The dust has settled, pun intended, on the 2024 1/10th Scale Off-Road Carpet Nationals hosted by Coastal RC Speedway in Chesapeake, Virginia. The JConcepts team had an outstanding weekend taking multiple championships along the way.
Drivers had time during free practice on Wednesday and controlled practice/seeding on Thursday to come to grips with the layout and the traction level. The stock classes were on spec tires but most of the modified drivers opted for Pin Swag front tires and Fuzz Bite rear tires for the entirety of the event. The following drivers had the most success in seeding.
Seeding Results:
Modified 2wd Buggy: 1st Broc Champlin, 2nd Dakotah Phend, 3rd Chase Lemieux
Modified 4wd Buggy: 1st Davey Batta, 2nd Dakotah Phend, 3rd Broc Champlin
17.5 2wd Buggy: 2nd Dustin Fox, 3rd Jovy Levin
13.5 4wd Buggy: 2nd Jovy Levin, 3rd Jeff Statkiewicz
Masters 2wd Buggy: 1st Brent Thielke, 3rd Paul Wynn
13.5 Stadium Truck: 1st Jovy Levin, 2nd Brady Carrico, 3rd Doug Lariviere
The qualifiers were spread across two days with two qualifiers per day. The race used a qual points format with the best 2/4 rounds counting. The top 10 drivers qualified to each main with no bump up drivers.
Qualifying Results:
Modified 2wd Buggy: 1st Broc Champlin, 2nd Chase Lemieux, 3rd Dakotah Phend
Modified 4wd Buggy: 1st Broc Champlin, 2nd Dakotah Phend, 3rd Tom Rinderknecht
17.5 2wd Buggy: 1st Dustin Fox, 3rd Brady Carrico
13.5 4wd Buggy: 1st Jovy Levin, 2nd Chase Raymond
Masters 2wd Buggy: 1st Brent Thielke, 2nd Paul Wynn
13.5 Stadium Truck: 1st Jovy Levin, 3rd Brady Carrico
The 6 main championship classes had Triple-A Mains with the 2 exhibition classes (Masters and 13.5 SC) having single main events.
Main Event Results:
Modified 2wd Buggy: 2wd was a battle mostly between Broc Champlin and Chase Lemieux. Chase would strike first taking the first main event win. Broc would recover and win tone-to-tone in A2 and A3 to take the overall win. Chase would battle hard in A2 and A3 but some untimely mistakes would allow Davey Batta to capitalize and take the 2nd spot on the podium with Lemieux finishing up 3rd overall.
1st Broc Champlin (JC), 2nd Davey Batta (JC), 3rd Chase Lemieux (JC)
Modified 4wd Buggy: Broc Champlin would have about as straight forward 4wd mains as anyone could taking tone-to-tone wins in A1 and A2 to take the overall. Dakotah Phend would use his 2 consistent 2nd place finishes to end up 2nd on the podium with Chase Lemieux climbing from his 4th place qualifying position to finish 3rd.
1st Broc Champlin (JC), 2nd Dakotah Phend (JC), 3rd Chase Lemieux (JC)
17.5 2wd Buggy: 1st Nate Sutherland, 2nd Jovy Levin (JC), 3rd Dustin Fox (JC)
13.5 4wd Buggy: 1st Jovy Levin (JC), 2nd Chase Raymond (JC), 3rd Daigan Bledsoe
Masters 2wd Buggy: 1st Brent Thielke (JC), 2nd TJ Bradley, 3rd Paul Wynn (JC)
13.5 Stadium Truck: 1st Jovy Levin (JC), 2nd Doug Lariviere (JC), 3rd Kyle Holmberg (JC)
13.5 Short Course: 1st Joe Lintag, 2nd Shaun Duffy, 3rd Joseph Xavier
21.5 2wd Buggy: 1st Jim Merritts, 2nd Bryan Grady, 3rd Eric Vasutin
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