Yoshii is crowned Grand Champion of Lunsford Race

Friday, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:00am UTC

January 9-10 saw the Pacific NW kick off its first race of 2016 indoor season. This year's Lunsford Race format is a bit different from the previous year. In trying to make the racing more interesting, NW Hobbies' track owner Casey Vitale and Kelly Lunsford came up with a twist that would dedicate Saturday for 2WD Modified, while Sunday was left for the 4WD Modified class. In both 2WD and 4WD there would be two qualifiers ran to decide the starting grid and then double A Mains to decide each respective class champion. Finally, by combining both the 2WD and 4WD Modified results, there will be one overall Lunsford "Grand Champion." This special format is only for 2WD and 4WD Modified classes; the rest of the classes would run your typical four qualifier and triple A Mains.

With the best-combined 2WD Modified and 4WD Modified results, the 2016 Lunsford Grand Champion is the talent from T-Town, Tacoma's own Team Associated/JConcepts' Harley Yoshii. With his second-place finish in 2WD and first-place finish in 4WD, Yoshii takes the trophy home for a year and gets his name engraved on the Lunsford trophy as the 2016 grand champion!

Products used
#90002 RC10B5M Champions Edition
#9063 Factory Team B44.3

Thanks to 2wdmod.com for this report.

Team Associated - Champions by Design


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