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ROUND #4 COVERAGE
As we get into the hot month of July, the battle for the RC Monster Truck Challenge championship heats up as the drivers are fine tuning their trucks, getting them faster and smoother at each event so far. Round #4 at RC Madness in Enfield CT saw more of a speed track this time. The drivers would charge over a small school bus jump and then drag down a long fast straightway, turn away from each other and head down the back stretch hit a crush car jump. After landing the back stretch jump the trucks would then turn towards each other and once exiting the turn would drag to the final crush car set and the finish line. The start would be cricital today as the drivers would need to get off the line and down to the first turn as quickly and smoothly as possible, and after each round the racing got more intense. Tony Scorzafava returned with Nitemare and Radical Hunter for this round, and this event he continued to show improvement as he gets more dialed in each time. Derrick Algieri debuted the brand new Bear Foot monster truck, a new full time name and scheme replacing the Ragin Steel truck, and the big red dodge was fast. Derrick's El Diablo however was the truck to beat. After not showing the strength with El Diablo during the outdoor races as it did back in Winter Wars, the truck really came alive this weekend. El Diablo made it to the finals several times and was the most consistent on the day. Where it seemed that Maximum Destruction was heading to a 3-peat win after dominating early on, El Diablo was able to catch Max-D and grab the event win. Max-D took second while Kyle DeFalco also brought home Afterburner in 3rd. Then Dan with a solid day brought Grave Digger home 4th and Derrick again rounding out the top 5 with Bear Foot. It was another fantastic day at RC Madness and El Diablo's win will further shake up the points heading into Round #5. Thanks for checking out our coverage of Round #4!! Enjoy some pictures from today's event.
Derrick Algieri debuted the awesome new Bear Foot todayExcaliber ready to throw down with the rest of the bad boys of the RCMTC!!!El Diablo came in ready to have a good run and was the most consistent truck on the track todayAir Force Afterburner was among the fastest trucks of the day. However, a broken axle tube in bracket number 5 would hurt the truck at the end of the day.Ryan Mahar did double duty this weekend. Not only driving his Wicked Twisted monster, but also subbed in for Ricky Thebeau driving his Ghost RyderTony Scorzafava's Nitemare and Radical Hunter trucks continue to improve in his rookie season behind the wheel. Rumors have been floating around the RCMTC garage that Tony may have a third truck in the works!!Maximum Destruction has been on a hot streak in 2013 as Kyle will try to win a second RCMTC points title with this truckGrave Digger, bad to the bone and ready to rock and roll. This is the highest the black and green wrecking machine has been in the season standings, currently sitting at #22009 series champion Shock Therapy has struggled so far in 2013, as the Dan and the DRCR team have been chasing the setup on this truck for most of the outdoor season.the DRCR team brought out American Guardian which has been absent for the last coupule points races.Matt Higgins brought along a surprise for round #4. Along with his Demon Child monster truck, Matt debuted the brand new Tamiya Txt-2 Agrios truck for testing and review. Matt had the off road styled body painted up as the Speed Energy Bigfoot 19 truck. For a stock truck it ran pretty good!!racing gets under way, and it's El Diablo grabbing the hole shot over Radical Hunter over the bussesMax-D and Spare Parts over the busses and charge down the long straightawayThe Speed Energy Bigfoot Txt-2 takes on the school bussesgrabbing some air over the crush cars!!Bear Foot and Speed Energy over the bussesheading down the back stretch jump, the modified truck's advantage over a stuck truck is shown here. The Txt-2 with upgraded motors and and tires would be a competitive pice however.Bear Foot flying over the finish lineEl Diablo and Wicked Twisted drag down the long straightawayMax-D vs. Bear FootExacliber vs. AMSOIL Shock TherapyExcaliber heading down the back stretch with big speed and big airNitemare and El Diablo off the linetight finish, but El Diablo takes this oneWicked Twisted grabs to big time air here!!Wild racing here as Afterburner barely pulls off a win against ExcaliberDerrick Algieri driving El Diablo wins RC Monster Truck Challenge Points Series Round #4How about some bonus coverage?!?!? The month of July also brought the REAL monster trucks to our home town track, the Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown NY. Here's some of our pics of the big boys doing their thing! The monsters took part in a wheelie contest, donut contest and freestyle contest. Here, the awesome chevrolet Hurricane Force gets some big air in the wheelie competitionAndy Slifko takes his shot at the wheelie contest with EradicatorKyle Doyle driving the Firestone Bigfoot gets some big air. Middletown was once a big stop on the TNT Monster Truck Challenge New York tour in the late 80's and always a favorite summer stop on the monster jam tour from 1991-1997 and later on with the real Monster Truck Challenge seriesBigfoot grabs some big time air!!One of the top freestyle performers on the circuit takes flight here as the highly talented Jeremy Slifko brings out Backdraft. If you ever see Backdraft in person you are guarenteed to be impressed.Backdraft pulls off an awesome slap wheelie and rightfully so takes the wheelie competition win this night.Bigfoot in front of the crowd at the end of the dayThe sun starts to set over the Orange County fair, ending an awesome day of monster truck action.
We hope you enjoyed our Round #4 coverage and bonus pictures from the orange county fair monster truck madness event and we thank you for following along with us on the 2013 RC Monster Truck Challenge tour. We'll take a look at the points and see what happens and we get ready to close out one of our best racing seasons we've ever had. No matter what happens we know it's going to be a great battle to the finish so stay tuned!!
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