Maifield wins first Mod Truck encounter

Ryan Maifield kicked of the final day of the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals in Dallas, Texas, this morning to take a comfortable win from 3rd on the grid over the battling TLRs of Taylor Larsen and Dustin Evans. Top Qualifier Cody Hollis had a poor race a series of mistakes dropping him back down the order to finish a distant 4th.

Summing up his race Maifield said he got ‘lucky’ as Evans was very ‘super fast’ and it was down to him not crashing rather than pace that allowed him to take the win. Happy to take the win the Associated ace said his Reedy powered T4.2 still needs work in order to be able to run with Evans rather than depend on errors. Getting by his team-mate Hollis on Lap 2, Evans’ Orion powered 22T built up a lead setting the fastest lap of the race, an 18.860-sec lap, in the process. However the Team Losi Racing driver’s race would come undone on lap 9. Balked by traffic and losing time as he tried to work his way through slower trucks he said he could see Maifield closing up quickly and ‘lost his head’ resulting in a crash that gave him a 27-second lap and handed Maifield the win. Clearly frustrated by the crash he said he knows he has the truck to get the job done but just needs a little more luck with traffic next time out. Seeing off a late challenge from the recovering Evans, Larsen was delighted to finish 2nd having started 5th on the grid. The 14-year-old said his truck was very easy to drive allowing him to keep his lines and drive a ‘really consistent race’ Hollis was understandably disappointed with his race saying it was ‘just a bad race with too many wrecks’ but with the first race nerves out of the way he is confident of a better performance in Leg 2.

In 2WD Short Course Evans took his 22SCT to a tone to tone win over team-mate JR Mitch who at one point looked like me might challenge for the win. Starting from 7th on the grid Hollis completed the Top 3 with the Steven Hartson the best non Losi finisher as he took his Associated SC10.2 to fourth ahead of the battling 14-year-old Daimon Borkowicz and Kyle Skidmore who crossed the line side by side with the young JConcepts/Associated driver getting securing fifth by .053 of a second. For No.2 starter Larsen the race lasted just 4-laps as he popped a ball cup on his truck.

Mod Truck A-Main Leg 1
1.(3) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 16/5:13.655
2.(5) Taylor Larsen – TLR – 15/5:00.968
3.(2) Dustin Evans – TLR – 15/5:01.313
4.(1) Cody Hollis – TLR – 16/5:07.091
5.(9) Eric Larsen – TLR – 15/5:18.321
6.(6) Trevor Nault – Associated – 15/5:26.041
7.(4) Brent Thielke – Associated – 14/5.11.197
8.(10)Dustin English – Kyosho – 14/5:18.939
9.(7) Aaron Reynolds – TLR – 13/4:37.441
10.(8)Spencer Rivkin – Associated – 13/5:06.835

2WD Short Course A-Main Leg 1
1.(1) Dustin Evans – TLR – 15/5:02.307
2.(3) JR Mitch – TLR – 15/5:09.232
3.(7) Cody Hollis – TLR – 15/5:11.252
4.(4) Steven Hartson – Associated – 15/5:18.254
5.(8) Daimon Borkowicz – Associated – 14/5:00.703
6.(10)Kyle Skidmore – Associated – 14/5:00.756
7.(5) Michael Twilling – Kyosho – 14/5:03.372
8.(6) Mike Stoll – Associated – 14/5:13.131
9.(9) Gary O’Brien – Durango – 8/5:12.599
10.(2)Taylor Larsen – TLR – 4/1:23.472

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