Reedy Truck Race of Champions (Hot Rod Hobbies)

[Jason Sams]

Contributing author John "Big Country" Cary and I are out at Hot Rod Hobbies for the Annual Reedy Truck Race of Champions. Here are a few pictures from the event. We'll be posting more pictures and info throughout the day.


http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/driverstand72.jpg

Gil Losi Jr. and several of the Losi team drivers were testing the new Triple-XT CR. We'll show you some detail shots of their rigs later today.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/losi72.jpg

Ryan Maifield was on fire with his GT2, TQing the first two rounds of qualifying.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/maifield72.jpg

[Neon_Dave]

Sweet pics. I don't get it though - what's with the ski googles? :D

[Striker]

Sand and wind = Googles

[Mel*E*Mel]

Any more pics of the Triple XT-CR?

[Jason Sams]

Team Asscociated's aces Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield top qualify Factory Modified and Factory Gas Truck.

Here are some shots of the track.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/trackleft.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/trackright.jpg

[Jason Sams]

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/tebo72.jpg

Kyosho's Ryan Lutz surprisingly qualified 11th one round in Factory Gas with his TR-15.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/kyosho72.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/track.jpg'

Losi's latest prototype Triple XT-CR. (Amezcua's rig)
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/amz72.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/amz722.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/amz723.jpg

[BWilliamson]

herm, looks like the xxxt-cr is quite a ways from production yet--poo

[Mel*E*Mel]

Thinking the same thing .. I was hoping for a X-mas release

[joracer21]

Factory mod

Well Jared tebo and Ryan Cavalieri tied for points for factory mod and Tebo wins the tie with the shortest overall time.

Factory gas

1st mayfield
2nd tebo
and I think Amezcua took 3rd I really don’t recall

[Slammed94]

Notice no EA3 on the truck?

[Casper]

Yes and for a good reason! This truck is fully prototype right now. They are trying about 4 different rear ends on the truck right now and still working out details. Gil Jr. truck did have the AD2 rear hubs on it with the QC levers.

[Volumex]

I watched the A-main Gas event. The speed and skills of the top guys is awesome.

-Alex
www.alexgelsomino.com

[losifreak2004]

Good call Casper. I guess the word "Prototype" got missed by quite a few readers! I have no concrete evidence that the XXX-T CR will be EA3 (it would make sense) but right now, Losi is still working on suspension geometry for the new truck. We are still in the learning process of trying new things to see what they do. It's not as easy as shooting graphite molds full of EA3 just to take "spy shot" pictures. Be patient :)

The ski/motocross goggles. Jeremy Felles was the first to sport the goggles over the week (I think on Wednesday) because he didn't have sunglasses with him this weekend and the sun and glare were pretty brutal. I'd venture to say that most racers who've ever been to the Silver State Nitro Challenge in Vegas bring goggles with them to most R/C events, and the wind picked up considerably this weekend compared to most events at Hot Rod.

That's me in the first picture, with the Losi/Trinity shirt and Oakley goggles. I found that I wasn't blinking much and that made the dust particularly harsh, so I broke out the googles.

Jason - No pictures of John's awesome haircut?!

Congratulations to Joel Eaton for sweeping the Open Electric classes and leading a Team Losi sweep of all five privateer classes!

[Jason Sams]

Congratulations to Ryan Maifield and Jared Tebo for winning Factory Gas Truck and Factory Modified Truck with their Associated rides.

Factory Gas Truck
TQ Ryan Maifield set a blistering pace and started to check out early in the 45-minute main.I don't think he crashed or bobbled the first 15 minutes of the race. Towards the latter half of the race Team Losi's Travis Amezcua, and Associated's Jared Tebo were gaining ground on Maifield who seemed to be driving conservatively. Tebo fought from nearly a lap down all the way to second when he eventually passed Amezcua who was battling tire wear. Maifield dropped the hammer again after receiving a new right rear tire and went onto win. Jared Tebo grabbed second with Travis Amezcua rounding out the podium.

Factory Modified Truck
In A1 Ryan Cavalieri battled a loose truck, but was able to hold off a hard charging Steven Hartson for the win. In A2 Jared Tebo took the win setting up a shootout for A3. In A3 Ryan Cavalieri got a good start and was out front the majority of the race. A hard charging Adam Drake worked his way into second and was all over Cavalieri. The two drove side by side for several laps until "The Drake" snuck inside Cavalieri in the sweeper after the straightaway. After the clean pass late in the race, Drake went onto win with Cavalieri in second. Tebo and Cavalieri were tied in points after A3, so it went down to their throwout score in which Tebo's was better. Tebo first, Cavalieri second, and Drake third.

Our contributiong author John Cary is in route to Northern California as I write this, but he'll be posting more pictures later today. Here is a shot of his often talked about new hairstyle.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/jasonsams/caryhaircut.jpg

Aaron and Casper, thanks for your posts.

Jason-

[Nomadio_Sales]

Look at all those long sticks on the radios what are those? Fishing poles? ;)

[balang_479]

Yous being sarcastic right? dont know why the dont use Spektrum.

[Nomadio_Sales]

I just do not know hehehehehehe

[vaderbxman]

Awesome!! Score one for the new GT2!! :)

[tmaxxnt]

dont know why the dont use Spektrum.

I've heard of freak failures for no reason from the Spektrum systems. The good FM or PCM radios also have a faster response time, although it's so little that your average driver couldn't tell the difference. I guess the pros are like the military they don't want to trust the new stuff until it's been tested for years and by then it's the old stuff :).

Or maybe they just want to use traditional radios so if someone cuts them off they can whip him with the antenna?

I personally think that the 2.4ghz systems are/can be better and more convenient. I use a DX3.

[Nomadio_Sales]

LOL had a great reply but I would get so blasted for posting the reason.

[zakerid]

i will not blast you... let me know.

[Nomadio_Sales]

you got PM

[JohnCary]

Well it looks as if the red carpet has been rolled out for me. My name is John Cary and I had the honor/privilege of covering the 2006 Reedy Truck Race of Champions for RC Car Action. Below you will see a few action shots from the weekend followed by the awards pictures. Enjoy.


Chris VanAir Qualified 2nd in Open Gas
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/vanair72.jpg
Mike Truhe
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/truhe72.jpg
Tommi Torikka came all the way from Finland
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/torikka72.jpg
Jason Sams in the Rent-a-Ride
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/sams72.jpg
Joe Pillars was in attendance
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/pillars72.jpg
Ryan Maifield Won Factory Gas
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/maifield72.jpg
One and only Cody King
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/king72.jpg
Coach from AE showed up
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/coach72.jpg
Casper threw down for the weekend
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/casper72.jpg

[JohnCary]

Open Stock
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/openstock.jpg
Open Mod
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/openmod.jpg
Master Stock
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/Masterstock.jpg
Factory Gas
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/Factorygas.jpg
Factory Mod
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/Facorymod.jpg
19t Truck
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/19turntruckcopy.jpg
Open Gas
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/opengas.jpg

[JohnCary]

In the Factory Classes AE took home the victroy
Factory Gas went to Maifield
Factory Mod went to Tebo
Congrats guys!
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/AEvictory72.jpg
Tebo
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/tebo72-2.jpg

[Casper]

Great pics John!

[toddzhere2]

John:

Where's the Open Gas pics? and the trophy presentation pics?

[Jason Sams]

Todd,

I assure you that John will post a winners picture of Open Gas Truck. He was scrambling to get the other photos up and must of overlooked a photo of that class. He is at work today and will post a picture tonight. Congrats on your win in Open Gas Truck and thanks for the help this weekend. See you at Hot Rods.


Jason-

[toddzhere2]

Jason:

No worries! I was actually just pulling his chain! The non-factory classes don't get much mention anyways.

Thanks for the congrats! Sorry thing didn't work out better for you.

Hopefully you can do more racing in 2007 so you can get your own truck dialed in. Let me know if you ever need help getting it ready before a race, I am a pretty good wrench!

Talk to you soon!

Todd

[JohnCary]

Todd,

what are you trying to say? Turns out jason wrenched on the rent a wreck all weekend.

[JohnCary]

I thought I would help out with Jason's images of the track. Here is a merge of two photos to help show the track layout a bit better.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/logicbike/Trackmerge.jpg

[JB_The_Evader]

John - it was good seeing you again. I hope things have been going well for you.

I had a great time watching the mains on sunday! So much talent on display.

[Casper]

I think it is neat. Great photos once again Jason!

[HyperRuben]

Quik question.....anybody know the names of the top three for the OPEN GAS Class???

[Casper]

Todd Fasona (Not sure on last name spelling sorry Todd), Won. Theo Captanis was third. I do not remember who was second.

[Killer87]

I think second was Justin Watson.

[toddzhere2]

1st- Todd Fasano
2nd - Tyler Phipps
3rd - Theo Captanis