Team Orion Wins Modified Truck And Super Stock Buggy/Truck At Cactus Classic

Team Orion Wins Modified Truck And Super Stock Buggy/Truck At Cactus Classic

2011 marked the 25th annual running of the Cactus Classic. This years event was held March 18-20 at Scottsdale R/C Speedway in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona. The Cactus is known world-wide as being one of the premier races of the year. This is one of those races where you have to experiesnce it at least one time. The perfect weather, great international field of competition, and precision ran race program has made this race standout from the rest for 25 years now. Later this year will be the 1/10 IFMAR Off-Road Electric Worlds and all the race teams are getting in some valuable testing with every major driver in attendance.

The race schedule consisted of:

Wednesday – Controlled Practice
Thursday – Controlled Practice
Friday – 2 5-minute Rounds of Qualifying
Saturday – 2 5-minute Rounds of Qualifying
Sunday – All Main Events

The standard 2 out of 4 points system was used this year once again to determine the overall qualifying order. All modified classes woud run 6-minute AAA-mains, while the stock and super stock classes would run 1 10-minute A-Main.

In the Modified Truck Class it was a battle throughout qualifying between Team Orion Teammates Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri. Tebo would end up just edging out Cavalieri for the TQ honors.

In A-Main #1 it was Tebo who would take the Win, Cavalieri in 2nd, and Jakubczyk in 3rd. In A-Main #2 Cavalieri would take the win, Tebo in 2nd, with Phend in 3rd. In A-Main #3 the Championship would be decided. After a great battle it would be Cavalieri taking home the win and the Modified Truck Championship. Tebo would finish 2nd and 2nd overall. Jason Jakubczyk would finish 3rd in the last main to guarantee him 3rd place overall. This would make it a Team Orion sweep on the podium for the Modified Truck Class!

Modified Truck Overall Finishing Order

1. Ryan Cavalieri – Team Orion
2. Jared Tebo (TQ) – Team Orion
3. Jason Jakubczyk – Team Orion
4. Dakotah Phend
5. Steven Hartson
6. Brent Thielke
7. Dustin Evans – Team Orion
8. Jake Thayer
9. Chance Chapel
10. Shaun Dunalp – Team Orion

In the Super Stock Buggy Class, it was Team Orion/Kyosho’s up and coming star Andy DiBrino who would take the TQ honors with his Team Orion powered Kyosho RB5-SP2.

Andy then went on to lead every lap of the 10-minute A-Main to take this years Super Stock Buggy Championship!

In the Super Stock Truck Class, it was once again Kyosho’s Andy DiBrino who took the overall TQ with his Team Orion powered Kyosho RT5. Andy then went on to lead every lap again in this class and take home the win by a considerable margin to take home his second Championship of the weekend!

Andy TQ’ed and Won both Super Stock Classes with his NEW Team Orion VST 13.5 Race Motors!

TQ Equipment Used By Jared Tebo:

ORI65101 Team Orion R10 Pro ESC (NEW)
ORI28226 Team Orion 6.5 Vortex VST Pro Modified Prototype Brushless Motor
ORI41444 Team Orion 270mm Sensor Wire
ORI30128 Team Orion Advantage Pro Spec Charger
ORI30176 Team Orion Advantage IQ 16amp Power Supply
ORI14030 Team Orion 4600 Carbon Molecular Li-Po Battery
ORI43025 Team Orion Pit Light

Winning Equipment Used By Ryan Cavalieri:

ORI28226 Team Orion 6.5 Vortex VST Pro Modified Prototype Brushless Motor
ORI41444 Team Orion 270mm Sensor Wire
ORI30128 Team Orion Advantage Pro Spec Charger
ORI30176 Team Orion Advantage IQ 16amp Power Supply
ORI14030 Team Orion 4600 Carbon Molecular Li-Po Battery
ORI43025 Team Orion Pit Light

Winning Equipment Used By Andy DiBrino:

ORI28235 Team Orion 13.5 Vortex VST Brushless Motor (NEW)
ORI41444 Team Orion 270mm Sensor Wire
ORI30128 Team Orion Advantage Pro Spec Charger
ORI30176 Team Orion Advantage IQ 16amp Power Supply
ORI14030 Team Orion 4600 Carbon Molecular Li-Po Battery
ORI43025 Team Orion Pit Light
ORI68002 Team Orion Vortex 1409 Hi-Torque Servo

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