Race Report

1:18 Scale Truck Nationals

April 2005

Location: R/C Madness, Enfield, Connecticut
Event: 1:18 Scale Truck Nationals

Team Associated dominates the 4WD classes at the inaugural 1:18 Scale Nationals at R/C Madness! With over 230 entries, this was one of the biggest events to date for the 1:18 scale vehicles!

Josh Anderson (left), Eric Desrosiers (middle), and Tony Phalen

In the 4WD Stock class qualifying, Josh Anderson TQ’ed, with Tony Phalen and Eric Desrosiers rounding out the top three. In the main, Tony and Josh got tangled up with some lapped traffic to let Eric move to the lead. From there, Eric put together some quick and consistent laps to pull off the win! Josh finished second with Tony finishing third.

In the 4WD Modified class, Tony Phalen took top honors with Josh Anderson less than half a second behind and Eric Desrosiers less than one second behind Josh. In the main, Josh and Eric hit and let Tony gain a pretty sizeable lead. Three minutes into the main, Tony got tangled up with some lapped traffic, letting Eric pass him for the lead. The final 2 minutes showed Tony and Eric battling back and forth for the win. On the final lap, Tony made a risky move by JUMPING a whole corner of the track to land right on the start/finish line! In the end, Eric won by .1 seconds! Josh finished up in third place.

All three drivers used Reedy Mini-Max Modified Motors and the new LRP Quantum Competition 2 Micro ESC and LRP 1200UP Micro Packs.

In the 4WD Brushless class, Jeff Winholt took the TQ and easy win to his first National title! Finishing second was Dave Gage, with Tony Priolo rounding out third.
 

4WD Stock:

1	Eric Desrosiers	21 laps, 5:05.209
2	Josh Anderson	21 laps, 5:06.148 - TQ
3	Tony Phalen	21 laps, 5:11.224
4	Jimmy Willis	19 laps, 5:00.626
5	Neil Dickey	19 laps, 5:02.389
6	Joe Grandieri	19 laps, 5:04.661
7	Zack Berry	19 laps, 5:09.498
8	Patrick Collins	18 laps, 5:03.618
9	Chris Marcy	17 laps, 5:13.557
10	Ron Spinelli	14 laps, 5:13.758

4WD Mod:

1	Eric Desrosiers	22 laps, 5:08.488
2	Tony Phalen	22 laps, 5:08.557 - TQ
3	Josh Anderson	22 laps, 5:13.229
4	Mike Haynes	20 laps, 5:01.428
5	Dave Graboski	19 laps, 5:05.318
6	Zack Berry	18 laps, 5:09.914
7	Jimmy Willis	17 laps, 4:19.271 - DNF
8	Joe Grandieri	15 laps, 4:12.734 - DNF
9	Steve O'Brian	1 lap, 0:26.986 - DNF
10	Jeff Wineholt	1 lap, 0:27.590 - DNF

4WD Brushless:

1	Jeff Wineholt	20 laps, 5:10.998 - TQ
2	Dave Gage	18 laps, 5:09.477
3	Tony Priolo	17 laps, 5:03.188
4	Tim Mohr	16 laps, 5:08.671
5	Doug Bushkoff	16 laps, 5:10.596
6	Justin DeCarli	14 laps, 5:14.306
7	Joe Sullivan	13 laps, 3:51.243 - DNF
8	Evan Shelasky	5 laps, 1:42.284 - DNF
9	Josh Cornelius	4 laps, 5:21.239 - DNF
10	Rich Johnson	0 laps, 0:00.000 - DNS

Team Associated would like to thank the crew at R/C Madness for putting on a great event!