Ryan Lutz's recap of the best season of his career and annual charity auction

0 Dec. 11, 2015, 5:01 p.m.

By Aaron Waldron
LiveRC.com

2015 Season Recap. (Best Season Ever!!) ;-)

Christmas is right around the corner marking the end of my primary 2015 racing season. Now is the time I get to catch up on all my administrative work, and family time, as well as reflect on the year that was.

2015 was by far the best year of my R/C Career. If you have been keeping tabs with me, I have been keeping my Tekno Tally at the end of each blog post. That does include the final two events of 2014. So this is my overall results since joining with Tekno RC.

Tekno Tally (My results with Tekno RC)

Classes Entered- 82
Wins- 46 (56%)
TQ- 41 (50%)
Podium- 72 (88%)
A-Main- 81 (99%)

Now I want to recap some of 2015’s best results for me:

Out of 5 classes entered at ROAR Nationals, I got 5 x top 5’s including a 2nd, and 3 x 3rd’s!
Silver State Truggy and E-Buggy 2nd Place
Numerous Trifectas (TQ+Win in all 3 classes entered) at Large Regional level races
More wins and TQ’s than i’ve ever had in a season.

Some other accomplishments that I am proud of in 2015:

My LutzRC brand has continued to grow at about another 10% this year. Thank you to everyone who supports me in that endeavor!
Being a part of what I feel is the best team in the industry Tekno RC. Everyone helping everyone, and now showing that the cars are the best as well!
Another Charity Auction is being finished up and more donations to worthy causes are being made possible thanks to all of my supporters!

I want to thank all of my sponsors from 2015 who helped make it my most successful season ever!

Tekno RC – (NB48.3, NT48.3, EB48.3, ET48.3, SCT410.3)
Alpha Plus – (Alpha Plus Ryan Lutz Worlds Edition Engine, Alpha Dragon 3 Engine)
AKA Racing (Amazing tires, wheels, foams, that keep me fast on any surface!)
Byron Fuels (30/8 Worlds Blend fuel, The most consistent fuel in the industry!)
Futaba (4PX Radio, S9353HV Servos, R614FS Rx)
Tekin (RX-8 Gen 2, Redline T8 Gen 2 1900 motor (2000 truggy)
ProTek RC (2600 Lipo Rx packs, 100C full size packs)
92 Zero Designs (Graphics, stickers)
Misunderstood Graphics (Paintjobs!)
LutzRC.com (my small business that keeps me busy on my ‘off days’ haha)
LiveRC.com
R/C Hobby of Medina (My fathers Hobby Shop)

For 2016 I hope to improve even further on 2015. The year ended absolutely awesome for me with some great results against top competition. I can’t wait to get to the opening big events of 2016 and of course the IFMAR Worlds in October. This could be my ‘break-out’ year! Time to work to make it happen! :-)

Thank you again to all who have and continue to support me! Here’s to an awesome 2016 for all of us and lets enjoy this hobby to the fullest!

It’s Charity Auction Time! 2015 Style!

For the 3rd year now I am here to ask you to help me in giving back! I currently have 19 items up for Auction with possibly more to come. Autographed Trophies from some of my best finishes in 2015, and also 3 race used bodies signed as well. 100% of the winning bid will go towards the Charity listed!

The past two years you have helped me to raise over $2500 for the 3 primary causes that you helped me choose 2 years ago. So if your wanting your bid to go towards a specific cause I have listings for the Salvation Army, Make-A-Wish, and Toys 4 Tots.

Feel free to click on the hyper link below each picture and it will take you directly to the e-bay listing. The title shows which class the trophy is for and the charity that listing is being donated too.

You can also simply search LutzRC Charity on E-bay to see all 19 current listings which will all end on Monday!

Thank you all so much! I am truly blessed to be able to do what I do, and I couldn’t do it without everyone who supports me.

-Lutzinator