The action is heating up in the invite class with the top drivers in the World finishing up 2wd and starting to run 4wd. At the end of Saturday, Pro-Line’s own Ryan Cavalieri continued his dominance of the 2012 Reedy Race by finishing in 2nd and 1st in his 2 4wd runs of the day. As it sits going into Sunday, Ryan Cavalieri has stretched his lead to 3 points over Ryan Maifield and 8 points over Jorn Neumann. Pro-Line’s Ty Tessmann and Dakota Phend are currently in 7th and 8th looking to make major moves tomorrow.
The most exciting race of the day had to be the battle between Cav and Hara in 4wd Round 6. Hara took the early lead closely followed by Ryan and they played cat and mouse the whole race until the second to last lap when Cav made his move and took over the lead. But on the last lap Cav’s car seemed to slow slightly, possibly because of a loose or slipper, causing Cav to come up short on the triple and lose speed down the straightaway. Hara squeaked by Cavalieri at the line ending the most exciting race of the day.
The open division finished up qualifying today with Frank Root securing the top honors in 2wd and Josh Numan the TQ in 4wd. Look for Pro-Line team driver Chris Jarosz to battle for the win in 2wd after qualifying in 7th. In 4wd Pro-Line is represented by JQ sitting in 2nd and Nick Lasley in 5th.
As for me, my Reedy Race ended in exciting fashion. They ran the Open Class lower Main Events today, which meant I had some work to do after my frustrating qualifying effort. Due to several different problems with my 4wd, I never finished a single qualifying run putting me dead last heading into the main. I was the first 4wd main event -Race 3- and my 2wd main was Race 4, so I knew I already had to do back-to-back 10 minute mains. My first 4wd main went really well, putting a lap on the entire field and taking the win to bump me up to the next main in Race 5. Right after taking the win, I ran over to my pit to put my 4wd on the charger and ran back to the track to slam my 2wd down. This race went well too as I worked my way to 3rd place and battled for the transfer position on the last lap. I made a bold inside move in the bowl turn before the triple but bobbled the landing and so missed out on the bump up.
Next up was Race 5 my bump up 4wd race where I had another great run. Starting from the last row on the grid, I worked my up to the lead after about 10 laps. After a few mistakes, I lost the lead but was able to hold on to 2nd for another bump up!! That put me in Race 7 for another 10 minute main event. This race started off great for me as well as I moved into 3rd place at the end of the first lap after starting from dead last. I started to make time on the leaders and felt I had a shot to bump up again when I made a mistake through the mogul section and broke a ball cup, ending my Reedy Race. All in all, that was close 40 minutes of main event racing in less than an hour putting a major strain on my nerves! Special thanks to Charlie at Novak and Daniel Adams for setting up my system and Scotty Ernst for cheering me on!
Look for the final Reedy Race Results and wrap up from Pro-Line tomorrow!
