Hartson fastest in 2WD seeding

Steven Hartson set the pace in seeding for 2WD Buggy at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals, the Team Associated driver fastest over 3-consecutive laps from team-mate Spencer Rivkin with TLR’s Frank Root completing the Top 3. Suffering an undisclosed issue with his TLR22, when Ryan Maifield eventually got running he would post the fourth fastest time ahead of Associated driver Chris Jarosz, who posted the fastest lap, while 4WD Buggy Top Seed Drew Moller completed the Top 6.

Hartson said overall his LRP B5M ‘felt good’ although compared to earlier runs it was ‘a little harder to drive as if it had too much grip’. ‘Still able to put down consistent laps’, the Californian said for qualifying he will ‘sauce a little less’ his JConcepts Dirtweb tyres adding with this change he feels he should be in good shape for tomorrow.

Rivkin said having played around with a lot of stuff over the day for the seeding run he went back to his base set-up as well as making his B5M softer. He said his car was really good after the change allowing him to run ‘pretty fast laps’ despite the track being slower than earlier. With the buggy ‘really stable’, the 15-year-old said for qualifying he may consider making the car a little stiffer for Q1.

59/1000ths of a second off team-mate & TLR Senior Product Developer Root, Maifield said expecting the track to be loose he didn’t sauce his front tyres but with the track having better grip this choice left him looking for a little more steering. Still learning his new cars, this being his debut race with TLR, he said compared to his Associated cars his Orion powered TLR22 had different characteristics in terms of how it reacts to saucing and getting a better handle on this is just a matter of getting more time with the cars.

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