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March 6, 2012, 3:50 a.m.
3/6/2012
By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com
Team Orion Race Report:
The 3rd Annual PRCR Invitational was held March 3rd & 4th at Portland R/C Raceway in Clackamas, Oregon. This is the home track of Team Orion USA Team Manager Joe Pillars and is owned by his father in-law Jim Dunlap. At this years event, current 2wd & 4wd IFMAR World Champion Ryan Cavalieri was in attendance along with the fastest drivers in the North-West.
For the Invitational Class, all drivers would use their 2wd Modified Buggies for all 8 rounds. 4 rounds of heads up racing were ran on Saturday followed by another 4 rounds on Sunday. Each driver was given 2 throw-outs, using their best 6 points. Tie-breakers were determined by the number of 1st place finishes, 2nd place finishes, and so on using the 6 counted points. If still a tie, then the drivers 2 best combined laps and times were added together. Throw-outs were just that, and were not used. This is the same system that is used at the International Reedy Buggy Race of Champions.
For all other classes, 3 rounds of qualifying were ran on Saturday and 1 last chance qualifier on Sunday. The rocket round format was used to determine the overall qualifying order by taking each drivers single fastest run. Then lower main bump-ups followed by triple A-Mains were ran to determine the champion in each class.
Team Orion/AE Factory Driver Ryan Cavalieri took the overall win by finishing with 5 first place finishes and 1 second place finish to give him a total of 7 points.Finishing 2nd overall was Team Orion/Kyosho America Team Manager Joe Pillars with 2 first place finishes and 4 second place finishes.Finishing 3rd overall was Team Orion/Kyosho's young up and coming talent Andy DiBrino. Andy actually tied with Pillars, but just came up short on the 2nd tie-breaker by only .4 of a second.
Invitational 2wd Modified Buggy Overall Top 10
1 Ryan Cavalieri
2 Joe Pillars
3 Andy DiBrino
4 Chris Gould
5 Shaun Dunlap
6 Chris Nealeigh
7 Roger Seim
8 Thomas Tran
9 Joe Cathey
10 Austin Seim
Winning Equipment Used By Ryan Cavalieri:
ORI28207 Team Orion Vortex 7.5 Brushless Motor
ORI41444 Team Orion 270mm Sensor Wire
ORI14043 Team Orion Carbon Pro 5000mah 90C Li-Po Battery
ORI30153 Team Orion Twin Spec Li-Po Charger
ORI30176 Team Orion Advantage IQ 16amp Power Supply
Geared: 21/78
Team Orion/AE Factory Driver Ryan Cavalieri went onto TQ all 4 rounds of Qualifying to take the overall TQ.Cavalieri went onto Win A-Mains #1 and #3 to take the overall Win!Team Orion/Kyosho Factory Driver Shaun Dunlap went onto Win A-Main #2 and finished 2nd in A-Main #3 to finish 2nd overall.Team Orion/Kyosho Driver Andy DiBrino finished 2nd in A-Main #1 and 3rd in A-Main #2 to take 3rd overall.
Modified Truck Overall Top 5
1 Ryan Cavalieri (TQ)
2 Shaun Dunlap
3 Andy DiBrino
4 Gary Culp
5 Jack Leighan
Winning Equipment Used By Ryan Cavalieri:
ORI28206 Team Orion Vortex 6.5 Brushless Motor
ORI41444 Team Orion 270mm Sensor Wire
ORI14043 Team Orion Carbon Pro 5000mah 90C Li-Po Battery
ORI30153 Team Orion Twin Spec Li-Po Charger
ORI30176 Team Orion Advantage IQ 16amp Power Supply
Geared: 17/82
Congrats goes out to very young local talent Tristin Harnar for Winning Stock Buggy, Stock Truck, and Stock Short Course Truck using all Team Orion Products to power him to the top, this making it a clean sweep for him in all 3 stock classes he entered.
Winning Equipment Used By Tristin Harnar in all 3 Stock Classes:
ORI65102 Team Orion Vortex R10 Speed Controller
ORI28236 Team Orion Vortex VST 17.5 Brushless Motor
ORI41444 Team Orion 270mm Sensor Wire
ORI14043 Team Orion Carbon Pro 5000mah 90C Li-Po Battery
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