X Factory’s Mike Aliberti TQs First SC Shootout

It was a great weekend at the first 2012 stop on the Short Course Shootout trail for X Factory with Mike Aliberti and Chris Cristo showing the new carbon fibre SCX-60CF truck very well indeed. RC Excitement in Fitchburg was the venue for a good weekend of close SC racing on 16-18 March with a tight indoor track that tested driving skills to the max.
Fresh from his “lights out” win at last month’s SnowBall race,  Aliberti TQ’d Stock 2WD SC with a time that would have put him ninth in modified while Cristo was fourth on the grid. A first-lap mishap on the difficult quad jump put Mike back to second in the final and he finished there, just a second or two behind the winner. Cristo kept his fourth place.
In 2WD Modified SC, Aliberti qualified fifth and worked his way up to third with the new SCX-60CF.  Mike said, “My carbon fibre truck was the talk of the event – we are gonna sell a bunch of them. It was amazing getting on and off the straight. I’m so glad it was dialed in front of my home crowd.”

Source: X Factory