Tone to tone Buggy wins for Maifield at SmacTrac

The opening round of A-Mains at the JConcepts Winter Indoor National at SmacTrac in St.Louis saw wins in the main classes for all the Top Qualifiers with Ryan Maifield taking the two biggest wins steering his Associated cars to tone to tone wins in both 2 & 4WD Buggy ahead of Kyosho’s Jared Tebo. The other wins went to Tebo who took Mod Truck with team-mate Cody Turner taking his No.1 Ultima SCR to a convincing win in 2WD short course while 4WD Short Course went to defending champion Matt Olson.

In 2WD Buggy Maifield came under intense pressure from Tebo in the closing stage of the race but on the penultimate lap the latter, who predicted passing would not be possible without mistakes, got too close to the Top Qualifier tagging the back of the B4.2, the two cars getting interlocked. Allowing Maifield to retake the lead as they set out on the final lap Maifield took the win by 1.1 seconds from Tebo. Starting third Turner was to finish third .9 behind his team-leader after seeing off a strong last lap challenge from JConcepts Indoor National Series Champion Steven Hartson.

In 4WD Buggy Maifield took a very convincing win thanks to team-mate Hartson who mounted a challenge on Tebo allowing the Arizona driver to pull clear and cruise to the win by almost 4 seconds. As much as he tried to find a way passed Tebo, the winner of all five 4WD encounters in last year’s series couldn’t get it done crossing the line 3/10ths behind after 18 laps.

In Mod Truck Maifield got the opportunity to put the pressure on Tebo for 5-minutes after getting by the No.2 starting truck of champion Brent Thielke who eventually dropped back to finish the encounter in 5th. Setting the fastest lap of the race with his T4.2 Maifield said there was no way passed as Tebo kept his RT5 on line to win by 3/10ths.

2WD Buggy A-Main Leg 1 Result
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 18/5:14.641
2.(2) Jared Tebo – Kyosho – 18/5:15.731
3.(3) Cody Turner – Kyosho – 18/5:16.674
4.(4) Steven Hartson – Associated – 18/5:17.084
5.(6) Brent Thielke – Associated – 17/5:04.501
6.(10)Al Horne – Associated – 17/5:07.474
7.(8) Cody Hollis – TLR – 17/5:11.340
8.(7) Mitchel Gardner – Associated – 16/5:00.379
9.(9) Matt Gosch – Associated – 16/5:01.591
10.(5)JP Richards – TLR – DNS

4WD Buggy A-Main Leg 1 Result
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 19/5:16.708
2.(2) Jared Tebo – Kyosho – 18/5:03.550
3.(3) Steven Hartson – Associated – 18/5:03.878
4.(4) Michael Paige – Associated – 18/5:04.901
5.(6) Josh Wheeler – Xray – 18/5:07.949
6.(7) Cody Turner – Kyosho – 18/5:10.231
7.(8) Al Horne – Associated – 18/5:11.905
8.(9) Matt Gosch – Associated – 18/5:12.993
9.(10)Dustin Richards – Associated – 18/5:14.355
10.(5)Mitchel Gardner – Associated – 1/0:16.768

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