Tebo takes 4WD win at JConcepts Finals
Jared Tebo claimed the 4WD Buggy win at the JConcepts Indoor National Series, the Kyosho driver completing a perfect weekend when, like in qualifying he wrapped things up early, by securing the overall victory with another win in A2. Having dominated the opening A-Main, it looked like he was going to repeat the performance in the second of the three encounters but riding the curbing he rolled his ZX6.6 allowing Spencer Rivkin to the front. Rivkin however would make a carbon copy of Tebo’s mistake and with his Associated on its roof letting Tebo resume the lead where he would stay to the finish for the win. Going on to take A3, Rivkin would get second in North Carolina which was enough to secure him the overall JConcepts INS title. Daimon Borkowicz would complete the race podium on the series’ first visit to Speed RC.
‘I’m really happy to win 4WD. We are going to be competitive next year with this car’, was Tebo reaction to sewing up the overall win. With race hosts Speed RC one of his sponsors and him pitting for the weekend next to its 1:1 racing driver owner Scott Speed, he added, ‘it’s also nice to win here for them’. Running back over A2, the former World Champion said, ‘the car was really good and I pulled out at the beginning but then I had a driver error and hit the curbing’. With Rivkin going by and Alex Kosciuszek getting a pass on him as he got back into his rhythm, Tebo said, ‘I was feeling quite a bit faster than Spencer and was trying to force a pass but then he hit the same curb I did’. Setting the fastest lap of the race as he closed down on Rivkin, it almost 2/10th of a second better than his rivals best, he would cross the finish line with 1.6 seconds advantage. Summing up the weekend and the performance of his Orion powered ZX6.6, he said, ‘my car was perfect and I’m already looking forward to 2017’.
Summing up the 4WD outcome, Rivkin said, ‘my car was good but I couldn’t make it go to A3’. Having got a break in A2 and led after Tebo rolled early on he said, ‘I hit the same part of track as Jared but he did it at the start and did it at the end so I had no chance to comeback’. Associated/Reedy/JConcepts team-mate Borkowicz declared himself ‘pretty happy’ to get on the podium. Challenging Rivkin for win in A3, setting the fastest lap as he closed down on the leader, he said, ‘It was going really good but I made a mistake on the last lap and that cost me the chance of winning but I’m happy to be on the podium which also gets me a Top 3 in the overall series’. While he came into the weekend with high hopes as one of the series’ overall title contenders, Alex Kosciuszek while showing flashes of speed, failed to make the podium ending up fourth ahead of TLR’s Max Flurer and the Associated of Mike Cline.
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