Maifield takes ‘Spring Indoor Nationals’ Buggy titles

Ryan Maifield is the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals buggy champion, the Team Associated driver wrapping up overall victory in 2WD and 4WD Buggy by backing up his A1 results with two more tone to tone wins in Leg 3 of the triple A-Mains at Mike’s Hobby Shop in Dallas, Texas. Winner of the opening round of the Indoor National Series in St.Louis in February, the Winter Indoor Nationals, Maifield claimed his second win of the five race series with another easy win over TLR’s Dustin Evans although this time round the advantage was a much more slender 3 second gap with Taylor Larsen completing the Top 3 a further 4-seconds adrift.

‘Might have been boring to watch but I don’t like exciting races’ was how Maifield summed up his Leg 2 win. Running no sauce on his tyres for the second encounter to try and make his B4.2 a little less edgy, he said once again it was ‘another clean run’ and ‘luckily’ the others made mistakes acknowledging that Evans had the faster buggy.

Evans said his chances of victory were greatly diminished by his qualifying result, as starting from third by the time he got passed his TLR team-mate Cody Hollis, Maifield already had a gap that was just too much to pull back. Trying to be a little more patient second time round he said he was ‘coming’ at the end of the race but pushed over the edge resulting in a mistake that cost him any chance of at least trying to force the race to be decided in the third A-Main.

In 4WD Buggy, Maifield’s World class ability saw him breeze to victory as his Associated team-mate Steven Hartson, the only driver with any chance of providing a challenge, broke his B44.2 when he rolled at the end of the straight as he started lap three crashing into the track’s perimeter wall. This left Kyle Skidmore to finish the 5-minute encounter a distant second 2.5 seconds up on the similar Associated of Trevor Nault who completed the Top 3.

2WD Buggy A-Main Leg 2
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 16/5:05.493
2.(3) Dustin Evans – TLR – 16/5:08.492
3.(6) Taylor Larsen – TLR – 16/5:12.626
4.(4) Steven Hartson – Associated – 16/5:17.340
5.(2) Cody Hollis – TLR – 16/5:20.442
6.(9) Brent Thielke – Associated – 15/5:02.184
7.(8) Trevor Nault – Associated – 15/5:06.877
8.(10)Spencer Rivkin – Associated – 15/5:11.139
9.(7) Allen Horne – Associated – 15/5:19.323
10.(5)Austin Horne – Associated – 10/3:46.230

4WD Buggy A-Main Leg 2
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 17/5:17.416
2.(4) Kyle Skidmore – Associated – 16/5:13.402
3.(5) Trevor Nault – Associated – 16/5:15.900
4.(3) Paul Lemieux – Xray – 16/5:19.066
5.(7) Aaron Breuer – Kyosho – 15/5:00.593
6.(10)Rhett McNair – Schumacher – 15/5:02.518
7.(8) Michael Twilling – Kyosho – 14/5:02.940
8.(9) Jordan Born – Xray – 14/5:07.221
9.(6) Aydin Horne – Associated – 14/5:11.592
10.(2)Steven Hartson – Associated – 2/0:39.718

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