4TH ANNUAL NORTHEAST NATIONALS-BUDDY BOYS RC March 30, 2014

April 14th, 2014 Jim

Hello RC Soup racing fans. Here is our recap of the 4th Annual Northeast Nationals at Buddy Boys RC in South New Berlin, NY.

Sunday March 30, 2014 was the day of the 4th Annual Buddy Boys RC Northeast Nationals RC Racing Event.

We had a great turnout even with a sketchy weather forecast. Mother Nature just refuses to let spring arrive!

First and foremost, I would like to extend a big thank you to everyone that came out and raced with us on Sunday. It was great having you there and we hope you had a good time. We know we did.

We also want to extend a huge thank you to our 4th Annual Northeast National race sponsors for all of the great door/raffle prizes that were given out throughout the day (these are in alphabetical order):

Ambit Energy:www.catskillenergy.com

Buddy Boys RC:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Buddyboys-RC-Racing/135685759850286

CRC (Calandra Racing Concepts):www.teamcrc.com

Gary’s Precision Graphics:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Garys-Precision-Graphix/135010519903873

I-Lap Racing Timing Systems:http://www.rclapcounter.com/

John’s BSR Racing Tires:www.johnsbsrracing.com/

Pemberton Raceworks:http://www.pembertonraceworks.com/

Powerpush Batteries:www.powerpushbatteries.com

RJ Speed:www.rjspeed.com

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Team Decker Racing

We ran 12 classes of cars at this year’s event:

  • ProLite 2WD SCT (2wd Short Course trucks-novice)
  • Pro2 2WD SCT (2wd Short Course trucks-advanced)
  • Small Block Truck (stadium trucks)
  • Losi Mini EDM-Open class
  • RJ Speed Legends
  • 21.5 Spec Nastruck
  • 1/12 Super Truck
  • TOUR Super Truck
  • TOUR 13.5 spec COT
  • 1/10 EDM (Eastern Dirt Modified)

We ran a typical 3 round race event which is typical of 1 day RC racing event and club racing.

This was 2 rounds of qualifying w/ a re-sort after round 1 and then Main’s for each class in round 3.

RACING RESULTS: (official results at end of this post)

ProLite:

TQ and eventual A Main winner Mike O Brien Jr showed the way all day long. His truck was hooked up and very quick all day long. He pulled away in the 75 lap main event and finished a full 7 laps ahead of 2nd place Don McAdams. Congratulations Mike, you did a great job! I’ll also add Buddy Boys season points champion, Don McAdam’s, had a great run with his stock Traxxas Slash, and even more important in only his first season of RC racing at Buddy Boys. Nice job Don. Looking forward to seeing how you do this fall.

    

Pro2:

Like son like father, our TQ and eventual Pro2 A Main winner was Mike O Brien Sr. He showed the way all day long with his sweet looking blue and white Pro2 truck. Nice driving Mike and congratulations on your A Main win. He and Jim Furgeson had a great battle right down to the last few laps with Jim falling back by one lap at the end. Buddy Boys regular Mark Moon also had a solid 3rd place finish out of a stout lineup of racers.

    

Losi Mini-EDM-Open Class:

The Southern Tier guys put on a good show in our Losi Mini-EDM-open A Main. Jim Furgeson and Brad Weaver had a great battle for 70 laps with multiple passes with Jim grabbing the win by 1.9 seconds over Brad. Nice racing guys. It is unfortunate that Horizon/Losi pulled the plug on the mini kits. They really are a lot of fun to race and fun to watch. Nice racing guys and congratulations to Jim Furgeson on his A Main win.

    

Small Block Truck:

We had a surprisingly light lineup of our small block trucks this year. I think the bad weather forecast kept some of our small block truck guys from making the trip over the hills. In the A Main final Buddy Boys RC regular Dylan Thomsen grabbed the 100 lap win over Al White by 9 laps. Congratulations to Dylan for his A Main win in only his first season in RC racing.

    

RJ Speed Legends:

The Legends class had a nice revitalization for 2013-2014 racing season. It is the 20 year anniversary for these great kits from RJ Speed and I think many RC racing folks realized just how much fun they really are, me included. We had a solid field of 15 cars this year.

-The B Main was by non other than our own Magee Sarpriacone with his Elwood Racing Legend rent-A ride. He, Rick Smith, Bill Marshall (of Marshall’s Hilltop Hobbies fame), Mike Magnusson and Doug Turtura had a wild battle for almost the entire race with multiple passes. In the end Magee reached 100 laps 2 laps faster than Rick and grabbed the B Main win. Nice driving Magee, a well deserved win.

-The A Main was also a wild one with 7 cars taking the green. For much of the 100 lap A Main it was TJ Oheren leading the way with Dave Elen staying right with him right down to the last lap. TJ grabbed the A Main win by 3 seconds over Dave. I might add, Dave, in his first ever race with a Legend car (mine) and was prepped my Mr Legend Rick Elwood did an outstanding job. Buddy Boys RC season perennial points champion Mike Herbaugh came in with a solid 3rd place just 2 laps back. Nice racing guys, it was fun to watch. I had bad luck and lost a front wheel on the opening lap and was a spectator for the remainder of the race. I did enjoy watching the race though, you guys mixed it up for 100 laps.

    

21.5 Spec Nastruck:

This class is a recent addition to the Buddy Boys club lineup and saw some of the closest and cleanest racing of all classes of racing. It is basically the same TOUR rules for Supertruck EXCEPT it has to be a 21.5 motor instead of a 17.5 and a fixed gear ratio. We had 7 trucks for today’s A Main event. Gary Courtright was TQ and showed the way for all 100 laps but he was getting some serious pressure from Mike Magnusson and Ned Van as the laps wound down. Gary did not blink though and grabbed the win, just a mere 1.3 seconds ahead of Mike Magnusson and 1.6 seconds ahead of Ned Van. Congratulations Gary, a well deserved win in a closely contested race.

    

1/12 Super Truck:

This class was started up this year, primarily in upstate NY. It is basically a 1/12 scale pan car chassis with a scale Nastruck body with 17.5 blinky power and WGT spec tires. These cars are very quick and fun to watch. In our A Main event we saw Team CRC hotshoe Nate Lafluer and Buddy Boys regular Mike Herbaugh put on a good show for 100 solid laps with Nate grabbing the win with his potent CRC Razor 3 1/12 Supertruck by .6 seconds over Mike. Mike was wheeling his always fast Pemberton Raceworks SJ12 chassis. Nice racing guys, you put on a great show.

    

TOUR Supertruck:

We had a solid field of 20 Supertrucks this year with racing thru the A, B and C Mains.

-In the C Main event, Buddy Boys regular Mark Moon came away with the 100 lap win over 2nd place John Scriber. Nice racing Mark, congratulations on the win.

-The B Main was a very close race for all 7 trucks with Marshall’s hotshoe TJ O’heren grabbing the 100 lap win by 2 laps over Magee and Doug Turtura. Team CRC member Rob Barone and Dick Decker finished in 4th and 5th only 3 laps back. Unfortunately my bad luck continued and I had to pull my Pemberton SJ10 Chief in mid race after an incident broke my steering. It sure was a great time racing though, with many laps of green flag clean racing. Congratulations to TJ for the B Main win.

-In the A Main event, we saw some of the fastest guys in the Northeast lined up to take the green. TQ and eventual A Main winner Mike O’Brien showed the way with his potent CRC Battle Axe 3.0 Supertruck. Mike Herbaugh qualified  with an impressive outside pole in the A Main with his Pemberton Raceworks RP4. There was some fantastic clean side by side and nose to tail racing for 100 laps. Dave Peek’s RP4 was awful fast as was JR James in his PRW car. In the end, it was once again CRC hotshoe Nate Lafluer racing his way from 4th to put the pressure on Mike as the laps wound down. Mike grabbed the win by exactly .5 seconds over Nate at the checker. Now that was almost a photo finish! Mike Herbaugh ended up a solid 3rd place with Dave Peek and JR in 4th and 5th respectively. Thank you guys for putting on a great show.