by Austrian Hupo Honigl for an all Durango Top 3. Phend eventually finish 4th ahead of Truhe. After the race a Losi made a complaint to race officials regarding Durango running a rear wing on their trucks which under ROAR rules are not permitted however as this is not a ROAR event Team Durango had not breached any rules. Following a team managers meeting the Durango drivers agreed under a gentleman’s ruling to remove the wing for A-Main 2.

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Mod Truck A-Main Leg 1
1.(1) Ryan Cavalieri – Associated – 13/5:15.405
2.(4) Dustin Evans – TLR – 13/5:17.919
3.(3) Dakotah Phend – TLR – 13/5:18.097
4.(2) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 13/5:23.721
5.(6) Mike Truhe – TLR – 13/5:25.105
6.(9) Shaun Dunlap – Kyosho – 12/5:09.787
7.(5) Brian Kinwald – Associated – 12/5:12.689
8.(10)Brent Thielke – Associated – 12/5:22.641
9.(7) Andy DiBrino – Kyosho – 12/5:26.002
10.(8)Kai Goff – Associated – 11/4:57.904

2WD Short Course A-Main Leg 1
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 13/5:21.700
2.(2) Jared Tebo – Kyosho – 13/5:22.978
3.(4) Ryan Cavalieri – Associated – 12/5:09.100
4.(6) Kody Numedahl – Associated – 12/5:10.659
5.(3) Brian Kinwald – Associated – 12/5:11.531
6.(9) Max Flurer – Associated – 12/5:13.350
7.(8) Frank Root – Losi – 12/5:14.936
8.(10)Andy DiBrino – Kyosho – 12/5:18.692
9.(7) Cody Turner – Losi – 11/5:18.820
10.(5) Dustin Evans – Losi – 3/1:10.724

2WD Buggy A-Main Leg 1
1.(2) Ryan Cavalieri – Associated – 13/5:15.391
2.(4) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 13/5:15.745
3.(3) Dustin Evans – TLR – 13/5:18.484
4.(5) Dakotah Phend – TLR – 13/5:19.550
5.(1) Jared Tebo – Kyosho – 13/5:21.062
6.(9) Travis Amezcua – Durango – 13/5:23.762
7.(7) Brian Kinwald – Associated – 12/5:01.969
8.(6) Steven Hartson – Associated – 12/5:02.171
9.(8) Billy Fischer – TLR – 12/5:09.926
10.(10)Brent Thielke – Associated – 12/5:26.360

4WD Buggy A-Main Leg 1
1.(2) Ryan Cavalieri – Associated – 14/5:17.641
2.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 14/5:21.400
3.(3) Lee Martin – Tamiya – 13/5:00.884
4.(6) Joern Neumann – Durango – 13/5:05.642
5.(4) Jared Tebo – Kyosho – 13/5:06.794
6.(5) Travis Amezcua – Durango – 12/5:03.323
7.(7) Billy Fischer – Associated – 12/5:07.482
8.(8) Hupo Honigl – Durango – 8/3:09.799
9.(9) Steven Hartson – Associated – 4/1:35.734
10.(10)Chad Due – Associated – DNS

4WD Short Course A-Main Leg 1
1.(5) Joern Neumann – Durango – 13/5:02.552
2.(2) Ryan Lutz – Durango – 13/5:06.921
3.(4) Hupo Honigl – Durango – 13/5:09.070
4.(1) Dakotah Phend – Losi – 13/5:09.459
5.(3) Mike Truhe – Losi – 13/5:09.834
6.(6) Carson Wernimont – Durango – 13/5:11.546
7.(7) Travis Amezcua – Durango – 13/5:15.557
8.(9) Frank Root – Losi – 12/5:03.706
9.(10)Max Flurer – Associated – 12/5:06.101
10.(8)Kody Numedahl – Associated – 10/4:09.984