Tebo ‘rains’ as 2WD Top Qualifier
Jared Tebo is Top Qualifier for the 2WD Electric Offroad World Championships after heavy rain last night led to the cancellation of this morning’s fifth and final round of qualifying. Originally the stage was set for Tebo and defending champion Ryan Cavalieri to go head to head to start onpole position for the finals but with the track unraceable this morning there was little option but to cancel Q5. Originally 3 of the 5 rounds were to count but with only 4 rounds complete the grid has been determined by each drivers two best heats leaving Cavalieri second on a grid that will see the Top 5 places filled by drivers representing 5 different manufacturers.
Behind Tebo and Cavalieri, Q2 pace setter Lee Martin will line up his Tamiya third ahead of Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans and Team Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura. The team with the most World titles in electric offroad, Team Associated are not surprisingly the best represented car in the final with four Centro mid motor converted B4.2s on the grid. Ryan Maifield starts sixth, with AE designer Kody Numedahl 9th while Neil Cragg, Top Qualifier in Finland, scraps in to complete the 10 car field.
The big surprises are the failure of two of America’s talented young guns to make the cut. Unfortunately for Pre Worlds winner Ty Tessman he just ended up 11th taking the unenviable honour of BQ. 16-year-old US National Champion Dakotah Phend, who won that title at this track in August, will also feature in the B-Main. While Europe’s 1:8 Offroad Champion David Ronnefalk has made the final in 8th right behind the driver he took that title off Darren Bloomfield, the reigning 2WD Buggy European Joern Neumann hasn’t. The German Team Durango ace will line up 3rd in the B-Main.
2WD A-Main Grid
1. Jared Tebo – Kyosho – 0 pts
2. Ryan Cavalieri – Associated – 3
3. Lee Martin – Tamiya – 4
4. Dustin Evans – TLR – 4
5. Naoto Matsukura – Yokomo – 8
6. Ryan Maifield – Associated – 8
7. Darren Bloomfield – TLR – 8
8. David Ronnefalk – Kyosho – 12
9. Kody Numedahl – Associated – 12
10.Neil Cragg – Associated – 13
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