The 26th U.S. Indoor Champs in Cleveland, OH, featured four 1/12th scale classes this year; Stock, Masters, 19 turn and Modified. A possible 40 positions in the 4 A-mains. CRC cars occupied 19 (YES 19!) of the possible 40 A-main positions at this years Cleveland race.
The 26th U.S. Indoor Champs – Cleveland, OH 2005
The 26th U.S. Indoor Champs in Cleveland, OH featured 4 1/12th scale classes this year; Stock, Masters, 19 turn and Modified. A possible 40 positions in the 4 A-mains. CRC cars occupied 19 (YES 19!!!) of the possible 40 A-main positions at this years Cleveland race.
Stock Summary
In stock, long time CRC racer Mike Pulfur from Cincinnati, Ohio took the T.Q. position and never looked back. Mike won the A-main, with the Rome, NY based CRC teammates of Tom Firsching and Jeff Dayger rounding out the all CRC podium. With Terry Rott finishing 4th, the CRC Carpet Knife 3.2R went 1 thru 4!
With 70% of the field in CRC cars, it was another dominating performance from the CRC car line. Six CRC 3.2R and a one CRC T-Fource. Joining the top 4 in the main was Mark Calandra (CK-6th), John Tortorice (TF-7th) and Peter Robinson (CK-10th).
Eli Ezrow
TQ – Win Masters
Mike Pulfur
TQ – Win Stock
Tom Firsching
TQ 19Turn and Q2 in Stock
Masters Summary
In Masters, again CRC dominated the field with a total of 6 cars out of 10 A-main racers. This time, an even 3 Carpet Knife cars and 3 T-Fource cars made the big show.
Ohio driver Eli Ezrow took T.Q. and never looked backed making it a double win for the Cincinnati boys, Great wins Mike and Eli!.
In second place, a very quick Skip Starkey (TF) with Frank Jr.(CK) 4th, Kelly Bean (CK) 5th, Perry Caswell (TF) 8th and a very fast but wounded Jimmy Piersol (TF)10th.
John Tortorice
Peter Robinson
Jeff Dayger
19 Turn Summary
In 19 turn, CRC local pilot Tom Firsching laid down the law in qualifying to take a dominant T.Q.! With a second qualifying position in stock and a T.Q. in 19 turn, Tom had the crowd buzzing “Who the hell is Tom Firsching?” In 19 turn, 5 out of the 10 cars were CRC Carpet Knife V3.2R.
Joining Tom in the A-main was Terry Rott, Mike Pulfur, and former stock winner Dana Bailes and former stock T.Q. Wayne Vince. Nice driving gentlemen!
Modified Summary
In modified, the California based offroad/touring car specialist Todd Hodge was the class of the field in the A-main.
Todd worked up from his 7th starting position to push for the win. Todd’s 3rd place finishing Carpet Knife V3.2R turned the fastest lap of all the podium finishers, just missing fast lap of the event by .1.
Todd was dialed right from the start of the event, taking Marc Rheinard’s setup from the web site and making small tweaks from there.
The 2006 US Indoor Champs was also “Back in Black” this year. Everyone knows Calandra Racing Concepts has a huge presence at the Champs, they donate the Carpet the race is run on, they setup a hobby shop outside the Ballroom and of course they support all of the CRC driver’s needs at the Champs. However this year was a little different?
Team CRC came out with a new shirt a couple of months ago, nothing fancy, subtly aggressive but not colorfully loud like typical racing shirts, what was LOUD about this shirt was the absolute army of people wearing them, everywhere you turned it was a sea of black shirts! As you can see from the pictures below, not only did CRC dominate on the track but the “Back in Black” CRC crew dominated in the pits and at trackside, the shirts sold out at the track but you can now order yours directly from TeamCRC!
CRC Pro-Cuts 1/12th Tires make a big splash!
CRC Pro-Cuts finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th in 1/12th stock!
CRC Pro-Cuts T.Q. 19 turn and finish 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 10th in the A-main!
Pro-Cuts were run right from the package, no trueing needed!
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