At one point it looked like he wouldn’t be coming, but once again Jared Tebo showed he is the King of Harper Adams, picking up his 4th title and continuing his 100% show up, TQ & Win record, is there anyone who can stop the Kyosho driver? Ty Tessmann has emerged in 2012 as the one who may well be best placed to challenge, a strong showing in quali and he put in a stunning drive in the final, although Tebo’s fuel strategy (12 mins) saw him pit 3 times, vs. Ty’s 10 min strategy which saw him come in for fuel once more. Ty was arguably the faster driver, clawing back the 9 sec gap that opened up as he pitted first, From the start the trio of Tebo, Ty & Maifield pulled out a lead followed by Lutz some way back, at the 15-20 min mark, Maifield had dropped back a bit leaving it up to Ty to challenge. At one point the two frontrunners were extremely close on track, with the crowd behind Ty who was shaving off the gap lap after lap, it proper on track battle never materialised though as pitstops insued and the pair returned to trading laptimes. It was clear from early on though that if Ty were to have a chance he’d have to build a 10 sec to Tebo, however had Ty been on the same fuel strategy as Tebo things could have been very different with Ty arguably the faster driver.

I want to personally thank all the DXR guys, Lewis, Wes, Andy, Kong, Tinny, Gurdy, Andy, Mark Ben, the race control team of Kevin, Sue, Rob, Diane & Jason for putting in a fantastic shift to make this event happen. It had it’s fair share of controversy with regards the rumoured tyre additive usage, its just a shame when politics get involved and accusations begin to fly around out of control. Whilst the Neo race is well known for usually running quite smoothly, heavy rain on the Monday, coupled with gutters full with leaves on the roof soon began to cause an issue as waterfalls began to form, this caused water to seep into the track, causing a water feature between the option double! Not a feature we had planned originally, and one the DXR team quickly set to work on, predictably the lights in the track went out as cables got wet, this temporarily killed the drivers stand public PA – very difficult circumstances to try and recover from. After establishing the lights were OK and removing some of the water from the double we opted to cancel the Grid Shootout – a feature we’d worked hard on to provide more entertainment to the crowd and fans, it wasn’t to be due to the unknown circumstances. However the semis, Bash & final ran without major incident. I can only thank everyone for their patience, kind words of understanding and the hard graft by team DXR!

Link to Results

Neo12 – Day 3 – Dash 4 Cash from NeoBuggy.net on Vimeo.

Jerome Aigoin started on pole as qualifer #12, but it was car 12 of Jared Tebo who ended up taking the win, Jared sliced and diced his way through the field as Jerome Aigoin held the early lead followed by a few laps of Adam Drake until the point when top qualifier Jared Tebo emerged. Ty Tessmann & Drake battled for 2nd with that position going to the young Canadian. The nature of Tebo’s dominating drive will surely worry a few of his fellow potential finalists as he came from the back to the front in this short 10 min race.