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Tebo wins A1
Jared Tebo has won the opening A-Main at the 1:10 2WD Offroad World Championships in Japan. The Top Qualifier would end up taking a comfortable win surviving a mistake and a challenge from star of the event Spencer Rivkin. The young Associated driver found himself twice locking wheels with his team-mates first with Neil Cragg early on, ending the former Champions challenge, and later with Ryan Cavalieri. Despite the contact Cavalieri would see off the challenge of Ryan Maifield to complete the Top 3 behind Tebo and Rivkin. Starting from 2nd Cragg would finish 6th.
Getting it wrong at the rhythm section in front of the drivers stand, just as he looked to have broken away from the pursuing Associated’s, Tebo said ‘I was a little nervous and that front section nearly cost me but I pulled it back’. The defending champion said he needs to be more on the throttle for the final jump of the section and it shouldn’t be an issue again in A2. Asked if he was surprised by the pace of Rivkin, who caught him and made a serious attempt to get passed before having a roll over coming onto the main straight, the American shook his head and said ‘No, Spencer has been fast all week’. Asked about A2 he replied ‘my car felt great and I’ve just got to drive it’.
With much more of a game face on than in qualifying, Spencer described his first ever Worlds final as having went ‘pretty good’. The 16-year-old who has been Mr. Consistency here at the Yatabe Arena said, ‘I made a bobble that i shouldn’t have’ referring to his error when setting up Tebo for a pass adding ‘I was pushing a little too hard’. Avoiding the point of his contact with Cavalieri, both pitting side by side, he said ‘I know I can race with them so for the next one I am going to just follow Neil and see what happens’. Asked about his second lap clash with Rivkin, Cragg said ‘I ran wide and tried to close but (Rivkin) was already there. No fowl’. Trying to recover position the British driver said he tried too hard leading to further mistakes.
Cavalieri summed up A1 by saying it was ‘really close’ adding after ‘a clean start’ he was able to work his way up to the lead battle until ‘we gave Jared a breather when myself and Spencer got together’. Not initially pointing the figure when asked about his subsequent battle with Maifield he said ‘(Ryan) snuck up behind me when I got taken out’. With Maifield getting by him he said he got back by his former team-mate with a lucky pass at the end of the main straight adding his car was placed just perfectly to and he ‘threw it in and got a clean pass’.
Coming from seventh on the grid Maifield said ‘that wasn’t bad, obviously I wanted more but to get in the battle for second was good’. Having ‘made a pretty big gain since qualifying’, the TLR driver said the TLR22 Development Car is pretty competitive now and considering they came here having never driven it he is satisfied with with 4th from 7th on the grid. Looking to A2, the Arizona driver said his aim is for an overall Top 5 finisher or higher but said the nature of the track means you can’t pass and he’s got to be patient and wait for others to make mistakes.
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Chassis Focus – Billy Easton
Chassis – Serpent SRX-2 MH
Motor – LRP 6.5
ESC – LRP Flow
Battery – ProtekRc 4250
Radio/Servos – Airtronics/ProtekRc
Body – Kit body
Remarks – Serpent Offroad head designer Billy Easton is running a prototype version of their upcoming 2WD buggy called the SRX-2 MH. The car features a low profile transmission, although a standard transmission version of the car will also be made available. Both the low profile and standard transmissions will be produced in 3 and 4 gears versions, the choice on which will come standard in the kit is still to be decided. Up front the kick-up plate has machined from aluminium, while the chassis on Billy’s car here in Japan is carbon but as it is still a pre production car it may still come with an aluminium chassis in the kit. Finally the car will be supplied with two different pairs of side guards to allow for different LiPo orientation.
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New in the Pits – Red Workshop & JTPRC
Being used by the Team Associated B team here in Japan, the Factory team using a pre production unit directly from the factory, the Red Workshop Low Rider transmission is a 3 gear low profile transmission for the Associated B5M. 3d printed, it comes as a set which includes the gearbox case, motor plate, chassis brace and the rear uprights. The set is ideal for high grip surfaces such as carpet and astro due to its low centre of gravity and reversed motor position, which offers improvements over a 4 gear version. The rear uprights give the car a higher rear roll centre which further improves the handling characteristics. Available directly from Red Workshop.
New from Jared Tebo’s own JTPRC product line are these new carbon parts for the Kyosho range of EP buggies. Being used by the American to TQ the 2wd World Championships in Japan on his RZ6, first up is the updated front shock tower for the RB6 which has an additional brace for improved strength, while retaining the same mounting holes of the previous iteration which are higher than the kit part. The rear shock tower, for the ZX6 has the same shock holes as the stock part but the wing mount is higher than stock. Finally there is a chassis mounted stiffening brace for the 4wd vehicle and a 3mm thick battery brace. The towers are made from 4mm thick carbon fibre while the stiffener has been made from 5mm thick carbon plate. Available after the Worlds.
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