Tessmann adds eBuggy to DNC title list

Having won 5 out of a possible six nitro titles over the passed three years of the Dirt Nitro Challenge at the Fear Farm, tonight Ty Tessmann added his first eBuggy title.  Top Qualifier for the race, the HB driver led the 10-minute entire from start to finish with only Jared Tebo and Ryan Maifield attempting to put pressure on the Canadian.

Getting into second from fourth on the grid on the opening lap, Tebo would run with Tessmann for four laps before a mistake coming onto the straight.  This would allow Maifield, who started 10th, to close in the Kyosho driver with the 2013 Nitro Buggy Champion going by on the next lap.  Setting the fastest of the race (37.253), Maifield would make considerable inroads on Tessmann until a bobble. Making a second charge the TLR driver’s challenge would ultimately end on lap 15 of 17 as he flipped his 8ight-E on the drop down into the bowl.   At the end the gap was 5-seconds with Tebo completing the podium a further 1.5 back.  For last year’s eBuggy Champion David Ronnefalk, who starting from 5th on the grid challenged Maifield for second for a number of laps, the race would end in retirement after he lost a front drive shaft pin coming up on 7-minutes.

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