REEDY RACE: Maifield, Tebo, and Phend take 4WD round four [REPLAY]

0 Jan. 25, 2015, 10:55 a.m.

1/25/2015
By Aaron Waldron

LiveRC.com

It was easy to tell which drivers were panicked about how their chances to improve their overall positions would be affected by the results of round ten. With three heats in each round and four drivers competing for the top spot in points, one driver was going to leave the round disappointed. That meant every driver on the track had to scrape together every point possible - especially when one suffered a horrible start. Meanwhile, other drivers flirting with a top-five finish are seeing their time run out to get close to the top of the charts, and that means they had to push as hard as possible to get to the front.

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Ryan Maifield took advantage of his starting position inside row one and got the holeshot, while Spencer Rivkin suffered a disastrous first lap - crossing the line in eighth before retiring by the halfway point. Rivkin’s misfortune gave Travis Amezcua and Petri Strom a chance to move up to second and third. After that, Maifield cruised to the win, finishing 2.7 seconds ahead of the field. Strom crashed before the last double and Honigl got by for third. At 2:00, Honigl cased the triple and Wernimont and Tessmann moved into third and fourth. The two battled hard over the remainder of the race, and Tessmann passed Wernimont on the inside at the PL point on the final lap to take second.

Joona Haatanen got the holeshot while German driver Jörn Neumann was dead last after the first turn. Just 30 seconds into the race, Haatanen cased the triple and Tebo jumped to the inside - the collision sent Haatanen flying to fourth behind Hartson and Evans, and that’s how the race finished.

Cody King got the holeshot, but hit the pipe in the second corner on lap two and Billy Easton moved to the lead with Dakotah Phend and Ryan Cavalieri to second and third. Phend got around Easton in the center of the track at 1:00 while Cavalieri made a mistake on the left side, dropping to fourth. At 2:00 Easton came up short on the triple, dropped to fourth behind Cavalieri and King. At 3:00, King flipped before the triple and Easton went to third, but with 40 seconds to go Easton crashed in the second corner and King retook the spot.