Destiny TQ's and wins six of eight at PROTOform Canadian On-road Nationals

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By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com

Race Report from Destiny Canada:
www.destinyrcusa.com

Destiny TQ’s and Wins 6 out of 8 Classes at 2018 Protoform Canadian Nationals

The 2018 Canadian Carpet Nationals presented by Protoform were held at the Seaway Mall in Welland, Ontario from March 22-25. With over 500 entries from around the world, this is one of the largest races in the world. With a possible of 8 classes a Destiny chassis could enter, the team wound up being on top of 6 of them. Truly a dominating result considering the magnitude of the event. Congrats to the organizers of the event, Mark Frechette and Mike Wilson for hosting such a great race and a staple of the teams calendar.

12th Stock 17.5

On a large track of 105’x60’ on the gorgeous CRC Black Carpet, this was a battle of precision and consistency. Joe Trandell of Team Associated and Johnny Carey of Destiny would battle the whole weekend, swapping TQ runs and being the front runners in the class. Johnny wound up setting TQ in round 4 on a perfect run. On the first lap, Johnny had spun out and fell down to 4th place allowing the lead to be challenged by the likes of Trandell, Jeff Dayger-CRC and Tom Firsching-CRC. With some patience and using some excellent Xenon batteries, Johnny clawed his way back to wind up with the win.

1st - Johnny Carey TQ – Destiny VD12
2nd – Joe Trandell
3rd – Jeff Dayger
4th – Bryce Frechette
5th – Tom Firsching
6th – Patrick St. Germain
7th – Charly Gratts
8th – Martin Lecuyer
9th – Brandon Showler
10th – Brian Wynn
11th – Dana Bailes

USGT 21.5 TC

The Destiny team set a new TQ time in every round. Chris Vogan was the man to beat for most of the weekend, taking the first 3 rounds in commanding fashion. Scott Jakes was the dark horse going into round 4 and he wound up taking the TQ spot on the final lap of the heat, which meant Destiny would start 1 and 2 in the triple A-Mains. In A1, Scott had a perfect run and with Vogan having some bad luck, would only wind up running 3 laps. In A2, Scott would once again run a flawless race to make the clean sweep as Vogan would finish 2nd to make it a Destiny 1-2. In A3, it was Vogan the man to beat. Went on to have a commanding win with fellow Destiny driver, Albin Melendez, would finish 2nd.

1st – Scott Jakes TQ – Destiny RX10-SR
2nd – Chris Vogan – Destiny RX10-SR
3rd – Gordie Tam
4th – Albin Melendez – Destiny RX10-SR
5th – Jonathan Devries
6th – Adam Hutchison
7th – Martini Racing
8th – Chase Schell
9th – Douglas Shewfelt
10th – Mike Moore
11th – Brian Wynn

Touring Car Modified

Destiny Japans, Yugo Nagashima, fresh off of his last trip to North America would do it again. The 2018 Snowbirds champion would end up on top again. He would go to reset his TQ a couple of times during the event and was the man to beat when it was all said and done. Cruising to a comfortable A1 and A2 win over some of the best drivers in North America, it was a display of perfection as he was over 99% consistency through the runs. WOW.

1st – Yugo Nagashima TQ – Destiny RX10-SR
2nd – Paul Lemieux
3rd – Keven Hebert
4th – Max Kuenning
5th – Martin Crisp
6th – Luke Pittman
7th – Bryce Frechette
8th – Barrett Morrow
9th – Gordie Tam
10th – Phil Matthews

Touring Car Super Stock 17.5

In Martin Crisp’s final North American race, he stepped up to the plate and hit a couple of home runs. On his way to win A1 and A2, he also reset TQ every round. He was the fastest guy all weekend, and wish him the best. With 2 Destiny drivers making the A main, they were on a uphill battle to make it to the top. Carey starting from 7th and Vogan starting 10th, after the Triple A-mains were over, that is where they ended up. The cars performed well all week, with competition high and 88 entries in this class, job well done for the results of these 2.

1st – Martin Crisp TQ
2nd – Max Kuenning
3rd – Tom Firsching
4th – Dave Johnson
5th – Jeff Dayger
6th – Luke Pittman
7th – Johnny Carey – Destiny RX10-SR
8th – Alex Fournier
9th – Bryce Frechette
10th – Chris Vogan – Destiny RX10-SR
11th – Daniel Mills

12th Super Stock 13.5

Once again as in 17.5 12th scale, it would be the Joe Trandell and Johnny Carey show in qualifying. Swapping TQ’s throughout the event, Joe had it going into round 4. Johnny switched to a different compound of tires and threw down a near perfect run to grab TQ in the final round by a second. In the main, it was Carey who would stretch his lead out fast and let the field battle for the rest.

1st – Johnny Carey TQ – Destiny VD-12
2nd – Tom Firsching
3rd – Joe Trandell
4th – Jeff Dayger
5th – Alex Fournier
6th – Fabio Evangelista
7th – Martin Lecuyer
8th – Scott Jakes – Destiny VD-12
9th – Dana Bailes
10th – Luke Pittman

12th Modified

Once again it was Destiny Japan’s Yugo Nagashima that showed the field how good his car and driving were. Winding up with TQ he would start from the pole. After a great battle between Yugo, Xray’s Max Kuenning, and Associated’s Keven Hebert, it would be Yugo who would come out victorious. With the 3 of them battling, sometimes within mm’s of each other, it was one of the best races of the event and a great display of driving and respect for each other. Destiny drivers Gabe Hoban and Ken Miller would also make the show on good runs and finish 8th and 11th respectively

1st – Yugo Nagashima TQ – Destiny VD-12
2nd – Max Kuenning
3rd – Keven Hebert
4th – Joe Trandell
5th – Bobby Rorison
6th – Michael Zufelt
7th – Philip Leung
8th – Gabe Hoban – Destiny VD-12
9th – Tony Tang
10th – Dana Bailes
11th – Ken Miller – Destiny VD-12

USVTA 25.5

Destiny driver Max Trivieri would put on a clinic in the USVTA class. Building his car on Thursday, the first day of the event, he would go onto TQ every round and lead the Main from tone to tone with over a 14 second lead over 2nd place. Max chose the Protoform 1968 Mustang has his body of choice and was also running Xenon batteries.

1st – Max Trivieri TQ – Destiny RX10-SR
2nd – James Thompson
3rd – Darren Stoner
4th – Ian Smith
5th – Brian Wynn
6th – Jeremy D’Amico
7th – Kevin Large
8th – John Cravotta – Destiny RX10-SR
9th – Brad Stewart
10th – Dan Fitzgerald – Destiny RX10S

 

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