This weekend I had a chance to take my Pro-Line Racing Pro-2 Short Course Truck out to 702 Raceway in Las Vegas Nevada. This was a fun trip for me as 702 was one of my first out of town trips I made almost 5 years ago when I started racing RC. Over the years I have traveled to various tracks across the country and have stopped into 702 on my travels but had not dedicated a weekend to their facility and testing on their track.
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We arrived at the track Friday night around 9:45 pm and we sat up our canopies and tables after that we headed to out hotel to get some shut eye. The track looked cool from what I could see in the dark and I was ready to race on it. The Event was at Amarillo Rc Motorcross Amarillo, Texas May 3rd-5th 2013.
Practice: Well I didn’t really have any practice because we arrived Friday night after practice was over because I couldn’t get out of school. So the practice I did have was 1 hour before the qualifiers started, and as well I kinda used the 1st qualifier as practice too. But for the short practice I did have I was running Blockade SC M3 Tires on Short Course, Diamond Back X3 Tires on VE8 Electric Buggy, Blockade M3 Tires on D812 Nitro Buggy, and Hole Shot VTR M3 tires on D8T Nitro Truggy and they were really hooking up!
Qualifiers: After my 1 hour of practice it was time for the qualifiers. The qualifiers were going to be ran with 4 rounds taking your best 2. I was really nervous because I had only had 1 hour of practice and in some parts of the track I was still trying to find the fastest was around the track. The first round of qualifying was really a dud because I used it as a practice round knowing I still had 3 other rounds. The 2nd round was kinda rough as well but I really picked it up in the 3rd and 4th round of qualifiers. I ended up qualifying 2nd for the A main in open nitro truggy, 6th for the A main in open nitro buggy, 1st for the B main in Short Course and 8th for electric buggy B main.
Marshall catches my short course truck in qualifier to keep
me from hitting him while he was trying to get off the track.
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This weekend marked the second round of one of the hottest RC series in the US. The JBRL Nitro Series presented by Pro-Line Racing was started just over 10 years ago and has grown into a monster that now attracts the nation’s top drivers and media. While it is still considered a club race rather than a national series, taking home top honors is a big deal to some of the nation’s top pros.
This past weekend the JRBL visited Palm Desert R/C Raceway in Palm Desert CA. The event attracted over combined 130 entries between the classes and made for a great day of racing. With temperatures reaching 110 Degrees, drivers were put to the test not just mentally, but physically as well. Beyond the physical demand of the competitors came the abuse that drivers inflicted on their cars, especially their tires. When the heat reaches numbers that high you generally see tires start to deteriorate very quickly and lap times fall off.
Pro Buggy
At the end of qualifying Pro-Line Racing Driver Adam Drake claimed the front spot on the grid followed by Pro-Line Racing team mates Mike Truhe and Cody King who were sitting second and third. As the 25 minute main was run things got shuffled around quite a bit moving Pro-Line’s Cody King to the top spot followed by teammates Adam Drake in the 2nd spot and Mike Truhe in 3rd. All the guys said it was a great race and were happy to see Pro-Line Racing go 1-2 3 in Pro Buggy.
E Buggy
In the E Buggy Class more Pro-Line domination continued to take place. Team Driver Mike Truhe set both the fastest pace in qualifying and was able to continue his domination during the A main. Congrats also go out to Fellow teammates Adam Drake who clinched the second spot and Chris Marrale for wrapping up the 3rd spot on the podium. As with Pro buggy Pro-Line tires took all 3 spots on the big box.
Pro Truggy
In the Pro Truggy division Cody King was the man to beat at Round 2 of the JBRL. King was able to lock down TQ with the normal big dogs nipping at his heals. As the main started out Cody put in an amazing run keeping his Pro-Line equipped Truggy at the front of the pack and eventually took home another big win with teammate Adam Drake locking down the second spot.
Congrats go out to all the competitors that were able to make it out to Palm Desert Raceway this weekend for the second round of the Nitro JBRL. If you are interested in making it out to one of Jimmy’s Races please visit www.jimmybabcock.com for all information.
Images: RugspinGraphix.com
This past weekend was round 2 of the RC Pro Series, Delta division, in Shreveport, LA. at TNT Raceway. The weather was great all weekend and there were over 100 entries. The track started out pretty smooth and a little dusty. They were watering off and on to try and stop the track from falling apart and this made it tough to dial in tires and set up.
We planned on running four rounds of qualifying but computer issues forced James of RC Pro to set up the mains based on qualifying after the re-sort. This worked to my favor in E-buggy where I was TQ, and in nitro I ended up starting fourth on the grid. If I’m not in the top three I’d rather be in the bottom three so I can go around the first turn pile up instead of being in the middle of it.
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Saturday April 27th was the 1 year anniversary race of LFR racing at Floridas largest indoor clay track Space Coast RC. With over 200 entries it was stacking up to be a Long and fun filled day with a lot of floridas top drivers in attendance and it proved to be some great racing.
Fellow Pro-Line Teammates Landen and Brian Lewis, Jeremy Harris, Mike Applegate and Billy Easton had also made the trip. to Cocoa Beach for the race.
I was racing St Buggy and St Truck. Up first was St buggy and to say the least buggy set up was awful and I had a lot of work to do. Truck was up next and Truck was awesome right of the start. A handful of mistakes and I finished 4th. I knew I had some work to Rd 2.
3.5 hours later and some tweaking to set ups and it was time for Rd 2. Buggy was again the first race up. again went the wrong way with the set up and buggy was worse. Just a bad overall day in Buggy. Truck was up and it was go time set the pace early and was 2 secs ahead of TQ pace set in Rd1. Tool a turn to tight and rolled it gave the lead up but was still ahead of Rd1 TQ pace and finished 2nd. That put me 2nd on the grid for the St Truck Amain.
With a long wait ahead I totally changed the Buggy set up and was hoping for better results but it did not work. Needless to say a very disappointing weekend overall with the Buggy.
Truck Amain finally came around and it was go time. Starting 2nd on the grid I was ready to go. The tone sounded and by the third turn I was putting a lot of pressure on the leader and caused him to make a huge mistake. I took the lead by the end of lap one and started to check out. A costly driver error let the 2nd and 3rd place driver catch back up. Caught a pipe trying to block and it it cost me, went to third but caught back up and went back to 2nd. Just to much time and distance to run the leader back down so I ended up 2nd. Fellow teammate Brian Lewis finished 4th.
Picture courtesy of Cheryl Shiver.
I would like to thank Daniel Adams for the opportunity to represent Pro-Line and my Pro-Line teammates for a great racing weekend.
Products Used:.
M4 Suburbs Rear
M3 Scrubs Front
Pro-Line Bulldog Body
The warmup race for the 2013 ROAR Fuel Off-Road Nationals took place this past weekend at Gulf Coast Raceway’s covered track in Texas. Defending ROAR National champion Pro-Line driver Ty Tessmann was there along with other former National Champions, Worlds finalists and fast locals. In qualifying Ty took the TQ in both buggy and truggy.
In the hour long buggy final Tessmann would take the win over TLR/Pro-Line driver Adam Drake. In the 30 minute truggy final we would see the same 1 – 2 Pro-Line punch.
Ty and Adam both used X3 Big Blocks in 1:8 Buggy and Blockade VTR in 1:8 Truggy.
1/8th Buggy Final Results
1. Ty Tessmann – 118Laps/1:00:25.142
2. Adam Drake – 116Laps/1:00:10.625
3. Barry Pettit – 113Laps/1:00:10.108
4. Dylan Rodriguez – 113Laps/1:00:21.667
5. Jason Branham – 112Laps/1:00:08.533
6. Ty Rogers – 110Laps/1:00:02.616 30.651
7. David Joor – 110Laps/1:00:07.205
8. Patrick Castleberry – 107Laps/1:00:03.983
9. Kurt Kellum – 99Laps/54:01.833
10.Josh Wheeler – 59Laps/31:08.617
11.Taylor Petersen – 55Laps/29:34.237
12.Josh Glancy – 21Laps/11:30.784
1/8th Truggy Final Results
1. Ty Tessmann – 59Laps/30:04.663
2. Adam Drake – 58Laps/30:02.262
3. Barry Pettit – 58Laps/30:08.318
4. Dylan Rodriguez – 58Laps/30:16.343
5. Josh Wheeler – 58Laps/30:17.795
6. Taylor Petersen – 58Laps/30:20.422
7. Jason Branham – 57Laps/30:04.222
8. Jake Dellinger – 55Laps/30:00.096
9. Roger Ayres – 54Laps/30:06.778
10.Nick Gibson – 43Laps/23:32.908
11.Mike Battaile – 41Laps/23:00.376
12.Kurt Kellum – 36Laps/19:19.155
Source: RCInsider.com, Ty Tessmann
Elliott Boots took TQ and 1st in E-Buggy and Nitro Buggy this weekend. The Pro-Line tyres were awesome, Elliott started with Bow-Tie 2.0 when the track was dusty, then ran Blockades in X3 compound, they all worked great.
This past weekend Mike’s Hobby Shop in Dallas hosted the Spring Nationals. The track started out with good traction, so I knew it was gonna groove up like the previous race we had here. I started out on M3 IONs on the rear and M3 Scrubs on my 2wd buggy. In 4wd buggy, I started out on the M3 IONs front and rear. In 2wd 17.5 buggy I battled with AE Factory Team drivers Spencer Rivkin, Daimon Borkowicz and TLR’s Eric Larson in every main. I took A1 over Daimon, A2 I switched to MC IONs but I made too many mistakes early on, I fought back to finish second to Spencer. A3 was anybody’s race. Still on MC IONs, I got around Spencer early on but traction rolled a half a lap later then bobbled to let him get a big lead, the he made a series of bobbles as I was reeling him in, I got around Spencer and drove a mistake free last couple laps to take the win. Thanks to Schumacher, Novak, SMC and Pro-Line especially for the great tires.
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