Maifield takes A1 in 2WD Buggy

It was a perfect morning for Ryan Maifield at the second round of the JConcepts Indoor National Series with Team Associated completing a clean sweep of the opening A-Mains at the Mike’s Hobby Shop hosted event in Dallas adding wins in 2WD and 4WD Buggy to his earlier Mod Truck A1 win. Top Qualifier for the premiere class, Maifield lead from start to finish takig his B4.2 to an easy win over TLR duo Dustin Evans and Cody Hollis. With the track’s grip levels increasing every run Maifield said conditions for the opening race were difficult with everyone on the edge, the winner of Round 1 of the series himself getting up on two wheels a number of times during the 5-minute encounter. Managing to avoid any major mistakes the Arizona driver was able to take the win by almost 7-seconds but said for the next leg he would change the compound of his JConcepts tyres to try and make his buggy a little less difficult to drive.

Again Evans showed he has the pace to challenge Maifield, his TLR22 setting the fastest lap of the race with a 18.527 compared to Maifield’s best of 18.527. Running second having got passed team-mate Hollis who started 2nd, the 2011 US National Champion was making inroads to the leader but trying to further reduce the gap he ‘pushed too hard’ resulting in a flip over that ended any chance of seeing the two factory drivers go head to head.

In 4WD Buggy Maifield was on a complete different level to the rest of the field lapping everyone except his Associated team-mate Steven Hartson. Hartson set the fastest lap of the race but made too many mistakes to be able to mount any challenge to Maifield. Starting from 7th on the grid Kyosho driver Aaron Breuer completed the Top 3.

2WD Buggy A-Main Leg 1
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 16/5:04.310
2.(3) Dustin Evans – TLR – 16/5:11.069
3.(2) Cody Hollis – TLR – 16/5:14.593
4.(4) Steven Hartson – Associated – 16/5:17.537
5.(6) Taylor Larsen – TLR – 16/5:17.860
6.(8) Trevor Nault – Associated – 16/5:19.736
7.(5) Austin Horne – Associated – 15/5:08.568
8.(7) Allen Horne – Associated – 15/5:12.006
9.(10)Spencer Rivkin – Associated – 15/5:13.592
10.(9)Brent Thielke – Associated – 14/5:03.261

4WD Buggy A-Main Leg 1
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 17/5:13.894
2.(2) Steven Hartson – Associated – 16/5:02.976
3.(7) Aaron Breuer – Kyosho – 15/5:01.442
4.(6) Aydin Horne – Associated – 15/5:03.972
5.(5) Trevor Nault – Associated – 15/5:05.434
6.(9) Jordan Born – Xray – 15/5:07.440
7.(3) Paul Lemieux – Xray – 15/5:09.575
8.(4) Kyle Skidmore – Associated – 15/5:14.462
9.(8) Michael Twilling – Kyosho – 14/5:07.614
10.(10)Rhett McNair – Schumacher – 11/3:57.212

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