Evans gets Mod Truck win in A2

Mod Truck, which has been the most exciting class at this year’s JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals, will be decided in the third & final leg of the A-Main after Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans took the win in Leg 2 as Leg 1 winner Ryan Maifield pulled up 3-minutes in after a troubled race that saw him last at the end of the opening lap. While Maifield didn’t feature in the race, Evans didn’t have it easy having to contend with TLR team-mate Cody Hollis and the same traffic issues that cost him the win in A1.

Top Qualifier Hollis drove a very strong race keeping Evans at bay for 8-laps until the No.2 22T squeezed passed at the off camber corner after the AE double on lap 9. Able to pull out a bit of a gap 2-laps later Evans would get caught up in a three car pile up involving Maifield who he was about to lap. Losing almost 3-seconds in the incident, this allowed Hollis back to the front but with his truck ‘dialed’ a determined looking Evans put in the fastest lap of the race as he set about closing in on the leader. Two laps later in the exact same place as he got the lead first time, Evans moved back to the front with 2 laps to go to take a much deserved win. Evans said he couldn’t believe his luck when he got caught up in traffic again but said this time round he kept patient and was able to recover for the win.

Maifield said he ran a different tyre compound on his T4.2 which made it very difficult to drive resulting in his moment on lap one that left him last as the 10-car field passed the loop for the first time. Running the rest of the race as a backmarker managing only to recover to as high as 6th he said after getting caught up in the incident that almost cost Evans the win he decided to pull up, a decision he said he may come to regret later today.

In 2WD Short Course, Evans secured that he will leave Dallas with at least one JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals title as he took another tone to tone win in Leg 2 over TLR team-mate JR Mitch to secure the overall win.

Mod Truck A-Main Leg 2
1.(2) Dustin Evans – TLR – 16/5:10.698
2.(1) Cody Hollis – TLR – 16/5:12.339
3.(5) Taylor Larsen – TLR – 15/5:00.968
4.(4) Brent Thielke – Associated – 15/5.19.564
5.(7) Aaron Reynolds – TLR – 14/5:03.911
6.(6) Trevor Nault – Associated – 14/5:04.308
7.(10)Dustin English – Kyosho – 14/5:15.886
8.(8) Spencer Rivkin – Associated – 13/5:19.004
9.(3) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 9/3:12.630
10.(9)Eric Larsen – TLR – 4/1:28.631

2WD Short Course A-Main Leg 2
1.(1) Dustin Evans – TLR – 15/5:04.055
2.(3) JR Mitch – TLR – 15/5:13.827
3.(2) Taylor Larsen – TLR – 15/5:21.374
4.(10)Kyle Skidmore – Associated – 15/5:23.521
5.(7) Cody Hollis – TLR – 14/5:02.226
6.(5) Michael Twilling – Kyosho – 14/5:04.814
7.(4) Steven Hartson – Associated – 14/5:05.305
8.(6) Mike Stoll – Associated – 14/5:05.451
9.(8) Daimon Borkowicz – Associated – 14/5:13.197
10.(9)Gary O’Brien – Durango – 14/5:15.175

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