Maifield takes new 2WD to victory at JConcepts INS

Ryan Maifield has taken the overall 2WD Mod Buggy win at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals in Omaha Nebraska.  Winner of A1 from fourth on the grid, the TLR driver was gifted an early Christmas present in A2 when arch rival & Top Qualifier Ryan Cavalieri rolled his Associated onto its roof on lap 6 allowing Maifield to go to the front.  While Maifield would make a mistake in the double double while leading, Cavalieri would simultaneously get it wrong in the same section of track allowing Maifield to survive to win the leg and claim the overall win on his dirt race debut with the TLR22 3.0.  World Champion Spencer Rivkin would take a hard fought win in A3 but on the tie break it was Cavalieri who got second with the the 17-year-old having to settle for completing the podium at the Hobbyplex.

‘Glad we showed she has some speed’, was how Maifield summed up his first win with his new car.  He continued ‘this is the first race (with the car) for me and we did a lot of development, put a lot of work into the car and once we found out what suspension set-up she liked it was super easy to drive’.  After winning A1, he said he again got a good start to get by Tebo’s No.3 starting Kyosho and being ‘patient’ with the fastest lap of the race thrown in for good measure he would ‘capitalise on a couple of mistakes’ by World Champion Spencer Rivkin and his great rival Cavalieri t go to the front.  Once there he said he ‘maintained’ his lead to finish  3-seconds up on Cavalieri.  With the HobbyTown USA Hobbyplex track the venue for the 2016 ROAR National Championship, Maifield said the race was a good preliminary test with both his buggies. Highlighting that next year is a 1:8 Offroad World Championship year, he said with a busy 1:8 program the mileage put on the cars this weekend were really important and very encouraging.

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