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Thunder Alley Enduro: 1st place 1/8 Buggy team The Dirt Nitro Challenge: Qualifying: 1/8 Buggy - 5th 1/8 Truck - 3rd Finished: 1/8 Buggy - 11th 1/8 Truck - 3rd Silver State Nitro Challenge: Qualifying: 1/8 Buggy - TQ 1/8 Truck - 20 Finished: 1/8 Buggy - 1st 1/8 Truck - 20 |
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| Chad Bradley won both buggy and truggy with the O.S. 21 V-Spec at the US Gas Champs last weekend (April 28-30) Chad was also TQ in Pro Truggy. The engines ran awesome, no problems what so ever (actually all year long as well). So far the years been perfect with OS engines, this race is considered one of top 5 biggest in the U.S. |
Pro Truggy
1st & TQ Chad Bradley- Jammin / O.S. 21 V-Spec
Pro Buggy
1st Chad Bradley- Jammin / O.S. 21 V-Spec
Hobbico's big three, O'Donnell Racing Fuel, Futaba Radios and O.S. Racing Engines, are proud to announce the signing of Midwest hotshot from Addison, Illinois, Sonny Ochoa - or as his legions of fans call him, Sonny O'.
With this signing, Sonny will be exclusively running the incredibly powerful O.S. V-Spec .21 in both his 1/8th buggy and truggy. When it comes to 1/10th nitro truck, he will rely on the ever popular O.S. .12TZ. To make sure these engines perform at their peak, they will be fueled by O'Donnell 30% and 20% race blend fuel...and if that wasn't enough, Sonny will be extremely confident behind the wheel of his Synthesized Futaba 3PK Super.
"Sonny is going to make an incredible addition to the team," said Scott Cramer of Hobbico. "With his great race results and awesome, helpful attitude off the track, it's a win, win situation."
Sonny O' is equally enthusiastic. "This is like a dream come true to run for not only one, but three of the best companies in the world! It will give me so much confidence knowing that I have the best equipment under me."
If you see Sonny racing at a track near you, make sure you stop by and check out all the latest and greatest products from O'Donnell Racing Fuels, Futaba Radios and O.S. Racing Engines.
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Futaba and O.S. were very strong at the Silver State Nitro Challenge.
Truggies -- SS 1/8 Truck (UMT) - A Main - Mark Pavidas qualified first place and took the top qualifying. Pos Qualified Laps Time Name 1 2 76 45:13.24 Chad Bradley O.S 2 3 76 45:16.37 Ryan Cavalieri 3 4 76 45:30.93 Taylor James Futaba / O.S. 4 11 73 45:27.41 Dean Sexton O.S. 5 13 72 45:18.52 Raul Peris 6 8 72 45:35.64 Yuichi Kanai Futaba 7 15 71 45:02.90 Marty Korn 8 9 71 45:24.27 Andrew Smolnik 9 5 71 45:31.48 Cody King 10 1 70 45:09.29 Mark Pavidas Futaba / O.S. 11 7 65 45:05.28 JR Mitch 12 14 49 29:18.45 Ryan Lutz 13 10 45 27:31.11 Adrien Bertin 14 6 36 26:19.97 Ryan Maifield 15 12 15 11:00.48 Samuele Lenzi |
1/10 Truck -- SS 1/10 Expert - A Main - Jared Tebo was the Top qualifier in this class. Pos Qualified Laps Time Name 1 3 65 45:05.04 Ryan Cavalieri 2 10 65 45:09.27 Ryan Maifield 3 2 65 45:38.06 Taylor James Futaba / O.S. 4 8 64 45:09.69 Cody King 5 12 64 45:10.67 JR Mitch 6 11 63 45:13.95 Billy Fischer 7 5 63 45:23.72 Adam Drake 8 13 62 45:26.65 Steve Hale Futaba 9 7 62 45:29.48 Mike Kendall 10 4 61 45:14.97 Jesse Robbers 11 9 60 42:55.97 Richard Saxton 12 15 60 45:29.47 Lance Norrick 13 14 54 45:39.11 Steven Miller 14 1 49 35:07.60 Jared Tebo Futaba 15 6 9 6:28.39 Marty Korn |
![]() 1st Scott Hughes 2nd Taylor James 3rd Ryan Cavalieri |
![]() Scott Hughes with the O.S. 21 V-Spec was also the Top Qualifier for the weekend. |
1/8th Expert Buggies -- SS 1/8 Expert - A Main - Pos Qualified Laps Time Name 1 1 74 45:25.58 Scott Hughes O.S. 2 4 73 45:15.36 Taylor James Futaba/O.S. 3 14 73 45:20.28 Ryan Cavalieri 4 11 72 45:33.10 Chad Bradley O.S. 5 2 72 45:39.59 Atsushi Hara Futaba / O.S. 6 7 71 45:13.66 Ricardo Gomez 7 6 71 45:13.95 Greg Degani 8 5 71 45:31.08 Marty Korn 9 10 70 45:02.07 Jared Tebo Futaba / O'Donnell 10 3 70 45:28.75 Mark Pavidas Futaba / O.S. 11 15 69 45:01.77 JR Mitch 12 12 68 45:16.20 Paul Coleman Futaba 13 9 58 39:03.48 Jeremy Kortz 14 8 54 36:41.89 Adam Drake 15 13 20 15:50.20 Ryan Maifield |
Taylor James and his 1/8th Truggy, 1/8th Buggy and 1/10th Truck. All powered by O.S. Engines and Futaba equipment.
Race report by Tommy Porfirio:
Practice was held on Friday. Car was pretty close out of the box. With a 45 minute main event tire wear would be an issue, so I decided to get my car dialed on harder tires, although most guys were running wraps and softer durometer tires. After qualifing I was less than a second from the top qualifier who was running the Jaco wrap tires. These tires will not last the main event. From the start of the main I traded the lead with Frosty St. Clair for the first 20 minutes. I stretched the lead to 5 seconds and was never pressured afterwards. I won by over 2 laps.
| Position | Driver | Car | Engine | Radio | Laps |
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| 1 | Tommy Porfirio | Kyosho | OS | KO Propo | 147 |
| 2 | Jimmy Huynh | Mugen | OS | Airtronics | 145 |
| 3 | Binson Chang | Kyosho | 141 | ||
| 4 | Larry Pryor | Mugen | Palmairis | KO Propo | 140 |
| 5 | Todd Bath | Kyosho | Palmairis | Futaba | 140 |
| 6 | Herman Rodriguez | Kyosho | Nova | Airtronics | 131 |
| 7 | Jeff Parker | Kyosho | OS | Futaba | 130 |
| 8 | P. Guillaume Herve | Mugen | Nova | 131 | |
| 9 | Tom Norell | Mugen | Nova | KO Propo | 124 |
| 10 | Frosty St. Clair | Kyosho | OS | Airtronics | 83 |
| 11 | Jason Lee | Kyosho | Nova | Airtronics | 83 |
| 12 | Eduardo Romero | Mugen | RB | Futaba | 36 |
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Team O.S. Engines' Mark Frederick's overcome the unbelievable water conditions to take the very first NAMBA National Championship for the Top Speed 2!
Also, Team O.S. Engines' Jerry Dunlap, designer of the Top Speed 2, came in 2nd.
Mark and Jerry both also using Futaba radio gear, O.S. .21 XM outboard engine and O'DONNELL Fuel!
OS Racing Team's Mark Pavidis finished the 1/8th scale Nitro Buggy class in third place.
Pavidis qualified in the second position in the Buggy class.
Pavidis was using a .21 VZ-B V-Spec-T Engine in his buggy.
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