After months of planning and building, the first event of the New York RCMTRS - RC Monster Truck Challenge has finally arrived. 15 monster trucks along with 7 slash trucks would make up the field for today's competition and the battle ground was Sharkey's RC Speedway in Walkill NY. RCMTC track officials constrcuted a challenging racing course that would provide awesome racing all day long, full of speed, cornering, big air and tight finishes. Lets get down to the action!!!
RC Monster Truck Racing -- The battle was on right from the start. Round #1 saw Dan in the CPE AMSOIL Shock Therapy defeating Brian Wood in Taz in the finals. After getting upset in the first round of round #1, Kyle bounced back in Round#2, landing both Black Stallion and Maximum Destruction in the finals. With brother Dan at the controls of Black Stallion for the finals, Kyle was able to knock off his Stallion truck and Max D would claim round 2. Not to be silenced in round 3, Dan DeFalco with Shock Therapy and Brian Wood in Taz would again meet in the finals. Again it was Shock Therapy claiming the win in the Round 3 finals. Round 4 would be the final racing round of the day, again it was Taz and Shock Therapy in the finals. This time Dan knocked a turing marker over, DQ'ing Shock Therapy and handing the round 4 win to Taz. All the RCMTC drivers had strong runs during the day in racing. Kyle DeFalco ran strong but was only contained to one of the four final rounds, enough for a third place racing effort in overall points for racing. Also Honorable mentions go out to the Spragg brothers Peter and Andrew. Both drivers had strong runs all day long, Andrew Spragg was a player all day with the brand new Animal truck, which would bring home fourth place. The big twist however was the race for first and second place. Shock Therapy and Taz were the strongest trucks of the event, so equally strong that after all the points were added up, it was a dead even tie!!!!!!!. RCMTC officials then went back through the brackets to see how many times the two trucks raced each other during the day. Whichever truck had more victories over the other would be the winner, and that truck would be AMSOIL Shock Therapy!!! Dan would be awarded the event racing win. Check out some pictures from today's monster truck racing portion of the event.
