Moller tops 4WD seeding in Chico
Drew Moller topped seeding for 4WD Buggy at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals, the A-Main Hobbies driver taking his HB around the track in the fastest 3-consecutive laps from the Associated pairing of Daimon Borkowicz and Steven Hartson. The first time new TLR’s new star signing Ryan Maifield found himself on the clock with one of his new buggies he would post the fourth fastest time followed by the Xray of Tyler Vik and his protege Spencer Rivkin.
Having only got his D413 three weeks ago, having to get it in from Europe, Moller said nerves got to him a little and he had a couple of mistakes but overall he was very happy to top the times. Running factory HB driver Ty Tessmann’s Reedy Race of Champions set-up on the car, the LA driver said he has pretty much just run the car as is since arriving at Outback Raceway, this being his first time to the track which is owned by his sponsors A-Main Hobbies. Describing the car as very easy to work on and running on Pro-Line’s Electron tyre he said he planned to leave everything as is in terms of set-up for tomorrow’s opening qualifier and instead just ‘calm down a little and take things more easy’.
Running a faster single lap than Moller, Borkowicz was very happy with his pace being only 81/1000ths off over 3-laps. Using JConcepts’ Barcode fronts and Dirtweb rears on his Reedy powered B44.2, finding the Barcode front makes the car ‘tamer’ than running Dirt Webs all round, the 14-year-old described the feel of his car as ‘pretty good’ adding it had ‘quite a bit of steering’. Having made a sway bar change and adjusted the rear camber link for the run, the up & coming Florida driver said this was the best the car has been and for Q1 he will ‘probably leave it alone’.
Setting the fastest lap of the single round of seeding practice, his LRP powered B44.2 running a 14.619 lap, Hartson said he could have got a little luckier with traffic but overall he was happy. Running the same JConcepts tyre combo as Borkowicz he said the car was comfortable to drive adding it ‘should be good for tomorrow’, three rounds of qualifying making up the Day 2 schedule.
Running a new set of tyres, Maifield said considering this he wasn’t expecting too much. Running Dirt Webs all round, he said his Orion powered TLR22-4 was ‘extremely consistent’ and with two sets of tyres now scrubbed in for qualifying he feels he is ‘good shape’. Setting the fastest overall time for the three minutes, like Hartson he said traffic was a bit of problem and he is looking forward to running on track at the same time as he rivals tomorrow in qualifying.
Top Qualifier at the Spring Indoor Nationals, Vik said his XB4 ‘felt kind of greasy’ to drive. Running an AKA Pinstrip and Deja Vu tyre combo he said having watched Mark Pavidis do his run on Typos with his TLR looking good on them he will go with that tyre choice for Q1. In terms of his buggy set-up, the San Francisco driver plans to leave it as is for now.
Rivkin said his goal for the seeding run was an overall time rather than fastest three laps and in terms of that pace he ended up second fastest to his mentor Maifield. Running a used set of JConcepts Barcode/Dirt Webs he said his B44.2 was good from the start and he was easily able to run that pace without any crashes. For qualifying the 15-year-old said he will just freshen up his shocks and do some maintenance work but make no changes to the set-up.
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