2WD complete at RROC, Maifield leads

With half the racing that makes up the 20th running of the Reedy Race of Champions complete it is Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield who leads at OCRC Raceway in California.  One of the world’s fastest & most spectacular drivers, Maifield tops the points table after the six rounds of 2WD action by 2 points from defending champion Ryan Cavalieri.  The World famous race’s previous two winners Dustin Evans and Joern Neumann sit 3rd & 4th respectively as racing now switches to the first round of 4WD action.

The final round of 2WD saw Maifield fail to improve on his points haul as Dustin Evans took the most significant win of the three heats to pull himself to within 4 points of the Arizona ace.  Starting second on the grid, Evans went to the front after banging wheels with Joseph Quagraine who had pole position for the encounter.  Once in the lead the Team Losi Racing ace pulled clear with Maifield, who started directly behind him, in toe and despite the Associated driver airing out the Double Double Evans was able to hold on to win by .543 of a second.

The other winners of the round were Serpent’s Mike Truhe and Kyosho’s Jared Tebo who each claimed their first wins of the weekend.  Truhe’s win was relatively straight forward with him leading away from the pole to cruise to an easy win over Kody Numedahl and 2012 Champion Neumann who came through from 10th on the grid.  Also starting from pole position Tebo had to wait for a mistake by the very fast starting No.2 Tamiya of Marc Rheinard.  The 3-time World Touring Car Champion made a blistering start to pass the current 2WD World Champion off the line but going to deep into the option corner he dropped to second where he would stay for the rest of the race.  Starting from 9th Cavalieri would work his way up to 3rd after getting passed Cody King a result that would help him take back one point from Maifield and drop his 4th place finish from the previous round.

Round 6 2WD Buggy
Heat 1 Result
1.(2) Dustin Evans – Team Losi Racing – 16/5:13.750
2.(4) Ryan Maifield – Team Associated – 16/5:14.293
3.(8) Ty Tessmann – Hot Bodies – 16/5:18.048
4.(5) Ryan Lutz – Team Durango – 15/5:03.072
5.(6) Billy Fischer – Team Novak – 15/5:07.495
6.(10)Neil Cragg – Team Associated – 15/5:08.972
7.(7) Travis Amezcua – Team Durango – 15/5:10.857
8.(1) Joseph Quagraine – JQ Products – 15/5:11.315
9.(9) Tyler Vik – Xray – 15/5:11.924
10.(3)Christoffer Svensson – Kyosho – 15/5:16.937

Heat 2 Result
1.(1) Mike Truhe – Serpent – 16/5:18.373
2.(2) Kody Numedahl – Team Associated – 15/5:00.052
3.(10)Jörn Neumann – Team Durango – 15/5:02.964
4.(7) Lee Martin – Team Yokomo – 15/5:03.198
5.(4) Barry Baker – Team Reedy – 15/5:05.587
6.(5) Tanner Denney – Team Associated – 15/5:09.365
7.(6) Dakotah Phend – Team Losi Racing – 15/5:10.081
8.(3) Carson Wernimont – Schumacher – 15/5:12.833
9.(9) Steven Hartson – Team Associated – 15/5:16.011
10.(8)Rick Hohwart – Team Associated – 15/5:18.892

Heat 3 Result
1.(1) Jared Tebo – Kyosho – 16/5:14.654
2.(2) Marc Rheinard – Tamiya – 16/5:18.228
3.(9) Ryan Cavalieri – Team Associated – 16/5:19.363
4.(3) Cody King – Kyosho – 15/5:03.596
5.(8) Brian Kinwald – Team Associated – 15/5:05.583
6.(10)Oliver Scholz – Team C – 15/5:08.585
7.(7) Rob Gillespie – Team Associated – 15/5:09.664
8.(4) Josh Pain – Team Yokomo – 15/5:18.612
9.(5) Brian Strange – Team Associated – 14/5:00.697
10.(6)Cody Turner – Kyosho – 14/5:10.544

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