Originally Posted by CaseyP
1st and 2nd in invite as well as 2 more in the A main
not sure about 19 turn
I think Brian was the highest finisher in invite. I think 15th, Matt was near there too.
I'm sure you meant Open,
Food for thought, just some observations...
Reedy race 2005
Losi did quite well taking 4 of 10 spots in open mod.
as for invitational
Originally Posted by futureal
2005 Reedy Race of Champions
Invitational Equipment List
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F Driver Country Chassis Motor Battery ESC Radio Body
1. Craig Drescher England Associated FT TC4 Reedy Ti 7x1 Reedy Novak GTX KO Propo Helios Protoform Stratus 3.0
2. Jiles Groskamp Netherlands Xray T1FK'05 Peak Peak Hara Twister 2 KO Propo Protoform Mazda 6
3. Atsushi Hara USA Hot Bodies Cyclone Orion 7x1 Orion 3700 Hara Twister 2 KO Propo Helios Ride Accord
4. Marc Rheinard Germany Tamiya 415MSX Orion Orion 3700 Hara Twister 2 KO Propo Helios Protoform Mazda 6
5. Masami Hirosaka Japan Yokomo MR4TC BD Reedy Ti 7x1 Yokomo 3700 Yokomo VFS Masami KO Esprit Vantage Type R Protoform Mazda 6
6. David Jun USA Tamiya 415MSX Reedy Reedy 3700 LRP QC2 Futaba 3PK Protoform Stratus 3.0
7. David Spashett England Tamiya 415MSX Peak 7x1 Peak LRP QC2 KO Esprit Vantage Type R Protoform Mazda 6
8. Ralph Burch USA Xray T1FK'05 EPIC SMC Novak GTX KO Propo Helios Protoform Stratus 3.0
9. Satoshi Maezumi Japan Tamiya 415MSX Transpeed Cosmo Energy KO VFS-1 KO Propo Helios Ride Accord
10. Andrew Moore England Hot Bodies Cyclone Orion Orion KO VFS-1 KO Propo Ride Accord
11. Paul Wynn USA Schumacher Mi2 Reedy Ti 7x1 Fusion LRP QC2 Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
12. Jimmy Jacobson USA Tamiya 415MSX Redline Pole Position LRP QC2 Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
13. Surikarn Chaidajsuriya Thailand Hot Bodies Cyclone Peak Peak KO VFS-1 KO Propo EX10 Ride Accord
14. Jonas Kaerup Denmark Associated FT TC4 Reedy Reedy LRP QC2 Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
15. Thomas Pumpler Austria Yokomo MR4TC BD Orion Orion - KO Propo Helios Protoform Mazda 6
16. Brian Kinwald USA Team Losi JRX-S Trinity Cobalt Trinity Novak GTX Airtronics M11 Yokomo Stratus
17. Matt Francis USA Team Losi JRX-S Trinity Cobalt Trinity 3700 LRP QC2 Airtronics M11 Yokomo Stratus
18. Chris Tosolini USA Corally RDX Team br00d 7x1 Pole Position KO VFS-1 Airtronics M11 Protoform Mazda 6
19. Rick Hohwart USA Tamiya 415MSX Peak 7x1 Peak 3700 Hara Twister 2 Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
20. Kiyo Suzuki Japan Tamiya 415MSX - - - Airtronics M11 Ride Accord
21. Mike Blackstock USA Associated FT TC4 Reedy Reedy Novak GTX KO Propo Helios Protoform Mazda 6
22. Barry Baker USA Associated FT TC4 Reedy Reedy 3700 LRP QC2 Airtronics M11 Protoform Mazda 6
23. Greg Hodapp USA Xray T1FK'05 Peak Peak Novak GTX Airtronics M11 Protoform Stratus 3.0
24. Ryan Cavalieri USA Associated FT TC4 Trinity Cobalt Trinity LRP QC2 Airtronics M11 Protoform Mazda 6
25. Billy Easton USA Team Losi JRX-S Trinity Cobalt Trinity 3700 Novak GTX Futaba 3PK Tamiya Subaru
26. Joel Myrberg Sweden Xray T1FK'05 Fantom SMC Novak GTX Futaba 3PJ Protoform Mazda 6
27. Mike Dumas USA Xray T1FK'05 EPIC EPIC 3700 Novak GTX JR R1 Protoform Stratus 3.0
28. Toni Rheinard Germany Tamiya 415MSX Orion Orion 3700 Hara Twister 2 KO Propo Helios Protoform Mazda 6
29. Andrew Cartwright USA Tamiya 415MSX Orion 7x1 Orion 3700 Volac Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
30. Juho Levanen Finland Associated FT TC4 Reedy Reedy Novak GTX Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
31. Josh Cyrul USA Kyosho Prototype Truespeed SMC KO VFS-1 KO Propo Helios Protoform Stratus 3.0
32. Paul Lemieux USA Kyosho Prototype Truespeed SMC Novak GTX Futaba 3PK Protoform Stratus 3.0
33. Kyle Skidmore USA Associated FT TC4 Reedy Ti 7x1 Reedy LRP QC2 Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
34. Chris Grainger England Yokomo MR4TC BD Checkpoint Checkpoint Novak GTX KO Propo Ride Stratus Mk. II[/pre]
This is not at all a showcase of cars, most of these guys could drive a toaster to victory lane. But if anyone wants to talk about the cars, the field is stacked heavily for tamiya (there facility, and AE (reedy race) 47% of the field is tamiya and associated.
1 corrally car, just because toss finished 18th, does that mean corrally is crap, give me a break he won the snowbirds with it, that rdx had about a 3% chance of winning, Losi and a few others only 3 cars out of 34, 8 % chance of winning. There were like 5 or more former losi drivers in the race, some in the A-main doing just as well as they had done with there losi, with other cars.
This is a field of talent and not cars, Invitational does not mean Manufacturers cup, there were not 8 losi's 8 ae, etc...
If you go by that, over all Kyosho, with there prototype, 2 great drivers, but car needs a little work.
AE had a horrible invitational Take craigs amazing driving skills, and over all win out of the equation the avarage FTTC4 finish, average finishing position was 24th, AE's best driver at the worlds finished 30th. Sorry but the shafties were still getting belted
Best invite car might be the cyclone, but those 3 drivers could lap all of us even if we sprayed pepper spray in there eyes before the main. Tamiya did as expected. x-ray had 2 in the top 10 then what the hell happened.
It's all about the drivers ability to win in heads up racing, a great event.
Josh Numan won the reedy race, but I think the 2 most interesting things are not that he ran a JRXS, I mean the get over it, the car is proven at this point.
He was running the only stratus 3.0 in the main
I guess dodge's are faster then Mazda's
and that checkpoint motor Won the reedy race WOW
Orion, Trinity, Reedy, move over, theres a new very competitive Modified to worry about =)
As far as I know, this is the biggest win for both checkpoint, and Novak batteries.
Josh Numan your sponsers aren't paying you enough
Originally Posted by futureal
2005 Reedy Race of Champions
Open Modified A Main
[pre] F Q Driver A1 A2 A3 Chassis Motor Battery ESC Radio Body
1. 1 Josh Numan 1 1 - Team Losi JRX-S Checkpoint Novak Novak GTX Airtronics M8 Protoform Stratus 3.0
2. 4 Mike Truhe 2 6 2 Team Losi JRX-S Trinity Trinity Novak GTX Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
3. 3 Brent Thielke 3 2 4 Associated TC4 Reedy Reedy LRP QC2 Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
4. 2 Jared Scott 10 4 1 Xray T1FK'05 - SMC Novak GTX KO Propo Helios Protoform Mazda 6
5. 9 Todd Hodge 5 10 3 Team Losi JRX-S Trinity Trinity LRP QC2 Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
6. 7 Ben Bustamante 9 3 7 Associated TC4 Reedy Reedy LRP QC2 Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6
7. 5 Rod Canare 7 5 6 Tamiya 415MS Orion Pro-Match - Futaba 3PK Protoform Mazda 6
8. 8 Bobby Flack 4 7 8 Xray T1FK'05 EPIC EPIC Novak GTX KO Propo Helios Protoform Mazda 6
9. 10 Toshihiko Hara 8 8 5 Hot Bodies Cyclone - - Hara Twister 2 Airtronics M8 Ride
10. 6 Steve Weiss 6 9 9 Team Losi JRX-S Trinity Novak Novak GTX Airtronics M8 Protoform Mazda 6[/pre]
I hope I didn't offend anyone, everyone had a great time out there, and really in the end, thats all that matters.....