The 2024 US Open was hosted this past weekend in Arizona at Adobe Mountain RC. Exactly 300 entries took part in the annual event out in the Desert.
Most of the weekend was spent on Reflex or Relapse style tires with some of the harder compounds like Blue or Aqua used during the day with Green compound used for the main events at night on Sunday.
Winning Ebuggy Tire: Green Reflex
Winning Nitro Buggy Tire: Green Relapse
Standard 3 day 1/8th scale race format was used with best 2/3 qualifying rounds counting via qual-points. The following drivers found the most qualifying success!
Open Nitro Buggy: 1st Ryan Maifield
Open Ebuggy: 2nd Ryan Maifield
Open Truggy: 1st Ryan Maifield, 2nd Dakotah Phend
40+ Nitro Buggy: 1st Mike Truhe
The Main Events were held all day Sunday with the primary events held into the early evening.
Open Nitro Buggy: Ryan Maifield led the majority of the hour long ordeal with Dakotah Phend and Ryan Lutz trading the lead spot periodically. Ultimately Maifield would take the win ahead of Phend and Lutz.
1st Ryan Maifield (JC), 2nd Dakotah Phend (JC), 3rd Ryan Lutz
Open Ebuggy: 1st Ryan Maifield (JC), 2nd Ryan Lutz, 3rd Camden Lime
Open Truggy: 1st Ryan Lutz, 2nd Ryan Maifield (JC), 3rd Spencer Heckert
40+ Nitro Buggy: 1st Mike Truhe (JC), 2nd Steve Folle, 3rd Ryan Reese
(Photo From Mod Live Media)