POLL: What's your favorite racing discipline?

0 July 11, 2014, 4:39 p.m.

12/31/2013

By LiveRC Staff

LiveRC.com

Start your week by taking our poll! Every Monday morning a new question is posted, and the results of the previous week's poll are dissected for insight on trends and regional patterns. Questions may discuss the direction of the industry, current events, and predictions for upcoming races. Polls close Friday evening, so make sure to get your vote in on time - this is your chance to be heard!

LAST WEEK'S RESULTS

"What major race will Ryan Maifield win in 2014 with his new sponsor?"

Last week's poll question asked, before it was announced that Ryan Maifield was joining TLR, which race LiveRC's audience thought he would win in 2014 - and nearly one-third of the respondents went straight for the jugular by predicting that he'd win the upcoming IFMAR 1/8-Scale Off-Road World Championships.

It's easy to write off that result by saying that the vast majority of U.S. voters think Maifield is among the favorites to win it all in Sicily this fall, but the world map tells a story larger than that - the majority of voters from Canada, Brazil, Germany, Sweden, Mongolia, Russia, the Philippines, and at least one person (claiming to be) from Zimbabwe think Ryan will win this year's biggest race against arguably the most stacked field in history. Some of those countries have some very fast racers of their own! It's difficult to think that Canadians would be betting against Ty Tessmann, the Swedes wouldn't pick David Ronnefalk, or Germans think anyone other than Jörn Neumann would win the IFMAR Worlds for 1/8-scale...maybe there are just that many TLR fans in the world?

Perhaps the British are still a bit sour from a little conflict about 240 years ago, or they simply aren't Ryan's biggest fans, but they were the largest country in which a majority of voters said that Maifield wouldn't score a major win in 2014. French, Polish, and Finnish voters all agreed that Maifield would score another electric off-road ROAR National title in Florida just a few weeks before the trip to Italy, perhaps bolstered by the fact that he's now armed with the current title-holding 22 2.0 buggy, as well as the new 22SCT 2.0, an exciting combination in a class Maifield has dominated for years.

The most interesting estimate, however, goes to Australian's voters and their prediction that Maifield will win next weekend at the Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout - he's scored at least one class championship there in three of the last four years and is the reigning 2WD Modified Buggy winner. If Ryan does in fact attend this weekend's race in the steamy SoCal desert just north of LA, there's a good chance he locks down his first major win in less than seven days.

Of course, after a sweep of 2WD, 4WD, and Short Course yesterday at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals at Outback Raceway in Chico, CA, I don't think anyone would be too surprised if Ryan won all of the races on this list.

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