Video – 2wd Truck & 2wd SC A-main Leg 2

Evans gets Mod Truck win in A2

Mod Truck, which has been the most exciting class at this year’s JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals, will be decided in the third & final leg of the A-Main after Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans took the win in Leg 2 as Leg 1 winner Ryan Maifield pulled up 3-minutes in after a troubled race that saw him last at the end of the opening lap. While Maifield didn’t feature in the race, Evans didn’t have it easy having to contend with TLR team-mate Cody Hollis and the same traffic issues that cost him the win in A1.

Top Qualifier Hollis drove a very strong race keeping Evans at bay for 8-laps until the No.2 22T squeezed passed at the off camber corner after the AE double on lap 9. Able to pull out a bit of a gap 2-laps later Evans would get caught up in a three car pile up involving Maifield who he was about to lap. Losing almost 3-seconds in the incident, this allowed Hollis back to the front but with his truck ‘dialed’ a determined looking Evans put in the fastest lap of the race as he set about closing in on the leader. Two laps later in the exact same place as he got the lead first time, Evans moved back to the front with 2 laps to go to take a much deserved win. Evans said he couldn’t believe his luck when he got caught up in traffic again but said this time round he kept patient and was able to recover for the win.

Maifield said he ran a different tyre compound on his T4.2 which made it very difficult to drive resulting in his moment on lap one that left him last as the 10-car field passed the loop for the first time. Running the rest of the race as a backmarker managing only to recover to as high as 6th he said after getting caught up in the incident that almost cost Evans the win he decided to pull up, a decision he said he may come to regret later today.

In 2WD Short Course, Evans secured that he will leave Dallas with at least one JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals title as he took another tone to tone win in Leg 2 over TLR team-mate JR Mitch to secure the overall win.

Mod Truck A-Main Leg 2
1.(2) Dustin Evans – TLR – 16/5:10.698
2.(1) Cody Hollis – TLR – 16/5:12.339
3.(5) Taylor Larsen – TLR – 15/5:00.968
4.(4) Brent Thielke – Associated – 15/5.19.564
5.(7) Aaron Reynolds – TLR – 14/5:03.911
6.(6) Trevor Nault – Associated – 14/5:04.308
7.(10)Dustin English – Kyosho – 14/5:15.886
8.(8) Spencer Rivkin – Associated – 13/5:19.004
9.(3) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 9/3:12.630
10.(9)Eric Larsen – TLR – 4/1:28.631

2WD Short Course A-Main Leg 2
1.(1) Dustin Evans – TLR – 15/5:04.055
2.(3) JR Mitch – TLR – 15/5:13.827
3.(2) Taylor Larsen – TLR – 15/5:21.374
4.(10)Kyle Skidmore – Associated – 15/5:23.521
5.(7) Cody Hollis – TLR – 14/5:02.226
6.(5) Michael Twilling – Kyosho – 14/5:04.814
7.(4) Steven Hartson – Associated – 14/5:05.305
8.(6) Mike Stoll – Associated – 14/5:05.451
9.(8) Daimon Borkowicz – Associated – 14/5:13.197
10.(9)Gary O’Brien – Durango – 14/5:15.175

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Maifield takes ‘Spring Indoor Nationals’ Buggy titles

Ryan Maifield is the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals buggy champion, the Team Associated driver wrapping up overall victory in 2WD and 4WD Buggy by backing up his A1 results with two more tone to tone wins in Leg 3 of the triple A-Mains at Mike’s Hobby Shop in Dallas, Texas. Winner of the opening round of the Indoor National Series in St.Louis in February, the Winter Indoor Nationals, Maifield claimed his second win of the five race series with another easy win over TLR’s Dustin Evans although this time round the advantage was a much more slender 3 second gap with Taylor Larsen completing the Top 3 a further 4-seconds adrift.

‘Might have been boring to watch but I don’t like exciting races’ was how Maifield summed up his Leg 2 win. Running no sauce on his tyres for the second encounter to try and make his B4.2 a little less edgy, he said once again it was ‘another clean run’ and ‘luckily’ the others made mistakes acknowledging that Evans had the faster buggy.

Evans said his chances of victory were greatly diminished by his qualifying result, as starting from third by the time he got passed his TLR team-mate Cody Hollis, Maifield already had a gap that was just too much to pull back. Trying to be a little more patient second time round he said he was ‘coming’ at the end of the race but pushed over the edge resulting in a mistake that cost him any chance of at least trying to force the race to be decided in the third A-Main.

In 4WD Buggy, Maifield’s World class ability saw him breeze to victory as his Associated team-mate Steven Hartson, the only driver with any chance of providing a challenge, broke his B44.2 when he rolled at the end of the straight as he started lap three crashing into the track’s perimeter wall. This left Kyle Skidmore to finish the 5-minute encounter a distant second 2.5 seconds up on the similar Associated of Trevor Nault who completed the Top 3.

2WD Buggy A-Main Leg 2
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 16/5:05.493
2.(3) Dustin Evans – TLR – 16/5:08.492
3.(6) Taylor Larsen – TLR – 16/5:12.626
4.(4) Steven Hartson – Associated – 16/5:17.340
5.(2) Cody Hollis – TLR – 16/5:20.442
6.(9) Brent Thielke – Associated – 15/5:02.184
7.(8) Trevor Nault – Associated – 15/5:06.877
8.(10)Spencer Rivkin – Associated – 15/5:11.139
9.(7) Allen Horne – Associated – 15/5:19.323
10.(5)Austin Horne – Associated – 10/3:46.230

4WD Buggy A-Main Leg 2
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 17/5:17.416
2.(4) Kyle Skidmore – Associated – 16/5:13.402
3.(5) Trevor Nault – Associated – 16/5:15.900
4.(3) Paul Lemieux – Xray – 16/5:19.066
5.(7) Aaron Breuer – Kyosho – 15/5:00.593
6.(10)Rhett McNair – Schumacher – 15/5:02.518
7.(8) Michael Twilling – Kyosho – 14/5:02.940
8.(9) Jordan Born – Xray – 14/5:07.221
9.(6) Aydin Horne – Associated – 14/5:11.592
10.(2)Steven Hartson – Associated – 2/0:39.718

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Maifield takes A1 in 2WD Buggy

It was a perfect morning for Ryan Maifield at the second round of the JConcepts Indoor National Series with Team Associated completing a clean sweep of the opening A-Mains at the Mike’s Hobby Shop hosted event in Dallas adding wins in 2WD and 4WD Buggy to his earlier Mod Truck A1 win. Top Qualifier for the premiere class, Maifield lead from start to finish takig his B4.2 to an easy win over TLR duo Dustin Evans and Cody Hollis. With the track’s grip levels increasing every run Maifield said conditions for the opening race were difficult with everyone on the edge, the winner of Round 1 of the series himself getting up on two wheels a number of times during the 5-minute encounter. Managing to avoid any major mistakes the Arizona driver was able to take the win by almost 7-seconds but said for the next leg he would change the compound of his JConcepts tyres to try and make his buggy a little less difficult to drive.

Again Evans showed he has the pace to challenge Maifield, his TLR22 setting the fastest lap of the race with a 18.527 compared to Maifield’s best of 18.527. Running second having got passed team-mate Hollis who started 2nd, the 2011 US National Champion was making inroads to the leader but trying to further reduce the gap he ‘pushed too hard’ resulting in a flip over that ended any chance of seeing the two factory drivers go head to head.

In 4WD Buggy Maifield was on a complete different level to the rest of the field lapping everyone except his Associated team-mate Steven Hartson. Hartson set the fastest lap of the race but made too many mistakes to be able to mount any challenge to Maifield. Starting from 7th on the grid Kyosho driver Aaron Breuer completed the Top 3.

2WD Buggy A-Main Leg 1
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 16/5:04.310
2.(3) Dustin Evans – TLR – 16/5:11.069
3.(2) Cody Hollis – TLR – 16/5:14.593
4.(4) Steven Hartson – Associated – 16/5:17.537
5.(6) Taylor Larsen – TLR – 16/5:17.860
6.(8) Trevor Nault – Associated – 16/5:19.736
7.(5) Austin Horne – Associated – 15/5:08.568
8.(7) Allen Horne – Associated – 15/5:12.006
9.(10)Spencer Rivkin – Associated – 15/5:13.592
10.(9)Brent Thielke – Associated – 14/5:03.261

4WD Buggy A-Main Leg 1
1.(1) Ryan Maifield – Associated – 17/5:13.894
2.(2) Steven Hartson – Associated – 16/5:02.976
3.(7) Aaron Breuer – Kyosho – 15/5:01.442
4.(6) Aydin Horne – Associated – 15/5:03.972
5.(5) Trevor Nault – Associated – 15/5:05.434
6.(9) Jordan Born – Xray – 15/5:07.440
7.(3) Paul Lemieux – Xray – 15/5:09.575
8.(4) Kyle Skidmore – Associated – 15/5:14.462
9.(8) Michael Twilling – Kyosho – 14/5:07.614
10.(10)Rhett McNair – Schumacher – 11/3:57.212

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