It was a great weekend at the first 2012 stop on the Short Course Shootout trail for X Factory, with Mike Aliberti and Chris Cristo showing the new carbon fiber SCX – 60CF truck very well indeed.  RC Excitement in Fitchburg, Mass was the venue for a good weekend of close SC racing on March 16-18 with a tight indoor track that tested driving skills to the max.

Stock 2WD SC Podium

Fresh from his “lights out” win at last month’s SnowBall race,  Aliberti TQed stock 2WD SC with a time that would have put him 9^th in mod while Cristo was 4^th on the grid.  A first-lap mishap on the difficult quad jump put Mike back to second in the main, and he finished there, just a second or two behind the winner.  Cristo kept his 4^th place.

Mod 2WD SC Podium

In 2WD Mod SC, Aliberti qualified 5^th and worked his way up to 3^rd with the new SCX – 60CF.  Mike said, “My carbon fiber truck was the talk of the event – we are gonna sell a bunch of them.  It was amazing getting on and off the straight.  I’m so glad it was dialed in front of my home crowd.”

Aliberti’s SCX – 60CF