It's just about go time at the two-wheel drive buggy insanity off-road championship. I'm your host, Cam Cohen, and beaming in from Southern California. I'm joined by Sammy, the killer Moran. It's colder than a blend of dry ice and acetone inside this awesome barn. As we look at how we got here, Sammy, where does your radical nickname come from? Hey, Cameron. So basically the name came about at Kairi Hobbies back in 2014 when I first started. I actually got the name from Dave Bauder, owner of Kairi Hobbies. It was mainly due to my attitude to everybody. I was very shy. I kept to myself kind of ironic on the track. I was really aggressive driver. In round one, I did okay. In round two, I took it down. In round three, I made a bad tire choice. For this one, I'm really hoping to win the point series, but it's really close between me, Jack, and Braden and the point. So it could go either way. The tire choice is everything with the cold track. Conditions are varied. Thanks to my parents, Ron from cruising with our Cs for all the help he's done over years. Braden and Liam for all the help. Liam led me a tire heater because we forgot our exact home. Place to go on sanity, right? You know, you got to be insane to come out here, you know? I also have never really been to a place where like I've had to do like so much to my tires just to get them to work. I'm never going to get break. This is way too fast. I had a good shot last time. I actually got out to an early lead and then I got out caught up and I'm like, oh great. Oh my god. How am I in the lead? I was thinking so much about that. I don't reckon a few times I ended up getting point. My goal with that is if I ever do get an early to stay focused and focus on my race. Shout out to race ready products. Exponsure me all year. Like a whole bunch of stuff and bulk up like the beginning of the season. It's lasted up to this point. I still got like two gallons of TQ point left. So this RRL RC presentation is brought to you and parked by A main hobbies. Your RC off-road headquarters, free shipping on eligible orders and by naughty boy RC. Keep it naughty. Click the links in the description to shop. Have to give a shout out to Brian Lee, the owner of and send the RC race track for all the great work he's done to prepare us for this event. The A main starting grid has Garrett Cressetelli in TQ position. Followed by Braden Bonjee. That's going to be the battle to look at in this one. Great flag racing. Oh wow. Federico Lupo on his lead out of the gate. He's a first time racer with us. Oh goodness. The white buggy. It's hominemilngos flying. What a messed up start for the back of the pack. Sammy, have you ever been part of a race like this? Oh, yeah. Many what's your mentality if you have an early crash? It's been a learning process for sure, but try not to let it get to you. And I try to push push hard and stay smooth. We get our first look at the front of the field. Chris Kirk running in third, making his debut race with the AEB 6.4. He also picked up an SE6.4 in the month of November because it's his birthday month. Sammy, as a new racer for team associated, you had the chance to get your hands on the all new two-wheel drive buggy. The B7. What are your initial impressions? I actually built it pretty close to box stock. Only thing I changed was play shock oil and move the battery forward. And the balance of the whole car was just amazing. It was just felt one to one front to rear. That tons of traction, the car stayed really flat. That tons of corner speed, it took her to my 6.4. Very excited and can't wait to get to the big events with this car. Oh man, that double just did Kirk dirty. That'll shake up the top three. Yeah, that's a rough one. Got a little loose in that corner and then got tapped by the other buggy. Our top two, still intact. Chris Italian and Boncci come across the screen. And now insert Wiley veteran Jack Bonam in third place. He's three points behind Boncci for first overall in this championship. He's running the TLR 22-3.0, which a concept front and open cell rehab rear tires. You have some history with the team laws you racing family, Sammy. Talk me through that transition in the offseason to AE. I ran for Team Loafs you racing for probably eight years. I had had great success with them and thanks to Thomas Tran and everybody over there. I just felt like it was time for a change. I just love the way Team Associates super innovative. Tons of teamwork. Another plus or when I want to associate is I could work with my close friend Davey Bada. He was a huge help. Just awesome stuff. Hey, if you're trying to reel in that guy in front of you, in this case, Braden Dommel over Benham. What's your philosophy with about three minutes left? I would probably say keep a good distance between the person in front of you and try not to push anything towards the end the last minute or so. Here comes Kirk in sixth, trying to put a move on me in fifth. It's been a while since I won any kind of event. You will drive buggy. I just said no to Kirk and I say no to crack. Yeah, it looks like you just got a little loose and he came in and tapped your rear tires. Yeah, I've been banging on my B6.1 day for a while. I think it's time to take this buggy out to pasture. That will hurt Kirk though. Drop him further back in fifth place. Chris Atelli took that turn a little too wide. One and two now neck and neck down the straightaway. Dealing with lap traffic, trying to give this field a good by-look. What's your mentality with lap traffic in a race? That traffic can definitely be a challenge sometimes. Just try to be cautious. Slow down your pace a little bit until you feel comfortable. Pass him, especially if the announcer doesn't call it as much. Less than two minutes to go and really what's been a heart pounding race if you're just joining us, Garrett Cress Atelli in his A E B 6.1 D trying to do the impossible. He needs a TQ. But he got the race win and the fastest lap to overtake Brayden Bonchie in his Kyo Show RB 7 to win the championship. These two kids are flying. Lap 14. Just now, Cress Atelli owns the fastest lap with a 13.6. Narrowly beating Bonchie out by about 0.2 seconds. Yeah, it looks very fast. Thanks, too. With almost a minute to go and a mistake, that's me. I kind of Cress Atelli. Bad. That's his dad Bob fired up. Bonchie now takes the lead over. Oh, but only for a moment. As Bonchie goes into the cushion, Cress Atelli will take back over first. Just pure insanity at insanity RC with one minute to go. Oh, yeah. Over the jump section and there goes Bonchie at the hard spill. He landed right on the lip. That will cost him. Talk about making mistakes late in race, Asamie. I would feel like frustrated probably in the moment. I've definitely gone a lot better with handling those situations. Yeah, just trying to keep the level head and everything and racing is huge. Yeah, and Cress Atelli has really done a good job of that in this event today. That Lap 14 proving to be the X factor as we take a look back at the incidents on that long lap for both of our top two racers. Nothing like two-wheel drive buggy. I would say it's probably the most prestigious class. It's just one of the hardest classes to drive, too. If you can accomplish something in two-wheel drive buggy, it's saying something. On screen, we see the action for third. Dommel in the tracks is bandit heating up Bonam. This will be the final lap and it'll also be the final lap for our race winner. Garrett Cress Atelli, Column, Garrett the Great. He's the two-wheel drive buggy champion. Bonam, Hags on to third. And what a feeling for Cress Atelli on his victory lap here. It's super exciting. Like, he just has this like a adrenaline rush and like, you just feel like on top of the world. Here's the Naughty Boy RC A-Main results. Sammy, I know you're typically raising on these glued sealed high-traction type of tracks, but what do you make of this event? It looks like a lot of fun. The final point standings are in and in a shocker. Cress Atelli jumps two spots to be your series champ via a tie-breaker. This caught racers by surprise, too. I thought I was going to get second. I thought I had to get first and brain had to get third. But apparently, they worked out in a tie, so we went to fast-slap and I had the most fast-slaps in all the rounds. It's all about tires slutch. My car setup, most tires as long as we heat them, saw some, will have amazing grip. But the issue I was struggling with was front traction. I had so much rear traction and my car was consistent, but sometimes I would have no front grip where I wouldn't be able to make it around corners, so that made it tough in some rounds. It's about between me and Brandon and I, half deraise, me and him were neck and neck. We swapped back a couple times. There's one point where I crashed and brain went past and he crashed again, even itself back out. It was a big relief for me because I was worried that he was going to break away from that point and take the win. I'd say it was a pretty good race. I thought it was going to be good because everyone was saying that if I got third, I would get second overall. If I got first or second, I would find. So I was just keeping track of jack behind me, making sure that I wasn't in third. But because I got second there, it cost me. I ran all five classes, which may have not been a very smart decision. It puts a lot of pressure on me because I have a lot of stuff to do. I have a lot of stuff to keep track of and it's just constant racing, martial racing, stuff like that. Well, thanks to God, thanks to my parents, thanks to everyone in this hobby that has helped me out, especially when I break stuff and when I need tires. Honestly, I don't want to take a break, but I don't want to race in the cold again. Here's the last look at our point standing's Crescentelli, the series champ. That's awesome. He's probably super stoked about that one. Can't forget about our bottom five. Sure are some of these racers in the witness protection program, maybe. But they all got points. You thought two-wheel drive was good, wait until four-wheel. Sammy best of luck at the J-Concept's INS-14. Thanks, man. We'll talk it you soon for sure. For Sammy, the killer, Marin. I'm Cam Cohen saying thanks for watching.