Ryan Lutz Wins 1/8 Buggy And Short Course Classes At Nor-Cal Championship Series

Ryan Lutz Wins 1/8 Buggy And Short Course Classes At Nor-Cal Championship Series

Ryan Lutz took 8th buggy and Short Course classes in style this weekend at the Nor-Cal Championship series at Nor-Cal Hobbies.

In Short Course I ran my DESC410R and it felt great! I wasn’t expecting too much as I still haven’t put much time into this class but the truck felt great. I didn’t touch it the entire day, just ran my one practice, two qualifiers, and the A-main. I was able to TQ every round of quals and take the victory in the A-main. For fun in the second qualifier I ran on the 1/8th layout (there was an option lane for the SC guys). I was only 1.4 seconds a lap on the 1/8th layout slower than my 1/8th buggy and truggy. My little DESC410R was flying – running the optional centre diff I was skying the huge hip jump with it and launching it off the back table top. It was a lot of fun and people were very impressed with its performance.

In Buggy my Team Durango DNX408 was on rails – it just felt awesome! I am so happy with my car right now and just feel so confident with it. What’s great is that I have supreme confidence that it’s not going to break. It’s just such a strong car, and on the track it is a dream to drive. For this track compared to the Silver State track I just lengthened my rear camber link out one hole on the rear hub and thickened up the rear swaybar to a 2.4. This is all it needed to be dialed on yet another track. I was able to take TQ in both qualifiers. In the main I had a great run and even with two lengthy crashes near the end of the run, where the marshall was headed the other way to get another car first, I was still able to come away with a solid win. Many people trackside were very impressed with how the car was handling the track, and all I could say was “yea, I know, it’s so good right now.”

Ryans DNX408 setup is now available on the ‘in the pits’ section of the Team Durango website or by clicking here.

Never miss an issue of RC Car Action!

Subscribe today with a Digital Edition subscription or Print + Digital combo!

 

Updated: July 20, 2015 — 3:02 PM
Air Age Media ©