April 13, 2014
Tyler Vik made it two out of two at Tacoma R/C Raceway as he topped the second round of 4WD Buggy Qualifying at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals again outpacing World Champion Steven Hartson, both drivers pulling off 21-lap runs. Only 9th fastest in Q1, Team Losi Racing’s JR Mitch improved his pace by almost a full lap to complete the Top 3. Fitting a front swaybar to his Xray XB4 for Q2 as well as removing screws from the chassis for more flex, Vik said the ‘changes were good’. The San Francisco racer said the track had become ‘super…
April 13, 2014
Michael Schoettler put in another flawless drive at his home track to TQ the second round of 2WD Buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals. Having topped Q1, this time round the 18-year-old’s took the qualifier by an even larger 6.2-second advantage from Steven Hartson. The Top 3 for the second of the four scheduled qualifiers at Tacoma R/C Raceway was completed by another quick local as Kyosho driver Ryan Matesa laid down his first 20-lap run ahead of TLR’s JR Mitch. Again posting the fastest lap of the round with a new outright fastest lap time of 14.657,…
April 12, 2014
RC America team driver Tyler Vik has TQ’d the opening round of 4WD Buggy Qualifying at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals, his Xray outpacing World Champion Steven Hartson by 3-seconds around the Tacoma R/C Racway track. Local racer JC Johnson made it three different manufacturers at the top of the time sheets as he posted the 3rd fastest time, his TLR22-4 just 6/10ths off Hartson’s time. Like in 2WD Buggy, Vik is running in the lowest heat having opted to skip last night’s round of timed practice in favour of a good night of sleep. Pleased to take Q1, he…
April 12, 2014
Having topped timed practice yesterday at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals in Washington State, local ace Michael Schoettler backed it up with a TQ run in the opening round of 2WD Buggy qualifying at Tacoma RC Raceway. The Associated driver dominated the round running a time almost 5-seconds quicker than fellow local Luke Smith. Winner of the opening race of the series in St.Louis Tanner Denney was the best of the visitors the Associated team driver opening qualifying with 3rd for the round. Pleased with his TQ run which proved very popular with onlookers, Schoettler said the run was the…
April 12, 2014
Qualifying makes up the schedule for today’s action at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals at Tacoma R/C Raceway with 34 heats to get through per round. With 2 of 4 rounds to count for the final grid order, three of those will be run today with the fourth & final round set to run tomorrow morning. With the heats seeded on a driver’s 5-lap average in a single round of timed practice last night a second reseed will be done after Round 2 of qualifying….
April 12, 2014
While there was no surprise at World Champion Steven Hartson topping 4WD Buggy practice at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals at Tacoma R/C Raceway, local driver Michael Schoettler caused a bit of a surprise with an impressive timed practice run that makes him top seed for tomorrow’s 2WD Buggy qualifying. Overall it was a good finish to today’s practice for local racers as they put their track knowledge to good effect to fill four of the Top 6 times based on each drivers 5-lap average time. Driving an Associated B5M, Schoettler said his buggy ran well throughout the day and…