January 9th and 10th saw the Pacific NW kick off its first race of 2016 indoor season and what a great way to celebrate the new year with a fantastic race in celebration of one of the industry’s greatest ambassadors…. Kelly Lunsford. Now, in it’s 2nd year of the great Lunsford Race, last year’s champion … Continue reading
The 3rd annual South Valley Invert Race hosted by Cottage Grove R/C in Cottage Grove, Oregon has become an instant classic here in the Northwest. If you’re an old school racer from the 90’s, you’re probably familiar with other NW classics like the Summer Sizzler, original Columbia Cup, Summer Shootout, regionals, etc when race tracks … Continue reading
October 2nd marks the start of the first day of the 2015 IFMAR World Championships here in Tsukuba, Japan. This year, this special event is held at the world famous Yatabe Arena, which is widely considered the ‘mecca’ of RC racing. Win a World title here and your name will go down in history along … Continue reading
In its 6th iteration of this special race, the NW Invitational has become the ‘must attend‘ race here in the NW. Based on the all-out, battle every round, Reedy race format the NW Invitational race is an experience you can’t have unless you’re one of the lucky racers that gets their name pulled from the … Continue reading
After a hard weekend of racing the 2015 Nationals are in the books. This year’s event was somewhat one-sided if you look at the results, but sometimes results don’t tell the whole story. The racing was close and everyone was going fast, but in the end it was Cavalieri doing what Cavalieri does best and … Continue reading
Kyosho/Team Orion’s Jared Tebo started to heat up with a fantastic drive to earn TQ in modified SC over AE/JConcetps’ Spencer Rivkin and AE/Team Orion’s Ryan Cavalieri by a narrow margin of 1.7 seconds. Cavalieri would finish 2nd earning him the overall for the class with 2 TQ’s. Modified Truck saw Cavalieri jump to the … Continue reading
The end of Cavalieri’s TQ streak in qualifying has come to an end as round 3 saw a few of the other elites earn their first TQ of the weekend. Although he wasn’t able to go 4 for 4 like in round 2, AE/Team Orion’s still was able to grab a few TQ’s. Taking TQ … Continue reading
Another exciting round of qualifying is in the books. Round 2 looked very similar to round 1 with AE/Team Orion’s Ryan Cavalieri showing his dominance once again in qualifying. First, Cavalieri took TQ in the modified short course class by a ‘cushy’ margin of 3.3 seconds over short course king, Ryan Maifield. Local wonder-kid, AE/JConcepts’ … Continue reading
Name: Ryan Cavalieri Age: 29 Hometown: Costa Mesa California Sponsors: Team Associated, Team Orion, AKA, Airtronics, MX, UpgradeRC, Makita, Kicker, OCRC, RCE, PCH Hobbies, Lunsford, MIP, Darkside Design Let’s start off with a few fun questions…. Outside of your RC racing career what are some of your interests and hobbies? If I have free time, … Continue reading
If there was ever an all-star team of drivers, Team Orion has the biggest names in the game. With the ability to cherry pick the best drivers from all the different chassis manufacturers, Team Orion has gathered multiple national and world champions that consists of Phend, Maifield, Cavalieri, Tessman, Evans, and Tebo. Undoubtedly, Team Orion will … Continue reading
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