Evans claims first win in Round 5

2011 Reedy Race Champion Dustin Evans claim his and Team Losi Racing’s first win of this year’s event winning the most entertaining race of what was an otherwise uneventful 5th round of racing.  The other two races saw Kyosho’s Jared Tebo and Associated’s Steven Harston become the only drivers thus far to join Ryan Cavalieri as a multi winner at the 19th running of the famous event.  Achieving the perfect result yesterday with four wins from four races, 2009 Champion Cavalieri could not keep up his 100% winning run. Starting from the back of the grid and needing to be marshaled on the opening lap he did well to come away with 4th.

The first race to get Day 2 of racing at the Reedy Offroad Race of Champions underway, and the race with the biggest hitters this round, was to turn out to be a pretty easy affair for Tebo who benefited from an early coming together at the end of the straight between pole starter Tanner Denney and defending champion Joern Neumann.  Neumann who would go onto to finish 2nd just ahead of Associated’s Ryan Maifield while Tanner ended up back in 8th position.

With no pole sitter for race 2, which due to the 29 entries was the 9 car race, Ty Tessmann looked like he might claim his first win as he led away from the No.2 spot on the grid.  Leading for 11 of the 15 laps a mistake by the Canadian allowed his HB/HPI Racing team-mate Atsushi Hara to go to the front but on the last lap the Japanese star too made a mistake on the last lap.  This allowed Evans to come through to take the win with the two HB drivers throwing their respective Kyosho and Associated buggies across the line for the runners up spot. Hara getting it by 15/100th from Tessmann.

Race 3 was looking processional with Hartson leading TLR’s Mike Truhe but a mistake by the pole starter allowed the latter to take over the lead.  It was short lived however as a mistake by Truhe allowed Harston to go back to the front and claim his second win of the event.  Starting 3rd Josh Numan completed the Top 3.

Round 5 2WD Buggy
Race 1
1.(5) Jared Tebo – Kyosho – 15/5:08.180
2.(3) Joern Neumann – Team Durango – 15/5:10.365
3.(7) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 15/5:10.838
4.(8) Peter Pinisch – Associated – 15/5:17.511
5.(6) Neil Cragg – Associated – 14/5:03.497
6.(10)Rick Hohwart – Associated – 14/5:03.988
7.(9) Brian Kinwald – Associated – 14/5:04.159
8.(1) Tanner Denney – Associated – 14/5:04.767
9.(2) Ryan Lutz – Team Durango – 14/5:12.070
10.(4)Hupo Honigl – Team Durango – 13/5:05.031

Race 2
1.(5) Dustin Evans – Team Losi Racing – 15/5:10.270
2.(6) Atsushi Hara – HB/HPI Racing – 15/5:14.712
3.(2) Ty Tessmann – HB/HPI Racing – 15/5:14.847
4.(10)Ryan Cavalieri – Associated – 15/5:15.385
5.(4) Lee Martin – Tamiya – 15/5:15.575
6.(3) Cody Tuner – Kyosho – 15/5:15.622
7.(7) Travis Amezcua – Team Durango – 15/5:16.120
8.(8) Kody Numedahl – Associated – 15/5:16.720
9.(9) Rene Trauner – Yokomo – 13/5:00.082

Race 3
1.(1) Steven Hartson – Associated – 15/5:08.962
2.(2) Mike Truhe – Team Losi Racing – 15/5:09.656
3.(3) Josh Numan – Associated – 15/5:19.752
4.(10)Paul Bradby – Associated – 15/5:20.797
5.(4) Stefan Pfeihofer – Associated – 15/5:23.150
6.(6) Brent Thielke – Associated – 14/5:00.471
7.(7) Kohta Akimoto – Kyosho – 14/5:02.934
8.(8) Matt Castellano – Team Losi Racing – 14/5:04.410
9.(5) Chad Due – Associated – 13/5:03.330
10.(9)Dakotah Phend – Team Losi Racing – 13/5:03.630

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