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Sept. 26, 2012, 5:20 a.m.
9/26/2012
By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com
FTW Race Report:
With beach balls bouncing across the track, inflatable palms trees tripping up providing shade for turn marshals, and a cardboard cutout beautiful hula trophy girl, the 2012 edition of RCHQ’s Summer Classic was proof yet again that race weekends are always better when infused with a healthy dose of levity. We’ve come to expect this from the wonderfully wacky RCHQ crew. Further excitement was created by the graffiti-covered plywood skateboard ramp integrated into the track, creating a kicker jump that sent cars sky high. Mercifully, 1:10 classes were allowed to take a bypass lane here to avoid certain carnage.
San Antonio’s own Mike “Ironman” Battaile won every class he contested, dominating the event with five class wins: nitro buggy, e-buggy, 2wd SC, 4wd SC, and truggy.
FTW co-founder Joshua Riewe took the top spot in the 1:10 2wd buggy, and took third in both 2wd SC and nitro buggy.
Technical gremlins besieged Tyler Hooks in 4wd SC and nitro buggy, but he salvaged the day with a solid third place finish in e-buggy.
The FTW Racing Components used in the aforementioned exploits are as follows:
MIKE BATTAILE:
FTW00029 Night Fox on Team Losi 8ight 2.0
FTW00032 Exabyte on Team Losi 8ight-E 2.0
JOSHUA RIEWE:
FTW00029 Night Fox on Team Losi 8ight 2.0
FTW00002 Night Fox on Team Associated B4.1
FTW00035 Diamondback on Team Losi XXX-SCT
TYLER HOOKS:
FTW00032 Exabyte on Team Durango DEX408
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