Driver: Jared Tebo
Mechanic: Jared Tebo
Tools: MIP
Car: Kyosho RB6 in Mod Motor
Motor: Team Orion VST2 Pro 7.5
Battery: Team Orion XS 4000
ESC: Team Orion VortexR10 Pro
Servo: KO Propo RSx Response
Radio: KO Propo EX-10 Eurus
Tires: Worlds Spec

Rear: Pro-Line Suburb 2.0 X2 (8213-002) stock white foams
Front: To the discretion of the driver, suggested Pro-Line Scrubs X2 (8212-002)

Wheels: AKA HexLite
Screws: Lunsford Titanium
Body: Kyosho
Wing: Kyosho Step 2.0
Paint: Takashima Designs
Stickers: Upgrade-RC
Hop Up Parts: Kyosho aluminum steering plate UMW701, Kyosho Aluminum Steering Crank Arms UMW702, Kyosho Aluminum Suspension Mounts UMW705 , UMW707, Kyosho SP Motor Plate UMW509GM, Kyosho V2 Aluminum Rear Hub UMW704-0
Sponsors: Kyosho, Orion, AKA, Sidewinder, KO Propo, JTP, Allebasi, Upgrade-RC, RCID, Lunsford, TD Paints, X-Gear, MIP, RockBrook Church, LiveRC.com, and me Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

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Information about gear diff used during event

What does reversing the steering rack do to the car? Will you run it like this all the time now?

Also in regards to the rear hangers, does a narrower pivot give more overall traction?

I'm not 100% sure on the engineering side what moving your ackerman back does. With the RB6 on sugar I was having a hard time with my steering being very sensitive off center, but then pushing in the middle of the turn. It was just really hard to drive. I moved the caster block back and the ackerman back. It really made the steering feel more linear through the whole turning of the wheel.

Rear pivot. On really loose tracks, a narrow pivot will probably have more grip. On high grip, the car seems more squirmy with a narrow pivot.

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Perfect weather conditions were present on Monday and most of Tuesday. Just as the 4th round of qualifying ended Tuesday night, a severe rain storm hit Silver Dollar Raceway and would flood the track. That next morning the decision by IFMAR was to cancel the 5th and final round of qualifying and take each drivers 2 best points toward their overall qualifying order. Since Team Orion Factory Driver Jared Tebo went onto TQ 2 out of the 4 rounds of qualifying on Tuesday, he would take the Overall TQ honors!

The Silver Dollar Raceway track crew did a remarkable job Wednesday morning to get the track back up and running so racing could resume and all the finals to be ran.

A-Main #1: Team Orion's Jared Tebo would go onto lead the field around for the first 2-minutes of the race with his Team Orion teammate Ryan Cavalieri right behind him in 2nd. Right at the halfway point of the race, Tebo made a small mistake by rolling it right before the start/finish line and Cavalieri would get collected. Tamiya's Lee Martin would then take the lead with Tebo now in 2nd. That very next lap in the same corner where Tebo rolled, Martin got on 2 wheels and Tebo was able to go inside of him and take back the lead. AE's Neil Cragg was now right with the lead pack in 3rd. With 2-minutes to go it was Tebo with a narrow lead over Martin and Cragg. At the 1:30 mark, Martin clips the pipe on the landing of the front hip jump and Cragg now moves to 2nd. Tebo drove a perfect last minute of the race to take the Win! Cragg would finish right behind Tebo for 2nd and Martin 3rd.

A-Main #2: Team Orion's Jared Tebo once again would lead the field out for lap #1 with Cavalieri and Martin close behind. After lap #2, the top 3 drivers begin to distance themselves from the field. Now 2-minutes into the main, Tebo still leads over Cavalieri and Martin with 4th place a ways back. At the halfway point of the race, Martin crashes over the right side triple and then Cavalieri flips after the step-up triple but lands back on his wheels. Cavalieri remains in 2nd and Martin 3rd, but now Tebo has a 2-second lead. With a little more than 1-minute left, Cavalieri rolls it in the corner just before the line and then Tebo jumps on the wrong side of the pipe but is able to get back over safely. This allowed Martin to just get by Tebo for the lead. That same lap Martin gets it wrong over the right side triple and Tebo gets by for the race lead. Now out of nowhere, AE's Ryan Maifield has worked his way to 2nd. Tebo would hold off a hard charging Maifield on the last lap to take the 2wd Buggy IFMAR World Championship!