The final Racetime event of the year is complete and as always the Alabama Manufacturer Shootout didn’t disappoint. JConcepts American and European drivers were able to prevail in all the major classes, check out how the weekend went here! #GoJConcepts
AMS is always a bit of a unique event with the Superpole format and the need for clay compound and bar tires depending on the track prep. All practices were controlled at this event giving each driver the same amount of track time in each class. The first official scoring would be seeding with the following drivers topping the charts.
Seeding Results:
Pro Nitro Buggy: 1st Seth VanDalen, 2nd Dakotah Phend
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Brandon Rose, 2nd Jermaine Robinson, 3rd Seth VanDalen
Pro Truggy: 1st Dakotah Phend, 2nd Ryan Maifield, 3rd Seth VanDalen
Intermediate Nitro Buggy: 1st Braden Bruce, 2nd Javon Mallory
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Calvin Bruce, 2nd Braden Bruce, 3rd Patrick Rossiter
Intermediate Truggy: 1st Braden Bruce, 3rd Maddy Long
Open Etruggy: 1st Aydan Manchanda, 2nd Hunter King, 3rd Calvin Bruce
40+ Nitro Buggy: 2nd Chris VanAir
Qualifying would function the same way as normal with it moving the drivers into the main event they would be in on Sunday. Superpole would throw a bit of a wrench in that program but we will focus on that later. Qualifying was the normal best 2/3 qual-points format.
Qualifying Results:
Pro Buggy: 1st Juan Carlos Canas, 2nd Dakotah Phend, 3rd Mason Fuller
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Juan Carlos Canas, 2nd Seth VanDalen, 3rd Dakotah Phend
Pro Truggy: 1st Ryan Maifield, 2nd Spencer Rivkin, 3rd Dakotah Phend
Intermediate Nitro Buggy: 1st Braden Bruce, 2nd Dylan Raposo, 3rd Maddy Long
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Braden Bruce, 2nd Patrick Rossiter, 3rd Calvin Bruce
Intermediate Truggy, 1st Braden Bruce, 2nd Maddy Long
Open Etruggy: 1st Hunter King, 2nd Bella Rogers, 3rd Calvin Bruce
40+ Nitro Buggy: 3rd Chris VanAir
Following qualifying would be the Superpole events which would take the drivers qualified into the main events and shuffle the starting order for the main events depending on where they finished after 10 minutes. The first place driver from each lower main would also bump up to the next main for the following day’s main events.
Superpole:
Pro Nitro Buggy: 1st Dakotah Phend, 2nd Juan Carlos Canas, 3rd Ryan Maifield
Pro Ebuggy: 1st Juan Carlos Canas
Pro Truggy: 1st Dakotah Phend, 2nd Mason Fuller, 3rd Spencer Rivkin
Intermediate Nitro Buggy: 1st Braden Bruce, 2nd Maddy Long, 3rd Dylan Raposo
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Patrick Rossiter, 2nd Javon Mallory, 3rd Dylan Raposo
Intermediate Truggy: 1st Braden Bruce, 2nd Bella Rogers
Open Etruggy: 2nd Hunter King, 3rd Bella Rogers
40+ Nitro Buggy: 3rd Chris VanAir
Finally the main events would take place mostly Sunday with some of the lower events Saturday night.
Pro Nitro Buggy: The Pro Buggy main was an all out brawl between Juan Carlos Canas and Dakotah Phend with each driver grabbing the lead at different times in the main event. Mason Fuller would climb to 3rd place at the line with Seth VanDalen grabbing an impressive 4th after starting back in 13th. Burak Kilic would round out the top 5.
1st Juan Carlos Canas (JC), 2nd Dakotah Phend (JC), Mason Fuller (JC), 4th Seth VanDalen (JC), 5th Burak Kilic
Pro Truggy: Ryan Maifield would climb from 5th on the starting grid in Pro Truggy to the lead to take the win by about 10 seconds ahead of Dakotah Phend. Spencer Rivkin would finish up 3rd with Burak Kilic 4th and Brandon Rose 5th.
1st Ryan Maifield (JC), 2nd Dakotah Phend (JC), Spencer Rivkin (JC), 4th Burak Kilic, 5th Brandon Rose (JC)
Pro Ebuggy: Juan Carlos Canas had a stellar Ebuggy main day taking the win in A1 and A2 to wrap the day up early. Burak Kilic would come from 10th on the grid to finish 2nd with Spencer Rivkin coming from 11th to finish 3rd. Dakotah Phend and Brandon Rose would round out the top 5.
1st Juan Carlos Canas (JC), 2nd Burak Kilic, 3rd Spencer Rivkin (JC), 4th Dakotah Phend (JC), 5th Brandon Rose (JC)
Intermediate Nitro Buggy: 1st Dylan Raposo (JC), 2nd Wilson Cowart, 3rd Patrick Rossiter (JC), 4th Braden Bruce (JC), Wyatt Wilson
Intermediate Ebuggy: 1st Patrick Rossiter (JC), 2nd Maddy Long (JC), 3rd Braden Bruce (JC), 4th Javon Mallory (JC), 5th Dylan Raposo (JC)
Intermediate Truggy: 1st Braden Bruce (JC), 2nd Maddy Long (JC), 3rd Wilson Cowart, 4th Trevor Olins (JC), 5th Wyatt Wilson
Open Etruggy: 1st Hunter King (JC), 2nd Bella Rogers (JC), 3rd Aydan Manchanda (JC), 4th Gary Studt, 5th Calvin Bruce (JC)
40+ Nitro Buggy: 1st Jason Schreffler, 2nd Richard Saxton, 3rd Philo Hatch, 4th Gary Studt, 5th Rusty Mihelich (JC)
40+ Ebuggy: 1st Jason Schreffler, 2nd Richard Saxton, 3rd Gary Studt, 4th Chris VanAir (JC), 5th Philo Hatch
Sportsman Buggy: 1st Ever Lobos, 2nd Paul Thacker, 3rd Alex Cummings, 4th Michael Forrest, 5th Kyle Brown
Sportsman Truggy: 1st Alex Cummings, 2nd Ronald Kimball, 3rd Matthew Jones, 4th Marc Robinson, 5th Donald Hays
Sportsman Ebuggy: 1st RCSignup Bobby, 2nd Joseph Ruggiero, 3rd Matthew Jones, 4th Philo Hatch, 5th Thomas Buckley
Sportsman Etruggy: 1st Joseph Ruggiero, 2nd Thomas Buckley, 3rd Nick Snethen, 4th Philo Hatch, 5th Garrett Tucker