February 10, 2013
Having been forced to pull out of the second round of 2WD Buggy Qualifying at the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals after he couldn’t get a spot on the driver’s stand, Ryan Maifield bounced back in Q3 to head a Team Associated 1-2 ahead of series champion Steven Hartson who benefited from a mistake on lap 12 by Kyosho’s Cody Turner who went on to set the third fastest time of the round. With the heats reseeded for the penultimate round of qualifying all the top contenders at the St.Louis event where now running together. Leading away the field for the…
February 10, 2013
The second round of 4WD Buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals saw a 1-2 for the Associated team with Ryan Maifield again setting the top pace ahead of defending champion Steven Hartson with Xray’s Josh Wheeler taking his XB4 to the third fastest time for the round. The round was a bad one for Kyosho’s Jared Tebo who could only manage the 9th fastest time saying afterwards that his zX5 was fine but the driver made a ‘bazillion mistakes’. In 4WD Short Course, MIP are in early control of proceedings. Defending Champion & MIP team leader Matt Olson…
February 10, 2013
Kyosho Jared Tebo upped the pace in 2WD Buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals taking Q2 from team-mate Cody Turner with TLR’s Cody Hollis completing the Top 3 for the round which saw Q1 Top qualifier Ryan Maifield forced to retire due to a complete lack of courtesy from a number of drivers running in his heat. Having stood on the far right side of the drivers stand for his previous 2WD & 4WD Buggy and Mod Truck qualifier earlier in the day at SmacTrac, Maifield went up for his second 2WD Buggy heat, having stood in line,…
February 9, 2013
Having TQ’d the opening round of 2WD Buggy Qualifying at the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals, Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield notched up a second TQ run of the day when he claimed the first qualifier of 4WD Buggy again outpacing arch rival Jared Tebo. Tebo’s Kyosho team-mate Cody Turner completed the Top 3 just ahead of defending champion Steven Hartson who is this weekend chasing a sixth consecutive 4WD Buggy win in the JConcepts Indoor National Series. Like in 2WD, Maifield used a brand new set of unmodified JConcepts Barcodes tyres on his Reedy powered B44.2 and despite a few small…
February 9, 2013
Making his debut in the JConcepts Indoor National Series, Ryan Maifield got the Winter Indoor Nationals at SmacTrac in St.Louis, Missouri off to the perfect start as he TQ’d the opening round of qualifying for 2WD Buggy ahead of fellow series debutant Jared Tebo with series champion Steven Hartson completing the top 3. Setting the fastest lap of the opening round with a 17.715, Maifield topped the timing by 3.5 seconds from Tebo saying afterwards that his B4.2 ‘felt good’ and he hopes ‘it stays that way’ for the rest of the day. Switching to a full set of fresh…
February 9, 2013
…he said the set-up he concluded from that testing is working out well. Having did little racing with his Mod Truck recently, Maifeld said he did a number of set-up changes to the T4.2 and is comfortable with where it is at now. Champion of the Mod Truck class, Brent Thielke said most of his work today apart from prepping tyres was also with his T4.2. With the advantage of having been to SmacTrac on three previous occasions, he said the track they have created for the Winter Indoor Nationals is a lot of fun and keeping your cars on…